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Welcome back to my blog! It has been a long time between drinks, but I am back and ready to go. It is the first week of Trimester 3, 2021. This trimester I am studying Colour Management and Workflow, and Commercial photography. This week has been an introduction to colour management. We have learnt aboutContinue reading “Colour Management – Module 1”

The egg! This week we learnt about light direction and the difference between hard, soft and diffused light. We took photos of eggs to demonstrate the different effects different light direction causes, and the difference between a direct light source and a diffused one. It is very clear to see the difference between the directContinue reading “Introduction to Light and Lighting – Module 2”

This first module for Light and Lighting has taught me a lot about light. The science behind light, the different types of light; warm, cool, soft, hard, diffused, reflected, and so much more. In activity one I will use what I have learned to describe the light used in a set of images, and howContinue reading “Introduction to Light and Lighting – Module 1”

This week we learnt about planning a photo shoot and we had to create a mood board with ideas for our own photo shoot/story we will do for our final Camera and Capture assessment. I used Canva to create two mood boards, both relating to ‘Isolation’ but I chose two different angles. This first oneContinue reading “Camera and Capture Module 10 – Planning a Photo Shoot”

This week we have been learning about photo essays. We have been learning what makes a good photo essay, the differences between a Narrative and a Thematic photo essay, and we had to do some research on photo essays. The first activity this week was to research photo essays and choose 3 that powerfully tellContinue reading “Camera and Capture Module 9 – Photographic Essays”

For this week’s activity we were to take a series of portraits in direct light (direct sun) and use a 5-in-1 reflector. This activity was a great demonstrator for how to manipulate and control light using reflectors and diffusers. The difference is very noticeable in all four images.

This week we learned about ISO and how it interacts with Aperture and Shutter Speed, and how to use the three together to achieve the desired exposure. This week our tasks were to shoot different scenes at different ISOs and compare the shots. We had to decide what the highest ISO was that still producedContinue reading “Camera and Capture Module 6 – ISO”

This week we learnt a lot about editing in Lightroom. To test our skills we were given a set of images to retouch and/or remove distractions. I used a range of tools in Lightroom to reach the following results including the Histogram, Basic Panel, Tone Curve, Spot Removal Tool, Crop and the Graduated Filter. IContinue reading “Digital Imaging Module 4 – Retouching and Local Adjustments in Lightroom”

This week we were asked to experiment with shutter speed in different ways to get different looks with our images. We had to photograph a moving object with different shutter speeds to freeze and blur motion, photograph a moving object using a technique called ‘panning’, take a long exposure photograph and use long exposure toContinue reading “Camera and Capture Module 5 – Shutter Speed”

This week in Digital Imaging we had to develop a Preset in Lightroom, based on what we have learned about Lightroom over the last two weeks, and then apply it to multiple images. I chose to make a black and white preset. I have learnt so much about Lightroom these past two weeks. I wasContinue reading “Digital Imaging Module 5 – Colour and Black and White Adjustments in Lightroom”