Risk Assessments - Harry Potter

Recce and Risk Assessments - Landscape

Risk Assessments and Recces - Long Exposure

Lines

Even though there are no straight lines in the photo, there is the path along the side of the stream and you can see it disappearing into the distance, creating the effect of 3D and making it stand out from the page.

Because of the lines in this photograph take up most of the image, it creates the effect that the further the lines move away the smaller they get, if there was more lines going off into the distance then I think that it would create a better effect.

Photography studio setup - Health and Safety

Health and safety is a very important whenever you are filming something or when shooting something in a photographic studio. In every situation there is going to be some sort of risk that could cause injury to someone, no matter how big or small, it could go from wires on the floor to climbing up a ladder, safety procedures need to be in place, resulting in the completion of risk assessment forms.
Below is our completed risk assessment for the room where we were going to be setting up a photographic studio.

The first sheet is just showing the names of people who are involved in the production and the date of production and the address.

This sheet identifies the risks that might be present when shooting/setting up our photography studio. It shows a list of visible hazards in one column, then asks if anything of them are present and then it has a column to write in the solution for any risks that might be present on location. For example, the hazard of audience and public, this could result in having too many people in one area and they might not be needed in the main area, also if the area that is being used is quite confined and there is a lot of people in there, it may become extremely hot, and it might cause people to overheat. The solution to this would be to put signs up, stating that if you are not needed in the main area then please go elsewhere. 

ISO, Shutter Speed and Aperture

ISO

On DSLRs there a three settings to consider when shooting in Manual mode: ISO, shutter speed and aperture. ISO is the measure of how much light is to be let in by the sensor. Aperture is the side of the opening on the lens when the picture is taken. And shutter speed is the amount of the time that the shutter is open.

On the following image the shutter speed and the aperture was the same on each image - the shutter speed was 1/125 and the aperture f8. As you can see the first four images they are washed out and have large patches of white. 

6400 ISO

 3200 ISO

 1600 ISO

 800 ISO

 400 ISO

200 ISO 

 100 ISO

AUTO ISO

Shutter speed

The following images are my groups first attempt at long exposure photography. When we first started taking photos, it didn't work properly, so we looked online on how to produce a good long exposure photograph. Our images get progressively a bit better by the end. We also had a shutter release remote, which helped out a lot as we could hold it for longer to achieve the photograph that we wanted.  The settings that we used on on camera were: shutter speed 30 secs, aperture f22, ISO 100 and the white balance was set at 5200k.

This image was the best one we took on the swings, it was exposed for about 30 seconds overall.

 After we had finished taking photographs on the swings, we thought that we might be able to get a better effect on the roundabout.

I think that this was the best photo that we took on the roundabout. Because the background is all in focus and you just have the moving subject of the photo.  

This image was exposed for 45 seconds as the roundabout began to slow down.

Angles

These are images that have been taken at high and low angles. Taking photographs at high angles make a subject appear smaller and much less significant. Then again taking photographs at low angles increase the heigh of things, such as short people. The backgrounds in low angle shots tend to be of the sky or the ceiling as it is being taken from ground level. 

This photograph was taken with the camera lying on the floor, so it creates the sense that the subject is taller . Also it looks very effective with the blurred foreground and the leaves becoming more in focus as it moves backwards.

This is the same hill as the photograph before, but this image was taken from the top of the hill. It creates the sense that it gets smaller towards the bottom, so if there was a subject at the bottom of the hill, they would create the sense that they were very small and almost disappearing at the end of the path.

This is also a low angle shot. The thing I like most about this photo is that the background with the two people are out of focus and also the foreground is about of focus, but the path is in focus, and I think it looks very effective.

This photo is taken at a diagonal angle and it kind of off sets the photo.  There is more of the background in the image than the two people.

This photograph was taken at a high angle. Because it was taken while I was moving by someone stood on the other side of the stream where I jumped over, it has created a blurry effect, but because of this blur, it makes the image look a bit different.

Photographers report

Rule of Thirds, pt. 2

 The top image is the original image (with the grid lines on) before it was cropped and moved around. As you can see the me and Rachel are sitting within the bottom row of the grid. 
Meanwhile on the bottom image, it has been zoomed and and moved up so we are still sitting in the bottom row of the grid but we are more central, and our shoes and in the middle row. I tired to make it so that we were both equally within squares in the grid.

The one on the right left is the original image and the one of the right is the edited version. 

This image is much more edited than the first one, it has been zoomed in a lot more than the original. Even though the original image is the subject is within the middle row of the grid, it has just been zoomed in a lot more so it is in the middle square of the grid.