Archive for September, 2015
Reading Activity #2: Ch. 3 (Space)
This image, taken by myself earlier this year, represents deep space. This is because the image contain multiple points of interest at different distances and contains exit points.
This image, taken by myself earlier this year, represents flat space. This is because the picture is of a relatively flat object (a slab of concrete) up close and doesn’t have a foreground, middle ground, and background.
Video Embedding Excercise
Video Editing Basics Project
Photoshop Basics and Cutout Activity
Collage of Tokyo made by myself using Photoshop.
Photography Terms
Aspect Ratio: the proportional relationship between an image’s width and its height.
Examples of different aspect ratio sizes.
Exposure: the amount of light per unit area reaching a photographic film or electronic image sensor, as determined by shutter speed, lens aperture and scene luminance.
This landscape photo is underexposed due to a lack of light.
Aperture: 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.
Shutter Speed: the time for which a shutter remains open at a given setting
Image taken with a slow shutter speed.
ISO: these setting determine how sensitive one’s camera is to light
Image taken with high ISO settings.
Focal Length: the distance between the lens and focal point of whatever you’re trying to capture (or how zoomed in you are)
This image of a lady bug has a very small focal length.
Depth of Field: the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in an image that are still in focus
This picture has a very large depth of field.
White Balance: a camera setting that adjusts for lighting/ makes sure that white objects appear white
This image was not correctly white balanced.
Reading Activity #1
Photo by Richard Gubbels. Source: http://hovercraftdoggy.com/2013/03/07/we-cool-down/
I would consider this image to have medium to low visual intensity. I would classify it as such because of the lack of movement, the repetition of shapes and lines, and fairly similar colors. However, the light from above does create some degree of contrast with the darker space between the wood panels.