Week 5 photography

Memory check

Q1. What is ISO and what does it effect?

Q1A. ISO determines how sensitive the camera sensor is and which helps the exposure of the photos 

Q2. When would we use the ‘P’ control setting on the camera mode dial.

Q2A. The P stands for Program on the mode dial and it set the speed and aperture automatically. 

Q3. Name two important consideration when attaching the tripod baseplate to the bottom of camera?

Q3A. dont put it on to lose as it may fall off and break the camera, or dont screw it on to hard.

Q4. Name three important considerations when using a red-head lighting kit

Q4A. 1. dont touch the barn door of the red head if its on or you have just turned it off as it will still be really warm.

2. we have to wait until its cooled down considerably as we don't want to break the copper wire inside of the red head.

3. dont trip off the wire that connects to the light stand.

Q5. When focusing the camera, what do we place on the object/subject to ensure it is the center of focus?

Q5A. a green rectangle will appear in the view finder

Q6. Name two techniques we can use to adjust the brightness and contrast of a photograph?

Q6A. gently press down on the shutter button till half way then you have focused it and adjusted the lighting 

you can use the  ISO to adjust the lighting and make it a lot better.

Evaluation for the magazine advert

Evaluation for the magazine advert

For this advert we had to produce an advert advertising anything we wanted though using photos we have taken so I choice to use a sprite can for my product and have a very different theme to this advert with it being a about a jungle and unleashing your true self when you drink sprite so it gives a very edgy feel very different to a lot of other adverts.

For the research that I had to do to make this advert it was just look at other adverts by sprite and make it different to all the reset with my own twist which I did with the jungle background this gave it a different feel and will make people look at this advert over others as it’s something that sprite has never done before they have always gone with any original advert show off the product and that’s really it but with this you’re putting it in a new environment that will make people question if it’s a sprite advert which means it’s getting noticed over all the others out there.

I learnt lots of new skills though this project as I’ve never used Photoshop before so it was completely new for me this whole thing is something that I’ve never used so I’ve learnt the basic like how to zoom in and out to how to cut out things in a couple of seconds so I’ve learnt a lot with Owen and the rest of my class helped me out with some things too.

Overall I’m happy with my final piece as it’s really my first piece of Photoshop that will be getting judge but I’ll look back on it in 1 years’ time and say how bad it was and what I could of improved on to make this piece of work my best piece of work.

If I was to do this again I would chose a different product and a different idea for my advert so it would be better as this is a very basic design and idea for what I should be doing but I’m happy with my work how I’ve done it.

Evaluation for Video Advert

Evaluation for Video Advert

In this project we had to produce a Video advert for a product that we made up or either an existing product so in my group we had me, Yasmine and Dee and we choice to make up our own product and this product was a new energy drink like Lucozade and Gatorade but it was called Energe as we could really do what we want as some product have a specific way of advertising there product so this way we could really do what we wanted with are advert so that what we did and we finally produced a good piece of work that applied to the topic of Freak or Unique.

First we had to find other advert that applied to are product so we had a basic idea of how other company’s advertise there energy drinks and they all follow the same theme is what we realised that its someone that runes out of energy has a drink of the energy drink and they win the race or whatever they are competing in so we thought we should make are advert different to the normal type of advert and go for a chase scene so it’s kind of like a normal energy drink advert however we had a twist with it almost being Halloween we thought to have a monster chasing me though the college so it’s different to other adverts.

I personally learned a lot of skills though this project some I will use every day and some only apply to this part of the course like the editing techniques I’ve never edited a video advert using adobe premiere so I learned a lot though people in my group and the teacher Marissa like how to mark in and out of the footage so that is where it would start and then she showed us how to actually cut the footage so we can get rid of the useless footage we took by using the razor tool the like cuts it off then you click it then delete it form the whole think so that’s one. Another think I learnt was how other work differently to me because I’m not a person that rushes my work it needs to be done however Dee is the opposite he just gets it done then goes though it after to check it to change any bits he does not like so I had to accept that and work around that so are styles work together not against each other.

I personally feel it’s a good piece of work to say it’s out very first time even trying to record with people we have only known for 4 weeks it’s very different but I’m happy with it but there is defiantly room for improvement but that’s why I’m on the course to improve my skills in these types of things but overall I’m happy with our efforts.

If I was to do this differently I would be much more organized on my work and save it a lot more than I did as I had to do the storyboard 3 times over so that would be something I would work on is save a lot more often than usual. Also would edit it a bit differently add more effect to it make it more horror and spookier to watch then it already is.  

Photography Evaluation

Photography Video Evaluation

In this project we had to produce a Freaky or Unique piece of photography to make seem supernatural and different and we had to produce a montage of the image to make it seem different to every other freak or unique advert that been before. So we produced a photograph of the products we photographed and changed to make it look very different to the original and make it look freaky then we had to print it off and show the class.

We had to research other adverts like this on the internet to give us the inspiration to our own piece which it did for me as I thought I could combine a very innocent picture of something and make it look very evil or even do a good versus evil piece of photography and make it look like the screens cracked in to with the good and evil theme.

Things I’ve learnt from my first assessment is that I need to manage my time better as I’ve done most of it but there’s still work to be done even though it’s the final day of the assignment and I still need to finish off my montage of my work.

I learnt a lot of skill though this project as I needed to learn how to use a bridge camera as I’m really only use to digital cameras not professional camera like the college has so basically everything I’ve learnt is new to me so taking the photos to the editing the photographs are brand new to me.

My ideas for this piece of work is to make a good teddy look evil and make a bad monster can look good with swapping some things over like the monster logo I’m going to put that on the teddy bear to make it look evil and like it’s a good teddy stuck with evil features whereas I’m going to put the bowtie of the teddy bear on the monster can so it gives it that feeling of wrong placement and different.

I feel like I could of done better with my final piece of work because I really did not know what to bring in to photograph to begin with so I just brought in some things from my room that I found and it had nothing to do with are topic so I had to just adjust the photographs so I’m happy with it but overall I’m happy with how the photographs turned out.

If I was to do this again I would make sure I would bring in the right images to photograph and not just random items that I found the day before so that is one think I defiantly know what the bring in to class so I’m there with the wrong items for class. Also if I had more time on the project I would have made sure the lighting was good and it was not too dull but that’s not that important as we used a seamless background so it’s fine. 

Four Edited Shots

for this image i darkened the lighting to give it that evil feel to it as people say Monster as a brand is connected to the Satan and is a very negative Brand over all 

for this image of the teddy i had ti lighten the level and curves on both to give it look of  and angle like this creature will never hurt you only cuddle with you 

for this image i made it a lot darker at the bottom of the image to make this one a lot different to other pictures of bottles also i made it so the shadow is more noticeable so it looks better   

with this image i made it kinda the same as the other one of the teddy bear make it look very heavenly and good nature  

Here are four edited shot of things i took my photos off for all of these photos i had to change the curves and the levels of these photos to make them look different to the original this would make the photo come alive and different the other ones like it 

Photography Week 4

Freak or Unique photography assignment – Week 4

Memory check

Q1. Would we use a large or a small apature to achieve a shallow depth of field?

Ans. large

Q2. When would we use the ‘S’ control setting one the camera mode dial.

Ans. When you shoot sports or fast moving objects

Q3. What do we do to make the camera achieve focus?

Ans.by pressing the shutter button only half down to put it in focus then press it the full way down to take the photo

Q4. Name three items needed when producing a seamless background lighting set-up

Ans. red head light, tripod and a camera

Q5. When focusing the camera, what do we place on the object/subject to ensure it is the center of focus?

Ans. A green rectangle will appear when its been focused 

Q6. What must we do when we finish using the light to ensure it doesn't get broken?

Wait for it to cool before we move it because we don’t want to brake the copper wire inside of it 

The proposal

Proposal

Props

I will be bringing in 3/4 items to be photographed for my advert for photography class so I was thinking of bringing in a bottle of mountain dew for a couple of my photographs then I shall use a teddy bear from my house that I’ve had since I was born so that can be the second object for this photography work and also I shall bring in a can of monster I think because that I an evil looking can as a few people associate Monster Energy with the devil and Satan then finally I might bring in a ball of string for my photography work and put it with something else to make the picture look different.

Equipment

In the equipment list I will be using I will need a white sheet of paper so I have a none creased background so the photograph looks good and presentable to be handed in to Mark at the end of this project. Also I will need to have a red head for my lighting so you can see the object and then see the shadow in the background of the object to give it that creepy feeling of something being watched from the shadow. Next we had to use a light stand to hold the red head in place so it can shine the light on to the product I want to photograph to give it the shadow. Also I will need a camera obviously to actually take the photos for my photography work. Finally you will need a SD Card as this is a place you will be storing these photographs.

Location

My photos will be in the studio that I work in normally because it has great natural lighting in most of the room but towards the end of the room towards the classroom next door the light starts to dim as there are not where the light can get in in that part of the room so if I do use that part I will need to use lights like a red head or other ones. Secondly it’s a high traffic area so I may get in peoples way if I do stay in this room.

Photographic consideration

I will need to take in to account the time of day I will be taking these photography’s as if it’s taken a night time the light will not be the best for the photography’s and will look really bad if I do so I will need to take it in the middle of the day or when lights at its best.

Editing Techniques

For the editing techniques I will be use the curves and levels that Photoshop offers so my photos look good and effective if I go with a lighter or darker phase of the image so it looks rather evil and rather good.

What Obstacles Will I Face

Some of the obstacles I might face are people getting in the way of the photographs as I’m in a high traffic area because I’m in between two class room so people will be coming in and out of the room constantly. Also another problem I might face is the fact that the lighting might be awful on that day so I can’t really take the photos that I want to take.

 this was the proposal ive wrote in this lesson 

Magazine Advert

this is the original drafts i did for the idea of what to do for my magazine advert although the picture is not the best you can see a basic idea for my product  

Today we had to create a magazine advert for something of are choice but first we had to design it on paper before we could take are ideas to Photoshop so i create 6 designs for my magazine advert then moved it over to Photoshop to actually create my magazine advert so first i was looking for a lucozade but then it would not let me copy and paste the photo from google images to photoshop it just would not show up at all so i had to change my idea to a can of sprite so that what i did went for a sprite can and that allowed me to get in on photoshop but then i needed an actual background for it and I could not think of a background for it as i did not know what direction i wanted to take this advert in but finally i had a idea why not put it in the jungle and use a slogan of do you have jungle fever as the best i can come up with and put the sprite logo at the bottom of the page so it kinda look more official however i have not finished this and still needs a slogan and a subheading so make it a finished magazine advertisement 

Tutorial
In this lesson we had to print off are labels to are product we would be 'selling' in are advert and then we got sent down to the library to collect are printing but before we could do that we had to take a tour of the library form the librarian so we went around talking about everything in the library and what its used for then we got a to print off are work and take a photo of a book from the library.