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This photography was taken by George DeLoache, an American photographer, and often takes pictures of portraits. This is a very interesting picture. It covers, unlike the other images, over half of the man’s body, and is also in black and white. The lighting is very different from other pictures, because it seems like a lighting that goes vertically across his body. I think it is very interesting because the entire picture is very dark except for the middle of the picture vertically. That part has more light and more shadows, which gives a very nice effect.
This image was taken by Carlo Schuller, a German photographer who mostly takes shots of fashionable appeal. In this black and white image, we can see the way in which this photographer has put both hair as light into action. The light is coming from her front left side, which is reflecting on her hair and part of her face, as well as part of her body. This picture was most likely taken as a modelling shot for which the photographer was able to move around with the light on at all times and take the picture with the right lightings on her and on her hair. I really do like this picture because of its ordinary look, and the natural yet posed face and look in her eyes.
This photograph was taken by a man named Bill Schwab, who was born in 1959 in Detroit, Michigan. He is an American photographer who is well known for his emotionally charger but peaceful urban and natural landscapes. He had received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1983 from the Central Michigan University. And has shown many solo exhibitions around the whole of the United States. This image is of an Asian lady, looking into the camera. The use of light is rather peculiar in this image because it is pointing straight at the face, and the back of the image (the wall). It is interesting because only the center of her face has sharp light, the rest looks rather dark still, and is not as strongly emphasized. However, because of this different use of lighting, I think it makes it a special image, and rather interesting too.
On the last print, I was looking at a close-up of the two girls. Sadly, it is not a very sharp close-up. It does still have some distance. This image has the same effect as the previous one with Faith’s glasses. On this picture there is also a reflection of the light, which is rather upsetting. Like I said for last picture I should have asked Faith to take her glasses off. I do however like that Renee is the only one in true focus, because that then focuses more on Renee’s hair, yet have Faith as well in order to evaluate her within the picture as well. This image didn’t need different settings than the other ones either; it also had an aperture of 2.8, and filter 0. Its test strips were started at 65 seconds, like the first print. And then I went up in 10’s until I found the right setting, mainly aperture 2.8, filter 0 and 95 seconds. Then I printed it in large size. Over all I am happy with this image, and like I said, I like that Renee is in focus and Faith is not. Like, she said herself, this image looks like the photographer wants to emphasize on Renee, and have Faith seem a background person. However the contrasts in this image are very clear.
The use of light in this image was by using an umbrella, and we can see a slight reflection of it in her eyes, this was probably because the light intensity was too high, therefore I should be careful next time to put a softer light source. Yet for the light to be intense enough to still be able to get those shades by her neck and under her chin. This image was the second one I printed. As well as the most difficult one to find the settings for. Because I took this image from the same set of negatives, I thought that by starting on the same timing as the previous full print it should be alright. However, it turned out not to be the case. It took me a relatively long time to find the settings because I needed to go higher in time since it was too light. When I reached 145 seconds I found that that was the right setting for this image. Then I printed it on the larger paper. This picture was one taken for the assignment of an image with two subjects, for which I included both Renee and Faith. It is a pretty nice picture, however just like the previous picture, its contrast is not too outstanding, it does still contain a little bit of grey, yet it does still give it a nice effect. I am a little bit upset about the fact that Faith is wearing her glasses because that made a negative effect when it came to the lighting since you can see some of the light reflected on her glasses. However over all, I like this image, the shadows it gives off between the hair and the faces of both of the girls, as well as that shadow Faith’s sleeve creates upon her arm.
Firstly I printed a picture of Renee by herself. This picture was representing the angle shot. I firstly put the negative in the enla
rger, and in order to have only the important part of the picture, I had to move the enlarger up. When I did this, I thought about how the fact that I moved the enlarger upward it would affect the amount of light, and that it would have to be exposed for longer time as well. Therefore, using the same settings as for the printing compositions, except adding more time, I printed the first test strip. When I saw that this was going to be too light, I made another test strip going up in 10’s. I then directly saw the right settings for my final print. Mainly aperture 2.8, filter 0, and 65 seconds. When I got the results for this image, I printed it in the big sized paper (A2 Paper). I was not sure yet how I wanted to fit the picture in. I first did it landscape wise, however this meant there would be too much free space on the sides, therefore the image would not really look very good. So I decided to make it into a portrait. This made the image look a lot less empty for which I like it more. I think it’
s a good image; maybe it is a little bit grey however it gives a nice effect. The shadows in this image are special too, because of the angle shot, for which the light comes from the top; she has a shadow under her chin and by her neck.
Like I said in my diary entry, I was lucky when finding the settings to my images. I was able to recognize that the negatives were very dark, therefore, when I went into the dark room, and I started making test strips to find my the settings of these printing compositions, I knew I needed to start at a rather high time. For this reason, I started with a very open aperture (2.8) and with no filter (0) this way I took away no light from the light source, and I started with 20 seconds going up in 2’s. This test strip had worked out, and the pictures were visual, but the best time of the entire test strip was of the highest, yet I had not quite reached the time. But 32 seconds seemed to be close, so I tried a full test strip at 35 seconds. When I saw that this test strip was clear, I printed all of my negatives at those settings (A. 2.8, F. 0 and 35 secon
ds). When I made the full print, it was rather odd to see that my images were blurry, while on the test strips they were not. I still do not understand the reason for this, since some pictures are in focus and others are not on the same test strips. On these printing compositions however, we are able to see my pictures clearly. And they all seem to be rather good, with good contrasts and regarding the topic for the project they seemed to be good too. However since during the shooting, I did not know what exactly was required for this project, I did not focus too much on these specific details, which is why it was rather hard for me to find a picture (after having shot them) of a close up. However, I did find it.
Light metering is about measuring how much light is entering your camera when taking a picture. There are two ways of doing this: The Reflective meters measure the light that reflects off of the subject. This varies a lot because of the looks of the person, for example, if they are wearing a light shirt it will reflect a lot more light than if they are wearing a dark shirt. Within reflective meters, there exists weighted metering or spot metering. Weighted metering takes a general metering of the entire scene like it is viewed through the camera lens, yet more emphasis is placed on the central part of the image. Then there is also Spot metering focuses on a small portion of that same scene. This lets you measure the amount of contras in different portions to determine the contrast range. Then there is also another way of metering light; Incident light metering. Which measure the light that falls onto the subject. Usually done by using a small white dome on the top of the meter cell. With the incident metering, you need to stand by the subject, and point then white dome at the camera, by which the meter then measures the amount of light falling onto the location and gives you a number.
Flashes:A flash is an apparatus used in photography that directly produces a flash of artificial light at a color temperature of about 5500 K in order to help the illumination of the scene out. These flashes can be used for different reasons, for example to be able to capture a quickly moving object, or to create a different temperature light than the already given light of the area, however mostly, in order to illuminate the scenes that do not enough natural light to be able to p
roperly expose the photograph. Most of the flash units found today are electronic, which have evolved from single-use flash-bulbs as well as flammable powders. In lower-end camera photography, flash units are usually built inside the camera. Whereas a higher-end camera allows for multiple flash units to be mounted through a standardized “accessory mount” bracket (often called a “hot shoe” (this is a mounting point on top of the camera in order to attach the flash unit)). Professional studio photography also uses a special way of flash light by using individual standalone units, which are connected to the camera through a flash synchronization cable, which will therefore allow the flash light to flash when the camera is shooting the picture. This will also allow having only one light-trigger to be attached to the camera, but it can inform other light-triggers and they would all flash. Nowadays, there are different kinds of flash units we can use. Often we use electronic xenon flash lamps. These contain a tube filled with xenon gas, in which electricity of high voltage is being discharged in order to generate an electrical arc which emits a short flash of light. Since 2003, most cameras that are targeted for consumer use have an electronic flash unit built in. Microflashes are also a time of flash unit; these are special, high-voltage flash units designed to give 
of a flash light with an exceptionally quick, sub-microsecond duration. These are mostly used by scientists and engineers when they want to capture a picture of a fast moving object during one of their experiments. There are also flashes especially for modeling, which do not go off at any given point, they maintain on during the entire photo shoot, which is helpful for the photographer because they are then able to know what the lighting is going to look like in each image. The use of the flashes: They are usually used indoors as the main light source when there is not enough natural light to satisfy the shutter speed. A fill flash illuminates a subject close to the camera while using an exposure long enough to capture some background detail. Another technique, is to point the light source up to, either to the ceiling, or to an umbrella which would reflect the light to the object, this is called bounce flashes (which is what we used for this project). This bouncing effect makes the image look more natural than if the light is directed directly to the object. These flashes do have problems. For example, built-in flash units often have a low intensity of the flash. Electronic flashes also have durations that are so short that the shutter speed needs to be used on focal plane shutter cameras. Finally, these flashes also create the red-eye effect. However over all, flashes are very helpful.
During this project, my class used negatives which seemed to be rather different compared to that which we used during previous projects. These negatives are not as see-through as they always used to be. At first I thought it had only happened to my negatives, which therefore could have meant that some light had gotten into the canister, which had therefore exposed the film. However, this same thing occurred to all of my class mates. Yet I was rather lucky when it came to my prints, it took me only three classes to fully print all my pictures in large size. Even though these negatives were less see through, I was still able to print the pictures well, and I did not need to use any filters. My timings were rather high, but I think this is because of the lack of light being able to pass through the negatives themselves, which therefore, even though the aperture was open; I still needed a lot of time. The high number of seconds could also have been because of how high the enlarger had to be put at. We were printing these final prints on A2 paper, which meant that the distance between the light source and the printing paper was farther too, which would mean that some of the light would get lost. Therefore, more time had to be added. But as I said, I was rather lucky, because even though my highest number was 135 seconds, there were students who had to go over 500 seconds. I was also lucky with the speed in which I was able to find my settings. Over all, I think I worked well in the dark room during this project. There was only one major problem which forced me to ask for help; when my enlarger was put at the top, I was not able to focus the image because I could not reach it. However, I got help to focus it.
