Mark Epton, 27/11/15. Week 5 Memory check

Memory check

1. What does the the difference between a bridge camera  (like the ones we use in our lesson) and a DSLRacronym DSLR stand for? Describe

The size is visually different, the SLR tends to look a like to the bridge camera but is visually bigger. The lens's on a bridge camera cannot be removed. Slr's can change lenses, example: change from normal lens to wide angle lens. A bridge camera has a viewfinder. The bridge camera also has a better zoom on the camera.

DSLR- digital single-lens reflex. This camera can allow you to remove the lens and change lenses on it.

2. Name for genres of photography where a zoom lens is used.

Portrait. A zoom len's will automatically send the background out of focus so it will make the main part of the image will have more detail than the background. It would be used for taking animals as you may not want to get to close to the animal but still want a clear photograph of the animal. They could use them for landscape images to make them more compact.

3. The key light is the name given to the main source of light we are using during a photo shoot. Name four sources of light you could use to produce this light on future assignments.

 Torch, Red head's, Lamp, Natural light, Flashlight, Candles, LED lights.

4. What does the term ‘considered’ mean when referred to your final shots?

This would mean that you would know in your mind what would be needed to take this photograph to make it film noir genre, what action would need to be taken in order to make it look like a film noir shot. 

Today for the start of the lesson I looked back onto my proposal and I had to go and shoot the other images I hadn't taken yet. I had already shot 2 and then I had to go out with Abbi's camera and shoot the other two shots within the college and I got loads of images. I then wrote about what shots I had taken within the college today and then I had wrote about the one I had taken outside of college. I written about the weakness and what could have been better about the images and then what I liked about the images in each summary. I then wrote what I had improved upon before taking the image and what In mind I had to do in order to take the image. 
I then created a separate blog and placed my final images that I liked and they're just images on the blog so if I need to come back to them easily I can do so. 

I then went onto photo shopping the 4 images I chose for the final and images that I like but unfortunate the shots needed abit of help with Photoshop with the brightness and contrasts and cutting parts out of the image that cannot be simply cropped. I then finished editing the photo's on photo shop and I then finished for the day. 

PHOTOSHOPPED FINAL IMAGES

For was my first image I photo-shopped. I had to crop my nose out as there is no facial features and infact no facial shadow at all which I have just noticed so I am going to try and crop the hands and just edit them closer to the image but If I do not succeed with what mental image I have in mind for the final edited image then I am happy with this edited one. I did try to edit again but the image didn't turn out as planned so I left this image with the one im happy with.

For this image all I did with it in photo shop was firstly edit the brightness with the original image to make the shot have more detail. I edited the contrast so it suited the shot also for more detail. I then duplicated the image and then edited the brightness and contrast again and It then ended up how I wanted it to be so I am happy with this photo shopped edit.

For this image I don't think that I could edit the mistakes I made so I just left it how it was. It probably could have been edited but at my level of experience with it, I wouldn't be able to do it. I then thought I would try edit the brightness so I could see more detail with it.

For this image again I just played around with the brightness and contrast to make the image lighter as the image I took was too dark and lacked lighting.

The best images I taken to re create the original film noir images. (UNPHOTOSHOPPED)

The images above will be the original images and underneath will be where I attempted to recreate them.

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Other pictures taken outside college

I have taken this image to recreate the image next to it and I went and took this outside of college. I did take loads more shots than this but I did delete them because I only thought we needed the best one that was taken so I do not have the test shots anymore. I think I did well to take this shot as I took this considering it needed to be dark. It needed to involve a dark shadowy figure walking up the stairs, wearing a top hat. I considered that I needed some sort of natural lighting just like the photograph. I think this was perfect location for the shot as the locations look very similar and I used props efficiently to take the image. The mistakes I  have made whilst taking this shot and could have done better next time is I should of took it from a better angle and then a big difference which I have only just noticed now I've put them next to each other is the fact mine is portrait and this one is landscape. Also I am disappointed in how much detail the other has and how much less mine has compared to the image. Also another fault with the image is the timing of me taking the image and the angle with the use of natural lighting effected the image with the beam of light effecting the shot. I will just edit these images futher on Photoshop and attempt to try make them look similar.

I then decided to go and take the back up image I spoke about before because for one of the images I wanted to do I didn't have the props and I then used my back up idea because I could take it easily in college and It was a very simple photograph to take. It was easy to take but at least I got my final image for the shoot. I managed to take a load of different images from shooting this image taken from both different angles and sides just in case I didn't take I didn't shoot the image from the right side. I took in mind the mistakes I did last time and learnt from them and took the image from different angles. The first 6 images are the ones I took myself and the 7th is the one I was trying to re create. The things that I think could have been improved is the lighting of the image and how I should have used a beam of light. I will remember that for next time that the lighting is very important for detail. Another thing that makes the image look different is just the fact the sofa's are two different colors and shades but that could not be helped. Another thing was the style of sofa being different and the material with how the sofa I shot was leather and had been sat on/ used before and looks less tidy than the original and then the original looked a lot more neater and tidy.

Image I was attempting to recreate below. 

With this image I did try my best with the image and it will need photo shopping for sure! The idea I had originally was to take them outside of college but I had to go and take them inside quick. I went into the toilets and borrowed Emma to be my model. I took loads of different shots in different angles, both landscape and portrait just in case as I couldn't remember if the original was portrait or landscape so I just took a variety of them. The weaknesses with my image compared to the original would be the lighting and how its not in black and white but that can be edited further on Photoshop. This was the original image I was set to re create and below it are the shots I got. 

First Photoshoot , 20th November

Today I went out and took 1 photo towards the photography proposal I was planning to do.
This was the original image I took.

This is the image I taken to try and re create the image.

With the image I have recreated I am going to try and crop out my hands and move them near the shadow so it looks like the image above. The hands aren't exactly the same as the top either but that's fine I think. I just need to crop and move my hands more onto the image and try and cut out my shadow of my face as on the image there is only hands. I should be able to achieve this with the help of Photoshop. To take this photograph I don't know what camera setting it is on because Dom and Nathan took it in turns to shoot the images and both swapping to hold the light up. The image was taken in a dark room not a studio but it still did the same purpose as the studio would have done.
My next task is to edit on Photoshop see if I can get it looking like the first image as much as possible. I will have to edit this on a different day as at the time I am writing this the laptop doesn't have Photoshop software on it.

I then looked into what a contact sheet was but again I cant start on it until I have a computer with photoshop.


Altogether this was all the images that got taken from today as we took took quite a few.

Research

I think this picture was took in the 1950's as of the way the man is dressed with his hat and detective based coat. Also the steam train would make me assume the same. I think the message behind the photograph would be that some kind of other person is being a threat to this person and getting in the middle of his business or disrupting his plans so that he has to point a gun at whoever it is to send the message that he isn't messing around and will shoot if this person interferes. A unique feature of this photography which would be different from present day would be the steam train prop as those trains we no longer use. A problem I would face during attempting to take this picture would be the prop and location with the steam train and the use of the smoke in the background as hes stood of the platform. Also another problem would be the gun as we are not aloud to use one in our project.

I'm not quite sure when this image could have been taken but it must of been taken but it has to be in the 90's because of the clothing and hairstyle the woman has. I think the message behind this photograph would be either shes had some bad news and shes just thinking about her life looking whats outside because of the sad facial expression she is pulling. Although she could also be waiting for somebody outside and is just waiting for them to turn up. A unique feature of this photograph would be the hairstyle I guess as its very different from the present day styles. A problem with taking this image would be just the style of clothing as its very 90's and may not be able to access this type of clothing.