|
For my experimental photography, I have produced a slideshow of some of the photos I have taken using my Canon EOS 100D camera. These photographs consist of many various subjects, from photos of landscapes to photos of lamps, trophies and taps. The variety of photographs I have include express the time and effort I have devoted to my work, experimenting with different settings with Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO.
Through lower using lower aperture, I was able to produce images with a shallow depth of field, such as the photograph of the spider. This meant that enlarging the aperture number meant a deep depth of field, focusing all elements, which can be seen through the photographs of the fields. Experimenting with shutter speed can also be seen here as I had increased the shutter speed to express motion blur, contrasting this when using a very low shutter speed to create a freeze frame of images. I had also tried to experiment with ISO and produce images with varying quality by varying the Noise, however this was not as successful as I am still trying to understand the ISO setting. |
The Exposure Triangle is a crucial triangle within photography. It is incredibly useful, whether that is for beginner photographers or even the more experienced photographers. This is because the Exposure Triangle outlines and expresses the correlation and relationship between Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO when taking photos. I had decided to create my own version of The Exposure Triangle and add details which had helped me an incredible amount when I had taken my own photographs. Through this triangle, I was able to understand that a slower shutter speed, such as 30 seconds, will require more light, and produce a blurry image, while a faster shutter speed, such as 1/4000 seconds will produce a freeze frame. This was similarly expressed on the opposite side of the triangle with Aperture. A smaller aperture number, or f-stop, means a Shallow Depth of Field, whereas a bigger aperture or f-stop means a Depth of Field with much more in focus. The ISO setting expresses that with a lower ISO number, the sensor is much less sensitive and makes less noise, meaning there is less grain and higher quality images, and vice versa. An important note in my exposure triangle also expresses that a shutter speed slower than 1/60 may produce unwanted shadow from camera shakes.
|
In this series of photographs, I experimented with varying the shutter speed and depth of field. As mentioned before, a longer (also called slower) shutter speed, motion is shown within the picture through expressing the blur created from motion. I hope to experiment more with motion blur and freeze frames by visiting different locations to produce even better images with higher quality.
I had also began to experiment with the depth of field. To do this, I varied the aperture, and even used the AV setting on my camera, which is Aperture Priority. This allowed the aperture to be heavily focused on, which resulted in a variety of images with different depths of field to be produced, my favourite being those with a shallow depth of field. |
|
This section of my experimental work was perhaps one of the most difficult to work with. More specifically, producing over-exposed photographs was incredibly difficult to me. This was because with most of the photos I had taken for over-exposure, the pictures were far too bright and nothing could be seen. Through further experimenting, and even going onto my roof, I was able to produce an over-exposed image which still contain visible aspects, and I am pleased with it as a starting point. This will motivate me to do further research from here, and build upon my experimenting to become more familiar with over-exposure. I was incredibly happy with the under-exposed photographs I had taken, as I was able to understand under-exposure far more and work better in this area.
|
|