Rationale

RATIONALE

        

   I choose to shoot the night scene of our university is because of this place are so quiet and peace during the night.  I am staying in the campus so I have the chance to walk around the campus during the sky turn dark. When 7pm , the light around the university will turn on . I shoot the scene of university during the night because of I like the light. When I using a slow speed to shoot the photos, the light will become star shape or look like diamond too. Some of the classroom still turn on the light, it make the building look more nice and clear for seeing from far. I love the lakeside of our campus. Every time I will sit beside the lake and chat with my friends and enjoy the scene of the lake during the night time. The reason that I choose to shoot beside the lakeside is I like the reflection of the light .All the light beside the shop house, Reumz hotel and the residence are reflecting by the water. The reflection of the light are so nice in the water, the shadow of the light are longer and shine. Besides the lakeside, the street infront of the university are nice too. The street light around the street make the road look bright and nice. No cars is around the street like day time, this is the reason that make me want to shoot that scene. No traffic jam and no noice around the place and this is the reason makes this place so peaceful. One of the photo was taken in the residence that I am staying now. I shoot that photo is because the angel of the building is nice and some of the room is turning on their light. In the day time, we cant find the nice scene than the night that I have took. I like the night scene of this campus.

Lighting

Light is a fundamental part of photography. Photographers use light in their photographic compositions, sometimes taking advantage of the natural light of their surroundings and other times manipulating light sources to achieve the desired lighting effect.

Photographers use several different types of lighting in order to create the desired effect they are after. The two main types of lighting that photographers use are natural and artificial light. Within the two main types of light, there are other types of light to take into consideration.

Natural light is considered by many photographers to be the best type of lighting. Because natural light encompasses the entire light spectrum, there is little to no color distortion in the photograph. However, natural light is not constant; depending on the time of day, the position of the sun and cloud cover, the look of the light changes

Artificial light is more consistent than natural light; however, not all artificial light sources work with the entire light spectrum and can alter how the colors in the photograph look. Types of artificial lights include tungsten, florescent and flash. When using artificial light, photographers will take steps to counteract the unwanted color distortion.

Controlling the direction of light is important in photography. Direct lighting hits the subject from one direction; it can be a great way to create strong high lights and shadows. Diffused lighting takes the light source and reflects it, so it hits the subject from multiple angles.

Often photographers will use filters to manipulate light further to their needs. To help reduce glare on a sunny day, a photographer may use a polarizing filter on his lens to keep the reflections from shiny surfaces from blowing out the subject she is photographing. Some filters only work with a specific spectrum of light; for example, infrared lenses. An infrared filter only lets in light in the infrared spectrum that it is not seen by the naked eye.

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This is my vintage photo ( Black and White)

Final Assignment

I choose to shoot the night view of our campus.

The building of the University.

 The apartment of the U-residence.

 The view from the U-residence to the roadside.

 The view of the campus Block A.



The view of the lakeside. 


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Iso and Shutter Speed

Iso was the indication of how sensitive a film was to light. It was measured in numbers (you’ve probably seen them on films – 100, 200, 400, 800 etc). The lower the number the lower the sensitivity of the film and the finer the grain in the shots you’re taking.

In Digital Photography ISO measures the sensitivity of the image sensor. The same principles apply as in film photography – the lower the number the less sensitive your camera is to light and the finer the grain. Higher ISO settings are generally used in darker situations to get faster shutter speeds (for example an indoor sports event when you want to freeze the action in lower light) – however the cost is noisier shots. I’ll illustrate this below with two elargements of shots that I just took – the one on the left is taken at 100 ISO and the one of the right at 3200 ISO (click to enlarge to see the full effect).

 

   

 

The longer the shutter is open, more light is able to reach the sensor, hence, increasing the exposure.

Exercises for Iso and shutter speed :

Aperature

A device that controls the amount of light admitted through an opening. In photography and digital photography, aperture is the unit of measurement that defines the size of the opening in the lens that can be adjusted to control the amount of light reaching the film or digital sensor. The size of the aperture is measured in F-stop.




Sample of photo ( Low Aperature to High Aperature)

Exercise for aperature,

  f4    1/125sec   ISO100

 f5.6   1/125sec   ISO 100

 f8  1/125 sec   ISO 100

 f 11  1/125sec   ISO 100

 f 16   1/125sec  ISO 100

f 22 1/125sec  ISO100

f 4   1/160sec   ISO 100

f 5.6  1/80sec  ISO 100

f 8   1/40sec  ISO 100

f 11  1/20sec  ISO 100

f 16  1/ 10sec  ISO 100

f 22  1/5sec  ISO 100

The Zone System and Ansel Adams Project

The Zone System is a technique that was formulated by Ansel Adams and Fred Archer back in the 1930′s.

The camera metering is designed to give correct readings under average circumstances. This means that the camera would look at a scene and try to render it as average reflectance (18% reflectance), which is middle grey (a value right in the middle between pure black and pure white). When a scene contains too much bright, however, the camera tries to render it as average so it darkens it causing under-exposure. On the other hand, when a scene contains too much dark, the camera tries to render it as average so it lightens it causing over-exposure.

Project (Tioman)

Presentation of 15 Photographs

Some of the photos was taking by me in differnet places.

Another two family photos was taken in Ipoh during last year June.

This 2 photos was taking in Macau which is the place that next to Hong Kong. I took this photos when 2011 in a busy street. The person in this 2 photos is my sister.

 This is Jeju Island, Korea. I was taking this photos during last year Christmas.I like colour of the yellow field and the blue sky.

 This is my hometown, Taiping. This is Taiping Lake Garden. This 3 photos also took by me. I like this lake because I like the refection of the lake, just like a mirror between the land and the water.

This is the pandan leave . I like this photo is because of the water drop on th leave. The water drop look like a pearl.

 I took this photo after the rain. The plant look so nice when the buttom cover with the water which look like jelly form.

I took this photo when i was working a part time job which is photographer of actual wedding day. I like this photo because the they two look so sweet and happy.

This is my family photos which taken during last year June holidays.

This 2 photos i was taking in a Casino which is located at Macau. I love this photo is because the fake diamond really look real and nice!