Shooting Schedule

Date	Location	Props/Equipment
December 9th   2014	Forest Gate	Camera
December 12th 2014	Canning Town	Camera/Tripod
December 15th 2014	Canning Town	Camera
December 16TH 2014	Stratford	Camera
December 17th 2014	Aldgate	Camera

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.

Labelled SLR Digital Camera

Here is a DSLR Camera (Canon EOS 650 D) all the components of the camera are labelled below 

Labelled Film Based Camera

Here you see a film camera (Canon EOS1000) and all the components of the camera are labelled below 

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.

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.

Agriculture^[1]
eg dusts, chemicals, diseases, toxic gases.

Baking^[2]
eg dusts, enzymes, flavour concentrates, cleaning products.

Beauty^[3]
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.

Engineering^[6]

Eg dusts, fumes, chemicals, germs in metalworking fluids

Hairdressing^[7]

Eg products that cause dermatitis, allergies, asthma.

Offshore oil and gas ^[8]

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.

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 

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.