Printing Compositions

Printing Compositions

This was my first contact sheet. As you can see the two portraits that I used are lightly circeled with a marker. My time was 8 seconds, and I had an aperture of 2.8 and I also had to use a filter to take out the greyness, which was a filter of 1.5


This was my second contact sheet which contained my landscape and my still life pictures. My time was 3 seconds and i had an aperture of 2.8. The fact that all these pictures had pretty much all the same lighting, it made it very easy for me to figure out all my other times.

Test Strips

My test strip which had a filter of 2. Aperture of 2.8 and seconds were 4,6,8
This is the test strip for the picture with the flower. I do not have the seconds for this, but the aperture is 2.8

This is the test strip for the picture with the chair. Like I had mentioned before the original picture did have a dog in it...hence the dog. Seconds were 1,2,3,4 and I had an aperture of 2.8



This is the first print that i got. The time was 6.5 seconds and i had an aperture of 5.6. As you can see the light shining all over, but mainly on one side of her face, which gives us this shadow on the other side of her face.

This was the second print that i did. I had 4 seconds, an aperture of 2.8 and I had to put in a filter to get rid of the greyness in the picture. The filter that I had to add was not too high. It was a filter of 2

This was my first landscape picture. I like the picture very much because of the reflection in the water. The times that i used was 11 seconds and I an aperture of 5.6.

This is my second landscape picture. The times were pretty easy to find because of my contact sheet, and all the lighting was pretty much the same. The time was 3 seconds and the aperture was 2.8

This was my first still life picture. The original picture was a picture that involved more things, for example more chairs inside the house and a dog. But because I needed something still life I had to zoom up and basically cut out the rest of the picture. I remember the whole picture had 3 seconds, but because I was zooming up I had to double it, but I decided to make it 10 seconds just to be safe with an aperture of 2.8. It turned out alright.

Because I misunderstood the still life section of our project I took a picure of a flower, which technically is alright, but it would have been better if it were in a vas. But because I did not have any other still life pictures, and I did not have anytime to take more pictures, I had to use this. I personally really like this picture. It really shows the hard light, the fact that the rose is so bright, but still has shadows. The time was 3 seconds and my aperture was 2.8

Image Bank

Image Bank #1

The first picture I really enjoyed and it gave me a very calm look and feel. It is a picture of soft light and it was also a picture of landscape which matches perfectly with our assigment. I love how those big pieces of rock are in the middle, but yet it still doesn't feel like it is the main point of the picture in a way.

I was not able to find any information about the artist except for the fact that his name is Jakub Krechowicz and that he is a polish photographer.

Image Bank #2

The second picture is a potrait picture and it so happens to have that hard light touch to it. I though this picture was very interesting and unusual because you can only see the man's face, and thats it. The rest of the body is completely gone, because of the way the lighting is done. I am able to tell that they focused the lighting just on the face of the person, which gives it a bit of a hard light affect. The photographer of this picture are a father and daughter team from Ireland, who have won many awards and are known for their good wedding and portrait photos. They go by the name of Paddy and Emma Clarke.

Image Bank #3

My final image bank picture is a picture that I like very much. I think the angle and the way its taken is so interesting. It happens to be a picture of still life, which in this case is a stair case. I love how you can see the whole stair case but only a few of the actual stairs. I love the affect of the carpet on the stairs too. I feel that it gives such a good and interesting view. This picture was take by a photographer named Carlos Borges from Portugal. He has worked with cameras and has been playing around with them for about 20 years, and finally decided to actually do something with it. He gets his influences from movies and video clips. He likes pictures with low lighting and likes the dark affects.

Theory Notes: Lighting Assignment Part 1

Soft Lighting

This picture right here is an example of soft lighting. Soft lighting can be thought of as sun on an overcast day. Where the light is not sharp and hard as it would be on a very sunny and bright day. Soft lighting is also less obvious in the way that it usually would spread all over the picture, and would not focus on just an edge or corner of a picture. Soft lighting is also considered to be "wrapped" around the picture. If a picture as soft light it also reduces the shadows on the picture.

Hard Lighting

Hard lighting comes from only one source. That is why it is many times it is compared to a proper sunny day, because you get the light shinning directly from one place to the person/object. Hard Light can often create a lot more shadows than soft light, and it also makes the picture seem more dramatic. Light has a lot to do with picture taking in general, and it all depends on the affect that a person wants to create. If a person uses the hard light, the person that is being photographed will probably look a lot more angry, or man, because of the way the light is placed on their face.

Three-point Lighting

A standard method used in visual media such as video, film, still photography and computer-generated imagery. By using three separate positions, the photographer can illuminate the shot's subject (such as a person) however desired, while also controlling (or eliminating entirely) the shading and shadows produced by direct lighting.

The key light, as the name suggests, shines directly upon the subject and serves as its principal illuminator; more than anything else, the strength, color and angle of the key determines the shot's overall lighting design.

In outdoor daytime shots, the Sun often serves as the key light. In this case, of course, the photographer cannot set the light in the exact position he or she wants, so instead arranges the subjects to best capture the sunlight, perhaps after waiting for the sun to position itself just right.

The fill light also shines on the subject, but from a side angle relative to the key and is often placed at a lower position than the key (about at the level of the subject's face). It balances the key by illuminating shaded surfaces, and lessening or eliminating chiaroscuro effects, such as the shadow cast by a person's nose upon the rest of the face. It is usually softer and less bright than the key light (up to half), and more to a flood. Not using a fill at all can result in stark contrasts (due to shadows) across the subject's surface, depending upon the key light's harshness.

The back light shines on the subject from behind, often (but not necessarily) to one side or the other. It gives the subject a rim of light, serving to separate the subject from the background and highlighting contours.

Diary Notes: Lighting assignment part 1

The new school year has started and so has the new photo course, intermediate!
I had to processs twice already. I had 4 rolls of film.
Our project is to have 6 prints, 2 portraits with hard and soft light, then two landscape, soft and hard light, and lastly 2 still life, with the lighting hard and soft.

The first two films turned out alright, have not worked with them yet. My other two films are a lot better though. Did not have any problems with the processing, except for the fact that I had a canistor which I had bought over the summer, and I was struggling to open it. Thank goodness for a can opener.
Today I started to make a contact sheet. I still have a long way to go, seeing as I have just started, so I am hoping that on Friday i can get at least two prints done, and another contact sheet, other wise I will be really far behind, and I don't want to deal with the stress.
Thats it for now.

I'm back. I finally have my two portrait prints! and i was able to process 1 film today, which as enough landscape pictures and still life. I was told that the contrast on the pictures were pretty good, so I am hoping not to have any trouble with the prints. Tomorrow I will be staying after school to finish i'm hoping at least 3 prints. and then if I need the class on thursday I can still use that.