Week 4 - Carousel - Photography

Throughout this week on rotation, I developed my knowledge of photography, this includes angles, lighting, shutter speeds and aperture.

When looking at aperture, I found new advanced understanding of cameras and their software. Shutter speed of a camera is an example, this measures how long the shutter is open when the picture is taken. The speed is measured in fractions of seconds; the faster the speed, the less light on the film. Similarly, aperture and f-stops measure the amount of light let in; the higher the f-stop, the less light on the film as well. When exploring motion images, we took images of someone running and changed the f-stop. When it was higher, the image was a lot more clear than when it was lower as the shutter closed faster.

Further exploring aperture, I found that you can change the lens to change the depth of field. The greater the depth was, the larger the range of focus. However, when it was more shallow, the range of focus was smaller and the image becomes more focused in on one point of the image.

We also got to explore the 3 stages of lighting; key, back and filler.