Adobe Photoshop is a graphic and picture editing tool. It enables the user to alter, manipulate and create images either from existing photos or found images.
Photoshop CS2 is the package we use here.
Last week in photoshop we learnt to use tools such as:
Marquee Tool ant the Lasso Tool - which enables us to cut out parts of our pictures both tools where effective but lasso tool was better as it lets us cut shapes and curves, it was more precise than the than the marque tool.
The Blur tool - enables us to blur out parts of our pictures and soften the lines where we inserted other layers to our background this helped make the photo look more natural and disguise the use of photo shop on it.
Clone stamp tool - makes a perfect copy of a highlighted part of the image this was useful as i wanted to copy the the helicopters and put more of them on my photoshoped image.
The Hue & saturation option enabled me to blend the images onto the back ground tone.
The Blending Tone Option which blends the background to the foreground it i very quick and easy to use.
Wednesday 29 September 2010
Wednesday 22 September 2010
Basic skills camera work and compositions
Composition:
Photography brings a visual language that is universal in understanding. We must then understand its vocabulary which consists of shapes, textures, patterns, lines, colours, shade of light to dark and sharp to blurry images. Just as we must learn to arrange words in a coherent order in order to make sense when we write or speak, so too must we put visual elements together in an organized manner if our photographs are to convey their meaning clearly and vividly.
Composition means arrangement: the orderly putting together of parts to make a unified whole; composition through a personal, intuitive act. However, there are basic principles that govern the way visual elements behave and interact when you combine them inside the four borders of a photograph. Once we have sharpened our vision and grasped these basic ideas of principles, then we will have the potential for making our photographs more exciting and effective than ever before.
The Rule of Thirds.
One of the most popular 'rules' in photography is the Rule Of Thirds. It is also popular amongst artists.
Imaginary lines a drawn dividing the image into thirds both horizontally and vertically. You put the important things you want to capture along the dividing lines where they cross each other. The stuff which isn't essential to the image is put in the middle or pushed into the corner of the image.
Using the Rule of Thirds helps produce nicely balanced easy on the eye pictures. the rule of thirds can be broken the rules are best used as guidelines. in our scene we Left a bit to much room over the head over our actors it looked as if something was going to hit them over the head.
180 Rule
In our scene we didn't break the 180 degree rule which if broken it makes it look as if the subjects have switched positions.
Continuity Editing
we tired to keep everything in each shot the same to the others so when it comes to edit it together we can Continuity edit well, Continuity editing is the predominant style of editing in narrative cinema and television. The purpose of continuity editing is to smooth over the inherent discontinuity of the editing process and to establish a logical coherence between shot i.e. makes tho editing smooth and scenes look more real.
Mistakes
We made a few mistakes we may have broken the rule of thirds rule slightly by leaving to much room over the heads of our actors.
Our Shoot
In our shoot we used a few industry terms like action, roll film, rolling, cut and lead out.
action tells the actors to start to preform and every one else has to be quite until the director says cut which signifies the end of that shoot.
Roll Film is what the director says to tell the camera men to start filming and wait for the cameras to get up to filming speed when this has happened the film men say Rolling which tells the director that the cameras are able to start filming.
Lead out is the extra bit of filming done after the actors have stopped it is used when the editing is been done.
The Move From Still Camera To Video Camera
I found the move from still camera to video camera easy most the rules still apply like rule of thirds, but the video camera is mostly used on a stable platform like a tripod or dolly unlike a still camera, also on a video camera we have to things like make sure its level and white balance.
The Rule of Thirds.
One of the most popular 'rules' in photography is the Rule Of Thirds. It is also popular amongst artists.
Imaginary lines a drawn dividing the image into thirds both horizontally and vertically. You put the important things you want to capture along the dividing lines where they cross each other. The stuff which isn't essential to the image is put in the middle or pushed into the corner of the image.
Using the Rule of Thirds helps produce nicely balanced easy on the eye pictures. the rule of thirds can be broken the rules are best used as guidelines. in our scene we Left a bit to much room over the head over our actors it looked as if something was going to hit them over the head.
180 Rule
In our scene we didn't break the 180 degree rule which if broken it makes it look as if the subjects have switched positions.
Continuity Editing
we tired to keep everything in each shot the same to the others so when it comes to edit it together we can Continuity edit well, Continuity editing is the predominant style of editing in narrative cinema and television. The purpose of continuity editing is to smooth over the inherent discontinuity of the editing process and to establish a logical coherence between shot i.e. makes tho editing smooth and scenes look more real.
Mistakes
We made a few mistakes we may have broken the rule of thirds rule slightly by leaving to much room over the heads of our actors.
Our Shoot
In our shoot we used a few industry terms like action, roll film, rolling, cut and lead out.
action tells the actors to start to preform and every one else has to be quite until the director says cut which signifies the end of that shoot.
Roll Film is what the director says to tell the camera men to start filming and wait for the cameras to get up to filming speed when this has happened the film men say Rolling which tells the director that the cameras are able to start filming.
Lead out is the extra bit of filming done after the actors have stopped it is used when the editing is been done.
The Move From Still Camera To Video Camera
I found the move from still camera to video camera easy most the rules still apply like rule of thirds, but the video camera is mostly used on a stable platform like a tripod or dolly unlike a still camera, also on a video camera we have to things like make sure its level and white balance.
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