Since we have recently finished our experimental photography project, we have therefore moved onto our next project. This being landscape photography.
The new brief on Landscape photography states that we can look at the stereotypical landscape, as well as cityscapes and waterscapes / seascapes. This is to show that a landscape can be something other than an idea of how we perceive the countryside, but as water and urban themes count too.
This project will also involve research of photographers that I will find out about whilst doing this project. This will be interesting as I will be looking through there work and taking inspiration for my own from theirs. This will involve looking through the list of photographers we have been given on the brief as well as doing some more research of my own to find different photographers that create images that I like and prefer the style of to others.
This means that I get to really look in depth of the scenery around me, which I don't usually do as I take it for granted as I've lived with it my whole life. I will also look in depth around London for cityscapes in the capital city, this will have a totally different feel in the way of cityscapes compared to Sheffield. I will also be looking and taking images whilst I am on holiday for a week in Switzerland, which should result in getting images with mountains, lakes and altogether a totally different scenery to be taking landscapes of compared to Sheffield and Derbyshire.
Below is a range of Landscape photography that I am researching and taking inspiration from in this project.
ISO stands for for the International Organisation for Standardization.
ISO refers to film speed ratings - a film's sensitivity to light, with the higher the number being the more sensitive the film is.
Different ISO ratings are used for different things. With 100, being the normal, everyday setting. Rating 400 and above are used for weddings and indoor sports and dark places.
Depending on the shutter speed, depends on the amount of light able to pass through the camera shutter for a determined period of time, exposing photographic film or a light-sensitive electronic sensor to light, in order to capture a permanent image of a scene.
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As seen by the images above, the quicker the shutter speed the sharper the image; compared to the longer the shutter speed the smoother the image.
In photography, exposure is the total amount of light allowed to reach the electronic sensor during the process of taking a photograph. The two main control your digital camera uses to control exposure are shutter speed and aperture.
This is an important aspect of photography because exposure defines how well lit your image is. Exposure links to shutter speed and aperture, as they control it.
Images can either be under exposed, over exposed or correctly exposed. These make quite a difference in the final result of an image, as seen below.
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Aperture is a key aspect of photography, this is because one of the main things the camera lens works with is aperture.
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Aperture is simply the opening of the lens. This being, since it's the opening of the lens, it therefore let's in different amounts of light so that images taken at night or in a very brightly lit place are still visible and haven't been washed out by the amount of light there is.
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Composition within an image is important because it relates to how the whole image is portrayed and shown
'Composition' in photography is arranging elements within an image in a way that suits the core idea or goal.
This involves symmetry, rule of thirds, object placement.
Symmetry:
from the middle of the image, each side is almost identical to the other.
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Rule of thirds:
having your points of interest in an image on the lines, or intersections along the third lines.
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Diagonal rule:
important elements of the image should be placed on the diagonal lines of the image, going corner to corner.
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Golden section rule
this is where a set section draws in the viewers attention to the image.
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