Re-cap on the things we learnt last week

Re-cap on the things we learnt last week

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Q1. What two Greek words make up the term ‘photograph’?

1.photo, for "light,"

2.graph, for "drawing."

Q2. List FOUR genres of photography and explain the genre –

For example: Portraiture - Portrait photography or portraiture is photography of a person or group of people that displays the expression, personality, and mood of the subject. Like other types of portraiture, the focus of the photograph is usually the person's face, although the entire body and the background or context may be included. 

1.Food - Taking a photo of food

2.Fashion - Taking a photo of cloths

3.Wildlife - Taking a photo of animals, flowers, trees or Fields 

4.Landscape - Taking a photo of a mountain.

Q3. List two essential items you need to complete your photography course

1.SD card

2.Memory card

Q4. What do we do to make the camera achieve focus?

Ans. push the the shutter button half way in to you feel a click then push it all the way you could also use white balance 

Q5. The ‘mode dial’ on our camera has the following four acronyms, what do they stand for and what do they control?

‘A’ = Aperture 

‘P’ = Program 

‘S’ = Speed 

‘M’ = Menu 

Camera diagram detailing important functions

Camera diagram detailing important functions

1= Shutter button

2= Flash

3= mode dial

4= Zoom dial

5= Lens 

Memory check

Memory check 

Q1. What is ISO and what does it effect?

ISO is one of three factors which determine the exposure of a photo, along with aperture and shutter speed.high ISO for low

light. 

Q2. When would we use the ‘P’ control setting on the camera mode dial.

Program lets us control the ISO and white balance. 

Q3. Name two important consideration when attaching the tripod baseplate to the bottom of camera?

line the arrows up with the lens, make sure its on tightly  

Q4. Name three important considerations when using a red-head lighting kit

Don't touch the barn doors, don't touch the bulb because the oils in your skin will blow the bulb, let it cool down. 

Q5. When focusing the camera, what do we place on the object/subject to ensure it is the center of focus?

press the shutter button gently until you feel a click then push the shutter button all the way down. 

Q6. Name two techniques we can use to adjust the brightness and contrast of a photograph?

Shutter speed, ISO, Aperture 

Photography evaluation

Photography evaluation 

Our assignment was to make an advert out of the objects we took pictures of. I found a image of a light bulb with a scene going on inside. in this image there are underwater and pandas, lighthouse and a boat but this image is not advertising anything. Out of all the 

images I found this was the one I thought I could re-create from the objects I have at home. My plan was to advertise a war/action game like the call of duty, so I took pictures of toy soldiers and toy helicopters, tanks and fences and then edited them using Photoshop. Because they were too dark I had to get rid of the shadows using the levels and the curves tools. I took the photos in the classroom. The equipment I used was the tripod, red headlight, camera, light stand and the seamless background. I used the bulb from home and the toy soldiers that were already in college.

     

- This is my finale image 

The editing process i used was. I got a picture of a helicopter and changed it to black and white then I pasted in my light bulb and removed the inside and background, once the inside of the bulb was gone I got a background image of a desert then cropped around it so I could make the desert the same shape of the bulb so it looked like the desert was inside of the bulb then I got the soldier, barbed wire, and helicopter and merged it all together and turned it all black and white.
If I had to do this again I would try to make it look more realistic by maybe taking the photo of the bulb when its in sand so it looked like it was there and smoother the bulb so it looks more realistic and not like a sticker. 
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Sound in advertising major and minor key NEEDED

Sound in advertising

Non diegetic is when you can hear the sound but can not see were the noise is coming from. for example background gunfire in a war/action film to keep the feel there in a war. 

Diegetic is when you can hear the sound and see where the sound is coming from for example seeing a POV of a solider shooting his gun.

Major key 

Minor key 

Tempo is how fast the song is 

     

Photoshop edits. before and after

 Photoshop edits. before and after 

Before: 

For the helicopter i used the polygonal lasso tool to cut round the shadow and get rid of the background, after that i used Curves (Image > Adjustments > Curves) or               (Ctrl + M) to make it brighter then i used levels (Image > Adjustments > Levels) or (Ctrl + L) to get rid of the background and make it a little bit brighter and less blurry. 

After:

Before:

For the solider i used the polygonal lasso tool to cut round the shadow and get rid of the background and to remove the Blu tack , after that i used Curves (Image > Adjustments > Curves) or (Ctrl + M) to make it brighter then i used levels (Image > Adjustments > Levels) or (Ctrl + L) to get rid of the background and make it a little bit brighter and less blurry. 

After:

Before:

For the barbed wire i used the Magic wand tool to get rid of the background and some of the shadows then i grabbed the Eraser tool and went round the edge to make it smoother because the image at first was a little bit blurry and to remove the rest of the shadow the Magic wand tool couldn't get after that i used Curves (Image > Adjustments > Curves) or (Ctrl + M) to make it brighter then i used levels (Image > Adjustments > Levels) or (Ctrl + L) to get rid of the background and make it a little bit brighter and less blurry. 

After:

Try and recreate

Try and recreate

i want try and recreate the bottom image with the top image.