Uses of Photography- Week 10 Blog Post
Research for portfolio——————————————————————-
During week ten I made my main focus really honing in on the exact images I wanted to take for my portfolio. I decided I wanted to mainly incorporate nature from my home town and property but also wanted to take some shots that had humans in them and also my dog.
When trying to discover different ways to inhance my nature and outdoor photography I looked at a couple different sources, one being Digital Nature photography: The art and the science second edition. Through reading this journal I was able to learn about the importance of different lenses types whilst shooting and the ways that “Modern lenses have special lens coatings to reduce flare and improve contrast”- J & B Gerlach (2015) This sent me on a journey to consider what lenses I was using for my images. After I considered this I tried to think of ways I could use different lenses on my camera to aid my images. The text also spoke about ways Aperture, ISO and shutter speed could aid photography and brought up the use of a histogram located on cameras. “The histogram is a simple bar graph that displays the brightness values measured by the photo-site (often called pixels) in the sensor along the horizontal axis”. This was new to me as I hadn’t considered a histogram before so was prompted to look at my camera to find this and use it. Through reading this text I was able to learn a lot of practical skills that I could apply to my photography which I look forward to using on other projects of my own in future.
Gerlach, J and Gerlach, B (2015) ‘Digital nature photography:The art and science, 2, Taylor and Francis.