Depth of Field

What is depth of field?

Depth of field is the amount of distance between the nearest and farthest objects that appear in acceptably sharp focus in a photograph.

A large depth of field means that you will have a large area both in front or behind your main subject will appear sharp.  If you have a shallow depth of field implies that anything other than your main focused point will appear out of forces. If you use a small f-stop (F5.6) it will create a shallow depth of field. However if you use a larger f-stop (F22) it will create a greater depth of field. 

   

Here is my depth of field.

F22 

F11

F5.6

Richard Billingham & Tina Barney

Richard Billingham.

Richard Billingham achieve his work by taking photos to document his family life and the people with in it. Billingham  was born in 1970 and he lives, works in Sawnsea, Wales. When I look at his work I feel like in invading his privacy. I  like this image because  of the low quality.  

My photo in the style of Richard Billingham.

Here is my photo I have taken in the style of Billingham. I like this photo because nobody knew I was going to take it so its natural and I have court them in the middle of laughing. This photo makes me feel happy because it takes me back to Christmas when all my family where together. 

Tina Barney.

This is my favourite photo that Tina Barney. Tina achieves her work by taking photos of her day to day life. Unlike Richard Billingham Tina has been brought up in a higher class family. One thing I don't like is the fact I feel like I'm invading Barney privacy like how I felt with Billingham.   

My photo in the style of Tina Barney.

Here is my photo in the style of Tina Barney. I like this work because of the way it catches my family in a natural light and nobody was expecting it. I slightly edited it by changing the exposure to make it more clear. 

Christmas contact sheet.

A contact sheet is important to a photographer  

contact sheet

This is my first contact sheet showing all of my photos that i have taken in this project.
We use contact sheets because its easier for other people to view more than one photograph at once.

Jane Bown - PHOTOGRAPHY REPORTER

 Jane Bown 

Jane Bown has taken this photo of John Lennon in 1963. The intention was to capture some one in a natural way. The reason of the photo was to show you that you don't need good lighting to have a good photo. The photographer made the photo because she like to catch a natural atmosphere through little lighting and not artificial lighting. The subject of the photo is John Lennon smoking a cigarette.  

 I think the photograph is a recording of an event of what John Lennon is doing. Jane bown has captured him backstage of a show. 
The photographer has framed the photo with a tight crop to portray the relax nature of the subject.
The photo is set in a natural surrounding and not in a photographers studio, which I like that. 
 I think the vantage point is just below eye line so that make John Lennon look taller. 
The photo is almost split into quarters because the top right and the bottom left are quite dark and the top left and bottom right are light. The top half is
also lighter than the bottom half. It is balance between light and dark. 
The focus is John Lennon most likely before he goes on stage. The photographer has captured John in his calm nature in a still way. 
The light in the photo appear most in the face of John Lennon.There is a bit of shadow in the in the bottom right. I think that the light is quite natural and not artificial. I think that the lighting is not harsh. Although the light is quite soft I think 
there is a big difference between the light and dark.
In this photo there is a range of light and dark tones. The darkest value is the two bottom corners and the lightest value is towards the top of the image. 

My take on Jane Bown

I liked how my cropped image has turned out because you can see more in the direction as my model is looking with out getting distracted with the wasted space.

Here is how i created my cropped image: 

My take on Jane Bown

Here is my final image. This is my take on a portrait photo inspired by Jane Bown. I created this image by changing the photo into grey scale and making the contrast higher so the the lights and darks will stand out.  

                                                                                                                                                 

           

Glibert & George

Gilbert & George 

I like this art work because of the bright colours and the way how the people go from small to big. I think the colour chose is good because they work well together. 


Where do they work?

Gilbert was born in the Dolomites, Italy in 1943; George was born in Devon in 1942 and both lived and worked in London for over 40 years . 

 

How did they achieve their work and why?

Gilbert and George have been working together since 1967 when they met at St Martins School of Art. They achieve their work by using print media and digital media . They do this because they want to confront many of the fundamental issues of existence: sex, religion, corruption, violence, fear, hope, racial tension, addiction and death.
 
Here is how achieve my image of my take on Gilbert and George.

Nick Chaffe

Nick Chaffe - self image.

I like this image that Nick has created because hes taken a plain image and added something  to make stands out. The image reminds me of of a rocket that has just been taken off. The flames at the back make it the subject of the image.

Where does Nick Chaffe work? 

Nick is half English half Swedish and currently lives in Manchester, England. Since 2008 Nick has had his own small studio in the UK. 

Here is my work inspired by Nick Chaffe on Photo shop.

This is my first image inspired by Nick Chaffe. I like this image because I have put vibrant colours on it and i think it stands out. I like using Photoshop for my images because it interesting and i got to learn new skills. 

 

Self Image

Jesper Molin 'somebody or nobody'

    This is an image of one of Jesper Molin art pieces. I like this art piece because it shows that no is perfect and that you have two sides of your face even if you don't see it straight away. Through out Molins work i think you can see that society view on true perfection is wrong because no one is perfect. 

Where does Jesper Molin work?

Jasper Molin works in Sweden. He started photography when he was ten years when he got his first camera and ever since he as studied art and photography. Molin did a two year course on photography and art , he graduated in 2003 and started his first expedition. Before this he wrote a book called PALS , his first real art project in 1999. 

How did he achieve his work and why?  

As referred in the previous paragraph Jesper Molin has achieved his work by graduating at the art and photography school in Gothenburg for almost 2 years. Also his passion for art and photography has help him to, to achieve his dream and become ambitious. 

Here is my take on Jesper Molin art work.

Here you are seeing my take on the 'somebody or nobody'. 

I have achieve these images by going on photo-shop. Whilst on photo-shop what i had to do was, first of all I selected half of the my image. Secondly I copy it  then pasted it on to its self. Thirdly I had to move the one side of the face to the other so she had the right side on the left and the other way around. 

Shadi Ghadirian ‘Like Everyday’

This is one of Ghadirian art pieces. In this art work she is showing the woman's role in a Islamic state. I like her art work because its not about focusing on a face there is a meaning behind it. The subject of the photo is the rubber glove. The yellow glove is the subject because its what the photographer wants you to look at the most and its that, that has all the meaning behind it. Shadi has used an abstract to make the yellow rubber glove to be the main object in the image. 

Where does Shadi Ghadirian work?

Shadi Ghadirian works in Tehran , which is in Iran. Tehran in Iran is the country and place were she has grow up in and now works. Her art work is based of the Islamic culture and how a women is represented.

How does Ghadirian achieve her work and why?

She achieves her work by taking ordinary house hold object and using them as her tool of trade. By doing this it makes her art work really unique. She does this because she wants to challenge the ancient codes of the Shariah law. 

Here is my take on one of Shadi Ghadirian.

This is my take on 'like every day'. I taken out something that represented my personality. I taken out my Ready Salted Crisp , because I love food. I directed one the other students in the class to take the photo while I was the model. In this photo you can see that I have change the exposure   so that the packet of crisps is now the subject of the photo.

Here is a photo of a Canon 450d. 

 Here is a photo of a Canon 450d. This is the camera that  I have used for all the photos I have taken, in the studio. The settings we used was, the shutter speed was 1/125, the aperture was  f/11 and the ISO 200.

What is aperture and shutter speed?

                             Aperture. 

This is a image of an open or large aperture. The smaller the number (e.g f/1.8) the bigger the open hole is and the more light aloud in the photo. That means when you take a photo using and open aperture, the subject of the image will stand out because the  back ground will be out of focus.


                                           

This is a image of a small aperture. The bigger the number (e.g f/16) the smaller the hole is and the little light aloud in the photo. That means that when you take a photo you can see the subject of the image and the background will not be out of focus .

The image you can see here show you how the aperture changes from a large to a small.

                                                   

   Shutter Speed

 

The three images above show you the affects what the timings of your shutter speed does to you photo.

Normally the camera works out the correct shutter but you can do it manually as well. This is the only number other than the aperture number. The shutter speed number looks and is written like a fraction (e.g 1/4000 ). In my photos I have been taking have had a shutter speed of 1/125. If you wanted to double the shutter speed it would let in twice the amount of light and if I was going to half it I would give me less the light in the photo.  Also what is good about shutter speed is that you can either freeze motion using a fast shutter speed or you can capture movement using a slow shutter speed. Using the images below you can see the differences between the fast shutter speed and the low shutter speed with moving dancers. 
 

Understanding of ISO.

 ISO is one of the tree pillars of photography, the other two are shutter speed and the aperture. The ISO is the level of sensitive to the light your camera is. The lower the number is the lower sensitive it is to the light. Within your camera you have a component called 'image sensor or maybe just called 'sensor'. That is the most important part of the camera because it is responsible for gathering all the light, and taking that light and transforming it into the photo.  When I was in the studio the ISO I used was 200.

 This image shows you the ISO and how clear it make the picture look when you use the light in the and sensitivity of your camera.

                                            

                     High key lighting studio

Here you can see a high key lighting studio.  

Here is an other image of high key lighting studio. This image shows in a bit more detail how its set up.