WEEK 2 APERTURE/CAMERA USE
In Class Exercises
What is Aperture?
Simply put, aperture is a hole within a lens, through which light travels into the camera body. It is easier to understand the concept if you just think about our eyes. Every camera that we know of today is designed like human eyes. The cornea in our eyes is like the front element of a lens – it gathers all external light, then bends it and passes it to the iris. Depending on the amount of light, the iris can either expand or shrink, controlling the size of the pupil, which is a hole that lets the light pass further into the eye. The pupil is essentially what we refer to as aperture in photography. The amount of light that enters the retina (which works just like the camera sensor), is limited to the size of the pupil – the larger the pupil, the more light enters the retina.
This photo was a closeup portrait of the beautiful Huia with a narrow Depth of Field (DOP) with the lowest F stop 1.8 using a canon EOS 60D with a 50mm lens.The background is out of focus because of the small Fstop value bringing out Huia in focus.
Aperture: f/1.8
Shutter: 1/2000
ISO: 100
Camera setting: aperture priority (AV)
Quality setting: Raw/Jpeg(this is Jpeg easier to put up on blog)
Color Balance Adobe: RGB
Focus:Manual
White Balance:Auto
This photo was a closeup portrait with a wide DOP with the highest F stop using a canon EOS 60D with a 50mm focal length as seen below everything in the image is in detail because of the wide DOP.
Aperture: f/22
Shutter: 1/13
ISO: 100
Camera setting: aperture priority (AV)
Quality setting: Raw/Jpeg(this is Jpeg easier to put up on blog)
Color Balance Adobe: RGB
Focus:Manual
White Balance:Auto
Landscape Photo with a wide depth of field,everything is in focus because of the wide DOP.
Aperture: f/32
Shutter: 1/20
ISO: 100
Camera setting: Aperture priority (AV)
Quality setting: Raw/Jpeg(this is Jpeg easier to put up on blog)
Color Balance Adobe: RGB
Focus:Manual
White Balance:Auto
In class exercise we had to take a photograph with three elements one in the foreground close to the camera,one in the mid ground and one in the background we used camera lens as our objects.Using a Canon EOS 60D. Honestly I didnt know what i was doing this was so hard for me to get each lens to focus properly.I couldnt really get a good focus shot with the middle lens i think i should have placed the lens far away from each other probably 20 or 15 inches apart to get a better focus on each lens,I should have also zoomed in and changed my camera placement or angle to get a more clear view of a narrow DOP.
Aperture: f/5
Shutter: 1/250
ISO: 100
Camera setting: Aperture priority (AV)
Quality setting: Raw/Jpeg(this is Jpeg easier to put up on blog)
Color Balance Adobe: RGB
Focus:Manual
White Balance:Auto
53 mm focal length
Aperture: f/8
Shutter: 1/50
ISO: 100
Camera setting: Aperture priority (AV)
Quality setting: Raw/Jpeg(this is Jpeg easier to put up on blog)
Color Balance Adobe: RGB
Focus:Manual
White Balance:Auto
37 mm focal length
Aperture: f/5
Shutter: 1/200
ISO: 100
Camera setting: Aperture priority (AV)
Quality setting: Raw/Jpeg(this is Jpeg easier to put up on blog)
Color Balance Adobe: RGB
Focus:Manual
White Balance:Auto
39 mm focal lens
We had to take the same objects with a narrow depth of field and a wide depth of field.
f/4.0, shutter 1/60 sec, ISO 800 18mm focal length
We had to take the same objects with a narrow depth of field and a wide depth of field.
This was shot with a narrow depth of field with the lowest aperture f/5.6 just the object and as seen here a coffee cup is in focus.(I love coffee lol)
f/25.0, shutter 1.6 sec, ISO 800 18mm focal length
This was shot with a wide depth of field everything in focus with details with the highest aperture f/25.0
Environmental Portrait
By photographing a person in their natural surroundings, it is thought that you will be able to better illuminate their character, and therefore portray the essence of their personality, rather than merely a likeness of their physical features. It is also thought that by photographing a person in their natural surroundings, the subject will be more at ease, and so be more conducive to expressing themselves I took various photographs at the Pasifika Festival.
Cook Island Dancers I changed this image into black white because the children were wearing white vests which will bring out more vibrancy and just focusing on them.
f/5, shutter 1/80 sec, ISO 100 135mm focal length
f/5.6, shutter 1/160 sec, ISO 100 250mm focal length
Tuvalu Dancers
f/4.5, shutter 1/250 sec, ISO 100 74mm focal length
Samoan Dancers
My uncle from Fiji selling his handcrafted clothing and accessories.
Self Direct Task:
Emulate a still life using a shallow depth of field I used my canon rebel xs.
f/4, shutter 1/30 sec, ISO 100. 55mm focal length
I used a black background so that the beautiful japanese artwork can be seen in detail.My camera was on a hard surface to avoid blurriness or camera shake because of the slow shutter.This was shot at night.
f/4.5, shutter 1/50 sec, ISO 100. 79mm focal length
f/5, shutter 1/30 sec, ISO 100. 116mm focal length
I took a few images of a still life image using my lowest and highest depth of field.Using a tripod with my canon rebel xs.
f/4.5, shutter 1/200 sec, ISO 1600. 84mm focal length
In this image i used a woven mat as the background and a ukelele as the still image placed on a chair.These objects are common household items you can find in a Rotuman house.
f/4.5, shutter 1/13 sec, ISO 100. 84mm focal length
f/4.5, shutter 1/8 sec, ISO 100. 84mm focal length
f/4.5, shutter 1/125 sec, ISO 1600. 84mm focal length
In this image i used the same background but different objects.As shown on the two images is my traditional garland worn around the neck called a tefu'i for special occasions such as birthdays and weddings.The first image is slightly blurred even though i used the tripod because of the long shutter speed.
I captured a few more still images with a yellow background.I used a fleece blanket as the backdrop.
f/5.6, shutter 1/200 sec, ISO 1600. 163mm focal length
f/5.6 , shutter 1/15 sec, ISO 100. 163mm focal length
f/4 shutter 1/15 sec, ISO 100. 70mm focal length
f/5.6, shutter 1/160 sec, ISO 1600. 55mm focal length
Portrait of my son with a narrow depth of field
f/4, shutter 1/80 sec, ISO 100. 55mm focal length
Photo shot in a wide depth of field.Tongan dancers ready to perform.
f/4 , shutter 1/500 sec, ISO 100. 55mm focal length
I really enjoyed the aperture self direct tasks,changing the focal length of the lens im using creates a dramatic changes in the depth of field.I would prefer to use a narrow DOP in my images as my preference but using a wide DOP is also interesting because it is focused on the subject which can be subjective and you can also see the environment or whole scenery which depicts the occasion or event been taken place.
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