Photography: 2013

Thursday, 14 November 2013

week 14

15 November 2013 (Week 14)
Michelle Ngu Wei Tze, (0316296)

Introduction to Photography
Assignment 11 - Final Project (Stone)

Instructions

Choose a Subject of Interest, i.e.: Architecture, Landscape, Peoples, Person, Still Life, etc. and capture a series of 5 pictures and print them.

When all your 5 pictures have been approved you shall then begin the final phase of the project, which is to print your pictures from a photo lab and then present it in class.

Presentation method: 5 printed photographic prints, Full frame pictures with a white border around the image. Size 8×10” Matt or Glossy. Please Submit all 5 printed copies in an A4 Clear book.

RATIONALE

A stone can be definition as a hard solid non-metallic mineral matter of which rock is made, especially as a building material. In another way, stone is also an informal unit of measure equal to 14pounds avoirdupois (about 6.35kg) used in the great Britain and Ireland for measuring human body.

I have taken these pictures are that the stone made me think a lot. I wonder how god creates the universal and make the rock to become stone in such a unique way. He is so amazing. Linked to that, I also think the beauty of nature. I love and enjoy the scene of nature, and stones are part of it. I used to climb hills and mountains and took lots of photo of rocks and stones.

Meanwhile, millions of year ago, human used the stone as their living resources, such as knife, hunting weapon, building material and more. Since that, we still used the stone as our building material. I should knew that how important is the rock and stone mean to them in millions year ago. I was totally impressed by that.

Furthermore, the photo I took somehow made me felt warm. I felt secure because I think that everything will be going to be fine after all just like a stone still remain strong and hard after a heavy rain. Besides that, I have always told myself that I have to study as hard as the stone for my future. The other reason why I choose this is because meteoroid Is make out of the stone. The visible streak of light from space debris is the result of heat as it enters a planet's atmosphere and the trail of glowing particles that it sheds in its wake is called a meteor, or colloquially a "shooting star" or "falling star". I wish I can capture that moment of shooting star one day later.

More than that, stone really helped human a lot in to live in a better environment. Without rock and stone, human wouldn’t able to build a stable and strong based house. Without them, we probably don’t have a safe place for us to stay. To build a house, the basic thing we need is stone to build a stable foundation before start building the house.

STONE

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Thursday, 31 October 2013

week 13

01 November 2013 (Week 13)

Michelle Ngu Wei Tze, (0316296)

Introduction to Photography
Assignment 10 - Studio Lighting

LECTURE

1. Main light
- Most important light because it illuminates a major portion of the image. All the other lights are constructed around this light. The first light to be put in position is your main light.

2. Fill light
- The fill lights function is to basically relieve the shadow areas created by the main light, thereby reducing the contrast.
- This light produces detail in the shadow area. Sometimes a fill light can just be a reflector bouncing off the main light.
- In the case of a still life there can be many tiny fills positioned around the still life to illuminate or relieve shadows.

3. Rim light

- This light gives form or structure around the object or subject being photographed.

- It creates a silhouette around the subject / object thereby revealing its shape.

- It most often acts as a highlight.

4. Hair light

- It illuminates and gives texture to the hair.

- Without this light the hair texture would essentially not be visible and the hair will look like one black mass.

Exercise - Studio Lighting

Instructions

1. Students are required to find a studio photograph with the 1940s - 1950s theme.

2. Students will then imitate that particular photo in terms of outlook and studio lighting.

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week 12

25 October 2013 (Week 12)

Michelle Ngu Wei Tze, (0316296)

Introduction to Photography
Assignment 9 - Dumbbell

Instructions

Choose a Subject of Interest, i.e.: Architecture, Landscape, Peoples, Person, Still Life, etc. and capture a series of 5 pictures and print them.

When all your 5 pictures have been approved you shall then begin the final phase of the project, which is to print your pictures from a photo lab and then present it in class.

Presentation method: 5 printed photographic prints, Full frame pictures with a white border around the image. Size 8×10” Matt or Glossy. Please Submit all 5 printed copies in an A4 Clear book.

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week 11

18 October 2013 (Week 11)

Michelle Ngu Wei Tze, (0316296)

Introduction to Photography
Assignment8 - Handmade

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week 10

11 October 2013 (Week 10)
Michelle Ngu Wei Tze, (0316296)

Introduction to Photography
Assignment 7 - Final Five Chow Kit Street

Instructions

1. Observe Chow Kit street - the people and its surroundings

2. Take pictures and choose five final photos

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week 9

04 October 2013 (Week 9)

Michelle Ngu Wei Tze, (0316296)
Introduction to Photography
Assignment 6 - Final Five Batu Caves pictures

Instructions

The instructions were to capture five images that maintain a level of consistency in topic area. Put to use what you have learnt in regards to exposing (zone system), composition and editing (Photoshop). Post all results and update your ePortfolio by Sunday.

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week 8

28 September 2013 (Week 8)

Michelle Ngu Wei Tze, (0316296)

Introduction to Photography

Assignment 5 - Cam whoring (Optional)

LECTURE
It was a rather relaxing lecture at first. Mr Vinod taught us how to edit pictures with a very sophisticated editing software, Photoshop. He said it is important that we edit photos in such a way that viewers can never tell if it has been edited before. He also taught us some handy new tricks on an innocent man whose picture was randomly taken from Google Search.

1. Dodge Tool - lightens areas (the man became so fair that girls would have been jealous)
2. Burn Tool - darkens areas (the man suddenly had dark eye bags)
3. Stamp Tool - duplicates certain areas (Mr. Vinod duplicated a nice section of the man's skin and used it to cover up all the pimples)
4. Blur Effect
5. Feathering - making the edges of an object blurred

Then he said we will be cam whoring ourselves. The lecture was suddenly not relaxing anymore.

Instructions

Exercise - Cam Whorring

Students are required to take a selfie of themselves and edit it with Photoshop.

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After edit

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Thursday, 26 September 2013

week 7

20 September 2013 (Week 7)
Michelle Ngu Wei Tze, (0316296)
Introduction to Photography
Exercise 4b - Principles Underpinning Composition

Exercise 4b - Principles Underpinning Composition

4b) Principals underpinning composition (5%)

Marking Criteria: The image must show evidence of the dominant principle used and the supporting principles (if any) underpinning the composition. The principles underpinning the image must be named and should be visible within the image. Students must showcase their knowledge on exposure using the zone system.

Instructions

Capture 4 Images adhering to any of the mentioned principles below:

Domination/Emphasis • Isolation • Balance • Repetition • Alignment • Contrast • Rhythm • Symmetry/Asymmetry • Harmony

Print all 4 images on an A4 as instructed in class.

Harmony, Contrast

Domination, Harmony

Repetition, Rhythm

Repetition, Balance

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Thursday, 19 September 2013

week 6

13 September 2013 (week 6)
Michelle Ngu Wei Tze (0316296)
Introduction to Photography
Assignment 4a Rule of Thirds

LECTURE

The Rule of Thirds

1. The photography rule of thirds tells us to align our subject with one of the points where those lines cross.

http://digital-photography-school.com/rule-of-thirds#ixzz2eSUjUyhc

2. The subject is one third of the way “into” the picture space – from either the top or bottom, and from either the left or right. It is not in the middle.

ttp://www.ultimate-photo-tips.com/photography-rule-of-thirds.html

3. Counterpoint : You can enhance the picture composition even more by creating a counterpoint. If you place your primary focal point at the thirds position, you can place a secondary focal point at the diagonally opposite thirds position.

4. There are also principles of design that underpin composition. These principles can also be used when composing or considering elements within a picture.

Domination/Emphasis, Isolation, Balance, Repetition, Alignment, Contrast, Rhythm, Symmetry/Asymmetry, Harmony

Instructions - 4a Rule of Thirds

4a) Rule of Thirds (5%)

Marking Criteria: The student must show evidence of knowledge and ability to use the Rule of Two-Thirds under the prescribed circumstances. Evidence of composition enhanced by cropping is acceptable in order to heighten the dynamism or intensity of the picture.

Exercise 4a - Rule of Thirds

Capture 3 Images adhering to the Rule of Thirds
Using 1 person
Using 3 persons
Using a scenery

When placing the image on the document for printing; place one image with the Rule of Third lines visible and another without the lines side by side (as instructed in class).

Shutter Speed: 1/6 , Aperture: f5.6 , ISO: 200

(Subject Matter: Jonathan)

Shutter Speed: 1/10 , Aperture: f5.6 , ISO: 200

(Subject Matter: Cheryl, Pei Yan, Vanessa)

Shutter Speed: 1/640 , Aperture: f5.6 , ISO: 200

(Subject Matter: Trees)

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Thursday, 12 September 2013

week 5

06 September 2013 (Week 5)
Michelle Ngu Wei Tze (0316296)
Introduction to Photography
Assignment 3a The Zone System

LECTURE

1. Exposure meters are dumb.

2. The Zone System chart:

3. Ansel Adams developed the Zone system. His technique was to carefully study a scene, visualize the final print, then determine the correspondence between portions of the scene and tones in the print. He would then meter, expose the image.

4. The Zone System is to expose film/ccd for optimum image quality— to make sure all the critical information is present.

5. Tones in scenes and prints are divided into nine zones, numbered 1 through 9 from dark to light.

Zone 5 is, by definition, subjective middle gray. One zone difference is one f stop difference.

6. Zone System description:

7. Application of Zones:

Instructions - 3a The Zone System

Light, Middle & Dark Tones (5%)

Marking Criteria: The student must show evidence of using the Zone System technique to capture an ‘accurate exposure’ of a subject with light tones, a subject with middle tones and a subject with dark tones. An accurate exposure entails ‘visible tonal values and details’ in all three tonal areas.

Exercise 3a - The Zone System

Choose 3 different subject matters of varying tones.

Tint, Tone & Shade

Photograph:

An Image that has different shades of White

An Image that has varying shades of grey (middle tones)

An Image that has varying shade within a dark area.

Choose one scene for each category (Tint / Tone / Shade) and capture them at what the camera says is the right exposure and another similar scene at what you think should be the appropriate exposure.