Showing posts with label Exercise 2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Exercise 2. Show all posts

Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Exercise 2: Evidence of Action



Produce one photograph in which it can be seen that something has happened.  "Symbolism is one of the main techniques in illustration"; the symbolism of this to me is obvious but it was also obvious to me in the previous exercise and I think the point was missed by some fellow students so perhaps I'm being a little too abstract.

This image in a way follows on from the previous exercise, which was an expression of leaving a place in my head that was insular and about the past.  This photo is a bit of a joke saying, yes, I have left that place and graduated downstairs to my kitchen, which is a step in the right direction, AND I'm having a bit of a good time, albeit a little crazy.

Added later: I am not sure why I do this sometimes- actually, I am sure - when I think the photo isn't any good I play around with photoshop or Filters and the photo I originally put here had one on, but I have replaced it with an image without a filter below.  I still don't think it's that great a photograph but it's an idea and I discuss this in another post.  I will say however I like using filters sometimes on the more abstract stuff but I think I need to learn to be a bit less full-on with them. When my PS updated it didn't seem to take the ability to edit in Efex with it, so decreasing the filter layer isn't so easy but I can presumably have a look at that and fix PS so it does or just use the older version - or play around with them a bit more in Efex Pro which I have started to do recently.









Friday, 7 November 2014

TOAP Part 4: Exercise 2 Higher and Lower Sensitivity

Take similar shots at both normal and high sensitivity.  Choose a situation which is marginal.  


Photo 1: f5.6, 1/320s
I have a used a camera that which offers 200 as it's lowest when in RAW (although I do realise now that since I only adjusted the contrast, sharpening and clarity by a margin for the sake of the exercise I could have used jpgs and then gone down to the lowest ISO number).  The ISO is very good on this camera, nevertheless the noise difference is noticeable in the higher ISO images.  Given that I quite like underexposed, blurry images this exercise is a challenge for me!  But not in the way one might think. 

Photo 2: F2, 1/125s
Same camera as above.  I took more than 4 but only chose 4 and so ISO the steps aren't quite as regular but it does show the difference.  I went up quite high to 2000 and the noise is high but I'm pretty sure made worse on this camera which is so good for ISOs by the fact I was shooting into some light.  The very last picture shot at 200 ISO is of course the cleanest but is very dark although I like it and the fact the lighting is evocative of cosiness in a small child's bedroom makes me think it is fine that way - preferable in fact.

Photo 3: F2, 1/125s
Same camera again.  It was quite dark just as the sun was setting so I put the ISO up very high. I started at 1250 and went from there.  I deliberately chose to do this after working in a dark church this weekend.  After advice from two other photographers I am now much clearer about how high to go with ISO but also how important it is to get the exposure right when you're using high numbers - there is already so much noise in the image at that level that any further manipulation in post processing needs to be minimal.  The final image in this sequence is over exposed.  



200 ISO
320 ISO
500 ISO
800 ISO



2000 ISO
1250 ISO
500 ISO 

320 ISO
1250 ISO

2000 ISO 

3200 ISO

ISO 5000