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.



Composition

In this task we were asked to photograph a number if images showing the following composition aspect: Lines, frame within a frame, patterns/textures, balance - rule of thirds, angle - (high, low, tilted), reflections, shadows, distance - far/near (abstract), colour and focus.

Here a variety of images showing these aspects:



Lines
I feel this a good shot for leading the audience into the photograph. It gives the viewer a sense of depth, imagination and curiosity.  I used a shutter speed of 1/125, an f.stop of f5.6 and iso of 400




Frame within a frame
This image shows a frame within a frame leading out of a park and also shows a good shadow of the gate.  I used a shutter speed of 1/125 an f.stop of f10 and iso 100

Frame within a frame
I really like the way this image urned out, i love the way the background is blurred.  I used a very fast shutter speed of 1/1250 and a low f number of f3.5 and iso 400

Patterns/Textures
This a great pattern of the wall outside college which I feel came out really well.  I got up very close and used a shutter speed of 0.4 and an f number f5.6 iso 400

Balance
I feel this image shows the rule of thirds, but am still a little unsure as to what makes up a rule of thirds image. I used a shutter speed of 1/30, an f number of f3.5 and iso 400

Angle - tilted
I really like the way this image looks at a slight angle and think it would look great with someone walking along also to an angle. I used a shutter speed of 1/13, f3.5 and iso 400

Reflections
I love this reflection in the puddle, it also has an aspect of frame within a frame. I used a shutter speed of 1/60, an f5 and iso 400

Shadows
I liked this rock I found in the local park and thought it would look good for a photo shot and it had the added bonus of forming a shadow. I used a shutter speed of 1/60, f22 and iso100

Distance - far
These stepping stone logs came out better than I thought and show distance well.  I also feel it it incorporates tilted composition.  I used a shutter speed of 1/125, f4 and iso200

Distance - near
The same image as above which shows what it looks like close up.  I actually prefer this image, it really shows the pattern from the wood and the pattern around the base.  I used a shutter speed of 1/125 a low f number of f4 and iso 200

colour
I wasn't very pleased with the way this image turned out, I feel it is really out of focus.  I think I need to play around a bit more to achieve a good focus.  Putting focus aside I do feel this shows colour very well I used a shutter speed of 1/8, f 5 and iso 400

Colour
I feel this image shows the concept of colour well and I love the way the background is out of focus, showing all the detail of the grass.  I used a shutter speed of  1/800, f5 and iso 400

Focus
This is a nice shot of a spider in its web and shows focus well, I feel if I had a better Len's I would have got a much better close up.  I used 1/640,a ow f number of f3.5 and iso 400

Focus
This is a lovely image of some water left over from the rain, it really shows focus and also shadows.  I used shutter speed of 1/5, f5.6 iso and 400

Evaluation: I really enjoyed this task, being able to shoot what I wanted to incorporate different composition aspects was so much fun.  I found myself looking at things in a different light and placing them into a category eg, seeing the gate and using it as a frame.  Before doing this course I would never have seen things like this...they would have just been a gate in a park.  Some of the time I got a little frustrated as on sunny days I had to keep messing about with the aperture, shutter speed and iso, I'm sure in time it will come naturally.  I did find it easier using live view as this showed what the picture would actually look like.  Overall I really enjoyed this task and will continue finding different images t make my own.

Camera control exercise



Wide depth of field: using a shutter speed of 1/30 and a high f.stop of f.22 and iso of 400.

Looking back at the picture I feel I could have used a higher iso as it was getting darker.

I had a go at another shot with a wide depth of field which I think came out a lot better:
I use a shutter speed of 1/160 and high f.stop of f.22 with an iso of 100

Narrow depth of field: using a shutter speed of 1/640 a low number f.stop f3.5 and iso 400

Fast shutter speed (short exposure): using a shutter speed of 1/125 combined with an f.stop of f.18 and iso 400    

Slow shutter speed (long exposure): using a slow shutter speed of 1/6   f.stop 18 and iso 400. For this photograph I placed the camera on a wall as I didn't have a tripod.  To make the photograph better I would place the camera on a tripod and use a  slower shutter speed.