#block one

SEEING THE LIGHT PHOTOS 

Block 1 (1101 & 1102), Day 2 (5.10.17):

7:30am. Day 2 of 15 on Block 1 (eps 1101, 1102) has begun. 5 scenes today from 1101, all will be good. The sun rose at 5:54am.

If you have a baby the grandparents tend to visit, no? Megan Follows returns to Heartland as Lily. [Click for photo]

A shot being set up this morning. Don't squint; those are not cast members in the photo. [Click for photo]

Our guy named Ty was on set yesterday but I didn't get a photo then (Bad BW!). This makes up for it, no? [Click for photo]

Director Grant Harvey watches the sky as all wait for a noisy plane to clear out so filming can resume. [Click for photo]

There may be filming going on, But if it doesn't include Shaun is Heartland even back on track? All good! [Click for photo]

Escondido - the new horse playing Flame - gets used to a boom mike, held by boom operator Les Pahl. [Click for photo]

Here's generally where horses relax at the ranch when they are not being used in a scene. [Click for photo]  

OOPs Project Task

The idea of this was to take a bad photograph using as many of the wrong techniques as you could think of. After shooting the image we were then to open it up in Photoshop and edit it badly as well and complete a checklist spreadsheet to tick off what you did and did not manage to do. This was actually quite harder than expected as you can always take bad photographs but when you are actually expected to produce a bad one it can be tricky. My group decided to go for a couple of different bad techniques for our photo in the shooting stage, these included; 

A very slow shutter speed while hand holding the camera

Over exposed and out of focus

A bad composition/angle for a portrait photo 

People walking into the frame, i.e a distracting background.

Wrong white balance

Wrong ISO

Then for the editing stage we decided to edit it to make it look even more worse, to do this we done a various different things, including; 

Increased the colour saturation and vibrance right up so the colour was totally off

Increased the contrast to a high amount as well

Clean White Portraits Practice Shoot

In class we got together again to discuss all of our final who am I triptych canvas’ as well as our best clean white portrait. Once again I found this really helpful as I got feedback and suggestions from my class mates and lecturer which is always good as its someone else’s opinion which always helps. It was also good too see everyone else’s work and it all coming together. I got some really good feedback from my photos as well as suggestions on what I could do to make them better which I instantly took note off and followed through with this. 

Triptych Canvas - I got some nice comments on my final triptych from my classmates saying they liked it and that the colours matched which is of course what I really wanted. They also said I should swap my location and object photo around as it was originally the shot of my wellies in the middle and landscape at the end however they said it would be good to put the wellies at the bottom as it would act as ‘stop’ for my canvas as it sort of ends the sequence in a nice but subtle way. I decided to do this to see what it would be like and i’m really glad I did as it does actually look much better so I am glad it was suggested to me. I am now happy with this canvas and feel its completed and ready to be printed. 

CLEAN WHITE PORTRAITS FIRST ATTEMPT, MY BEST 10 (EDITED)

Converting clean clean white portraits into black and white using bridge and Photoshop. 

In our imaging class mark showed us the best way to convert our raw clean white portrait files into black and white without loosing as many details and data. I tried this out and although it took a while to go through all the steps and stages I feel it did help a lot and was worth it as before all I was doing was decreasing the saturation and vibrancy levels on bridge (oops) so I will definitely be using this process more often. This is how I done it. 

Camera Raw (Bridge) > Optimise (Bottom of screen) > Preferences > 16 Bit > Open> Photoshop > Create a new background copy layer. 

Make this into a ‘Smart Object’  (Layer, Smart Object)

Then go to Filter, Then Camera Raw Filter, This will open up camera raw where you select convert to grey scale and can adjust the levels until you are happy with how the photo looks (Can double click to make any further changes)

Then go to adjustment layers and select curves. Using the pipette icon with the white bottom, click the darkest part of the white background in your image, this will fix the background for you and make it all completely white. 

Using the brush tool using a white as the colour, paint over your background to the points you feel it needs it just to make sure its all white - ensure the hardness is at 0 and you have a lower opacity.

Now for the dodging/burning, to do this make a blank new layer, then go to Edit, Fill and set it at 50% grey with the mode on normal. Remember to highlight the eyes to make them brighter and better.