Wednesday 22 February 2017

Lab 5: Noise Reduction





ISO: 100 
Aperture: f/13
Shutter Speed: 2 sec.
N.R Setting: Low


ISO: 100 
Aperture: f/13
Shutter Speed: 2 sec.
N. R. Setting: Standard


ISO: 100 
Aperture: f/13
Shutter Speed: 2 sec.
N. R. Setting: High


ISO: 100 
Aperture: f/13
Shutter Speed: 3.2 sec.
Long Exp. Noise Reduction: On


ISO: 100 
Aperture: f/13
Shutter Speed: 3.2 sec.
Everything off


ISO: 800
Aperture: f/13
Shutter Speed: 0.3 sec
N.R. Setting: Low


ISO: 800
Aperture: f/13
Shutter Speed: 0.3 sec
N. R. Setting: Standard



ISO: 800
Aperture: f/13
Shutter Speed: 0.3 sec
N. R. Setting: High


ISO: 800
Aperture: f/13
Shutter Speed: 0.5 sec
Long Exp. Noise Reduction: On


ISO: 800
Aperture: f/13
Shutter Speed: 0.6 sec
Everything Off



ISO: 3200
Aperture: f/13
Shutter Speed: 1/8
N. R. Setting: Low



ISO: 3200
Aperture: f/13
Shutter Speed: 1/8
N. R. Setting: Standard


ISO: 3200
Aperture: f/13
Shutter Speed: 1/8
N. R. Setting: High


ISO: 3200
Aperture: f/13
Shutter Speed: 1/6
Long Exp. Noise Reduction: On


ISO: 3200
Aperture: f/13
Shutter Speed: 1/6
Everything Off

When zooming in, we can really see the noise reduction and when you compare the different pictures, you see a difference.  The more the setting of the noise reduction is high, the more soft the picture looks. I would use the camera noise reduction, but I would set it to low or standard so I don't lose much details, I want to have a bigger control on how much noise reduction I want from Lightroom. I think the standard gave the best result in terms of noise reduction and not loosing a lot of details at the same time. 





Wednesday 15 February 2017

Lab 4: White Balance


Library

WB: Auto

WB: Thungsten

WB: Custom

Two Different Colours Light

WB: Auto
With the auto white balance, we can see that it's way less warm than the other two. One part of her face is more on the greenish side and the other is in the warm colours. 

WB: Shade
With the "shade" white balance, the contrast of seeing two different is not as obvious like in the first picture. The entire photo is on the warm colours side.

WB: Fluorescent 
With the fluorescent white balance, we can see more of a contrast between two colours than the middle photograph. The picture is, I would say, more on the magenta-ish side. 

Wrong WB

 WB: Cloudy
Clearly using the "cloudy" white balance in an interior environment is definitely not pretty. It's warmer than it should be. The feel of this picture is (also because of his face expression) something that reminds me of an old action movie. 



Tuesday 14 February 2017

Assignment 1


Sport


Shutter Speed: 1/15 (on tripod)
Aperture: f/10
ISO: 100

The sport picture was the hardest to shoot because I had almost to none ideas of what to take photos of. When I went outside to photograph for the landscape shot, I saw some people cross-country skiing and I thought that it would be interesting to take pictures of. Unfortunately, the only lens I had was a wide-angle one and I didn't want to disturb them trying to take pictures close to them. I wish I had a telephoto with me if I knew because the instructions said "the closer you can get to the action the better." and clearly they are very small. 

Panning


Shutter Speed: 1/8
Aperture: f/16
ISO: 125

After many tries, this shot was the one I think was the best. Panning is a little bit harder than it looks. After taking the shots, I realized that in my pictures the subject was not entirely sharp, I wished that I would have taken more pictures to have a perfectly sharp subject. 

Night scene


Shutter Speed: 30.0 sec
Aperture: f/13
ISO: 400

I took this night photo and I was really happy with it, but I wish that the trailing light made by cars was more in the picture, I feel like it's too at the bottom of the picture. Clearly, the subject is more the trees, so maybe having more of the trailing light would have more respected the instructions of the night image. In addition, I'll say that taking a picture at night and during the winter is really hard because my hands were freezing, not the greatest experience. 

Portrait


Shutter Speed: 1/25 (on tripod)
Aperture: f/1.8
ISO: 800

For the portrait, I wanted to do something different or interesting, so I had the idea of taking the portrait when the sun goes down. I kind of forgot that it's hard to take a portrait at night because there's not much light so it's hard to have a right exposed subject. I tried to light the face with a phone flashlight. Next time, I will remember that maybe taking a portrait when the sun goes down is not the best idea, certainly when you have no artificial light source with you. 

Landscape


Shutter Speed: 1/15 (on tripod)
Aperture: f/18
ISO: 100

Taking a landscape in winter is not the best thing to take pictures of because everything in my opinion is so blend and "the same". I feel like there's not really things interesting about a winter landscape, especially when there's no snow on trees (which I find very beautiful). In addition, it's a pain to take photographs of winter due to the fact that I was so cold during the time I took the photos. I had to take off my gloves to press the button on my camera and also change the settings, so my hands were completely frozen. It's really not a fun experience. 









Wednesday 8 February 2017

Lab 3: Focal Length



Still Life

Lens: 70-100mm
Focal Length: 108mm
Aperture: f/4.5

Lens: 10-18mm
Focal Length: 12mm
Aperture: f/5.0

Lens: 18-55mm
Focal Length: 53mm
Aperture: f/5.6
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Depending on the focal length, the distortion seen in the pictures can be more accentuate. When the focal length is short (like my picture with the 12mm focal length), we can see that the distortion on the edges is more accentuate than the picture with the 53mm focal length, for example. Also a short focal length has more background than the others.

People

Lens: 18-55mm
Focal Length: 41mm

 Lens: 70-300m
Focal Length: 86mm
Lens: 10-18mm
Focal Length: 18mm
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Just like the pictures of still life, we can see that the shorter the focal length is, the more distortion is seen in the images. When you get closer to your subjects, because of the small focal length, their faces gets more distorted than if you take a bigger focal length. The depth of field is bigger depending on how small the focal length is, the background is a bit more sharp in the 18mm focal length photo than the background in the 86mm focal length photo. 

Focal Length & Depth of Field

Lens: 18-55mm
Focal Length: 34mm
Aperture: f/4.5

 Lens: 70-300mm
Focal Length: 100mm
Aperture: f/4.5
Lens: 10-18mm
Focal Length: 10mm
Aperture: f/4.5
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Just like I said previously, the depth of field changes depending on how small the focal length is, meaning that the smaller your focal length is, the more bigger depth of field there is. When the focal length is bigger, the shallower the depth of field is. 

Test Your Lens

 Lens: 18-55mm
Focal Length: 36mm
Aperture: f/8.0
Lens: 18-55mm
Focal Length: 36mm
Aperture: f/11

 Lens: 18-55mm
Focal Length: 26mm
Aperture: f/22
 Lens: 70-300mm
Focal Length: 119mm
Aperture: f/4.0
 Lens: 70-300mm
Focal Length: 119mm
Aperture: f/8.0
 Lens: 10-18mm
Focal Length: 12mm
Aperture: f/5.6
 Lens: 10-18mm
Focal Length: 12mm
Aperture: f/8.0

Lens: 10-18mm
Focal Length: 12mm
Aperture: f/16
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In the photos where I used the 10-18mm lens, we can see at the borders distortion more accentuated. We really can see the borders of the white not being perfectly straight. Also, in the images where I used a focal length of 119mm, when you get really close, it looks like there's more chromatic aberration than the pictures with a focal length of 36mm. 



Wednesday 1 February 2017

Lab 2: Aperture



Still Life


Shutter: 1/60
Aperture: f/2.0
ISO: 200

In this first picture, we can see that the books are not completely sharp, just parts of them. The titles are not entirely in focus, so it gives less informations. With the books not completely in focus, the shallow depth of field gives more importance to certain words of the titles of the books. 


Shutter: 1/15
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 400

In this second picture, there is more depth of field than in the first one, but it's still not entirely sharp. The background is still a little bit blurry. We can see more of the titles of the books, so unlike the first photo, the focus is more on the books themselves rather than just parts of them.   


Shutter: 1/4
Aperture: f/22
ISO: 1600

In this last picture, the depth of filed is definitely larger than the first two. The background is sharper and the books are completely in focus. The feeling, I would say is the same as the second picture. The focus is still on the books.


Portrait


Shutter: 1/160
Aperture: f/1.8
ISO: 500 

In this first portrait, with the shallow depth of field, he focus is entirely on her. It also makes the background less busy than it is. 


Shutter: 1/30
Aperture: f/13
ISO: 4000

In this second portrait, the background is definitely sharper than in the first picture. This time, the focus is not really only on her anymore, the background comes part of the "what to look at" aspect too. Also, with a deeper depth of field, the picture is busier than the first portrait. 

Architecture 


Shutter: 1/60
Aperture: f/10
ISO: 160