nq photography Learning blog

WordPress accepts JPG, JPEG, PNG, ICO, and GIF image formats. By default, the maximum upload size in WordPress ranges from 2MB to 150MB depending on the settings of your web hosting provider is giving by default.

Adobe Portfolio  recommend JPEG and PNG, The biggest rendition they generate is 3840px for retina displays on 1920px wide screens and 4k as well. Your image may display larger or smaller on your site depending on your: Website Container. That what I could find in the web

https://www.rgu.ac.uk/study/courses/572-ba-photography

Robert Gordon University Aberdeen require portfolio with 25 images for them to view. It should show them an applicant's interests and abilities and it should show excitement and commitment to Art and Design. Applicants whose first language is not English should have an IELTS of 6.0 overall, with no component lower than 5.5, or an equivalent. A relevant HND from one of our partner colleges will be considered for entry into Year 3 subject to successfully meeting the partner course criteria.

https://www.gsa.ac.uk/study/undergraduate-degrees/fine-art-photography/

The Glasgow School of Art  previously asked for 25 slides now require 20 images for portfolio, each JPEG file must not exceed 2MB, PDF page size must be set to A4.  The number of pages required for the GSA's School of Fine Art programmes is exactly 20 The total file size must not exceed 50MB on PDF file,  the GSA requires to provide a portfolio statement.

https://www.cityofglasgowcollege.ac.uk/courses/ba-hons-photography-scqf-level-910-2021-08-30

What is gamut?  Gamut is a certain complete subset of colours and tones  achievable by an imaging system your are on. 

What is a colour space? Colour space is mathematical model describing the way colours can be represented.

What two colour spaces do most DSLR cameras offer? Most DSLR cameras offer  sRGB and Adobe RGB colour spaces.

What colour space can most computer monitors display? sRGB is the colour space used on most computer monitors and mobile devices.

If you switch from sRGB to Adobe RGB on your camera what colours will you see an improvement in? Pictures taken on Adobe RGB colour space will have red, green, and may some blue colours brighter.

When you change the colour space in photoshop what does it do? Photoshop will simply remap colours of your file either it is sRGB or Adobe RGB, if you change the colour space of your image in photoshop taken on sRGB colour space to an Adobe one then it makes reds and greens brighter and wee bit of blues too.

Name a larger colour space than Adobe RGB. It is Pro Photo RGB.

What can happen to a digital image if you map colours to a really large colour space? Colours will spread out because the same number of tones will spread across larger range of colours. 

I have found quite easy colour space tab in my DSLR camera(2nd tab for camera settings in canon 750D) and changed to Adobe RGB one. I also had no problems to find it on photoshop, apart that it can be switch over in the edit >Assign profile... you can switch it in the edit > Convert to Profile… too.

sRGB colour space image saved in photoshop

Adobe RGB colour space image saved in photoshop

Pro Photo RGB colour space image saved in photoshop

..ways to whiten teeth on photoshop

way 1:

way 2:

skin softening tutorial link: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89AowdLeZUA

final retouch image:

Software review

Aspect ratio is the term used to describe the dimensions (width and height) of your image shown in ratio form. Initially, the aspect ratio of your image is determined by your camera's sensor. Most DSLR camera sensors have a 3:2 aspect ratio which is the same aspect ratio as 35mm film.  Different aspect ratios will produce different types of compositions. For instance, a square, 1:1 aspect ratio tends to produce very balanced, often confined images. A 4:5 or a 3:2 aspect ratio offers a bit more space within the frame. And a 16:9 aspect ratio gives a lot of room for expansion along the image edges. 

Original image chosen to be cropped

 Crop 1, custom, brings the subject closer to viewer

Crop 2, custom, makes partly negative space to disappear  

Crop 3, 4:5 (8:10) 

Contact sheet, a print of all the negatives from the developed roll. Sifting through these negatives, the photographer would pick out the best for further developing and enlargement. The rest of the negatives would be filed or tossed away and rarely seen again. The contact sheet shows the history and the aftermath of that one photo. It shows how they moved about the scene. How they developed the composition from that first frame to the last.

This particular sheet is not the original, but a sort of best guess (based on the developing moment of the subjects) of the order the photos were taken in. The original negative were unnumbered and cut into individuals by Bresson sometime before 1939. To be read like a book, left to right and top to bottom. This scan was taken from one of my all time favourite books, Magnum Contact Sheets (2011).

To create my contact sheets I have used Adobe Lightroom Classic software, I have opened new catalogue in it, marked up 36 from my 37 studio portraits shoots, then went to print tab option on the top right side hand of the page

changed page print set up to PDF

then I have saved up my PDF file with my contact sheets on computer

 There are different HND photography portfolio requirements at colleges around Scotland. City of Glasgow College wants an applicant to provide them with 10-15 strongest images of their own work, those photographs should be optimised in the way is not overedited etc. An applicant should carefully consider the images that are included in his/her portfolio and include a variety of their work.  Fife Dunfermline College does not give any specific information regarding their portfolio requirements, they just ask for photographic portfolio .Kelvin College is pretty the same to Fife College but they may considered applicants with no formal qualifications if their portfolio is of a sufficient standard. 

City of Glasgow College:

https://www.cityofglasgowcollege.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Photography%20Portfolio%20Guidance%2021.pdf

Fife Dunfermline College:

https://www.fife.ac.uk/courses/search-all-courses/HDPHO

Kelvin College Glasgow: 

I really liked drone photography showreels, they are showing so much content as we can see more from above. Showreels can be simple done or can be final effect of a bit more complex production, it depends of what content an owner want to expand onto receiver. There are different platforms to upload showreels presentation, some of them are listed below and not all of them provide an uploader with the same time limit of uploaded video/presentation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND3lgVYfEvw

https://www.instagram.com/p/CJjm6mCgdUW/

 ..that’s the theme I have chosen as topic to create Environmental E-zine.

I think it connects partly to the all UN sustainable development goals but more strictly to goal number 3(good health and well-being), goal number 6(clean water and sanitation) and goal number 8(decent work and economic growth) from the UN goals list given. 

Every success has its beginning, every problem has it too! Get to problem’s point zero, then you will be able to get it solved. Probably our health’s problems are coming from environment and vice versa, our environment’s problems coming from our not too good overall health condition which disturbs us from logical thinking about problems we have on our wonderful planet of the name Earth.

 When we are talking about environment then we are talking about every living organism, every aspect of nature, everything what has been made by people and not only, basically that is every thing around us! What is around us has huge impact on our health therefore is so much important to have healthy environment all the time to keep our organism’s health in good condition. If we could live in much cleaner, more friendly, healthier and more respected environment by us then we all could improve our life style and bring it to much higher level...and yes, it has connection with our health!

When we are talking about health most people thinking about their own health but planet’s health is equally important as yours if you never knew...and yes, planet want to be health too! 

Environment is us and health without healthy environment does not exist as we are one living organism all together people!

 This is why it is so important to me and why it should be important to all of us and whole nature which is us.

Healthier means happier! 

Screen grabs of editing image on photoshop:

  Reportage photography are photographs made the way to express the event/theme they been shoot at/for. Pictures made for reportage photography must be powerful so we can see/feel emotions passed to us from its creator.

   There is a difference between reportage and documentary photography, both need text accompanied with however in reportage the text is crucial, images show the truth behind the opinion expressed in its text, when documentary photography seems to inform, educate and entertain this is why it concentrating on what is foreign, unusual or weird.

   I think reportage/documentary photography is important to society because can discover the truth, educate us and what can make a change if receivers of info make a verification about knowledge they have just picked up and take it seriously to get things positioned on better/proper way to make better future.

   I think every single photograph made is kind of reportage its self...

   Chris Jordan is an American artist, photographer and film producer that made few projects regarding theme I have choice to complete environmental e-zine project. He uses rubbish and mass consumption to create his photographs to tell what is happening because of peoples use of things we produce not the exact way it should be used or recycled. Here is some of his projects his completed: Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption (2003–2006)[3] – A series of large format photographs depicting the magnitude of America's waste and consumption; In Katrina’s Wake: Portraits of Loss from an Unnatural Disaster (2005)[4] – A series of photographs taken in 2005 depicting the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; Running The Numbers I: An American Self Portrait (2006–2009)[5] – A series of photographic mosaics depicting visualizations of statistics related to America's consumerism, social problems, and addictions; Running the Numbers II: Portraits of global mass culture;  Midway: Message from the Gyre (2009–2013)[6][7] is a series of photographs depicting rotting carcasses of baby Laysan albatrosses filled with plastic.

  Chin Leong Teo is the another photographer I have research and got inspired from... he is  an internationally published, multi-award-winning Singaporean photographer. He has won top prizes and has received more than 900 awards in more than 300 international photography projects.  In November 2014, his work was showcased in the Guardian Newspaper in the UK. He was ranked world top 10 in three PSA divisions in PSA Who's Who 2019 List.  In 2020, he won 1st prize in the Nature category of IPA One Shot: Movement Photo Awards, and was also winner in All About Photo Awards and the 80th International Salon of Japan.

   Baby Laysan albatrosses filled with plastic. These birds nest on Midway Atoll and are being fed plastic by their parents, who find floating plastic in the middle of the ocean and mistake it for food. This is a part of an ongoing arts and media project called Midway Journey, which has its own website. Close look up. Ironically Bird eye view point of view been used to shot this image at day light to show health theme and how it gets affected I think, as we can see what that plastic does to those wee bird’s health... makes them die.

Eat less meat

Animals and human begins has a lot of common needs such as breathing, food, water, sex, sleep; security of body, of the family, of property; friendship, family, sexual intimacy. Do you still think that killing animals for any reason is ok? Would you love to be killed for someone's feeding needs? Neither animals want to be... Think about that when next time you will be buying you gammon!! Animals can feel emotions, do you understand that?

Climate change

There is a lot of things that affects our planet climate. This have been caused by many natural factors, including changes in the sun, emissions from volcanoes, variations in Earth's orbit and levels of carbon dioxide but also people through misuse of our planet. We should think how to reduce use of things that may cause change climate for our own benefits. 

Recycling  

We should think what we should do to reduce materials that can be recycled because not all of us fallows the rules regarding recycling which is a sad news  that people don't care about their own home which is Earth because they are thinking that their home is a building they are living in!! Human awareness of what is happening around is still weak.

Renewable energy  

 Better for the environment.  Better for our health.  Energy in abundance.  More control over your own energy.  Cheaper to run.  This should be applied everywhere on our planet to get energy instead of burning up carbon, petrol etc to get energy. 

Environment and health