Level 5 photography
Portraits
Depth of field

 

I had a session with Tim and was put into groups to practice using the 5x4 field camera to understand the depth of field and know what the large, medium and small depth of field looks like and how far it is when measuring it all with a tape measure and label the sticky labels with the F stops of each standing of the model when in focused and not in focus. we place a minus - like this to show that a Fstop not worked out in focus on position on the ground and place a 0 to show it is successful. 

By using the tape measure we have found out that further away from the camera, the larger depth of field. Aperture can vary when using different lenses such as wide angle lens but if use 90mm lens will give you a wide angle and fit more of the setting  and give a shallow depth of field.

F.5.6-  large aperture, shallow depth of field, mostly the facial features but rest of the image like the background and rest of the body of the subject will be out of focus.

F11 - medium aperture, quick shutter. background will be out of focus

F16- larger aperture,  slow shutter, background and subject will be in focus

Level 5 photography
Portraits
Steve Pyke

Steve Pyke is a New york British photographer known for his dramatic take on portraiture, his early works was featured in publications  like 'The face' and 'NME' and his reputation grew through his personal projects series called 'PHILOSOPHERS'.




   


Steve Pyke is similar style to David Bailey  as Steve's work contains a mixture of colour and black and white film, square and large format and uses a clean cut edges for the frame or the frame of the numbering on the sides of the negative.

Level 5 photography
Portraits
Printing colour problems

Unfortunately the university has ran out of colour paper and couldn't order the paper in time and the company have ran out of stock which the tutors have informed us that when colour paper is restocked they can order in paper to university and produce the colour films finals and start to doing work in the colour dark room which I have not been in before as I have missed out on the colour printing sessions but I am sort of looking forward to but mainly excited to get my favourite colour negatives printed and place in sleeves and see if it is more enjoyable than printing black and white. The tutors has told us that we still have to hand every other work we have such as the 20x24 black and white final and 9x12 3 final print and all needs to be labelled so we learn to produce work professionally handed in and have to still hand in the colour negatives as I have scanned the final 6 colour negatives I have chosen to print when the paper is in university.

Level 5 photography
Portraits
Negatives Scanning


I had to complete this module further by going onto flexcolor to scan the black and white and colour negatives by resizing the images and fix the tones to face and backgrounds by correcting the curves and colour saturations then adjust the images into photoshop to remove any dust and fix up the meta dat like addobe 1998 for tiffs and SRGB for Jpegs then upload to the student workpool from a MAC computer in University or produce a Cd or just do both to be safe.

Level 5 photography
Portraits
David Bailey

    

In 1960 David Bailey began photographing for British Vogue, and his fashion work and celebrity portraiture, known for stark backgrounds and dramatic lighting, his pieces of work reflects the 1960s British cultural trends and breaking down old fashioned and class barriers by adding a punk look in clothing. His square format images are greatly recognised and often use a subtle composition to emphasize a relationship between his subjects  when photographing more than one person, when doing a group photo or just two people they wear similar clothing to show how close and how alike they are to each other.

Level 5 photography
Portraits
Using a Hasselblad

I have enjoyed using a Hasselblad as it was easier to use as the two rolls of colour film worked straight away without using a test shot. Think i have used the Hasselblad much easier because I understood the procedure much more than the 5x4 field camera as I could never grasp on getting light readings right from light meter then place operate it on camera. Hasselblad I did take a while to take in how I actually know that my image I am about to shoot is in focus but found out in the end that being in focus means that all the objects are in lined with each other inside the two segmented circles and if the bottom segment is black it is totally out of focus.

I have used the Hasselblad in my first shoot using a Metz flash attached to the camera which made the camera heavy but placed it on the tripod so when I take picture of my subjects they are not motion blurred because I might be shaking while shooting. The first shoot with Hasselblad they have worked really well but some of them there was lights bursts over the faces which made the faces not as in focus as the others, using the Flash has brightened out the subject more than the background to make the person in the image stand out and show they're the importance in the image and the main view.

Second shoot with Hasselblad I took picture in the studio with a grey backdrop and used a soft box and back light and told my subjects to sit. I got the subjects to sit so that there faces are more on target and not have too much figure and just aimed to photograph head to chest crop so then it shows I have experimented further on lighting my subjects and how the crop difference can benefit my images focus on the persons character and mood. I didn't use a tripod in this shoot which I surprisingly thought it turned out well even though I was worried that there be motion blur and make the eyes slightly out.


 
 Using the Metz flash to get the aperture right you use a light meter to the subject when happy on where your standing the model and happy with the setting and natural lighting hitting on the subject.

There is an iso dial on top of the flash which needs to be the same setting to the camera I am using for the flash to actually work and make sure your have adjusted aperture you have set to camera the same so it can use a sensor to adjust a lighting to suit the model.

Level 5 photography
Portraits
Richard Avedon

American photographer that is best known for his work in fashion and minimalist portraits. He worked with merchant marines to take identification photos then moved to fashion to shoot for Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, his models convey emotion and movement. His black and white portraits were capturing the essential humanity and vulnerability. Avedon gets lost on what's really there in front of him as he gets carried away from someones beauty or the subjects own idea of bringing out the best of them to seduce or pose to the camera.  Richard Avedon pictures capture immense detail and uses a long exposer to get depth of field, at the age of 22 he began working as a freelance photographer, primarily for Harpers Bazaar and denied the use of studio and wanted to photograph models on the streets, in night clubs, on the beach, he did this because he was fascinated to capture the personality and evoking the life of his subjects.


"sometimes I think all my picture are use picture of me. My concern is... the human predicament; only what i consider the human predicament may simply be y own."  Richard Avedon