The History of Photography
Camera Obscura
Camera obscura, a first generation camera. Camera obscura means "dark room" in latin. It was made by a small hole in a pitch black room which reflects the image upside down on the opposite wall. This was mainly used to view eclipses of the sun without damaging the eyes. Eventually a piece of drawing paper was put on the opposite wall for the artist to trace the picture. Smaller versions were invented to make it possible to go around the world and trace images.
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My Camera ObscuraThis is my camera obscura. You can see it is a full black box with a tracing paper back with a lens on the front. The lens makes a image on the tracing paper so we can trace it for drawing. You can make the image more focused by moving the lens as the focusing is how far the lens is from the tracing paper/back of your camera.
The way we made the camera is by getting a black piece of card and folding it twice to make a box kind of shape when it was propped up. After that we put another black piece on the front to block the light then a piece of tracing paper on the back for the light to reflect onto so it could project and image. After that we made a tube and put a magnifying glass on the end to make the image sharper. After that we were to draw what we could see on the tracing paper. It was pretty hard to keep the pen/pencil steady when trying to trace what we could see onto the paper. WWW: Making the camera went smoothly EBI: It would be even better if I could get the focus better for a better looking image |
DSLR Intro
1: Eyecup 11: Display button
2: Viewfinder eyepiece 12: Erase button 3: LCD Monitor 13: Focus point selection button 4: MENU button 14: Live view shooting/Movie 5: Playback button shooting switch 6: Wi-fi lamp 15: Dioptric adjustment knob 7: Access lamp 8: Set button/Multi-controller 9: ISO speed setting button 10: Quick control button |
Shutter Speed
What is Shutter Speed? Shutter speed is the amount of time that the shutter is open. This controls how much light is let in. This controls the movement and the crispness of the image. Shutter speed is measured in units of time using fractions of a second e.g 1/60. The program dial should be on TV.
Set 1
Levitation
In this task I had to take a photo of someone mid air with a high shutter speed so it was a still image with very little blur. This created the idea that they were floating.
Yowa Yowa
My Response
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For levitation images it is helpful to keep your feet flat and not have any baggy clothing so it doesn't fly around. You can prevent this by tucking in your shirt or your trousers. You can also wear a hat to stop your hair from messing up.
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Francesca Woodman
Francesca Woodman survived a suicide attempt in the autumn of 1980, after she went to go live with her parents in Manhattan. On January 19, 1981, Francesca Woodman took her life when she was 22. She jumped out of a loft window of a building in New York City.
The image on the left "Providence, Rhode Island (1975-1978) make it look like she is a ghost. It gives a very eerie feel as it is dark and shaded. Give a brief overview of Woodman’s life Describe the image, Providence, Rhode Island (1975-78) the image on the left. |
3. Answer the following questions. (PEC each answer) Use the information we gathered as a class. You can find it in the PP attached to the Francesca Woodman homework.
What do you think Woodman’s intentions are? There may be more than one. ‘PEC’ each intention.
POINT: Francesca Woodman intended to…
EXAMPLE: She did this by… (describe something in the image)
COMMENT: She wanted us to think / react …
What wider context was Woodman addressing?
POINT: Woodman is considering …... in this piece of work.
EXAMPLE: This is shown by… (describe something in the image)
COMMENT: She wanted to explore...
How does Woodman’s style of photography and process support her intentions?
POINT: Woodman used (technique /process)...to create this work.
EXAMPLE: This helped her to create the effect of...
COMMENT: This helps to support her intention of...
What do you think Woodman’s intentions are? There may be more than one. ‘PEC’ each intention.
POINT: Francesca Woodman intended to…
EXAMPLE: She did this by… (describe something in the image)
COMMENT: She wanted us to think / react …
What wider context was Woodman addressing?
POINT: Woodman is considering …... in this piece of work.
EXAMPLE: This is shown by… (describe something in the image)
COMMENT: She wanted to explore...
How does Woodman’s style of photography and process support her intentions?
POINT: Woodman used (technique /process)...to create this work.
EXAMPLE: This helped her to create the effect of...
COMMENT: This helps to support her intention of...
Francesca Woodman Practical Response
Explain the task- what were you trying to achieve? How does it link to the theme of movement? (see the department website for support)
Include examples of Francesca Woodmans levitation images (include her name and the date of the images)
Create a slide show of about 10 of your first attempts- they do not all have to be successful as long as you explain how you improved your technique as the task went on.
Edit your best two images. (instructions also on the link attached) SCREEN GRAB the process.
Upload the screen grabs into a slideshow. THEN your two edited images.
Annotate your work. Eg. what ISO did you use, what were the lighting conditions like, what shutter speed did you have your camera on to achieve the best outcome? What went well, even better if... (Think about camera settings and what the model needs to do / not do)
Include examples of Francesca Woodmans levitation images (include her name and the date of the images)
Create a slide show of about 10 of your first attempts- they do not all have to be successful as long as you explain how you improved your technique as the task went on.
Edit your best two images. (instructions also on the link attached) SCREEN GRAB the process.
Upload the screen grabs into a slideshow. THEN your two edited images.
Annotate your work. Eg. what ISO did you use, what were the lighting conditions like, what shutter speed did you have your camera on to achieve the best outcome? What went well, even better if... (Think about camera settings and what the model needs to do / not do)
Aperture
Aperture is the sharpness of the picture. Changing the Aperture can increase or decrease the depth of field. This is the focus behind whatever you're focused on. It is how open the lens is which controls how much light is let in. What is Depth of Field?
ISO: 3200
Shutter Speed: 1/160 Aperture: F4.5 |
ISO: 3200
Shutter Speed: 1/30 Aperture: F10.0 |
ISO: 3200
Shutter Speed: 0.3 Aperture: F29.0 |
ISO: 400
Shutter Speed: 1/320 Aperture: F4.5 |
ISO: 400
Shutter Speed: 1/100 Aperture: F98.0 |
ISO: 400
Shutter Speed: 1/8 Aperture: F29.0 |
WWW: I was able to take the pictures and use different apertures.
EBI: It could be better a few of the pictures were more focused as the 3rd image tends to be a bit blurry.
EBI: It could be better a few of the pictures were more focused as the 3rd image tends to be a bit blurry.
Composition
In this task I was required to take 9 pictures similar to the shapes we were given on the handout sheet
Composition Exercise 1
We chose our compositions by thinking about the shape and trying to line it up so like with the triangle/corner of the building, we looked at the triangle and thought that they looked very similar.