Date
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Location
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Props/Equipment
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December 9th 2014
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Forest Gate
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Camera
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December 12th 2014
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Canning Town
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Camera/Tripod
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December 15th 2014
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Canning Town
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Camera
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December 16TH 2014
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Stratford
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Camera
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December 17th 2014
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Aldgate
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Camera
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Photography unit
Friday 16 January 2015
Shooting Schedule
Fine Art Photography
Fine Art Photography
Definition of
Fine Art
Fine art photography is photography created with the vision of the artist as photographer.
The main purpose for Fine
art photography was used to preserve images this has been used for many
centuries.
Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams is a respective photographer in this field,
he rose to fame after taking pictures of the wilderness areas; his black-and-white photographs of the American West have been widely imitated on
calendars, posters, and in books as well, his most famous image was entitled
"Monolith" and its massive sizes are highlighted by the white snow
setting off the black rock. This monolith feels as if it could be anywhere and
gives a sense of isolation and loneliness as it is surrounded by the winter wilderness.
Natural light casts over the side of the rock contrasting with the snow.
There is a recurrent theme of using wilderness
and natural surroundings, this sets the tone and describes what type of mood
the picture is (which normally is a dark/chilling theme) from many of things
such as depression, loneliness, heartbreak and many more sometimes lighter
themes are used as well. Also another photograph which of famous in his collection is The American Wilderness, this is seen with the white clouds contrasting with the black rocky mountains the theme of depression revolves around this image also the sense of hopelessness is questioned the deeper the viewers analysis. There are different textures to the picture such as the clouds, the mountains, the trees also the water so the audience can get a feel of each components in the image.
Adams had hidden messages throughout
his photographs in his illustrious career and this is that the world is
beautiful, that humanity is part of this larger world and us fellow human beings
need to grasp and appreciate everything around us before it is gone.
Adams developed The Zone System and this a technique
that was formulated in the 1930’s he used
that specific technique a lot in his photographs this an approach to a
regular way of working that guarantees a correct exposure in every situation
even with the trickiest lighting and that makes his photographs even more
incredible than it already is.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer he is
believed to be the innovator of photojournalism his prime years is believed to
be around the 1930’s Cartier-Bresson's rise as a photographer proved
rapid. By the mid 1930's he'd shown his work in major exhibits in Mexico, New
York, and Madrid. His images revealed the early raw possibilities of
street photography and photojournalism in general, in this
photo entitled ' here Bresson visiting New York City and while on this visit he captures
this moment of a young man returning home from duty hugging his mother, the
thing that makes this moment extraordinary is that the people in the background
are oblivious to what is going on right next to them because they are concerned
with their own problems to focus on this heart-warming moment .
Different Type Of Lenses
Different types of Lenses
Telephoto
Lens - A telephoto lens is a specific type of
a long-focus lens in which the physical length of the lens is shorter
than the focal length. Telephoto lenses are often used by professionals
with SLR cameras to capture images at a long distance. Created by Thomas
Rudolph Dallmeyer in 1891 this invention will forever change the way
photographs are captures in a distance. Uses of this lens from a professional
standpoint are not currently known however many fashion photographers use these
type of lenses in their shoots here below is an example of a telephoto lens
being used.
Marco Lens – A macro lens is a lens with the additional
capability of being able to focus closely (this is usually done by introducing
a floating element--a piece of glass that does NOT rack in and out with focus
in unison with the other elements in the lens). The strict definition is a lens
that can achieve 1:1 magnification--that is, the image on the sensor/film is
the same size as the object itself. Most true macros are prime lenses, also
most macros are extremely sharp because of the floating element. Here below you
can see a Macro Lens being used with a fly which is zoomed in very closely all
the minuscule details of the fly are shown such as the antennae and the
millions of little hairs. This picture personally shows how beautiful nature is
being zoomed in. Macro Lenses might be used for documentaries about incest or
any other creature whose appearance actually deceives the naked eye.
Wide angle lens- Wide
angle lenses is
simply having a wider than normal angle of view (and usually
a short focal length) which produces an image that is foreshortened in the centre and
increasingly slanted in the periphery This type of lens
allows more of the scene to be included in the photograph, which
is useful in architectural, interior and landscape photography where the photographer
may not be able to move farther from the scene to photograph it.
Another use is where the photographer wishes to emphasise
the difference in size or distance between objects in the foreground and the
background; nearby objects appear very large and objects at a moderate distance
appear small and far away.
Wednesday 14 January 2015
Health and Saftey
The objectives of the health and safety work act (1974)
Safekeeping the health,
safety and wellbeing of individuals at their
workplace
Protecting individuals, other than people at work,
against unnecessary risk that come from outside the workplace or even inside if
they enter the premises.
Supervising flammable and dangerous explosives
inside the workplace, so no lawsuits will be placed on the company
The duties of employers towards substances used at
work are:
Execute testing and inspection as that may be necessary to ensure the safety of the
employees in the workplace
You have to ensure that the
substance will be safe and without risks to health at all times when it is being
used, treated, stored or transported by a person at work.
Take various steps as it is reasonably practicable.
Personnel of the workplace are provided with information as are necessary this
is mandatory so they know what the cause of a serious health risk is.
Take such steps that are essential
to secure, people who are supplied with the substances are provided with satisfactory
information about the any risks to health or safety to which the properties of
the substance may give rise about.
The objectives of COSHH are:
·
Finding out what the health hazards are
·
Deciding how to prevent harm to any individual’s wellbeing that might
include completing a risk assessment.
·
Run control measures to lower any health hazards
·
keeping all control measures in good working order plus making sure
there are no setbacks
·
giving information which comes under teaching and training for employees
and others
·
providing monitoring and health surveillance in appropriate cases
·
Preparing for future emergencies.
Here are the industries who
cover the COSHH :
Motor vehicle repair[10]
eg paints, fuels, brake fluid, lubricants, degreasing fluids, cleaning products, welding and cutting fumes, dusts, battery acid.
eg paints, fuels, brake fluid, lubricants, degreasing fluids, cleaning products, welding and cutting fumes, dusts, battery acid.
Welding[11]
Eg fumes, dust, chemicals,
work in confined spaces, inert gases.
Woodworking[12]
eg dusts, adhesives, paints, stripping fluids, lubricants, disinfectants to treat water systems.
eg dusts, adhesives, paints, stripping fluids, lubricants, disinfectants to treat water systems.
Agriculture[1]
eg dusts, chemicals, diseases, toxic gases.
eg dusts, chemicals, diseases, toxic gases.
Baking[2]
eg dusts, enzymes, flavour concentrates, cleaning products.
eg dusts, enzymes, flavour concentrates, cleaning products.
Beauty[3]
eg products that cause skin irritation, allergies and asthma, acrylic fumes.
eg products that cause skin irritation, allergies and asthma, acrylic fumes.
Catering[4]
Eg products that cause
dermatitis, skin allergies, asthma, and fumes.
Cleaning[5]
eg products that cause dermatitis, allergies and asthma, corrosive products.
eg products that cause dermatitis, allergies and asthma, corrosive products.
Engineering[6]
Eg dusts, fumes,
chemicals, germs in metalworking fluids
Hairdressing[7]
Eg products that cause
dermatitis, allergies, asthma.
Printing[9]
eg products that can cause dermatitis, skin allergies and asthma, corrosive products, solvent vapours, ingredients that can cause damage to internal organs over a long period of time.
eg products that can cause dermatitis, skin allergies and asthma, corrosive products, solvent vapours, ingredients that can cause damage to internal organs over a long period of time.
The substances that the COSHH
defined as ‘hazardous to health’ are:
·
chemicals
·
products containing chemicals
·
fumes
·
dusts
·
vapours
·
mists
·
nanotechnology
·
gases and asphyxiating gases and
·
biological agents (germs
The advice that COSHH gives to
protect yourself while working with hazardous materials is
·
To provide a risk
assessment this is to prevent any ill health in the workplace.
When a specific task involves
very small amounts of material, even if these are harmful, when there is little
chance of it escaping a risk assessment is still needed to prevent any hiccups
from occurring
·
There are also
control measures that have to be used in the work area
·
Control measures
are always a mixture of equipment and ways of working to reduce any type of exposure.
·
Control equipment
comes in many forms. It includes ventilation to extract dust,
mist and fume
·
This is very
important as by breathing in some substances can attack the nose, throat or
lungs while others get into the body through the lungs and harm other parts of
the body
The aims of the
health and safety regulations 1992 are to:
Provide eye and
eyesight tests on request and also provide special googles if needed
Make sure all
controls are in place
Investigate the
various workstations to assess and lower the risk value
Provide
information and training
Review assessment
when the user or DSE changes
The problems that
is associated with displayed with DSE are:
Some
individuals may experience fatigue, eye strain, upper limb
problems and backache from abuse or improper use of DSE.
The advice the websites gives about working with
DSE is
Adjust
curtains or blinds to prevent intrusive light.
Make
sure there is space under the desk to move legs to make the workspace more
comfortable and less compact
Avoid excess pressure from the
edge of seats on the backs of legs and knees. A footrest may be helpful,
particularly for smaller users.
With this advice
user will avoid getting DSE
Wednesday 7 January 2015
Types of storage cards & film types
Types of storage
cards & Film Types
Memory Card
A memory card is an electronic
data storage device which is used to store digital data they are used in many
electronic devices such as mobile phones, video game consoles MP3 players etc.
The first uses of the memory card take back to the 1990’s when PC Cards (PCMCIA)
were the first memory card formats to be commercialized but are now mainly used
in industrial applications and to connect I/O devices such as modems. In the 1990s,
a number of memory card formats smaller. The PC Card arrived which included a CompactFlash,
SmartMedia, and Miniature Card.
By 2005 however, SD/MMC had
nearly taken over SmartMedias spot, though not to the same level and with stiff
competition coming from Memory Stick variants, as well as CompactFlash. In
industrial fields, even the venerable PC card (PCMCIA) memory cards still
manage to maintain a niche, while in mobile phones and PDAs, the memory card
market was highly fragmented until 2010 when micro-SD came to dominate new
high-end phones and tablet computers. Since 2010 new products of Sony
(previously only using Memory Stick) and Olympus (previously only using
XD-Card) are offered with an additional SD-Card slot. Effectively the format
war has turned in SD-Cards favour.
Floppy Disks
A floppy disk is a portable computer storage device that permits
easy handling of data. Commonly used with personal computers, notebook
computers, and word processors, such disks consist of flat, circular plates
made of metal or plastic and coated with iron oxide. When a disk is inserted
into the disk drive of a computer, information can be magnetically imprinted on
this coating, which will thereafter permit easy location and retrieval of the
same data. Floppy disks were introduced during the 1970s. Although they cannot
store as much data as disks and the data cannot be retrieved as easily, floppy
disks have become extremely popular in situations where flexibility, low cost,
and easy use are important. Today the floppy disk has become an indispensable
tool for people working with personal computers and word processors.
Black and White film
All
photography was originally monochrome, or black-and-white. Even after colour
film was readily available, black-and-white photography continued to dominate
for decades, due to its lower cost and its "classic" photographic
look. The tones and contrast between light and dark areas define
black-and-white photography. It is important to note that monochromatic
pictures are not necessarily composed of pure blacks, whites, and intermediate
shades of grey, but can involve shades of one
particular hue depending on the process.
The cyanotype process, for example, produces an image composed of
blue tones. The albumen print process, first used more than 150 years
ago, produces brownish tones.
Colour Film
Colour film is a
part of the zone system which is a technique for determining film exposure and
development. Usually this does not lend itself to variations in development
time. The use of the Zone system with colour film is similar to that with
black-and-white roll film, except that the exposure range is somewhat less, so
that there are fewer zones between black and white. The exposure scale of
colour reversal film is less than that of colour negative film, and the
procedure for exposure usually is different, favouring highlights rather than shadows;
the shadow values then fall where they will. Whatever the exposure range, the
meter indication results in a Zone V placement.
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