Unit 8: Photography

To take this shot, I lowered the shutter speed on the camera to 6 seconds which allowed me to capture the light trails of the cars below. A low shutter speed allowed a longer exposure which meant the light in the shot was in for a long time therefore resulting in the stretched light effect. This shot to be taken at night because car lights had to be on and to capture true light trails it had to be dark. To take this shot of the Church in Doncaster town center, I went to the top of French gate where there is car park you can see out from and I positioned my camera portrait to ensure that the Church is the only thing I am capturing in my shot as that is the focal point of my image.  I took this shot as a low angle shot to make the tree look large which showcases the size of nature. I also included the bench to the right of the image which follows the golden ratio rule a technique in photography that shows that my images are professional standard.  In this shot, it follows the sy...

When I finished my shoot, I imported over 200 images into Adobe Lightroom so I figured it would be useful to go through each photo and give it a star rating out of 5 which is a useful feature on Lightroom. This would helpful decide which are my best shots and which ones didn’t really work out. This will make life easier later on as when I go to edit my images, they will be ranked best to worst so I don’t have to go searching through 200+ images to find the ones I want to edit and work with. The images rated 5 star will be ones that I edit as they showcase my photography skills best and fit the brief of ‘Beautiful Doncaster’. My 5 star images a believe are professional standard photos and anything lower than 5 star I don't think is worth editing as I can do better. My 4 star images a still good images but they are not at the standard for my brief or for quality photography  These are my best images rated 5 star. These are my worst images rated 1 star.

For this post, I will explain what metadata is and the information it gives. I will then discuss the difference between two types of metadata which is EXIF and IPTC data. After explaining this, I will showcase the metadata on the photos that I taken.  Metadata in photography is information that tells you about the data in an image. This can be information the location of the photo, the size of the photo and the rights owner to that photo. This information can be filled in manually or by automatically by the software that you put the data in. Metadata is used as it is a way to easily access information about image such as copyright so people know who they can contact if they want to use the image for themselves. EXIF stands for Exchangeable Image File Format and this is metadata that tells you more about the technical details with a photo taken on a camera. More specifically, this is camera settings such as aperture, ISO and shutter speed. However, IPTC stands for International Pres...

After completing my shoot and importing my photos into Lightroom, I was required to edit my images to make them better than they are. When editing my images I used a brush tool to put a mask to cover a specific area for me to change the appearance. Once he mask is covering the correct part of the image I will then adjust the settings to the right of the screen. These settings can be for example the exposure, the shadows and the blacks with the whites. These settings will change the brightness of the image and how much certain parts stand out from the rest.  The top image is the original image and the bottom image is what I did to edit in Lightroom. As you can see I edited this image to make it look like of a evening shot. I achieved by using the brush tool to go over everything except the windows and I changed settings such as saturation and temperature as well as increasing or decreasing the blacks, the whites and the shadows in the image. This made the walls look as if the sun is...

I shot this image from above a motorway on top of a bridge in Hatfield, Doncaster. In this mage you can see the light trails I managed to incorporate which are the lights on the cars. To achieve this I lowered the shutter speed to 6 seconds and waited for to pass below. This meant that it took 6 seconds for the image to taken so it stretched out the light from the cars.  This is a low angle shot of a tree and bench in Sandall Park. By taking this photo from a low angle, it makes the tree look large and clearly shows it his the main focal point of the shot. In addition, I managed to get a bench to the right of the tree which follows the golden ration rule as it is not dead center of the image. This image highlights the combination of nature and mankind's creations.  For the image shown in Adobe Lightroom, this is a portrait shot of the Church in Doncaster town center. By taking a portrait shot, it shows that the Church is main focus of my image. To edit this image, I will maybe...

To shoot some of my shots I will need to change some of the settings on my camera to make sure that my photos are at a professional standard. The settings I will need to adjust is the aperture, shutter speed and settings so that I can make my image black and white when I shoot outside the church. Changing the aperture on the camera will either increase the size of hole in your camera lens or shrink it. By increasing the hole, more light is let into shot and by shrinking the hole, less light is allowed in therefore creating a darker shot. Below are some of the best images that I took unedited: