career photography notes

FOOD photography.

• three types of food photography: packaging, editorial, and advertising.
• packaging
• most technical and tedious
• every detail counts
• show food realistically so people will buy
• editorial
• not as much about detail as the other types of food photography.
• more about the "wow factor" of food.
• advertising
• less tedious than pckaging, but more tedious than editorial.
• photographers have their own specific way they want a shot to be staged or set up.
• an artist draws what the picture should look like and photographer takes a picture as close to the drawing as possible.
• the angles you shoot the picture at are very important
• make sure everything is in focus and you show some texture if any
• team
• photographer
• photographer assistant
• prop stylist
• assistant prop stylist
• client
• client's client
• client's boss
• and many more.

MERCY DAY PHOTOS

photojournalism

This picture of the firemen was taken during the San Bruno fire/ explosion last Thursday. It portrays how big the flames were with proportion to the firefighters. Though the firefighters are the main objects in the image, they are not very visible, drawing your eyes to the enourmous flames.

http://media.nola.com/news_impact/photo/san-bruno-firejpg-b30658251c5e86a4_large.jpg

This picture was taken during the 49ers vs. the Seattle Seahawks game on September 12, 2010. It shows one of the 49er players getting tackled, giving the person veiwing this photo that they were not doing so well during the game.

http://prod.static.seahawks.clubs.nfl.com/assets/images/imported/zip/2009/09-September/49ers/_RM11421--nfl_large_580_1000.jpg

This picture was taken by  David Bathgate. It portrays the emotions of the soldiers that are fighting in the war, but doesnt tell you why they are feeling the way they are. David says, "Viewing the world through photojournalistic eyes means more than taking the occasional snapshot. It involves a deeper look to uncover the facts and then present them in an informative and creative way."

http://old.thecompellingimage.com/image/src/7/8/87/large/Photojournalism_002.jpg

I do not know who took this picture, but it really stood out to me because wedding days are normally the most exciting day of a woman's life, but in this picture, the woman looks very relaxed, like it is no big deal.

http://www.charlotteleonard.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/61e7f_one-of-my-best-photojournalism-photos-from-the-wedding-day.jpg

This picture was taken by Jake LeBoeuf. You dont know nexactly where this picture was taken but you can guess according to the clothes the children are wearing and the way the children look. It definitely portrays a lot of their culture through the clothing.

http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles/73327/projects/92468/733271210876134.jpg

group photography

i took this photo in the driveway by the chapel at school. i chose this specific space to take a picture of because i really likes the stones on the floor next to the stone wall with the green leaves on it. i also really like the angle of that the driveway makes.

favorite photos from elements & principles project

emphasis

rule of thirds

space

variety

value

journal notes pgs. 60 - 65

This picture shows an example of both a long EXPOSURE to light and a slow SHUTTER SPEED. The long exposure to light allowed more light to pass through the camera and capture the lights of the cars passing by as the shutter reamined open. As you can see, everything in the picture is still in focus and sharp, meaning there was absolutely no CAMERA MOVEMENT invlolved. in addition, the photographer may have changed the FILM SPEED, using a higher ISO SETTING to make the camera more sensitive to the light. http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Photography/Images/POD/s/street-light-exposure-florida-93001-xl.jpg

These pictures were taken my a professional photographer named Diana who worked at the resort we were staying at while my mom and I were on vacation in Cancun last spring break. the picture at the top shows that she used a small APERTURE (large F-STOP) in order to get a larger DEPTH OF FIELD, keeping everything in the picture in focus. But, in the picture at the bottom, she used a wide aperture, decreasing the depth of field, only keeping me in focus.

journal notes pgs. 36 - 48

DIRECT & INDIRECT LIGHTING - the first image shows the conept of indirect light because the source of light, which is the sun, has no specific place where to direct its light to. the picture at the bottom is an example of using direct light because the room was pitch black when i took the picture and i had to use my flash directed at the floers in order for them to show up in the picture.

TIMING - i took this picture while we were driving on the Golden Gate Bridge and i had to time the shot perfectly to take the picture right when a person was walking by in order to show the concept of motion.

VIEWPOINT - (top) for this picture i used a wide-angle lens. my goal was to make her look as big as the windmill behinds her, so i knelt down and got closer to her until she was fully int he shot, head to toe.
(bottom) for this photo i changed my lens to the bigger one and walked far away, maybe about 20 feet and got the same shot of her, but with less of hte background, makign her look smaller than in the first picture.

PROPORTION - my cousin, on the left in the white shirt, is acutally only 4.9 feet tall, but next to her boyfriend's daughter, she looks a lot taller than she really is.

EMPHASIS - when taking this picture, i used my big lens to keep the emphasis on the flower. I used flasd and a wide aperture, creating a smaller depth of field so that the sharpest part of the image would be the flower.

MOVEMENT & RHYTHM - i took this picture facing the back window of the car when we were driving inside a tunnel. i slowed down my shutter speed so that more of the light could come in as we moved and tried to keep as still as possible.

UNITY & VARIETY - the picture at the top shows unity because o fthe unifed textures and colors on the mountain. however, the picture at the bottom shows a different variety of colors inthe flowers and leaves.


BALANCE!

SYMMETRICAL BALABCE - this car is completely proportional on both sides to i decided to take a picture of it. i used a wide-angle lense and went farther and farther away from the car until i evenly got both sides of the car into my shot.

ASYMMETRICAL BALACE USING THE RULE OF THIRDS - i took this picture while my cousin was walking up to the wall to see the graffiti. it shows the rule of thrids because she is standing in the far right third of the shot.

RADIAL BALANCE - this picture portrays radial balance because the petals all radiate from the center of the flower.

journal notes pgs. 27 - 35

LINE - this is a picture that i took for a photography assignment. we were to take pictures of lines, so while i was waiting after a calculus test i decided to take a picture of my pen, which is a line. i used the macro setting on my camera and got as close as i could to the pen as possible at this angle, blurring the background.

SHAPE & FORM - i took this picture while i was out eating dinner with my family. my cousins boyfriend is a photographer and was giving me some pointers and i decided to test them out. i got as close as possible where i can get the objects in focus and used the flash to get the shape of the salt & pepper shackers.

COLOR - this is a picture that i took for our photo quiz. i thought the light was hitting the flower and leaves perfect so i had to take a picture of it. i used the color accent setting to make everything black and white except for the light purple flower.

PRIMARY &SECONDARY COLORS - i also took this picture for our photo quiz but chose not to turn it in because i liked the picture above for color better. i think it's a good example of primary & secondary colors because you can see that the pink/red color inthe primary color & the greens that are blurred in the background are the secondary colors.

VALUE -during my day long photography session with my cousin's boyfriend, he taught me how to measure the light from the outside and from the inside and make them balance. when i took the picture focusing on thre window, everything in the car was very dark, and when i focused on the inside the window was over exposed. so, i used a small aperture so more of the shot was focused and metered the light from the window and focused on the dashboard and got a perfect shot. this picture was originally black and white, i did not photoshop it.

SPACE - in this picture, the object is the positive spane and the black background is the negative space. i used my big lense and stood about 5 feet away where i could get the object in focus and a little bit of the texture of the background and used my flash to get the reflection of the object.

TEXTURE - i took this picture for our photo quiz. i loved how the lighting was in this area and immediately thought of taking a picture of the texture of the leaves.

PATTERN - i also took this picture for our photo quiz. it was originally supposed to be of the texture of the brick wall but i decided to use it for pattern instead. i used the macro setting to get the texture of the brick.

SUNPRINTS!

AFTER

BEFORE

line, shape, & form