Photographic Assignment

Produce a series of 5 images to be used on an online publication. The images must relate in some way to one of the following areas:

Fashion

Advertising

News

Lifestyle

Nature

Pick one area and create a mind map of your photographic ideas. Evidence this process on your blog by taking a photograph of it and uploading it.

Emotional A-Z Continued

Write a short reflective passage which explains how you feel about your portrait.

1. How well do you think that the picture shows the emotion you were trying to convey?


2. What do you like about your portrait?


3. How does the picture make you feel?


4. How is the picture composed? Does it obey the rule of thirds?


5. Does the picture use lines?


6. What is the lighting like? (Does it look soft or hard - lots of contrast between light and dark).


7. Rate your picture out of ten.


8. What would you do differently next time?

Emotional A-Z

Excellent emotional A-Z, create by Intro Diploma Students.

Check List for Photography

All of your photographs need to be uploaded to your blog. By now you should have examples of photographs which demonstrate the following:

• Lines: · Vertical Lines · Horizontal lines · Radial Lines · Diagonal Lines


• Blur · Motion Blur Shutter ZoomPanning Shots


• Framing x3 photographs


• Rule of Thirds x3 photographs


• Creative Portraits x5 photographs

Blur Photography

Today we are going to learn about blur photography and produce some amazing shots.

Nothing conveys movement better than a blurred image - particularly if there is a contrasting crisp stationary object in frame. So chose your subject carefully, the types of moving objects which make great photos are:

• Trains
• Waterfalls or waves
• Playgrounds - merry go rounds, slides, swings etc
• Fairgrounds - for similar reasons as above
• Cyclists
• Birds
• And anywhere where there are people!

To capture blurred movement you don’t want to move to fast in fact you want that shutter speed to be nice and slow. So take it easy shutter speeds of 1/50th of a second or less should do it.

Review your images and remember to P.E.E (Practice, Experiment and Enjoy) yourself. A common problem with taking this kind of image is that the images can be over exposed as the slow shutter speed is giving lots of time for the light to flood the cameras sensor.

So if your images are over exposed you can do one of four things. Firstly you could try reducing the ISO to a number which is of a lower value. Secondly you could choose a higher f - stop number and therefore lesson the amount of light coming into the camera. Thirdly you could place a Neutral Density filter over the cameras lens. This acts like a pair of sunglasses for the camera. Fourthly, and this really is a last resort - you could perhaps try moving your camera to a spot where there is less ambient light.

Because you are using slow shutter speeds the camera will suffer from a bit of camera wobble. So use a tripod and make sure the blurred bits in your photograph are intentional and not accidental!

Here is a little reminder about doing your lines!

Here is a link to doing your lines!

Animoto: Presentation Software.

By now you should have a selection of photographs which you have produced when doing the following exercises:

Portraits

Rule of Thirds

Framing

+ others!

I would like you to select your 3 best photographs from the above list. So that you have about 10 photographs in all.

You are now going to create a short 30second video, which shows off your best images. You can embed this video into your blog.

Create a Animoto account. Get a free account at www.animoto.com.

In animoto I would like you to add headings to your animation, eg Portraits, Rule of Thirds and Framing. This can be doing using the text tool. You can also add music to the short video.

Once the video has rendered you can embed it into your blog. Show your friends. Well done.