Amer's Intro to Photography Blog.: Week 10

10th October 2014 (Week 10)

Amer Eizwann (0320242)

Introduction to Photography

Exercise 5: Editing

Lecture: Today's class started with Mr Vinod shine a light on our E-portfolio, he straight away mention that no one but Rahila mention about our final project. He explain that we were suppose to post out 5 shots of our topic and explain about our theme which no one did. I guess most of us got the information jumble up. We though we had to show Mr Vinod himself and after showing him then we post it up on the blog. After explaining about the final project for sometime Mr Vinod gave us 1 hour to go out and walk around campus and take 1 picture that has a WOW factor just like last week. Then he gave 30 mins for us to edit the picture that we took and then reviewed our photos.

Picture that I took in campus:

"Mirror"

ISO: 250, f/5.6, 1/640

The picture when through few steps of editing.

1) Convert to B/W

2) Curves and Levels adjusted

3) B/W gradient added

4) Dodge tool applied

Theme-based Final Project. (Sports)

Why i choose Sports as my topic is because ive always been expose to sports. I grew up playing sports and watching my other family members play sports. For me to do sports as my theme will be a challenge but at the same time i would be comfortable doing it because im use to the atmosphere and it helps when i know the game so i know what to expect when something is about to happen.

"The Curl"

ISO: 800, f/2.8, 1/800

"Light Trail"

ISO: 3200, f/16, 4 secs

"Snooker"

ISO: 1000, f/5.6, 1/60

"The Pool"

ISO: 200, f/4, 1/1000

"Independent 57"

ISO 1000, f/4, 1/80

Feedback: Limited Feedback, Week 10.

Amer, your final 5 pictures were lacking artistic value, they were not aesthetically strong in that it didn't have holding power.

You the topic of sport is very broad for just 5 pictures, perhaps you need to narrow it down to "a" sport, try just the field game, and dont just resrict yourself to the players on the field... you could take pictures of someone holding the football close up (texture), sweat on skin, legs/body clashing for the ball, mud on the shoe... etc.

Be more imaginative, explore the subject in depth.

Reflections:

Experience:

From today, I experience that the picture that we took from our topic has to be posted up on the blog every week. While going around campus this time i knew what to expect already since we had done it last week. So i avoid going to the normal place everyone goes and when on adventuring the deeper part of the campus. The experience i got while doing my theme-based final project (Sports) was how to interact with people. I actually sat down talking with this young guy i came across at an eatery for an hour before telling him that i wanted to take shots of him plus explaining to him how i wanted the picture to look like. I did the same thing with my neighbour. We talked and I explain what i wanted him to do.

Observe:

I observe that Mr Vinod has also stop giving us feedbacks. He told us that he'll give us specific feedbacks rarely now that the formative exercise is over. General feedback in the other hand will still be given. I observe that Rahila's shots were better than mine in the sense that she was patient to wait for subject to walk pass and do other things that made the picture interesting. There might be a chance that maybe she was just there at the right place at the right time but no doubt her pictures stands out. Patient is something that i have to learn better because i know i dont have the patient most of the time when it comes to waiting. I need to keep up and compete not just with her but with the rest of the class. While doing my progress on the final project i observe that we have to really choose a suitable subject based on out themes and the pictures must have a common feeling to it. When i showed Mr Vinod my pictures, he told me that my picture didnt pair with each other. it had no series. Which i had to agree. There was alot of different.... things going on in my pictures. although all of them were sports and movement but it didnt seem connected. While doing the final project too we have to had good source of light with a suitable background and in my case, a model that knows what he or she is going to do.

Findings:

I found out that there are many question that is important to us as a design students. Asking this question every time when you wake up so that when you so something it does not lead you to the wrong way. In class i find that there competition. Everyone was producing interesting shots and i have to really thinking hard, smart and think different if i wanted to tamed the rest of my classmate and be on top. I know im lacking in many qualities and thats something that i should work on so that i can work better than others. With the knowledge about photography i had before i came to Taylor's and on with the new things and tricks Mr Vinod has teach us i should use them wisely to come out with a final project that everyone can remember. i hope so. While doing the final project, i find that not everyone is comfortable with a random guy like me to just walk up and ask if i could take picture of them. We have to act pro and deal with our model/subject with respect so that eventually they will feel comfortable with us taking picture of them.

I also took some extra shots this week for my Final Project.