Week Two

This week was A LOT of talking, but in saying that i did learn a lot. Taking Intro to Photography at the same time I find helps, I can bounce things I learn in one subject off the other.

DIGITAL CAPTURE

Colour and Light
- light changes over time of day, and therefore we need to  be mindful of the effect it has on our images
- it changes the shades of colour and what might seem like correct colour balance might in face be incorrect
-lights give off different colours -  Tungsten (light globe)  is yellow,  Flash is normally a neutral daylight,  fluros  can vary from green to red * dependent.
- can use colour filters to adjust light differences
-Digitali's colour can be changed with  White Balance, telling the camera what colour the light is
- preset white balances eg. sunny, cloudy
-K value/ Kelvin Degrees is a measure of light colour

-When shooting raw, adjust the white balance after taking the picture, hold up a grey card in the same light conditions ( always 18% grey)
- can use this to represent accurate colour
- Areas of photography where  perfect colour is needed, product photography, fine art reproduction
- some images look great without perfect colour, moody images or late photography era.

File Types
- RAW  eg NEF, CR2, DNG
- equivalent of a negative, contains raw data such as time date, fstop aperture exposure, lens.
- needs to be converted to jpeg or tiff
- raw converter - Photoshop and Light room "Camera Raw" plugin
-TIFF
- big files, known as bitmap images
- lossless format data info for each pixel
- saved over and over and never loses quality
-used when maximum detail is needed.
- good to keep original image
-keeps lay info
JPEG
-lossy format, cant be saved over and over - pixels clam together ( compression) to save space
- data info discarded,  looks like blocks of pixels in colour groups
 (TIFF for printing and originals, JPEG, small web designs screen use)

Resolution
- amount of info that makes up and image
- based on image size and ppi (pixels per inch or dots per inch dpi)
-images can be the same size and still have diferent ppi
- for screen, all that matters is the pixel size ppi is irrelevant in web use
- for printing image size and resolution will determine how big and the quality of the printed image
- *My printer is Up to 9600 x 2400-optimized dpi (when printing from a computer on selected HP photo papers and 1200-input dpi) average printer will print at 100-180 ppi.

- get into a habit of work flow, saving work, backing work up, correctly naming files ect. - i like to think im pretty organised like that already :)

Storage
 - Cds and Dvds - on the way out, fragile
- USB - good, sturdy, up to 8 gig memory, small easily lost
- *Hard drive - heaps of storage,  cant be moved while on. I have a 2tb hardrive, that i back my work onto.
- cloud - Internet storage, costs money, unlimited storage, has equal pros and cons to me.

Week One

"Most of all it captures life, the bits we miss and we do miss alot. You have an opportunity every time you click the shutter to capture something" - Steve Wilson

Some words that I thought very inspirational from my teacher for Digital Photography.

Week One was just in Introduction to the course, going through the Course Information, Assessments and so on. We looked at Artists that are inspirations and these were some of my notes:

David Hill:

- commercial stuff done in colour

- personal stuff done in black and white

- while his commercial stuff has a grunge and heavy look to it his personal work is quite pale and soft

-although some are not necessarily collections his work tells a story and it quite narrative like.

Jill Greenberg:

- have seen her stuff before, heavily photoshoped

- controversy about her crying children images, child cruelty ect - however only took a lolly away from them

-works in collections eg. children and monkeys

Chase Jarvis:

- heavily saturated, dark

- made it big and is well renowned

-commercial photographer

- alot of his work is very artistic rather than standard photography that is mainstream and expected by the public
- breaks rules eg thirds and focus but he does it in a way that works and is visually interesting

Stills Gallery:
- Shows whats current in AUSTRALIAN photography
- mixed with film, digital and photoshop art

CCB - Centre Contemporary Photography:
- holds seminars and exhibitions
- based in Sydney
- photography gallery
- good for research
- student competitions

Worth 1000:
- Creative Competitions for people
- Effects - photoshop
- competitions to age people through photoshop
- set up by categories and themes

We were taken to the 770 Section of the library - the Photography section to look at books, Steve encouraged us too look at artist for half and hour each week.
* Not enough people look at other pictures and ask them selves what do I like about this picture - the more you do the better you will be*