Shutter speed: Test
I could have taken photos of something moving but around college during lesson time, there’s only student walking on this bright sunny intervals day.
Shutter speed: 1/30
1/8
0”6
2 seconds
The longer the shutter is opehn for the more light is let in and makes in image bright. This would be a better image at night
Recreation of a Photographer’s photo
For the final piece image we were to recreate an existing photograph by a photographer using studio lighting where possible and make it look the same as closely as possble. I chose to recreate one of Colin Hill’s photos. I discovered him through Tumblr and on Flickr (personal blog and photostream) and I really thought his compositions and ideas were interesting. The photo below is the image I recreated:
“I could use more sun” - Colin Hill
This is my version of the photo. I used a cheap DVD projector my dad recently bought for his Youth Club, which reminded me of the photo Colin Hill took and it gave me the idea. Baring in mind I had to remember in image in my head as my internet was down the night I shot this photo. It was a simple idea, but a couple of hours work was put into it:
HOW: Firstly I needed an image that i could project of the same beach and wooden post composition. The photo projected is a combination for two photos I already had; The ocean view was from when I was down in Bournemouth on a sunny day, the wooden pole, is actually a different photo which I cut the pole from the photo and placed in on the ocean photo to resemble the one in Colin Hill’s photo. The pole is actually the top of a rusty metal ladder but I think it worked well in terms of shape and composition. So after retouching the projection photo I burned it on to a DVD disk, which took me 3 tries to do so successfully as the projector was being picky about the format of the photo and video. I had to make in the image into a 3minute video and then burnt that to the disk which the projector happily accepted and finally showed the image on the wall in my kitchen. Once that 3 hour process had been completed I found a straw hat almost similar to the one Colin Hill used, changed into a white tee and held the hat like he did. I notice that his fingers are holding the hat different to mine but I had to think of the composition from memory. I think it’s fine. The only lighting use was the light coming from the projector, note that this final image has been through Photoshop CS4 where it’s been edited to match the colour and lightness of the photograph’s photo. The shutter speed is 1/8 of a second, the aperture is f/4.6, ISO 1600, Metering mode: Pattern, Exposure compensation: +0.3 step.
Recreating a photographer’s image
I am choosing to recreate a photo take by Colin Hill.
http://www.positive-magazine.com/photography/update-colin-hill/
ISO: difference
ISO stands for the International Organisation for Standardization, in other words, it is a variable that can be adjusted according to how much light there is and the sensitivity of the film, even in Digital camera’s the virtual complexity, ISO is highly important. Examples of ISO differences are below:
[coming soon]
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Studio photoshoot #1
During this shoot in the studio I shot with a flash tube modelling light, a light softbox, the aperture settings and a hand-held reflector. Thw white balance was set to Flash for all of these photos.
The image is quite bright here: The silver umbrella was placed south-east-east to the volunteering model with the flash set to the strongest and to the north-east is a strong lamp light set at one notch below the strongest beam setting. On the otherside, south-west-west is a light box at the highest brightness, emitting softer light on the left that the right. This has gotten rid of most shadows but really she is extremely highlighted. [Shutter speed:1/25; Aperture: f/9.1; ISO 100]
Here the aperture was at its most widest and by letting too much light in the image was over-exposed. The lighting same settings in the first photo was used. [Shutter speed: 1/25 but it took at 1/21; aperture: f/4; ISO 100]
The umbrella flash intensity was lessened at this resulted in warm skin tones not as harsh as the previous photos. The light soft box was dimmed right down and moved south of the subject model. The lamp-light at the back was dimmed also and instead of pointing at the model it was faced on the wall to the west. [shutter speed: 1/128 but exposed for 1/125; aperture: f/12.9 but set it f/13; ISO 100]
There is very little diference between these two photos. The photo on the left includes a plastic foil/fabric sheet held up by a friend helping but it is very creased and therefore the reflected light was diffused and not properly effective. The shadows are a little lighter but not it does not make music difference.
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Studio Flash: sync speeds
In the studio I had 20 minutes in this photoshoot to experiment with different lighting effects as well as manual camera settings seeing what worked and what didn’t.
These 4 images show correct sync speeds and incorrect sync speeds which the image is covered when the shutter speed is too fast; the flash goes off and the image is taken whilst the shutter is still closing or opening.
I found that the 4th photo, even with incorrect sync speed and the shutter covering about half of the image it worked well if I was aiming to take a portrait shot of just a person’s head.
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Painting with light #1
These photos were done using a small light pen torch and I used shutter speeds between 6” and 2”. The last photo was with Front curtina flash followed by the exposure time.
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Painting with light: Long Exposures
Painting with light is a description give to “drawing” with a light source during a long exposure in the dark. This can be done just about anywhere as long as it is relatively dark or dim and the light source is bright enough and accurate. Setting the camera’s shutter speed to 1/4, lower to even 4” and at the infinite lowest BULB setting where one can have the exposure going for as long as the shutter button is pressed down, in other words, for as long as they want (usually this is done when photographing cityscapes or stars in the night sky). Here are some examples from my AS Exam last year:
Curtain Flash #2
This is my second photoshoot using Curtain Flash this time also experimenting with Front and Rear at the same time.
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