Photographic Composition Assessment Mk2

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Photographic composition Mk2 from James Febey

The macro shot is changed, this is the new macro shot:

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Photographic composition from James Febey

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Assessment Task | Photographic Composition

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Changed the Macro shot:

Depth of Field

Exaggerated Perspective

High angle shot

Low angle shot

Macro

Medium Angle shot

One focus of interest

Portrait shot that shows outline

Shot that features a reflection

Rule of Thirds

Shallow perspective

Assessment Task | Hero Shots

Assessment Task | Hero Shots

Assessment Task | Populating a Web Page Wireframe

Learning Task 12 | Shooting Motion

 

 

Learning Task 11 | PNG Logo

Trying to change the logo for a webpage that I was given in a .zip folder and replace it with my own (from the Design assesment.) I saved my logo as a .PNG and replaced the file that was already there.

earning Task 10 | Backgrounds for the Web

1. Find three examples you like where a background image has been used on a website. Take a screenshot of each example, save the three screenshots as .jpgs 50 quality 600px wide.

 

I'm not sure what to say about why I like these in particular, but they're websites that have a background image. I don't always go to them that much anymore. 

2. Take your "tell-a-story-with-a-flatbed-scan" image and change it to make it suitable as a web page background using Method 2 (where the image receds into the background colour). Save it as a jpg 50 quality 960px wide. Publish to your blog.

Tell a story with a flatbed scan image, as a background which recedes into a background color

 

 

3. Make a background for a web page using method 4 (1920px wide jpg, a few pixels tall, save as 100 quality). To test your image on a web page, download the Method4.zip folder, unzip the contents, locate and overwrite the bg.jpg file with your version then open the page in your browser.

It didn't turn out the way I wanted, it's totally distorted. But I wasn't sure how many pixels tall to make it, only to make it 1920 pixels wide. So I don't think I made it tall enough.

 
4. Make a seamless tile using Method 5. Save this as a .jpg, name it tilebg.jpg

To test your image on a web page, download this zip folder, unzip the contents, copy your tilebg.jpg over the existing one then open the method5.html page in your browser.

Take a screenshot of your browser, using Greenshot, and save as a jpg. Publish to your blog. Caption your image with what you thought about Method 5 specifically what do you need to consider if you are using a tiling background.

I think the main thing to consider when making a tile background is that all four corners connect up and make a pattern.

Learning Task 9 Saga

This is the hardest thing I've had to do this year. The brief says to take ten photos to do with being environmentally aware, and so far I only have six things that I can think of. I don't have much of an idea or sketched out design to show, I've had to make it up as I go along. It's just a lame collage.

Here's my attempts at doing my original idea, a grid layout of ten photos instead of having to manually cut and paste them together. All of them are within 1920x1080 pixels like the brief said. I'm not sure which one works best.

Task 6 edit

Learning Task 8 | jpg Compression

Size: 114 KB

Size: 73.7 KB

Q. How do you explain the difference in file size? Your camera is capturing the same number of pixels, so why would the file sizes be different?

A. I think the difference in file size has something to do with the amount of colors, light and shade in the photos. The more detailed photo  takes up slightly more space because of how much information there is being compressed.

Q. How does this influence the way you take photos if your brief requires relatively small file sizes? What sort of backgrounds should you consider if your client needs small files?

A. A fairly plain wall, and taken on a bright, sunlit day to leave a lot less shadowy areas and tone changes.

Q. Assuming you were given a brief such as taking a product shot of a modern " city car " (see left ) that had to go into a web advertisement and you needed to ensure file sizes were small, describe a suitable and a not-so-suitable background you might use.

A. A suitable background would be in front of a greenscreen or a wall, and a less suitable background would be on the street, in front of a highway or busy city location.

 

Learning Task 7 | Combining Images

The finished product - one Cyberman pasted into 15 different locations on the same shot. It's not quite perfect, there's probably a lot of spots where it looks pasted together if you look closely. I had to crop each individual Cyberman and paste it onto an empty version, and guess where each one went exactly while Photoshop tries to magnetically stick it where it thinks it should go.

The original photo without any Cybermen, taken at Clarence Campus on Friday 2nd of May. The finished assignment was cropped as well.

Cropping an image to change the perspective

The Crop tool has a perspective option that I didn't notice before. So I'm redoing this to make use of it this time.

Learning Task 6 | Making Selections / Removing Artefacts

Links to the other files I used:

http://bogdanici.deviantart.com/art/Post-apocalyptic-train-depot-186386859

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2007_Audi_R8_Wheel.JPG

Learning Task 5 | Adjustment Layers

Photo taken in sunlight at high noon

Edited in Photoshop to give it more brightness, contrast, vibrance and saturation. This one was easy to make more bold and colorful, as it had a lot of color and contrast in it to begin with. So there was little change that needed to be made with saturation, but its much more effective.

Photo taken in low light

Edited in Photoshop to give it brightness and contrast, and adjust the vibrance/saturation levels. This one was hard to alter while keeping it realistic and natural, as it has very flat colors and not a lot of contrast to begin with.