Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Project upd


my friend looks like a ghost ... (((
We went to the united islands festival where some of my friends participated as graffiti-painters and Djs. So, I took some portraits in front of the grafities... and it was not a good idea. Now, I at least know that to make a good portrait (so, as it won't be so dark after the effect i apply) I need to use additional light.

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Depth of Field Asignment




SCENE 1:
1) 1/60 F5.6










2) 1/20 F22






SCENE 2:
1) ISO 100 1/40 F5.6








2) ISO 200 1/6 F22












SCENE 3:
1) ISO 100 1/60 F5.6 
                                                                                                                                             







2)ISO 200 1/5 F22








SCENE 4:
ISO 200 1/3200 F3.5
1) the widest setting of the lens







2) zoomed all the way in

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Upd

Finally, I've decided to do portraits for my project, because I feel that it interests me most than anything now.
Also I've made a small research on anaglyph effects and methods of making this kind of pictures, and a lot of people suggest to use 2 cameras at the same time to shoot the same photograph. It is said that the cameras [or better to say cameras' lens] should be placed in a distance as between human's eyes [approximately 6-7 cm], but then you can look at photographs only through stereo glasses; so, I've decided to try to use 2 cameras [+ I have 2 same Sony cameras for a while; why not to try!?], but put them closer to reduce the difference between pictures that then must be put one on another as layers [one pic in red and one in cyan colors].
I couldn't find any photographs/portraits to apply the effect on [within pictures taken by me]; thus, I've just selected a picture saved on my laptop from i-net and worked on it in photoshop. Actually, this picture is not that good for this kind of 'anaglyph' effect [the background looks kind of lost, and also a mole on girl's face confuses]... but still at least it gives an idea/preview of how I see the performance of the portraits I'm going to shoot. The background is colorful, but still I think it should be with a detailed pattern to make the effect more obvious and eye-catching.
In fact, the picture that is attached to this post was processed in a different way and I'm not quite sure if this method is appropriate, because I've come up with it accidentaly.
3 pictures [one in red, one in cyan, and one in black&white] were put layer-by-layer, and cyan and red pictures were moved to the left a little bit. If the girl was looking into the camera it would look better and more natural, because the effect applied on her eyes that look somewhere aside looks more blury than anaglyph.

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Themes for the project

Lately, I've been thinking about my project. I've come up with two topics. 
First idea would include portraits of different people (I want to make it very diverse, in a sense of nationalities) with different emotions (mostly, I'd like to focus on eyes expressions). Background must be colorful with very detailed pattern (I think of using different wallpapers with very small patterns on them). Background is very important, because I want to work up the pictures in Photoshop and apply a kind of 3D effect on them; so, the background would make this effect to be more eye-catching and more visible. I'll upload a kind of draft lately today.
The second idea is about working with shadows; putting different objects and light them by a lamp and photograph their shadows. This pictures are just the examples, for the project I'd try to choose more interesting objects and also maybe to focus on their textures better.


Selected Photograph

I like staged photographs, when every detail is considered and matched with the whole atmosphere of a photograph. A photograph, in my opinion, should influence people, but also give them an opportunity and freedom to interpret it in the way they feel when looking on it.

Romeo&Juliet
by Annie Lebovitz

When looking on this photograph you feel the early morning and, of course, you know the story it describes ("For never was a story of more woe; Than this of Juliet and her Romeo"(c)); so, your attention focuses on performance. You see the light, the clothes chosen, the balcony... even movements of the actors... everything was selected and placed in a way to create a kind of harmony.
Annie Lebovitz is one of my favorite photographers. Every her work includes an unique idea and professional performance of it.

Phototron Camera

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