Magazine UNIT 51: Plan for the Moodboard

 Our Assignment is split into three tasks.
- Mood board
- Collecting Photos
- Photo shoot.

My plan to include on the Moodboard

Online Pictures:

• Taylor Swift
• Selena Gomez
• Grammy
• Brit Awards
• Album Covers
• Microphone
• Friendship
• Heart
• Red
• Snow icicles
• Designers
• Friendship rings
• Disney channel
• Not another Cinderella story
• red carpet
• camera
• the word commitment
• the friendship goals
• social media
• Jonas brothers
• top of the pops magazine
• purple
• white
• gold
• entertainment tonight logo
• beanbag chairs
• angels
• Christmas
• fans
• barbie dolls of Taylor or Selena or any other celebrities/ barbie logo
• Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato
• Justin Bieber and ed Sheeren
• Miley Cyrus and Ariana grande
• Rhianna and Katy Perry

Original Pictures I want to Include as well as how i am planning the photoshoot

I want to include a shot with the 2 models caught in the moment while in a photo shoot that i will be administration

• - they will be sitting on the floor with their legsfacing outwards next to each other so rher legs interlock
• - they will be laughing about something funny tat may have happended and they will be showing smiles on their faces, their eyes shouldn't be on the camera so the picture doesn;t looked stage
• i hope to put this in black and white
• - i want another photo with both the models looking directly at each other with their hands balancing their faces and i want to amke it a close up as well, i want one model to be lloking directly at the camera whereas i want the other model to be looking at her smiling
• - picture of two people holding hands
• - picture of a piggy back with the two models
• - a mock up of a red carpet shot with two of the models wearing designer dresses or in the cinema holding hands and crying with laughter
• - a photo of the two models at the interview laughing with each other
• - a fake snapchat of the two models together as in casully in a costa or a starbucks like an ordianry day out wearing casual clothes
• - individual photo's of the girls wearing headshots looking professionaly done

Photography UNIT 57: Texture / Colour / Shape

Basic Enhancements to Photo

Texture

- Focus on the form for some interesting pictures

- Everything has a surface, everything has a texture

- some are course, some are fine, 

- feel texture with your hands

 - Don't photograph entire thing

- always get it in photo

- DO NOT USE FLASH

Colour 

- Balance and harmonies with the colours

- get a picture with loads of colours and change the contrast / saturation

- use the colour wheel to use contrasting colours

- Red, Blue and Green are the primary colours, they add energy and impact to the image

- Red is the strongest and can dominate a picture (even a tiny amount)

- shoot in strong, bright, light for best results

Shape

- helps frame a photo / useful composition aid

- make photography stronger

- van be real or made up

look beyond the obvious

Blog Task

Take 10 pictures and put onto my blog

Texture and Colour / Shape

Photoshop

- Contrast + Saturation

I am going to take the Photo's in school. This is my plan for taking the photos of texture, shape and colour.

I am planning to take the photos outside at a time where the weather is predicted sunny in the UK, by studying the weather in my local area, i plan to do the photography shoot next Monday.

I plan to go outside and take photos of leaves and flowers that have raindrops on them and specifically on the leaf rather than having fallen off.

I plan to also take photo's inside the school in a classroom that has big windows so that a lot of light can be let in such as the music room, i plan to use the shape effect with some of those instruments especially brass ones that have a hole at the end of them. i.e tuba, trumpet etc. i plan to take a photo of another object through the view of a brass instrument.

Finally,  I plan to take another set of photos in the school itself and i plan to use texture by taking pictures of food that i might have purchased in the cafe or the canteen. I especially would like to take pictures of the sandwiches of the canteen because of the bun and the fact that light shines off of it because it is so bare. I will use this as for texture as well as other foods such as lettuce which is beautiful when it washed.

Photography UNIT 57: Aperture

Introduction to Aperture:

 - Size of the opening on the lense when a picture is taken
- Aperture impacts the size of the hole

Large the Hole - The more light that gets in
Smaller the Hole - The less light gets in

- hit the shutter
- hole opens
- allows light in
- capture the scene

Aperture = "an opening"
created by an adjustable iris opening and closing
- Iris is made of thin metal blades and move together to make a circular opening of a variable size
- Most DSLR , Iris is actually in the lense itself

Aperture is measured in f stops ( referred to as f number e.g. f/2.8, f/4, f/5 etc)

moving from one f stop to another to the next doubles or halves the size of the amount of the opening of the lenses
Large apertures (lots of lights gets through ARE GIVEN F/STOP smaller numbers and smaller apertures (where little light gets through) are given bigger numbers

Depth Of Field (DOF) is the amount of your shot will be in focus

- Large DOF means that most of your image will be in focus whether your camera is close or far away
- Small DOF means that only part of the image will be in focus and the rest will be blurry.
The larger the aperture the smaller the depth of field and Vice versa.

large aperture will decrease the depth of field whereas
small aperture will increase the larger depth of field

Small numbers mean small DOF - Large Numbers mean Large DOF

Landscapes require small aperture setting (large numbers)
Portraits require large aperture setting (small number)

Macro photographers tend to be bigger users of aperture to ensure that the element of their subject that they are focusing in on totally captures the attention of the viewer of their images while the rest of image is completely thrown out of focus

Large Apetures
- F2.8 to F5.6 produce a shallow depth of field
- the area of sharp focus would be small

- this can be useful when you want to isolate the subject of your picture while throwing the background and other elements out of focus

- useful applications of wide apertures include portraits and wildlife closeups.












Small apertures - F16 - F32
- increase the depth of filed which means more elements of a picture from foreground to background become sharply focused.

This can create a distinct sense of depth to a photograph, drawing viewer into the picture.

Magazine Unit 51; Content Check and Track Changes

Track Changes

Content Check

Magazine UNIT 51: Magazine Template

This is my magazine template for assignment 1,

Because of it's size it is very likely that you will have to scroll across

Photography UNIT 57: Potraits on Photoshop

The Task: Firstly, we had to take our own photographs in our own spare time and then we would upload our photos onto photoshop and we would edit it using a range of techniques provided to us in a powerpoint. The photos that we took had to have had 3 different shots. Close Up, Mid - Shot and Long Shot. We had to use Black and White in the blue, red and green filter, we had a go at using selective colour and finally we had to use a comic book effect.

This is a Close up of My sister, the picture is in black and white effect but the filter is Blue

This is the second close up of my sister much like the one above and is the picture in the Black and White effect but with a green filter

This is the last close up of my sister in Black and white effect along with the red filter added to this.

I particularly like this image f selective colour of my mother in her wedding dress because i took a long time tracing each individual petal, flower and leaf that is in the photo. and the end result is actually stunning and it really brings out the flowers and it makes the actual photo of my mother stands out as well. I believe that all my hard work has paid off and if i can do this picture once like this, then I believe I can do it again.

This is a mid shot of my mother. as you can see that selective colour has been used to enhance the flowers in the picture and to make them shine out from the black and white background.

I found it really challenging to do the comic book edition of this long shot because i had to do it from an article online rather than actually from the Photoshop program itself. The version i was using omitted the comic book effect of a picture so i had to improvise. I hope to improve in the future if any problem like this would occur again.

This is my attempt at a comic book effect on a Long shot of my sister. This was difficult because the original Photoshop affect had been emoted from the version of Photoshop that i was using so i made this effect based on a DIY review off the internet. I hope to improve in the future

In the future of the course, this has taught me how to use these settings again, especially selective colour and if i were to make a photo stand out, i now know how to do so as well as the fact that in the future of the course, i realize where i went wrong concerning making a photo comic book filtered. I know not to repeat that in the future.

Photography UNIT 57: Portraits

Portraits

 3 different composition

• A long shot - the whole person
• A Medium shot - Waist up
• A close up - just face and neck

Things to consider

• what is the lighting like?
• what is the background like
• where the model is looking??
• what pose should the model have?

Taking the Picture

• Take more than 3 shots for each one
• Take your time
• talk to your model
• get the eyes in focus
• Try and get off the automatic setting

Photoshop

• We will look at black and white effects
• We will look  at partial colour effects
• We will look at basic adjustments
• We will  be looking at comic book images

Key Words:

•  Aperture - how much light is let into the camera through the lense

Your Task:

• We have till Wednesday 23rd to have these shots taken
• We will be given the opportunity to manipulate the images on Photoshop
• The Nikon DSLR's are available for use but can only be done on the school premise.
• we have to organise who our model is going to be
• we need to plan where and when are going to take your photographs

My Plan for the Photography Shoot.

I Will ask my Sister to be the model for my shoot because she is very photogenic and will happiuly do what i ask her as she wants to be a model when i am older.

Long Shot:

Light: Natural Light/ Darkish 

Background: Grass with the Blue Sky/ Sunset/ Weather

Model Position: The Model should be looking away from the camera we should be seeing the back of their head

Model Pose: Her hands should be raised above her head spread out or in clenched fists i.e victory

Mid - shot

Light: Natural

Background: Plain, like a grey or purple colour

Model position: Lying down, her hand is keeping her head up

Model pose: she is smiling or laughing and she is facing the camera, she is also wearing a dark shade of lipstick

Close - up

Light: Dark Light or artificial via a bulb

Background: A bed set- up like a pillow

Model position: she is under tghe covers with her head on the pillow facing the camera straight on

Model Pose: She should just be lying straight

Model should be looking: directly at the camera with her eyes closed, giving the idea that she is dreaming