Portrait Photography Preview

               Portrait Photography Preview

1. Why is the environment where a portrait is taken an important consideration in portrait photography? (From the "Environment" and "Design" headings." Just as facial expression, body posture and dress are important factors, the environment plays a major role in revealing the identity of the individual. Choosing a suitable background or backdrop for the portrait can greatly influence the
final design of the image.
2. Why should portrait photographers use a "Aperture Priority" mode or full manual mode? (From the "Depth of Field" heading.  Sophisticated 35 mm SLR cameras often provide a ‘Portrait Mode’. When this programme mode is selected a combination of shutter speed and aperture is selected to give the correct exposure and a visual effect deemed suitable for portrait photography by the camera manufacturers. The visual effect aimed for is one where the background is rendered out of focus, i.e. shallow depth of field.
3. How can portraits reveal a subject's character? (From the "Revealing Character Heading." These details may naturally occur or be introduced for the specific purpose of strengthening the communication. Connections may be made through the ‘tools of the trade’ associated with the individual’s occupation. Informative artefacts such as works of art or literature may be chosen to reflect the individual’s character. Environments and lighting may be chosen to reflect the mood or state of mind of the subject.
4. How can the photographer help the subject while taking portraits? (From the "Directing the subject" and "Expression and posture" headings. The photographer should display an air of confidence and friendliness whilst directing subjects. Subjects will feel more comfortable if the photographer clearly indicates what is expected of them. Often a subject will need reminding that a smile may not be necessary. Subjects may need guidance on how to sit or stand, what they should do with their hands and where to look.


                                   Environmental Portrait 

The physical surroundings included offer enormous potential to extend or enhance the communication. His surroundings show how long he has lived there and the amount of time he has spent in this old house.

The physical surroundings included offer enormous potential to extend or enhance the communication.
He is a boy growing out to soon be a real man and respectful to women.

                                                             Casual Portrait

These types of pictures show the character of the person. This picture shows a very clean young women.

These types of pictures show the character of the person. This photo shows another beautiful women and she seems so peaceful and out of reach. As if she is in another world, once she closes her eyes.

                                       Formal Portrait

I chose this picture because it seems like a pretty young girl taking a formal picture for home or emily keep sake.

This is a formal picture of a cute couple getting married and very happy about it.

                                Photography Self Portrait

      This a perfect example because she is putting herself in  a picture frame, so its a framed picture.

               I liked this picture because its comical and a bit of a mind twister lol (very punny).

Fixed Portrait Shoot

                                 Fixed Portrait Shoot   

                                                   

                                               ISO 100

                                                Day Light

                                                                      Aperture: 20

                                                              Shutter Speed: 1/20

                                               ISO 400

                                                                        Day Light
                                                                      Aperture: 20
                                                              Shutter Speed: 1/50

                                               ISO 800

                                                                           Cloudy
                                                                         Aperture: 32
                                                                 Shutter Speed: 1/30

                                                ISO 1600

                                                                           Cloudy
                                                                         Aperture: 32
                                                                 Shutter Speed: 1/100

                                               ISO 3200

                                                                            Shade
                                                                         Aperture: 32
                                                                 Shutter Speed: 1/250


1. What was the best ISO setting to use for your portraits?

     My best was ISO 800
2. What was your next best photo?

     My second best was IOS 3200
3. Were you able to create equivalent exposures to your best photo by changing the aperture and shutter speed? Yes, I made equivalent exposure with different combinations of settings.

4. What did you learn from this activity that you will apply to your real portrait shoot?  I learned that you need to change the settings for the type of day, according were your at and what its like indoors or outdoors.

Conniption Rules Part Two

                            Rule of Thirds

                         Balancing Elements

                            Leading Lines

                                 

                              Symmetry and Patterns

                                Viewpoint

                              Background

                              Create depth

                                 Framing

                                Cropping

                         Avoiding Mergers

The Three Pillars

                                       Aperture

1. What part of the body should we closely relate aperture?

Human Eyes

2. Finish this sentence: The smaller the Aperture the higher the f-spots, the higher the Aperture the smaller the f-spots.

3. In your own words tell me how aperture impacts Depth of Field?

The size of the aperture has a direct impact on the Depth of Field.

4. Using a class camera, list ALL of the F stops available on the lens currently attached.

5.6, 6.3, 7.1, 8.0, 9.0, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 25, 29, 32, 36

5. What is the highest and smallest aperture numbers available on the kit lens?

5.6 is the lowest and 36 is the highest.

                                    Shutter Speed

At the beginning while the sun is still partially up and the courtyard has reasonable light
a.) the dunking booth Fast
b.) the food eating contest Medium
c.) the rock climbing wall Slow
d.) someone working at a booth Slow
e.) the DJ/MC working at the middle of the circle Fast
f.) the Diamonds performance. Fast


Towards the end when there is no sun and has gotten dark enough that you can't see from one end of the courtyard to the other.


a.) the dunking booth Fast
b.) the food eating contest Medium
c.) the rock climbing wall Slow
d.) someone working at a booth Slow
e.) the DJ/MC working at the middle of the circle Fast
f.) the Diamonds performance. Fast


2. List the three manual Presets your camera that allow you to affect shutter speed (these are found at #5 on the Shutter Speed website). Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, and Manual 

Explain how each works. DO NOT COPY AND PASTE, use your own words.
Aperture Priority: a digital camera setting that allows the user to set the size of the aperture and allow the camera to determine the shutter speed for a correctly exposed image. Other digital camera setting and shooting modes include: Macro mode to focus on subjects close to the camera lens.

Shutter Priority: refers to a setting on some cameras that allows the user to choose a specific shutter speed while the camera adjusts the aperture to ensure correct exposure.


3. With a class camera, what are the shutter speeds available to you on that camera? You will have to turn the camera on to determine this. Hopefully you can figure out what setting to put the camera on to determine the answer to this question.


Now for the last of the pillars, ISO. Lets go read some more at this website:

                                            ISO


Once you are finished, please go to Google and find an example of a photo taken at ISO 200 and a photo taken at ISO 3200 or 6400. Post both on your blog and label them.


Then answer the following questions:


1. What are the advantages of shooting at a higher ISO at a sporting event like basketball or a night football game? As I understand, increasing the ISO allows me to take a faster shot at the same F-Stop which is an advantage in lower light. Just stating the obvious.

2. What suggestions did the author make about using a low ISO?

3. What suggestions did the author make about using a high ISO?

4. At the camera near you, please tell me what ISO's are available on your camera?

Aperture and Shutter Speed Practice

                                               
                                      Aperture and Shutter Speed Practice

SET 1: Now its your turn - tell me which ones look the best for F4, F5.6 F8, F11, F16, F22.

F4 – looks the best at 1/125 of a second shutter speed.
F5.6 – looks the best at 1/60 of a second shutter speed.
F8 – looks the best at 1/60 of a second shutter speed.
F11 – looks the best at 1/60 of a second shutter speed.
F16 – looks the best at 1/30 of a second shutter speed.
F22 – looks the best at 1/8 of a second shutter speed.

SET 2: Now its your turn at each F-stop tell me what the background looks like.

At F4 how much background is visible? Is it blurry or in focus? How much?The background is completely blurry.

At F5.6how much background is visible? Is it blurry or in focus? How much?The background is somewhat blurry, a little bit visible

At F8 how much background is visible? Is it blurry or in focus? How much?The background is slightly visible, and its blurry.
At F11 how much background is visible? Is it blurry or in focus? How much?The back ground is visible, and almost completely focused.
At F16 how much background is visible? Is it blurry or in focus? How much?The background is clear but darker then normal, and slightly focused.
At F22 how much background is visible? Is it blurry or in focus? How much?The background is clear and is completely focused.

SET 3: Reflection Questions:

1. Consider what is happening to the people themselves at slow Shutter Speeds? The speed is really slow and doesn't capture a clear image of the two people.
2. In a real shooting situation, what should the photographer do to lessen this problem?You could make the shutter speed a tad bit faster to get a clear image.
3. What combination of aperture and shutter speed do you think produces the best portrait? Why? 1/60 sec and f/5.6, because its clear, has the right amount of light, and its focused on the couple not the background.

The Eagles Eye Critique by Joshua Swain

                                  Ferguson episode sparks controversy

I liked this subject Because of how long it lasted and how rediculos the situation got. But the two articles both state the right explanations and opinions about Ferguson. So I agree with every bit of it. :-D

                      Employers ignore students for Jobs

I didn't like this subject because I have been in the same situation with getting a job. I have recently been offered a job by Home Depot but I fell like I can't have a job and keep my grades up all the time. It just seems like I would strugul. But I did have a job from 2011-2012 at Schlitterbahn. But I dident have a job during 2013 or this year(2014) at all.

Academic Shoot Preview by Joshua Swain

                 "Academics Shoot Preview"


                                                                      "The Story"

This tells the best story because the students are surrounding the flag as if it were God, but its passion that is showed by how much we love and treasure America. Letting you know that they are praying for something special. 


                                                               "Action or Emotion"

The obvious look of hard working and dependent men. (Making a weld to hold and stabilize a large object.)



                                                                   "Fills the Frame"

                                   It is filled by the dangerous experiment in the chemistry lab.




                                                               "The Fourth Shoot"

Why did I choose this photo?

I chose it because I make furniture at home out of recycled wood from homes still in the framing stage as you see in this photo.

What rules of photography are evident in this photo?

Elements of Art and Principles of Design in Photography by Joshua Swain

Elements of Art and Principles of Design in Photography

Elements of Art

Line[edit]

Lines and curves are marks that span a distance between two points (or the path of a moving point). As an art element, line pertains to the use of various marks, outlines and implied lines in artwork and design. A line has a width, direction, and length.^[1] A line's width is sometimes called its "thickness". Lines are sometimes called "strokes", especially when referring to lines in digital artwork.

Shape[edit]

Shape pertains to the use of areas in two-dimensional space that can be defined by edges.^[2] Shapes can be geometric (e.g., square, circle, hexagon, etc.) or organic (such as the shape of a puddle, blob, leaf, boomerang, etc.). Shapes are defined by other elements of art: Line, Form, Space, Value, Color, Texture.

Color[edit]

Color is the element of art that is produced when light, striking an object, is reflected back to the eye.^[1] There are three properties to color. The first is hue, which simply means the name we give to a color (red, yellow, blue, green, etc.). The second property is intensity, which refers to the vividness of the color. For example, we may describe an intense blue color as "bright, rich, and vibrant".^[6] We may conversely describe a low-intensity blue color as "dull, subtle and grayed". A color's intensity is sometimes referred to as its "colorfulness", its "saturation", its "purity" or its "strength". A color's perceived intensity is related to its perceived brightness (brighter colors are more intense). The third and final property of color is its value, meaning how light or dark it is. The terms shade and tint are in reference to value changes in colors. In painting, shades are created by adding black to a color, while tints are created by adding white to a color.

Value[edit]

Value refers to the use of lightness and darkness in a piece of artwork.

Form[edit]

The form pertains to the volume or perceived volume. Three-dimensional artwork has depth as well as width and height.^[1] Three-dimensional form is the basis ofsculpture.^[1] However, two-dimensional artwork can achieve the illusion of form with the use of perspective and/or shading techniques.

Texture[edit]

Texture, another element of art, is used to describe either the way a three-dimensional work actually feels when touched, or the visual "feel" of a two-dimensional work.

Space[edit]

Space is an area that an artist provides for a particular purpose.^[1] Space includes the background, foreground and middle ground, and refers to the distances or area(s) around, between and within things. There are two kinds of space: negative space and positive space.

Principles of Design

Balance: is the concept of visual equilibrium, and relates to our physical sense of balance. It is a reconciliation of opposing forces in a composition that results in visual stability. Most successful compositions achieve balance in one of two ways: symmetrically or asymmetrically. Balance in a three dimensional object is easy to understand; if balance isn't achieved, the object tips over. To understand balance in a two dimensional composition, we must use our imaginations to carry this three dimensional analogy forward to the flat surface.

Contrast: is the occurrence of differing elements, such as color, value, size, etc. It creates interest and pulls the attention toward the focal point.

Emphasis: Making a specific element stand out or draw attention to the eye.Emphasis can be achieved in graphic design by placing elements on the page in positions where the eye is naturally drawn, by using other principles such as contrast, repetition, or movement.

Movement: in a visual image comes from the kinds of shapes, forms, lines, and curves that are used. 

Pattern: repeating visual elements such as line, color, shape, texture, value or image tends to unify the total effect of a work of art as well as create rhythm. Repetition can take the form of an exact duplication (pattern), a near duplication, or duplication with variety.

Rhythm: a movement in which some elements recurs regularly.  Like a dance it will have a flow of objects that will seem to be like the beat of music.

Unity: is based on the gestalt theory of visual perception, which states that the eye of the viewer seeks a gestalt or unified whole. This means that the viewer is actually looking for a connection between the elements, for some sort of organization, for unity in the design.

                                                                               THE
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