Shallow and Large Depth Of Field.

What is depth of field? 

is the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp in an image. Although a lens can precisely focus at only one distance at a time.

Shallow depth of field images; 

Large depth of field images; 

Fashion Photography Presentation

Lighting

What Is Hard/Soft Light?

Produces well-defined, dark shadows and tends to originate from a light source, which is usually located far away. Where as, soft light produces soft shadows or no shadows at all. This is normally done by either, adjusting the light or cover the light with non-transparent objects or changing the angle. Hard lighting is produced normally on sunny days, where they are little clouds, like wise other weathers such as rain etc. will produce soft light.

What is good about using strong directional lighting in portraits?
Its good because it brings out the person's skin tone, giving the skin a soft, glowing and clear appearance; Radiant. Along with directional lighting, the skin will appear to have no impurities which magazines like Elle, Vogue, Cosmopolitan are looking for.

What is Clam Shell lighting?

Calm shell lighting is used for portrait shots, by using a light source, also with a reflector. This helps reduce shadows from dark places on the face such as the nose, neck and eyes or anything that covers bruises from the face, making the face much clearer.

The way it works is, the light source is posted much higher above the person head, so the light comes from the top as if it is the sun, at this moment the light will produce shadows on a persons face mostly in areas that light can not reach such as under the eyes, neck.

What is Rim Lighting?

Rim lighting occurs when the main source of light is placed behind the subject, which means the subject face is in the shadow. Also, there is a rim of light present around the subject's head. As seen in the image below.

What is Light Graffiti?

Is a technique in which exposures are made by hand held light or by the moving the camera depending on the shutter speed.

Favourite Image

What props did they use? 

White Background

Reflectors

Cosmetics

Reason for choosing such a portrait:

This image professes the natural beauty of anyone's face with or without make up. The shot itself is plays with the eye contact of this lady, which is heavy and intense indicating that she may be trying to seduce or capture someone's eye. The magazine I have chosen is Elle or Vogue because it think it is appropriate as the background of each image is black based, giving the images a masculine effect or aura.

This is a magazine that includes fashion trends, celebrity gossip, hair & beauty tips etc.
I have chosen this magazine because my pictures are quite relatable, interesting and expressive. I have also chosen this magazine because this image above to be the front page of vogue or Elle as it has a glossy effect representing class and sophistication .

I think that this magazine will like my pictures because they are very expressive and eye catching  due to the various lip colours, along with the lip colour the skin tone and hair style within the images are the same so it doesn't the viewers eyes of the main subject; lip colour.

How I am going to remake it?

Rule of thirds

What is the rule of thirds and how do you use it?

The rule of thirds is that when you are taking a photograph landscape or portrait, using the grid will make the focus on the image a lot better. As the eyes are the most important part of the face within the image, make sure you keep the lines that join within the same position of the persons face.

How do you manually select the auto focus point?

Selecting the auto focus manually, you would look on the lens of the camera and you will notice a little switch that will say MF or AF ( Manual focus and Auto Focus). You then select the auto focus and the click the top right button that looks like a square with a cross in it; that allows you focus on whatever point you want.

JAMES

Working Title:                          US Vs THEM

Summary of the idea:
A clean game of Dodge ball in the sports hall within City Of Westminster, the participants within the the 5-10 minute game will be students, who either study but it is open to any student who wants to take part and also teachers/staff will be versing against the Students.

Legal Issues:
The Legal issues will involve health and safety, along with permission from students, teachers/staff and the enrichment team. A contract or permission form will be made to make sure the all that are going to be involved would like to filmed, also with it being alright for the footage to be breached on the college website if it was possible. To further add health and safety;

Exits – I will make sure that there are enough exits for everyone to leave the building in a short amount of time, safely.
Spillages; to ensure that the surfaces are safe and dry, so if there are spillages they will automatically be cleaned up before any situations occur.
Cables; as there will be camera equipment within the area, the cables will need to be hidden with the cable matts to make sure that no one trips over or has an accident.
Dodge balls; to make sure that the balls aren’t too firm, as the players will be throwing them at each other from waist below.
Health Kit; this may be needed as someone may endure an injury during the game so the kit will be present at all time to attend the injury quickly.
Required Space; is a must there will be a lot of equipment in the same environment around people, so the space will be needed to keep everyone clear from anything so nothing will be broken.

Overall this is will ensure that everyone including; audience, production team, participants and personell are safe at all times as anything can happen at any moment.

Content Synopsis: My idea for the pre-recorder entertainment is a game of softball/dodge ball where we will find out if the younger or older generation has a better team. This is a game/sport where they will be opposing teams (students Vs teachers) where they will throw balls at each other and dodge it. The people who dodge them and have the most people standing will win.

Target Audience: 16-35 years old as teachers and student will be involved. As the entertainment is a sport, this will be appeal to them because during primary and secondary school day’s students always used to see sports as a fun lesson. This will have a broad audience as within this generation sports is very popular, especially to men older or younger. Most participants will be studying sports between the ages 16-19 but this is an open option to those that want to take part whether they study sports or not, and surely male teachers would like to take in a challenge with their students more than females teachers would.

Resources required:

Camera/s; 4 cameras will be needed to recored the event, along with be positioned differently as well as two cameras being either hand held or placed on a tripod with or without wheels for a tracking movement. If this is done, the overall production will have a variety of shots once it has been edited so it wont look bland as dogdeball isn't a slow paced sport.
Microphone: For the presenter to announce what’s happening, who’s coming off the court, and how the game ends. The presenter will be able to interact with the audience so they can feel engaged within the game, as their opinions will be stated having a little lime light for a few seconds.

Dodge ball: as the balls will be needed to be thrown at each other, so overall 12 balls will be needed 6 on each team. Slowly as players are being taken off the court, balls will be taken as well as the players may become a little hasty at the fact the one team as so many against 1 or 2 on the other side.

Knee pads; for health and safety reasons, as they may need to get on their knees to retrieve the ball/s.

Floor tape; to let them teams know where the line is for them to know where the border line is, if you cross the line you will be off the court. Once the line is crossed, the player/s who have crossed the line will be given 2 chances if those 2 chances have been used up they will be out of the game until the final round.

Personnel required:

Students & teachers: both teams will need 6 teacher and 6 students will be needed for the game to be played.
Presenter: The presenter will be needed as he or she will need to announce what’s happening during the game, to introduce the game itself, commentary throughout the game and introduce the players and the winning team.
Cameraman; to ensure the shots are at a variety with both cameras from both prospectives.

Mind map of 5 ideas for final image

find people with what im looking for?

Mood board for my final project

Being a freelancer for a magazine

Within the generation of today, Cosmetics seems to be the be all and end off on social networks such as; YouTube, Instagram, Vine and others. As a typical female, I am always up to date with the fashion and always looking into under rated clothing lines looking for individuality. Yet make up seems to speaking for itself allowing many male and female to experiment with it, along with feeling comfortable in their own skin. Being an original, stealing and making it their own with a twist.

         In all cases whether it's contouring, eyebrow shaping, eye shadow tutorials. Lipstick seems to be the one everyone wants to get right, hitting it right on the head. It gives a woman her character whether she is naturally blessed with rose pink lips, a change hurt every now and then. 

Depending on the tone, colour or event even: lipstick can change an appearance drastically lighting or darkening the face, adding a bit of colour to a dull out fill or defining the outfit all together flattering someone's skin tone and a persons persona. 

  Celebrities such as Jessie J and Salonge Knowles are perfect examples or roles models for such a topic.. *pictures* 

Explain what both women are wearing & the colour lipstick does.. 

My chosen magazine would be vogue or Cosmetic depending on the way id the lipstick to be presented light and bubble or classy with a tad a huskiness..

How I would gain such an image? 

The ways I would try and achieve such a masculine yet sophisticated photograph for vogue. I would need to have glossy effect using reflectors for the radiant skin tone, along with the use of shadows to defining the jawline and the structure of the face.