Semseter 2 - Week 1 - Introduction To Digital Technology 2

http://www.shutha.org/photo-genres

1, Which genres require more photo retouching?

- I think the artistic and creative genres require more retouching cause

1a, Why do you think this is?

- You have more freedom to manipulate the photo, Also fashion photography uses retouching quite alot as well.

2, Can you think of any photographers we looked at last term who fit into an editorial genre? If so which one? What approach do they take to their style of photography? (e.g B&W/colour/formal,etc)

- One photographer who could fit into an editrial genre is Henry Carten Broson, He adds his flare to the photos with making them black and white, He takes his photos at a persise moment and his work is both formal and infromal in different cases.

3,Can you think of any photographers we looked at last term who fit into an creative genre? If so which one?What approach do they take to their style of photography?(e.g B&W/colour/formal,etc)

- One photographer who could fit into a creative genre could be Gregory Crewson, He adds his own flare to photos by making them staged scenes, but they look real. He also uses unatural colours in scenes.

4, Can you think of a photographer who fits into the creative fine arts genre?could this photographer fit into editoral genres as well?

- A couple photographers who could fit into the creative fine arts genre are Nigel Swinn and Cole Thompson. They both have displayed in galleys and their works are a high quality as well.

5, Were will your photography this term fit on these graphs?

- I want to do a Creative Portraiture thing, Something that isn't heavily edited but something that is almost like a creepy fantasy and real life look.

Final Photos for Print

Final Photos For Print

In the end i decided on the tree trunk, It felt right to choose it because it was a personal favorite out of the 4. All i did was adjust the greens in the photo cause i the first print the moss was gone, and in the second print the green was alot more visible and i also pulled up the highlights a little to make the light on the tree stand out a little more.

Gallery

Gus Fisher Gallery - No Free Man

TO NO ONE DENY JUSTICE

Teina Pora, Louise Nicholas and four prisoners feature in this dramatic photographic exhibition organised to mark the 800^th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta. Photographer Nigel Swinn has focussed on faces to tell the story of the legacy of this document in New Zealand law titling the exhibition "No Free Man: To No One Deny Justice".

At first i was amazed how powerful the photos were, they were huge which bought out more of the real-ness and emotion in these photos But when we got told more about the actual project i was even more amazed yet sad cause of how our justice system handles things. 

Photographer:   Nigel Swinn
Curator:            Dr Erin Griffey, The University of Auckland
Sponsors:         The University of Auckland and Buddle Findlay

Week 5 - Photo-merge

For the photomerge in class exercise we took 3 photos of our choice, believe it or not there are 3 photos in here. I got my subjects to stand in a square and took the photo, I then got them to move and swap around. I did this 3 times and then selected them in bridge and went Tools> Photoshop> Photomerge. 

Self Directed

For the photomerge sef directed task i took 3 photos of the library. 

I did this 3 times and then selected them in bridge and went Tools> Photoshop> Photomerge.

Week 5 contact sheet research

For this research task we had to find out how to make a contact sheet in Adobe Bridge, I used both Youtube and the internet.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/contact-sheet-pdf-presentation-cs6.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjtjvn_guus

PDF Research

For this research task we had to find out how to convert a contact sheet into a PDF in Photoshop.

https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-presentation-or-multi-page-pdf-from-photoshop-cc

Week 5 Digital Tech - Lens Correction And Resizing 

 Photo 1 out of 2 resizing, i opened the jpeg and resized it to 25cm across and saved it with 'web' in the file name.
web.jpg

 Photo 2 out of 2 resizing, I opened the tiff and  resized it to 25cm across and saved it with 'print' in the file name.
print.tif

Before: This photo needed to be resized and the lens corrected.

After: I used the lens correction panel to make sure the lines in this photo were straight , i then used the basic panel to pull up the exposure in the photo, i brightened up the higlights to pull detail back into the photo and increased the contrast and vibrance. I reduced the noise a little in this photo and then opened it i photoshop. I resized this photo to 50cm across and a resolution of 180dpi, and saved it with 'print' in the file name.

Self Directed

Before: I had to lens correct, convert to black and white and resize this photo.

After: I used the lens correction panel and enabled the lens profile and auto straightened the image, Using the HSL/Grayscale panel i converted it to black and white. I then opened the image in photoshop and resized it as an A4, by changing the width to 297mm and saved it as a tiff with'A4' in the file name.

Resizing  the larger version

While i was on photoshop i went to my history panel and resized it tot the largest size it could be for printing. To do this i unclicked resample and changed the resolution to 180dpi, which is suitable for printing. I ended up with a width of 731.52 and a hight of 487.68. 

Week 4 Digital Technology - Class Work Reducing Noise

For this work we followed a tutorial on how to reduce noise in a photo, These are 2 examples on what we did and the final outcome of the photos once we finished reducing the noise.

Self Directed Reflectors

This photo was taken without any reflectors, I wanted to see if i could bring out some colour on the inside of the flower.

This photo was taken with the silver reflector, but overexposed the inside of the flower.

I think this photo was taken with the white side of the reflector, it lightened the shadows a little and didnt over expose the flower. 

This photo was taken with the gold reflector, even thoough it enhanced the colour of the flower it overexposed the flower a little too much on one side.

Artist Research week 7 - Bill Henson

Bill Henson (born 7 October 1955)^[1] is an Australian contemporary art photographer.

I noticed that Henson's work is low key lighting, which can create deep shadows and different effect like loop lighting and Rembrant lighting. These photos above are good examples of low key lighting and are very Chairoscuro. 

Artist Research week 7 - Yuki Onodera

Yuki Onodera (born 1962) is a Japanese photographer. She graduated from the Kuwazawa Design School in Tokyo. 

I found that alot of her photos where Chairoscuro, meaning the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition. I also saw that Yuki's work was mainly black and white and usually contained dark shadows and silhouettes. 

Artist Research week 7 - Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson is a Danish-Icelandic artist known for sculptures and large-scale installation art employing elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature to enhance the viewer’s experience.

These  3 photos are one of his many projects, Your Rainbow Panorama. Olafur created a giant panorama of colour that people are welcome to walk around in, This was made up of multipule lights and slightly coloured glass.

Another project Olafur took on was The Weather Project (last photo) used humidifiers to create a fine mist in the air via a mixture of sugar and water, as well as a circular disc made up of hundreds of monochromatic lamps which radiated yellow light. The ceiling of the hall was covered with a huge mirror, in which visitors could see themselves as tiny black shadows against a mass of orange light.

Artist Research week 7 - Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewdson (born September 26, 1962) is an American photographer who is best known for elaborately staged scenes of American homes and neighborhoods.

Gregory uses a strange magic in his photography, and im guessing that his photos, mostly of American towns that could be abandoned and dead (the colors too bright, the light too spooky) to create such an powerful and suggestive mood that the viewer becomes part of the story. AN example could be the uses of colour temperatures, if we look at photo 3 i would assume he would of used both gels and normal light to light the photo. The grass in this photo looks unnaturally green and im assuming he would of used a green gel to light up the grass to make it stand out more, and a blue/green gel to light the other part of grass. I think the majorities of these photos are quite dark and quite cold colour tones, which gives his work the creepy and airy look.

Week 7 -Lighting Setups

Split Lighting

For this set up of lights we uses split lighting, were we had one light facing directly on one side if the model, We used a F-Stop of 9.0, a Shutter Speed of 1/125 and an ISO of 100.

Loop Lighting

For this set up of lights we used Loop lighting, were we had one light on an angle and not directly front on causing a loop to form from the shadow of her nose. The loop lighting is similar to Rembrandt Lighting but instead the loop's shadow isn't touching the other shadow of her face. We used a F-Stop of 10.0, a Shutter speed of 1/125 and an ISO of 100.

Rembrandt Lighting

For this lighting set up we used Rembrandt lighting,were we had one light on a 45 degree angle and off to the side of the model to form a triangle under her eye. The Rembrandt lighting is similar to the Loop lighting cause the shadows under her eye make a triangle. We used a F-stop of 10.0, a Shutter speed of 1/125 and a ISO of 100.

Butterfly Lighting

For this lighting setup we used Butterfly Lighting, were we had one light which was positioned behind the photographer and the light was directed down onto the subject. We used a F-stop of 5.6 and 11.0, a Shutter speed of 1/125 and a ISO of 100.