Camera Techniques

Camera Technique

Long shutter speed - This an example of long shutter speed. I held down the shutter button.

 Motion Blur - i held down the shutter button while someone else move making this effect,

Fast Shutter Speed- i set the shutter to fast shutter and aperture to a lower setting for these two photos.

Depth Of Field - The depth of field in this photo shows the hand in the middle focused 

FINISHED ALBUM COVERS

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My Album cover idea

My album cover research 

The idea i have for my album cover is to have a dark room with a girl sat on the floor and light shining through onto the floor, with the girl sat in the dark area. The reason why i have chosen this as my album idea is because it make it look like the girl is sad and upset, and that she is sat in the darkness which give a affect to the viewer and make it seem like a sad song.

Album Cover Research

Album Cover Research

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Pink Floyd- Dark side of the moon

The colours that were used in this artwork were a white light/line and rainbow light/line on top of a black background while make the colours stand out more. The White light shining into a triangle/prism and coming out again to make a rainbow resembles the spectrum of light traveling through a prism, The things that the artwork represents to the album are that it relates to there song lyrics and resembles there stage lighting. The original artwork was created by Hipgnosis and George Hardie, The symbol used for this album art work is very unique because its very bold and simple and recognised by everyone.

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Beatles - Abbey road

This photographic that was used for The Beatles 'Abbey Road' Artwork is very iconic, The colours are a bit dark and dull but natural.They've made everything in focus by using a f22 aperture, this allows us to see much more detail and find more meaning within this photograph. The photograph was taken on the street of Abbey Road in North London on a zebra crossing out side there music studio, which is meant to resemble them leaving that studio for the last time and not coming back as this was there last album they were doing together.

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Rudimental - Not Giving in

In this photograph its shows the shanty towns in the philippines, this was where the music video for this song was filmed. The photograph shows in the foreground the run down poor shanty town and in the distance shows this big city towering above it, there have made the shanty town the focus point and the city blurred by using the depth of field to make it seem the its far away and seems big and powerful. its shows it as a point of view from the people who live here and want to become successful, also in the music video it tells the story of two boys, one boy gets caught up with the gangs and dangers of the shanty town whereas the other becomes successful in street dancing and is able to escape the shanty town and move to the city which the photo resembles.

What Is Photography? & Famous Photographers

Photography Research

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What is photography?

Photography is an art & science of capturing light reflected from a given object to form an image that is recorded either on film or digitally, there are many variables that are taken into consideration when taking a photograph including exposure time, focus and shutter speed. There are various types of photography which gives you different effect outcomes with your pictures, some of these types are: Aerial(Standing tall or above subject), Architecture(Buildings no people), Black and White(working with no colours), Artistic (Shot of subject with creativity number one goal), Panoramic(wide view subject) and macro(subject very small/up close & very detailed). Photography is one of the most powerful means of communication because its expressed with no words just a picture which mean the photographer uses there creativity to include as much information as they can and gives the viewer something to see and consider.The light becomes the words to not only give them something to see and consider but something to say. Most photographers mainly including sociality, culture and geographical boundaries to express there thought and feeling in the photography.



Photographers

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Ansel Adams - Ansel Easton Adams was an american photographer and environmentalist, Born February 20th  1902, San Francisco, US and died April 22nd 1984, Monterey, US born to Charles Hitchcock Adams and Olive Bray Adams, having him as the first child. He grandfather founded and build prosperous lumber business, which Ansel father later took over and what they became wealthy and successful from, and it was thought that Ansel would take over that very same business later in his life. At the age of 12 Ansel became interested in piano and play for many years until he gave up music for photography, but the careful training and exacting craft required of a musician profoundly influenced his visual artistry. During His First trip to Yosemite National Park his father gave him his first camera, which was a Kodak Brownie box camera,  this where he took his first photographs. For a few years after he worked with better cameras and learned basic techniques whiles working part-time for a san francisco photo finisher, he was very enthusiastic with his photography work and even attended camera clubs and went to photography/art exhibits. His first photographs were published in 1921, even these early photos already showed careful composition and sensitivity. during the 1930s adams work matured and became more established and during the course of his 60-year career these years were some of his most productive and most experimental times. He began expanding his work and focusing on detailed close ups as well large forms.later in the 1940s adams put together the largest photograph show to date, attended by millions this is were he career in photography got recognised more and took off. 

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Brian Duffy - Brian Duffy was an english photographer and film producer, born in London on 15 June 1933. He first came into contact with photography in 1955 he began freelancing as a fashion artist. He applied for and had a few jobs being a photographers assistant where he received his first photographic commission. In 1957 he got hired by British vogue where he remained working until 1963, During his time at British vogue he worked with many top models. He worked with other photographers and helped create a culture of high fashion and celebrity, they were known as the 'Terrible Three'. But with this type of photography they represented a new breed of photographer and with this became elevated to celebrity status. In 1967 Duffy set up his own film production company which he went on to produce many of short films. In 1979 Duffy exited the world of photography and persevered in a career of film/television production.

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Annie Liebovitz - Annie Liebovitz is an american portrait photographer who was born october 2nd 1949. During  high school she was interested in writing and playing music, then moved on to studying painting in San Francisco Art Institute. She carried on with his interest of photography, after taking her first pictures when she was stationed in the Philippines during Vietnam War, by starting as a photographer for the new Rolling Stones magazine. In 1973 she got promoted to chief photographer of the magazine which she carried on for 10 year taking numerous photos of celebrities and was even awarded numerous awards. For the rest of her career Liebovitz worked on lots of photo shoots with many of famous celebrities like John Lennon and other projects which improved her profile and in 2007 even had the honour to take the queens official picture. She still continues today to take many famous photos and portraits of celebrities.









Camera Technique

Long shutter speed - This an example of long shutter speed. I held down the shutter button.

 Motion Blur - i held down the shutter button while someone else move making this effect,

White Balance

White Balance







Tungsten light - when using nature light while on tungsten white balance setting it make the picture have a blue tint.

Cloud Light - While the white balance is on cloud white balance and i'm in daylight while cloud make the colours seem normal and nature daylight effect.

Camera Lenses & My Examples

Camera lenses











18mm - This photograph was taken with a 18mm lenses. This gives the background a longer depth of field and shows more detail in both the foreground and background, and gives the photo a wide angle effect

35mm - This photograph  was taken with the lenses at 35mm which give the effect a shorter depth of field and background not in focus.

55mm - This photo was taken at 55mm lenses which give the photo a more compact look and small depth of field and only focuses on the subject and blurs and even cuts out the background.


















Types of camera lenses

Standard lenses -  standard lenses are generally used for mid ranged shot and ranging from 18mm-55mm and are use mostly for portrait style of photographs. They  usually come stock to new cameras.

 Fish Eye lenses -  Fish eye lenses are a convex lenses and give a wide angle shot. They range from 8mm-15mm and are usually used for artistic/creative shots or videos. Some wide angle lenses come in ultra wide angle which ranges from 8mm-35mm with a f2;8 aperture.

 Macro lenses - Macro lenses have a smaller shutter so that they can get closer shot, this allows them to get more detail shot/photograph into something that is very small and hard to see by other lenses or give the human eye. They range from 90mm-105mm.

  Telephoto lenses - Telephoto lenses ranges from 50mm-105mm. they have a long length and high magnified shot. While usually used for sports photography or wild life/nature photography.