1. Assignment 3: Photography
Research & Practice
L/O: to learn about photography basics and basic photo
editing to make your presentation (for evidence of the
processes and technology)
A) Photography
B) Photo editing

2. For this task you will need….
• iphoto on your ipad! (its free now)
• There are other great photo editing programs
too 

3. Photography basics
Photography basics (production)
• Lighting (various things)
break up into parts
• Shutter speed
• Shallow focus / deep focus
• Transferring photo’s to computer (file and iphoto)
• Composition break up into parts
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rule of thirds
Powerpoints
changing angle/perspective
framing
leading lines

4. Dividing the work
• After watching the slides you will have to think
carefully of how you are dividing the work
• Lighting is MASSIVE, Composition is BIG
• It is group, but you have to have
understanding of all of these things!

5. Lighting
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Overexposure
Underexposure
Key (high key, low key)
Fill
Using flash
Reflecting/reflectors
Diffusing/diffusers
• When using iPad, rely on good daylight and cheap
lighting (flood lights) and DIY reflectors

6. Flood lights
• Cheap and easy to get (hardware stores)
• From 10-30 pounds

7. underexposure

8. overexposure

9. Good exposure

11. underexposed
Over
overexposed
Just right
under

12. Setting up lighting
Called: 3 point lighting system

13. High key lighting: flooded with all light

15. Low key lighting: strong contrasts

18. Fill

19. Using flash
• Can’t rely on this alone
• Too harsh of light (direct)
• Often causes over/under exposure

20. Using direct flash

21. Linking filling and flash
• Using flash (or other light) can be a way to FILL
• (meaning filling in the shadows)

24. Diffuse
• Diffuse = disseminate, reduce, make less
• Because direct flash is so strong, you can
DIFFUSE it to make it more soft
• There are many tools and techniques to do
this

26. More professional diffusers

27. DIY
diffusers

28. Natural diffuse
• The leaves are
Diffusing the light of the
sun

29. Reflect
• Reflecting is another way to diffuse light
• Basically light is reflected or bounced off another
surface (therefore making it less harsh)
• The more light bounces, the less harsh it is
• Different surfaces/textures/colours will reflect light
differently (shiny, opaque, translucent)
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30. Reflect (therefore diffuse)

37. Shutter speed
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How fast shutter opens
Slow = likely to blur
Fast = like to be more crisp
Motion blur
– Motion blur type 1 (background is blurry)
– Motion blur type 2 (object is blurry)
• Exposure
– Long exposure
– Paint lighting

38. • Shutter is like eye
And eye lids of a camera
It is like how a camera blinks

42. FAST SHUTTER SPEED
• Capturing split second

43. Very fast shutter speed!

44. Motion blur
• When something blurs because it is in motion
• This means it is going too fast for the shutter
speed
• (object is faster than shutter)
• Type 1
• Type 2

45. Type 1
• The objects are crisp,
background blurry
• (moving camera)

46. Type 2: objects blurry
What does this create in photos?

47. Exposure
• Time of exposure = how long the camera is
exposed to light
• Faster shutter speed = less light (and more
likely to be darker)
• Slower shutter speed = more light gets in
faster (more likely to be lighter)

48. Shutter speed and light

49. Long exposure at night (using tripod)
Light painting
Long exposure with light/flash

50. Shallow focus
• When have something in focus, the rest blurry
• Limited on automatic cameras
• When taking photos, tap for focus
square……or try with close ups
• You can do this in editing (is limited tho) (blur
tools)

52. Deep Focus
• Everything in focus (automatic cameras)

54. Transfer photos from camera to
computer
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How do you do this?
SD card – SD card reader
Cables
Bluetooth
Electronic transfers – email, sharing, social media etc
Cloud
• Uploading/opening them
• Think of the technologies involved in this process

57. Composition: rule of thirds
• Review rule
• To make better photographs (nicer/more
pleasing to look at)

59. Composition: powerpoints
• In combination with rule of thirds; the AXIS
points of horizontal/vertical lines.
• 4 available (where horiz/vert lines meet)
• -theory argues things placed in powerpoints
make the best composition

61. Composition: angles/perspectives
• Try to photograph objects/places/people
using different angles and perspectives
• The world becomes a different place!
• The life on an ant vs life of a bird
• This goes great with establishing
shots/montage editing for your introductions

62. Normal photography/shots

64. Try different angles!

65. • Get low!!!

66. Composition: framing
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How you frame objects/people
Frame using unique angles
Positive space
Negative space
Is the space around objects appropriate and
comfortable for audience?
• Does it show off the objects/characters
appropriately?

67. Yikes!

68. Good framing

69. Composition: leading lines
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Lines that lead your eye
Usually lines to lead your eye to an object
(sort of like a journey)
Create movement in a composition

71. • Don’t have to be
straight lines…

73. Photography apps
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iPhoto
photo editing
Snapseed
photo editing
Slow Shutter
changing shutter speed
Colour Effects
manipulating colour
Guardian eyewitness?
• Any others???

74. Assignment 31
• Printed booklet
• A = due wed
• B = due fri
• Divide the work…..
• Make your powerpoint template….

75. Photo editing
Basic photo editing in iphoto (post-production)
• opening a photo
• undo (arrow) (bottom corner star - remove effect)
• revert to original (page icon beside edit)
• crop & rotate
• changing colour
• changing exposure (lightness/darkness)
• brushes (repair, red eye, saturate, desaturate, lighten, darken, sharpen, soften)
• effects (b&w, vintage, duotone etc)
• auto enhance
• rotate
• naming, tagging
• sharing: email, journal, camera roll, itunes, facebook, imovie, etc.
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If using snapseed or other programs = what tools/techniques can you used?

76. Open app
• Open and play with iphoto
• Remember = SCREEN GRABS!