Toolkit

Toolkit List:

What I know how to do/use:

• Draw
• Paint
• Make sculptures
• Make props
• Use a Camera
• Use software
• Use Filters
• Use lenses
• Use Photoshop
• Use Sony Vegas
• Computers/Pc's/Mac's
• Dark Room
• speak one sentence of French
• make really good food

What i want to know how to do/use:

• Different types of camera lenses (had a lecture/talk)
• Modern photographers/practitioners (my own research)
• Photographic studios  (Attended a tutorial and used the studios twice already)
• Camera theory (talks, using a studio also helped.)

Things that are crossed out in the second list means that i have already achieved that specific goal in what I wanted to learn.

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Photography studio workshop:

Health and safety:

• No food and drink but bottles with a lid are allowed.
• Careful of trip hazards
• For the tripods extend the legs and make sure it is stable and check that its strong.
• There are 3 background rolls and use the chain to pull it down and roll it up.
• Ask a technician  to change the colour, don't do it yourself.
• Use the rubber strip to stop the paper background from curling.
• Always remove shoes before stepping on the paper.
• Switch the lights off before changing accessories but leave 10/15 minutes.
• Trigger flash before turning off.
• Never use the light without an accessory.
• if the light is faulty it will beep.

Basic Camera functions:

Aperture:

Aperture lets light into the camera, the larger the aperture the more light is let in through the lens and the smaller the aperture the less light is let in through the lens.

You measure the aperture in F numbers, the smaller the F number the more light is let in a visa versa.

Depth of field:

A large aperture gives a shallow depth of field, and you use the black dial on the camera. depth of field effects the foreground, middleground and the background. It controls how much of an object can be in focus.

Shutter Speed:

The shutter speed controls the amount of light, is the shutter speed is slow the more light is received and the faster the shutter speed is the less light is received. and use the top dial of the camera you get given in the studio.

I set up and learned about the lights, I know how to change the accessory and use the different modes on the back. this is the example that I did and used a dummy to model the lightning.

this lightmeter is used to measure the ISO, shutter speed and aperture by holding it up to the model while the flash and lights are set off, it then tells you what numbers you need to put into the camera to get the right exposure for a good photograph.

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How to clone yourself/other people.

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Types of Cameras:

• SLR
• DLSR
• Polaroid
• Film
• Video
• Phone
• Compact
• Digital
• Camera Obscures
• Pinhole
• Range Finder
• Reflex
• View Finder
• Single lens reflex
• Scanner camera

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Types of Lenses:

• Macro
• Fisheye
• Telephoto
• Tilt Shift
• Standard.

  
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Camera&Lens Notes//
DSLR- Digital Single Lens Reflex
SLR- Single Lens Reflex

• SLR- With a black shutter and uses one lens.

If a lens has more glass, it will have less exposure and the shutter of the lens would be more open.

A picture is made up of these three components with help of the camera:

Shutter speed controls the motion blur of a photograph, ISO controls the sensitivity of light entering the lens and Aperture creates depth of field within a photograph.

A 17mm Lens has a short distance, it has an equation between width of entrance pupil and film plane (the two glasses within a lens)

A 85mm Lens has more distance between the glass inside.Zoom in and it creates a narrow angle.

Lens in action when using a Bokeh effect:

(All diagrams drawn by me)

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3 point lighting.

three point lighting is where you use 3 different types of lighting whether you're in a studio or shooting elsewhere, it is consisted of a back light, fill light and a key light. using these lights creates highlighting, shadows and light. Key lighting is the most important and is the strongest when it is either left or right of the subject and is then added with the other lights that create shadow and normal light, (fill and back light) this is helpful when shooting because the light is used to model a form.

diagrams of 3 point lighting:

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How The Face Changes With Shifting A Light Source

How The Face Changes With Shifting A Light Source Shifting a light source can give a very big effect on a photograph, moving the light around can give many different emotions an a human subject, the subject may seem to be giving different types of expressions towards the camera but in fact they are not, it is just the lighting moving around the face, for example, if the light is pointed horizontally down it is highlighting certain features giving the subject an expression of hatred. The colours and harshness of the light can also be important, different colours give off different feelings, such as yellow being warm and mellow, pink being excitable and stunned and green being jealous and filled with desire and envy.