KTA2 & 3 - BULB Photography & Research (Chris Saunders, Mark Harvey, Duncan Philpot)

BULB Photography

Bulb is a shutter speed setting on an adjustable camera that allows for long exposure times under the direct control of the photographer. The shutter stays open as long as the shutter release button remains depressed.

 

It gives this sort of effect. 

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Chris Saunders

(Portrait, Music)

http://www.chrismsaunders.com/about/

He has been in photography for 10 years, during this time he has photographed: 

• authors
• actors
• film directors
• musicians
• comedians 

His clients include:

• The Guardian
• The Observer
• Sony
• EMI
• Universal Records
• Random House Publishing
•  Harper Collins Publishing.

"My basic history is I became interested in photography twenty or so years ago after borrowing a friend's SLR to photograph this really cool cat I had at the time. Got the bug straight away, packed in playing in bands, went to college & learnt the basics. Straight afterwards I went to University in Manchester to continue studying photography. The first well known person I shot while a student was the comedian Bill Hicks - I loved his stuff so I went down on the day of the show he was playing in town, hung around for him to turn up & asked him if he'd be up for having his photograph taking. He was. "If you don't ask you don't get" became my motto.

I've photographed:

• Oscar winning actors 
• guitar legends
• film directors 
• authors
• comedians
• musicians

It's occasionally said by other portrait photographers that they regard their portraits as a document of themselves meeting their subject first & foremost.  I feel exactly the same way.  Really I'm a glorified autograph hunter and I get the same buzz creating a good photograph of someone whose work I admire as I did when I was a kid & I got Phil Lynott's autograph after waiting for ages outside Sheffield City Hall in the pouring rain."

Mark Harvey

(Corporate events, editorial)

http://markharvey.photoshelter.com

They specialise in creating great images for clients. He's the owner and manager of iD8 Photography. He has 20 years experience of corporate, editorial, PR, portrait and documentary photography. He is also from sheffield. 

D.8 get the photos other photographers do not see ... gritty, realistic and unsentimental shots that show the reality of work in the social and criminal justice sectors.

They have a softer side too! PR agencies and marketing managers rely on iD•8's media savvy team to produce publicity shots that turn editor's heads and make customers sit up and notice new products and services.

Duncan Philpot

http://www.duncanphilpott.com

Duncan Philpott is part of Steel City Media. Photography's turned into a career when he moved to Sheffield to study a Mathematics degree. 

This image is a good image, it has everything else in the image blurred but the man on the bike, this must have required lots of skill to capture in such a short space of time. 

What began with minor pieces of work for local companies while studying evolved into a full time career working for a range of editorial and commercial clients as well as following the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup series across the globe.

KTA2 - Write Up Of Photographs Taken In class

Wide Angle Shots

These are 2 images taken outside using a wide angle lens, You can tell this by the curves in the image in the corners and the proportion of objects in the area.

I think this image worked well because it captures an open area and has plenty to focus on and pick out. 

However it is not in the post interesting location, that is one thing to look for next time. 

For example in the first image... 

The same applies here with the circle and how the image curves at points.

It worked well because it has a wide view span and is taken from a great angle. There are nice leading lines too, like the railings leading you towards the wall, the stairs leading you forward and the slant of the building. 

Photoshop could be used to makes these images better. You could change the images darkness, or change the sky colour.

Here is what I did...

KTA2 - Wide Angle Photography Research

Wide Angle Photography

Wide angles are used in photography and cinematography. 

Wide angle lenses is a lens with a focal length smaller than a regular camera.

It allows more to been seen in the image (wider field of view), it also creates this circular look to the image. It creates a curved edge effect. This often messes with the image and makes things out of proportion (sometimes). It help emphasis the differences in size.

Examples below: 

KTA2 - Photographs Taken In Class

This is a close up shot. I think this image has worked well, it is focused well, there is no blur are and the subject has remained still. Leaving a brilliant final image. Also he is in the centre of the image and not to far of to the left or right.

 This is the second close up image. Yet again this image is not blurred and is focused well. The head remains roughly in the centre of the picture. The fault i can pick out here is that his shoulders are not very visible. 

 This is the final close up image. In this photo the subject is quite small the camera could have been angled a bit lower down. But apart from that the image is quite good and follows the quality of the other two.

This is the first of the outdoor group photos and this image was therefore self timed. So the immediate problem with this is that I am in mid motion, and i am not as close to the group as i should be either.

 



This is the second of the outdoor group shots, it was intentional the hand over my face so that is not a mistake. I do think however we look a bit bright in the image, even though flash was not on. We are nicely placed in the image and i think over all is image is good. I suppose colour correction on Photoshop could help out on that mistake. 

This is the final image in the outdoor grouped photos. This is my personal favourite out of all the images taken. It was timed well (we set the timer higher this time). We are also all centralised in the photo and the wall we took it against is not blurred and is not to focused that it changes the main subject. A fault that i can see is that the camera could have been pointed further down so we are not in the bottom half of the picture, however i think that it works well the way it is. 

 This is the first of the low shots, this is the best one out of the low shots. It is located in the best place, where the background is blurred enough to change you focus to the subject. 

 The second of the low shots. This one is quite good the only problem i see is my facial expression. Photoshop here is quite useful because we can use the spot removal tool to take those spots away. 

The problem here was the flash was on, so his face is brighter than it should be. The other fault is the background is quite sharp, and is not blurred like the other two, so this does mean that the focus is less on the subject.

 First of the indoor shots. The fault i see is the subjects are not central instead are quite far off to the left. The other fault in this picture and the final two is that the camera could have pointed a bit further down so fit in the image better. 

This image has worked well because we are both central and not to far off to the left or right. (we are in a quite narrow corridor, and the light source is on the right). 

 Final image of the indoor shots. This is the best one out of the indoor images. Both subjects are central in the image and stood at just the right stance. 

This is Photo shopped do it has been desaturated, then the ties has been left blue (but then darkened). This gives a nice effect to it and i think improves the image significantly. The faults i see is the really bright wall and the really bright faces, but that adds to the effect and would probably make the image a lot less interesting. 

KTA2 - Leading Line

Leading Lines

This leads you down the river and passed the houses and curve back round. 

The blue river is cut off by the eye as it turns the corner, but is you can see the trail purely from the dip in the ground it has lead. The image does not show where the river leads.

This leads you straight forward down the road and then curves at the last moment right in the horizon. 

The dark black road contrast with the bright greens and browns and looks like it doesn't fit. The focus at the end is how and if? it curves right at the end. The focus afterwards is the mountainous terrain above the road and how wavy green grass to tough brown rock.

This leads you in many waves down the curvy road, the yellow lines come closer together and becomes more blurry as it goes on. The main focus is on the yellow lines as they are the outstanding colour in the image. As everything else is dark and dull.  

Rule of Thirds 

KTA2 - Resources Gathered On One Photographer/Style

Research Into Macro/Close-Up Photography 

Macrography was invented by Fritz Goro. Macrography is taking very close up photographs usually of insects and other small objects. The photos usually give you the impression that there object is alot bigger than they really are in real life. Macrography requires certain lenses, usually ones with larger barrels for clearer focusing.

35 mm equivalent magnification (or 35 mm equivalent reproduction ratio). Is a measurement that indicates the magnification you get with a small sensor format.



In macrography 'depth of field' and 'lighting' is very important. Sufficiently and evenly lighting the object your taking a picture off can be difficult to capture. Some cameras can focus on object so much that they touch the front of the lens. 
Depth of field is extremely small when focusing on close objects. A smallapeture is often required to produce acceptable sharpness across a three-dimensional subject.

Sources:
Wikipedia 

KTA1 - Concept Description

I intend to achieve a series of photos that show 'Creative & Digital Sheffield'. I will look at ionic places in sheffield and urban landscape in sheffield. 

I will mash together images for example 

Initial Idea 1: The spherical reflective orbs outside from the fountains with the reflection changed into various buildings around sheffield, that would reflect 'Creative and Digital Sheffield'. Such as the Cheese grater looking car park, when it lights up a night. 

Ideas for content if the reflection:
- Cheese grater car park [Creative]
- Fargate 
- The crucible 
- Peace gardens 
- High street (Shops like HMV, CEX) [Digital]

Initial Idea 2: Urban landscape in black and white and greenery in colour. e.g. street art against the peace gardens. Crucible against the trees outside of it. 

Ideas for content:
- Crucible against the trees
- Street art against peace gardens 
- Fountains 

Initial Idea 3: 10 images showing the theme of 'Creative & Digital Sheffield'

Ideas for content:

- Cheese grater car park [Creative]
- Fargate 
- The crucible 
- Peace gardens 
- High street (Shops like HMV, CEX) [Digital]

Initial Idea 4: Odeon with student union in the logo.

Ideas for content:

- Student Union
- Odeon logo

Initial Idea 5: Moor Market 

Initial Idea 6: Fargate

Initial Idea 7: Q - Park merged with NPC

Initial Idea 8: Shot of high street shops. 

KTA1 - Photographic Evidence Of Mindmap, Evidence Of Class Research

Photography Definitions

Photography

Aperture - Diameter of the lens opening. 

Depth Of Field - The distance between the nearest and farthest objects. 

Exposure - The amount of light allowed into the centre. (Measured in time)

Framing - Focusing your views attentions.

Composition - How the picture is arrangement.