People (event)

I decided to take my camera to an event to try out taking shots of people who were not posing and with different forms of lighting. The main problem that I had was I used the flash on the camera to give me the best shot but due to the low level lighting at the venue I got a lot of red eye. I managed to clean some of this up by using an on line program: PICNIK. I also used the same program to lighten some of the images as they were a little dark. I also used auto for most of the shots because I found while I was using the camera on manual that I was taking most of the time playing with the settings and missing some good shots. So I stuck for the moment with auto and cleaned them up later on. I used my Sony a200 camera with my zoom lens (60-300). With this lens I was able the stand at the back of the room and zoom in on to the person I wanted to photograph. By doing this I was able to zoom past people in the audience and get a clean shot of my target. I think next time I will try to use the Aperture priority setting as this works a little better in low level lighting.

Edit test.

I though I would have an experiment with editing before I undertake one of the main projects for this course. The first image of the gun is one of my own taken at a car show were there was lots of army cars. The background and the image of the soldier and the dog all came from the internet.

First of all I had to delete the backgrounds on the images of the car and the solder. I used the eraser tool on Photoshop and went around every part of the image slowly, basically cutting it out. Once I have done that I opened up the image of the background and added the two other images on to the background image as two different layers. Now I had 3 layers on the image. I then placed the background image on the bottom layer the solder on the second layer and the car on the top layer. This meant that the background would be behind both images and the solder would be behind the car.

I then had to re size the solder to make sure he was in proportion to the car. Once done I saved the whole images as a merged image.

Story Task.

Establishing shot:

'Hum I am a little hungry what should I have to eat?'

Detail:

'Haha oh yes I think I will eat you!'

Relationship:

'You are my pray and I am going to walk up to you quietly and eat you all up!'

Outcome:

'Oh yes very nice'

Conclusion:

'All full and happy.'

I used my Sony A200 camera and its standard lance to take these shots. I had to use the flash to make sure I did not get the glare of the red heat light yet I had to angle the camera to make sure it did not give me flash back on the glass.

Research 2.

I have decided to look at these two images of the Second World War as both are very iconic and meaningful during the time and even now. Each image shows a victory for both sides in the war. The rising of the flag shows victory and peace for the Allies and the other Hitler in front of the tower shows victory for the Nazi’s and dread for the Allies. Both creates different feelings the first of hope and victory the other of dread and despair yet both depict victory for each army.  

Joe Rosenthal

Hitler in Paris

Eddie Adams

He is best known for the images that he took during the Vietnam war and the most iconic image of a Vietnam General killing a prisoner (shown below) on February 1, 1968, during the opening stages of the Tet Offensive. He quotes his own image:


‘The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera.’

 Adams had to apologies to the General in the image for the dame it caused his reputation while he was alive, showing that the power of a photograph is very powerful indeed they do not lie and depict real feelings and emotions that are happening at the moment in time.

Margaret Bourke-White

When most people think of war photographer they think of men yet this women proved that women can do this gruesome style of photography as well. She was the first foreign photographer permitted to take picture of Soviet Industry, the first female war correspondent (also the first female permitted to work in combat zones).

Bibliography:

http://memorygospel.wordpress.com/2010/09/18/war-photographers-01/

http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=139225

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.solarnavigator.net/history/explorers_history/Adolf_Hitler_Paris_1940.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.solarnavigator.net/history/adolf_hitler.htm&h=465&w=353&sz=17&tbnid=b68HLUE85erNVM:&tbnh=258&tbnw=196&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwho%2Btook%2BHitler%2BParis%2Bimages&zoom=1&q=who+took+Hitler+Paris+images&hl=en&usg=__qMXJL9PSFIWgVjx7Y8rZ3pjvlQo=&sa=X&ei=i7jaTOvHIYW7hAf05NH-Dw&ved=0CBsQ9QEwAA

Lee Millers War

Forward by David E Scherman

Conde Nastbooks

They eye of words and photographs from the front line.

Introduction by John Keegan

Essays by Phillip Knightley

Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Still life and Special effects photography

Roger Kicks and Frances Schultz

Roto Vision.

Ideas

First Ideas.

People:

Events, personal images, posed images, natural images, studio images, outside images, groups of people, single person, black and white, colour, cipher, grained images, war photography, low light shots, full light shots, shots done with coloured lights to create effects, shadow, shadow on faces to create atmosphere, shots staged to create a story or mood, props and costumes used to create story or mood, movement in an image, emotional images, close up images of a person or people, images from a distance of person or people.

Ideas I wish to use or expand on.

Studio shots, war photography, lighting for mood, shadows, movements in image, create a story with props and costumes.