Week 3 Monday

Low Angle Portrait

ISO: 100
FSTOP: 4.0
SHUTTER: 1/200


I really like the composition of the image. It isn't formal a lot different. I like the way the branches and the tree are blurred in the background.

I think maybe I should of composition the subject right in the middle or either tried to get the other side of her shoulder into the image. I don't like how her shoulder has been cut off from the image.

I positioned Katie to look over the camera as I was positioned low on the ground.

ISO: 400
SHUTTER: 1/80
FSTOP: 7.1

I took this image inside the atrium up on the stairs and positioned Barbara in the middle of my image. I like the use of high angle.

I think next time i'll use maybe a high f stop so that there isn't so much light on the ground.

ISO: 200
FSTOP: 20.0
SHUTTER: 1/60
I chose this image because it does shows a lot of things that we try and focus on in class. We can see the car moving in the background and Carol is in focus. Everything that is set in focus in the image except for the car. I used quite a medium shutter because I wanted to show the movement of the car. I think next time I would make the shutter speed maybe a little slower so that I can get the car blurred out.


MONDAY WEEK 3 SELF DIRECTED

My candid Image of Carol

ISO: 100
FSTOP: 11.0
SHUTTER: 1/100

I took this image outside the campus at the park. I used quite a fast shutter speed this was the only image that was quite sharp and I really enjoy capturing candid images. I like the fact that I was able to capture her hair blowing with the wind along with how she started laughing. I think next time I might try and look at trying to bring the aperture down just to make the back around more blurry and focus on the picture of carol.

Formal Image of Jackie
                                                                                                           ISO: 800
Fstop: 5.6
Shutter: 1/50

Formal portrait Image of Jackie in the classroom. I noticed that in this image it's quite dark it might be the lighting in the classroom. My aperture was quite low and I tried to take it down lower to let more light into the image.  I think there also could of been better lighting to show detail on Jackie's black top. The image is quite sharp when I looked closely at the detail on bridge. I had to increase my ISO up to 800 because my shutter speed was under 1/60. I also didn't have a tripod on me to use. I tried to get a good composition with Jackie's shoulders and head. I also tried to get good space above Jackie's head.                                                                                                                                                                      


Bernd & Hilla Becher 

Bernard and Hilla Becher are german conceptual artists and photographers that work as a collaborative duo. The pair are best known for their series of photographic images of Industrial buildings and variety of structures. The often organise a lot of their images on grids. They have influence many generations of photographers and artists.

Bernd Becher was born in Siegen who studied painting at the Staatliche Akadimie from 1953 to 1956 and began typography from 1959 to 1961. Hilla Becher studied photography at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf from 1958 to 1961. Hilla completed an apprenticeship as a photographer in her native Potsdam. They both began working as freelance photographers.

They began shooting in Siegen where Bernard was born. Talks about how a lot of his family worked in the industrial area/mining industry. In 1965 they went to Britain for the first time to photograph.

Video about Bernd and Hilla Becher 

                                                                                                     This is one of Bernd and Hilla Becher's work. I see that they look at the shape and lines of some of the structures. We look at the building and my eyes immediately shoot up and follow the lines towards the big part at the top.

The building on the side the top of that building would most probably be align on the first line in the rule of thirds.

They have thought about the composition of this image and the space they want to use. We see that there isn't too much space around the image. So we are able to just look at the architecture and focus on the lines and the position of the building. They have placed the straight building in the centre of the image which I really like.

The two have definitely thought about line and structure in this image

    My Inspired Bernd and Hilla Becher image

ISO: 100
FSTOP: 4.5
SHUTTER: 1/1250



In Samoa I knew I would be taking Photography so over there I thought about composition and how to take an image. I thought about the shape and lines.

Over in America Samoa they were still recovering from the Tsunami that had hit them. I saw people rebuilding these beautiful big churches. I fell in love the the structure and height of these big churches.

In this image I used the rule of thirds to help me compose my Image. I tried to sit the different lines on each of the two lines. I wanted to create a space above the church. I really don't like the power lines that had got in the way.