Unit 101 image capture (1a)

Task 1a: Final images for my water theme

Landscape 

 



f8 1/3200 iso 100


 I love this photo, the barges on either side seem to draw the viewers eye into the photograph with the barges acting as leading lines.  I also feel the barges frame the water and other barges.  The sun is shining just right between the barges and seems to light the picture up.  I captured the light so you can see the shadowing of the barges in the water. With it being such a bright day I used a really fast shutter speed so not to let too much light into the lens.  It took a while messing about with the aperture and shutter speed to get it right. I purposefully had the grass in the foreground to create more of a frame, but really feel I shoul have cropped some of the sky out to make more of an intense photograph.



This is a lovely photograph of my husband and son, they look so peaceful looking out to the lake.  I slightly changed the original image to come up with this final shot.  As you can see from the image below there was a buggy in the corner which I thought took away from the photo, I used the cloning tool in photoshop to get rid of it.  I also altered the contrast and brightness  to make the picture sharper.  As you can see from the image on the left I have cropped the picture to remove the people in the background. My family are situated slightly off centre therefore having the water as the focus.  I love the shadowing  caused by the natural lighting. 

  Here is the original photo:



f8 1/400 iso 100



Close-up:  



1/80 f5.6 iso 200





This is a great example of a frame in a frame. I took the image from a height therefore had to zoom in quite a lot, but I feel that the fish are in very good focus.  I love to see the water rippling causing a lovely pattern above the fish, making them look like they're behind glass.  There is shadowing on the water caused by the natural light.





1/125 f5 iso 200

 

This a lovely calming picture showing showing a narrow depth of field just focusing on the leaves and the background slightly blurred out.  I would crop this image slightly for presentation purposes to create a sharper picture.











1/6 f36 iso 1600



I'm really impressed with this shot, it took me ages, but I finally got a half decent close up of water droplets.  It's not perfect, but it shows the use of slow shutter speed and colour.  I feel it could have done with better lighting, but this is the best I could do at home, with not a lot of equipment. I used a really slow shutter speed to capture as much detail of the water as possible and by using the tripod it kept the camera steady so as not to get camera shake.  When I learn to use photoshop better I will try and play around with this image to make it better.

  

 






1/25 f5.6 iso 1600

 
This is a shot I got of my son playing in the bath with his boat.  I love the focus on the boat, it really illustrates a narrow depth of field.  There is also focus on the water droplets on the bath handle.  Looking at this image I think it would look good if a changed the entire picture to black and white then added the boat back in colour.

  All images were taken with my sony a390 camera, with a standard 18-55 mm lens. The only photograph I used the flash for was the close up water droplet.



Photoshop-sepia and text

I had a go at turning a colour photograph into sepia, here is how I got on:

I desaturated the image first which took all the colour from the photo, I then selected colour balance.  After playing around with the photo I came out with this final image.



Shutter speed 1/125 f10 iso 100


I am very pleased with the final image, it reminds me of an old postcard, it really gives a warm feeling to this cold winters day.  Just by looking at the photograph I can hear the waves crashing against the prominade. 



I then attempted to put some text into the same sepia image, I played around with the words and thought it went really well in the sea crashing in the waves.  The words look as though they are being washed out to sea

  

Manipulation task

For this task we were asked to have a go at manipulating some images, I had a play about and this is what I came up with, I cropped the image into 6 sections and used variuos filters to to change the image.


Image 1

I used chalk and charcoal, craquelure, stamp, coloured pencil, fresco and graphic pen




Image 2

I used mosaic tile, cut out, glass, dark strokes, spatter and water paper












Image 3





For this image I cut and paste the image of the shoe  (using the magnetic lazzo) from another photograph and placed it into another photograph of the sea.  I moved the shoe around until I found a good place for it.  I re-sized it and this was my final image.

I haven't quite got round to manipulating an image into sepia or to put text in as to be honest I struggled doing what I did in class and don't have photoshop at home to play around with it.  If we get a chance I will have a go at this in my next lesson.











Ideas of water photographs

I tried to get a shot of running water.  I used a shutter speed of 1/125 and a small f stop of 4.5. I had to put the iso to 3200 as it was quite dark inside.  I do like this photo, I feel it captures the flow of water really well that I can almost hear the water.

I took a day trip to Barton Marina and seeked an opportunity to get some photos of barges and water shots. It was a lovely bright day therefore I only had to use an iso of 100. I used a quick shutter speed of 1/125 to get the rippling of the water and an f stop of f16 

This photo didn't really come out as planned.  I was supposed to have got a shot of the water running from the fountain.  I tried a variety of shots, but found it difficult as the water was splashing out.  I used a shutter speed of 1/200 and f8 and  It was a bright day again therefore I only needed the iso on 100.