Histogram Lab

High key shot

High Key Histogram

 Low key Shot

Low key Histogram

 Varied Shot

Varied Histogram










Questions

a.     According to the histogram, where do most of the pixels in your high key image fall (left or right on the histogram)

- Right Side of the histogram

b.     Are there any pixels in the high key image that would not print with detail?

- No because there is no clipping in the image.

c.     According to the histogram, where do most of the pixels in your low-key image fall (left or right on the histogram)

- Mostly to the left of the histogram.

d.     Are there any pixels in the low-key image that would not print with detail?

- Yes there is clipping in the dark tones of the picture, so the black background closest to the edges of the frame that would lose detail in the shot. 

e.     According to the histogram, where do most of the pixels in your varied tones image fall (left or right on the histogram)

- There is a lot of dynamic range in this shot and as a result is spread over the histogram relatively evenly. 

f.      Are there any pixels in the varied tones image that would not print with detail?

- No, all the tones captured in the image fall within the histogram without any clipping. 

g.     Considering the information on the histogram, do you feel your camera is properly exposing the high key and low-key scenes? Explain your answer

- I feel like is struggles when capturing dark tones. My camera could expose for the cup but had trouble getting out all the details in the dark area. I think if it only had to expose for dark tones it would have done better but the fact that the subject and the dark background are so different, my camera struggled when trying to expose them both accurately. 

h.     Which histogram shows the most dynamic range?

- My shot with the varied toned background had the most dynamic range. 

Assignment 1 - February 27 2018

Blur Motion

Deep Depth of Field

Shallow Depth of Field

Focal Length Lab

TELEPHOTO

75MM
Their shoulders seem a lot more broad
Their facial features are widened too
Camera approx. 4m from subjects
The subjects seem a lot closer to the background, distorting the distance in the image. Sean's (LEFT) ear has become more prominent in the photo.

WIDE
18MM
We can see past the seamless in the background.
Camera approx. 2 from subjects
There is a greater distance between the subjects and the background. Their bodies do not have any apparent distortion







TELEPHOTO
75MM
We cannot see past the seamless in the background
the legs of the chairs appear to be more compressed and closer together. There is not as much distance between the legs closest to the camera and the legs furthest from it.
Camera approx. 4m from subject


WIDE
18MM
We can see past the seamless in the background
There is a greater visual distance between the legs of the stool and the chair. The subjects do not seem as close to the background, we can see that there is some distance there. There is also more three dimensionality to the table because we can see it go back into the picture.
Camera approx. 4m from subject









 Scenario: imagine that you're shooting a model (full body) against a seamless. Your
  framing of the model is what you want but the edges (and beyond) of the seamless are
  visible in your frame. You don't want to move the model back towards the seamless and  
  you don't want to have to retouch out the seamless edges. Applying what you learned
  from this exercise today, what's the solution using just your camera & lens?

ANSWER: You can move closer and reduce your focal length at the same time

Noise Reduction 2018-02-13

ISO 100

1/40 F. 4.0 ISO 100

LOW

STANDARD

                                                                                  HIGH


ISO 800

1/160 F.4

LOW

STANDARD

HIGH

ISO 6400

1/1000 F. 4.0 

LOW

STANDARD

HIGH

I found the in camera noise reduction to be a little unnoticeable. I could only really see a difference with the 3 images I took at 6400. The low noise setting at 6400 was much more grainier than the one shot at high reduction. The images in general started to loose sharpness after 800 ISO. The shadows developed distortions in their colour. By the time I got to the standard setting at 800 ISO, all the detail was diminished from the texture of the red book cover. By the time I shot at 6400, the entire image was just grain and the noise reduction did little to help. 

White Balance 2018-02-13

    1. Daylight                                                       2. Fluorescent

     3.     Flash/wrong                                         4. Auto

In shot 2 using fluorescent, the entire image appears very blue, the overall temperature is very cool. The scene on the other side of the window appears more purple and blue. The scene using flash is very yellow and warm. The auto white balance is the best I think because all the colours look as they should. The overall area is not too warm or too cool. The daylight one is too warm I think because it has been compromised by the lighting that is indoors.
   

Aperture Lab:

 f.22, 1/100, ISO 800

 F.16, 1/125, ISO 800

F. 4.5, 1/800, ISO 800

The focus on the subject is more dramatic. He is clearly picked out from the out of focus background. The softness of the background contrasts the sharpness of his face. In the Other portrait taken at f.16, there is a very busy background with lost of detail and the subject also has a lot of sharpness and detail letting your eye roam over the picture while the second portrait makes the subject more obvious.

 F. 3.5, 1/1600, ISO 800

 F. 8.0, 1/400, ISO 800

 F.22, 1/40, ISO 800

In the first photo with the shallow depth of field, only a small portion of the bike is in focus making it seem as if the logo on the bike is the main subject of the photo. In the third photo, the entire bike, the snow and the street in the background are in focus. It now seems like a street photo and not a specific shot of a bike. There is now a lot of detail over the entire image. We can now see that the bike is beginning the be covered in snow which suggests the bike has been forgotten and left out for a while. In the first image, we don't have much context as to what the bike is doing there. So with a deeper depth of field, we are allowed to understand the entire image and not just a selected portion of it. I feel the second image is the most successful because the amount of blur in the image isn't so much that we lose context to the situation however isn't so little that there is no clear subject being picked out from the background.