Digital Media: February 2011

Friday, February 25, 2011

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

playing with Photoshop

Photoshop Portrait

success?!

23. February. 2011:

80% success

· Enough light- day light

· Direction- light behind photographer

· Contrast- less contrast

20%

· Not enough light

- grainy

-underexposed

-blur

-back lit

Remedy

· ISO à 100 à 1600

· Change position of camera/ subject

· Camera on tripod

· Camera- average grey

· Add light

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Notes

16. February. 2011:

Glam technique

-younger looking faces

è black and white option

· 2 Layers: soft, sharp

· Soft: surface blur

· Sharp: unsharp mask

· Erase the soft for the sharp

è color option

· Protocols- Color correction

· 2 Layers

Notes

10. February. 2011:

White scene correction

Camera: AUTO ð compensate

+2…+1… 0 …-1…-2

Overexposed underexposed

Snow

Photograph assignment

-lens distortion

· building:

Wide angle

Zoom (Telephoto)

Front of school

Select best setting- focal length- to get the most of the building- filter distortion- lens

· with wide angle setting – portrait à lens correction filter

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Notes

8. February. 2011:

Photograph assignment

· Portrait:

3locations

Zoom (Telephoto)

Wide angle

· Landscape:

Snow scene- predominance snow

Building in scene

Photograph

-Indoor

Problem: Light à Enough light?

Focus: Sharp

Blur: camera movement

Subject movement (body: hands/ leg)

Solution: shutter speed

-Shutter speed:

Wide angle: 1/60sec

Telephoto: 1/125- 1/250sec

-ISO (speed film)

Auto à ISO 100 bright

200

400

800

1600

Fast: 3200 low light

Friday, February 4, 2011

Notes

4. February. 2011:

Cameras

-What a camera today is!

A camera is not a human being!

A human sees a subject -> subjective, a camera just sees light ->objective!

The digital camera is between the human being and the analogue camera, it is an interface. Digital cameras are not only looking at the light but also at the subject because of its little computers in the camera. They try to think like a human being, look for faces, movement …

-Camera Options: