Presentation

We presented out pictures on the web by putting them on Flickr.com
'http://www.flickr.com/photos/95276964@N06/'
Which gave us the opportunity to join the group 'MC Tech' for our whole group to share all our photos and to have a look at everybody else's. We then uploaded our 3 pictures on to our own for other people to look.
Our pictures will also be printed out and put into a glass frame around the college in corridors.

Studio Lighting Techniques

Lighting Set Ups
The direction that light falls on the subject is one of the most important things to do with photography, it completely changes the way a viewer looks at an image.
The basic directions of light are:
- Frontal
- Three-quarter lighting from both left and right
- Side 
- Back - In back lighting the camera looks directly into the light which creates a shadow of the subject in a dark silhouette against the ground.
There is also 'rim lighting', this is when the light comes from such a direction that it is blocked by the subject but enough light to highlight the object creating a 'rim of light'.
This is a diagram of where these angles are situated compared to the subject:

All of these have completely different looks in a photograph.

Tripods

How to Safely Set up a Tripod:
- First of all make sure that the area your setting your tripod around, there is nothing near to cause damage and also that it is flat ground so there is no chance of it falling over, you also need to make sure that the tripod can hold the camera before it's all set up properly.
- Then spread all the three legs out to the full length to make sure that it's level, then depending on how high you want your tripod then start from the widest leg extension, then check each leg so it's level.
- Next attach the camera to the tripod by using the quick release button and then screw it in. 
- Then you need to make sure everything is tightened and screwed in so that the camera doesn't move and slip off during a shoot.

By using a tripod it gives you a lot better of an image, it helps you get a stiller and better quality image.

ISO International Standards Organisation

The ISO (International Organization for Standardization) give state of the art specifications for products, services and good practice. This helps the industry by making things more efficient and effective. 
ISO were founded in 1947 and since then have published over 19,500 international standards covering all aspects from technology and also business, food safety, computers, agriculture and health care. It impacts all our lives.
This is a picture of the founders of the ISO pictured in London in 1946:

This is a picture of a high ISO vs low ISO using a DLSR camera:

By looking at both pictures you can see that there is a massive difference, the low ISO of 100 is completely different, it is blurry and fairly unclear, which doesn't really attract anyone to want to look at the photograph. Where as the high ISO of 800 is so much more clear on the main subject. The background is still fairly blurry but the photograph looks a lot better and attracts the audience a lot more.

ISO is the level of sensitivity your camera is available to light. The lower the ISO number the less sensitive your camera is to light, whereas the higher the ISO number it increases the sensitivity of your camera which creates a lot better of a photograph.

Shutter Speed

Shutter speed is the amount of times the cameras shutter is open in order to expose the light sensitive media. It is measured in fractions of a second, a faster shutter speed halves the amount of light allowed in the camera, a slower shutter speed doubles the amount of light allowed into the camera.

When setting the shutter speed on the DSLR, you choose the TV which means time value on the dial. The camera will then calculate the appropriate aperture for the correct exposure shown in the view finder.

There are 10 options for slow shutter speeds:

- 1/1000

- 1/500

- 1/250

- 1/125

- 1/60

- 1/30

- 1/15

- 1/8

- 1/4

- 1/2

All of them are in fractions of a second.

However, long shutter speeds are done in whole seconds:

- 1

- 2

- 4

- 8

- 16

- 32

- 60

Aperture/ Depth Of Field

On DSLR cameras, each one has a dial with different settings on, this is a picture of the dial. The A on the dial means Aperture priority:

This is a setting that allows the user to choose a specific aperture value while the camera selects a shutter speed to match. This creates the perfect exposure. 

The main purpose of using the aperture priority mode is to control the depth of field, DOF is the distance between the nearest and furthest away object in the picture, which may or may not be more sharp than other things, it is mainly used in landscape and portrait photography as by using a wide aperture it gives you the opportunity to put the background out of focus and have the main object as sharp as possible. 

Preparing Camera To Shoot/ Camera Set Up

These are instructions for a DLSR Camera Set up:

- First of all you have to check the battery level before you go out on a shoot so you are prepared to shoot for a long period of time instead of getting to a shoot and the camera running out of battery, you will be able to tell this by which level of the battery the indicator is on. If the battery is running out you then bring a spare or just change it completely.
- Next, you then have to insert the recording media. This means that you have to make sure you have a memory card with enough space on for a shoot, then insert it where the camera has the slot, then close the cover and when the camera is turned on the number of shots will be displayed on the LCD monitor of how many pictures can fit on the memory card like (p. 32).
- Then you need to select recording size which is shown in the post below about all the camera functions on a DSLR camera.  
- You then need to set the diopter, this means that you have to make sure that the points in the viewfinder look as sharp as possible.
- Now you need to select auto or manual focus depending on what you are shooting.
- Then you need to select the metering mode depending on how bright the subject or the area you are shooting. 
- Last but not least you have to set the white balance, you have to do this so that the white objects look white in the picture so that the photos aren't ruined.
- Finally you then select the shoot mode depending on the area or the type of shoot and you are ready to go!

Adobe Bridge Image Management Software

These are my own print screens when using Adobe Bridge.

The first one was when i was creating my own contact sheet. After grading my pictures, which i will explain after, I then went to output and chose the scale of how i want my pictures to look like on my contact sheet, and then it was made. I will attach the contact sheets i have made to my work. 

This is a close up of the pictures i graded with a star. I did this by choosing which pictures i liked the best and grading them with a 1, this then filtered my images into the ones i graded and the ones i hadn't which made it easier to edit..

I then opened them up to edit, this created a PDF file, which means a portable documents format.

I changed the temperature of my pictures and changed the contrast of the picture to make my photos look a lot warmer and not so flat on a printed piece of paper.

This is a print screen of the photos i have graded and the ones that i chose to filter. 

DSLR Camera

There are many different things you need to do before taking photographs, these are them:

-  Check the battery level before going out onto a shoot, by doing this you need to have a look when the camera is on, the battery level is indicated in four levels found here:

-  Insert recording media is basically inserting the memory card; you have to make sure you have an empty memory card or one with plenty of space before you go onto a shoot.

-  Select recording size – this means that you can select the  quality of the photographs, you can do this by selecting the pixel count. You can choose between 10 image recording quality settings:

This gives you the oppertinity to change the quality depending on what type of shoot you are doing. You can do this by:

- Setting the diopter is adjusting the viewfinder clarity. By turning the dioptric adjustment knob left of right until the nine AF points in the view finder look sharp.

-  Select auto or manual focus depending on what you are shooting. You can select the auto-focus mode to suit the type of shoot, the most basic auto-focus mode is set automatically.

This is a description of how to change the auto-focus.

-  Select metering mode. There is three metering modes to measure the brightness of the subject. In basic automatic mode the metering is set already.

The three methods of metering mode are:

Evaluative Metering

Partial Metering

Center-weighted average metering

-  Do the white balance to match the light source. The automatic setting sets the white balance, but you can also select the white balance to match the light source yourself, or set it manually by shooting a white object such as a plain piece of paper or something completely white.

This is a description of how to do the white balance:

-  Finally, select shoot mode.

This is a dial of all the 15 different types of modes you can choose, and what they mean: