Week reflection

This week has been disrupted due to the snow. On Monday I couldn’t get to college as the wheather was to bad and busses weren’t running by my house. On Tuesday we mainly focused on location photography. We were looking at equipment that different photographers would use on a photoshoot. We looked at the different types of location photography and looked at the different equipment each of them may use on a usual photoshoot. We then went into Newcastle in small groups of two or three people. The idea of this was to see how hard it is to shoot in the snow. I fount this much harder than I thought. Because of how the light reflects off the snow this affects the exposure. The camera would be under exposed most of the time so we all played around with the shutter speeds, apertures and ISO to get different results and see how the light affects the camera. I got about thirty shots all together, quite a few of them were under or over exposed images but I wasn’t going to delete them as I can use them in my assignment to show how lighting can effect our final outcomes. I also went through my powerpoint and added in five different location photography genres and explained what equipment each photographer may take with them depending on the location. On Wednesday we just looked at evidencing our work in more depth by evidencing some photographers work. I was quite surprised on how much equipment some photographers actually take with them.

Michael Clark

 Micheal clark has some really amazing images. I want to try and capture images similar to the top one where a skater or bmx goes over me and i will use a fast shutter speed for a sharp image. I thought these images were inspirational as it links in with the fujifilm assignment which is based on colour film so i might try and recreate one like the top image. All of his images seemed to have been taken using fast shutter speeds of around 1/200 and apertures of around f15-f25.

Atiba Jefferson

Atiba Jefferson is my favourite photographer. He has inspired a number of my images. H shoots skateboarding, basketball and other extreme sports. He has a lot of strong images due to the colour within them. He also uses flash within most of his images and i think this helps bring out colour in his images. Ive started using flash in my images and find i get better results with it as i can isolate the object and its surroundings. Iv also noticed he uses fast shutter speeds of around 1/100 or faster within his images as they are all sharp and in focus. 

First week back at college after christmas

This week we didn’t start back till the Tuesday meaning we haven’t done as much as we usually would do on a normal week. On Tuesday we were told about the new assignment which was called “The colour of” its an assignment which has been set by Fujifilm. The assignment is based on using colour film. Im looking forward to doing this more than the black and white one as I feel there is more freedom to it which helps me out a lot. I started my presentation where I had to do my introduction, three mindmaps of ideas or equipment we can use. I then started doin my research on four different photographers. I chose sports and landscape photographers as that’s my favourite areas. I chose to research my favourite photographer Atiba Jefferson who photographs skateboarding, basketball and other sports. His shots are usually really detailed and he uses flashguns in almost all his images. I also researched Adam burton who is a landscape photographer. His images were really strong, he uses slow shutters to slow the water down and uses the light to get different colours from it which looks amazing. I researched to other photographers which were all really good. They all had really detailed and sharp images. On Wednesday we looked at how we can annotate our or others pictures much better. I now need to explain a picture using connotations, denotations, composition, tonal range and many other techniques. I have also learnt that I need to be more confident within my work.