Ex 4.1 EYV Exposure
“Set your camera to any of the auto or semi-auto modes. Photograph a dark tone (such as a black jacket), a mid-tone (the inside of a cereal packet traditionally makes a useful ‘grey card’) and a light tone (such as…
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my journey towards a BA in photography
“Set your camera to any of the auto or semi-auto modes. Photograph a dark tone (such as a black jacket), a mid-tone (the inside of a cereal packet traditionally makes a useful ‘grey card’) and a light tone (such as…
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What do the timeframes of the camera actually look like? If you have a manual film camera, open the camera back (make sure there’s no film in the camera first!) and look through the shutter as you press the shutter…
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The Decisive Moment. As it says in the course, the decisive moment has many lovers and haters, has pushed photography forward or held it back? In my opinion, it can hold it back because it has lead to snobbery within…
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A tradition usage of a hight shutter speed is sports photography and is the image below I have used 1/800th of a second to capture the power but at the same time almost ballettic nature of Rugby. You can see the…
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Henri Cartier-Bresson ‘L’amour de court’ (‘Just plain love,’ 2001) Henri Cartier – Bresson is perhaps one of the most iconic photographers not just of this generation but also in the history of photography. This illustrated by just reading the first…
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Following on from the previous post here are a couple of examples of where I have tried to movement with slower shutter speeds. f8 1/10sec Here I have used a combination of slow shutter…
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Robert Capa Robert Capa The above image by Robert Capa is referred to in the OCA course notes as an example of an iconic photograph that captures motion blur. It does that without doubt; however,…
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Harold “Doc” Egerton (1903-1990) Harold Egerton was a Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT and a photographer, who is well known for his work on capturing images of high speed to allow them to be seen by the human eye….
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“Use a combination of small apertures and wide lens to take a number of photographs exploring deep depth of field. Because of the small apertures you’ll be working with slow shutter speeds and may need to use a tripod or…
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“Use a combination of wide apertures, long focal lengths and close viewpoints to take a number of photographs with shallow depth of field. (Remember that smaller f numbers mean wider apertures.) Try to compose the out-of-focus parts of the picture…
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