Digital Photography & Imaging: Week 5

1/5/2023 (Week 5)

Seh Zi Qi/ 0355872/ Bachelor of Design(Honours) in Creative Media

Module Name: Digital Photography & Imaging 

Week 5

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LIST

Weekly Lectures & Major Projects

Lecture

Tutorial

Practical

Reflection

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LECTURE

[Week 5 - Lecture]

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Introduction to Composition

Exposure Setting:

• The amount of light which reaches your camera sensor or film.

Main parts of a camera:

• Camera body: Shutter, Imager Sensor & LCD Sensor
• Camera Lens: Aperture/Iris

Iris/Aperture:

• Control the flow of light entering the lens.
• Measured by f-stop, indicated by the sequence of f-number(f/1, f/1.4, f/2, etc.)
• The lower the f-number, the larger the lens opening.

Shutter:

• A small plastic sheet that opens and closes to allow light onto the film or prevent light from reaching the film.

Shutter Speed:

• Speed that is measured in seconds(1/1000 s, 1/500 s, 1/250 s, etc.)
• Different speeds like fast, medium and slow.

ISO:

• Originally referred to the sensitivity of film - "light gathering" abilities; digitally, it refers to the sensitivity - the signal gain - of the camera's sensor.
• Common ISO camera settings are 100, 200, 400, 640, 800, etc.
• The lower number the ISO, the less sensitive your camera is to light and the finer the grain.

Lens Perspective:

• Different lenses: Wide angle, standard and tele.
• Different lenses are designed for different purposes and can be categorised by Focal Length.

Focal Length:

• The shorter the focal length, the wider the angle of view and vice versa.
• The measurement(in millimetres) from the optical centre of a camera lens to the camera's sensor.

Depth of Field:

• The proportion of the image that is reasonably sharp and in focus.
• The smaller the aperture you use, the greater the depth of field.

Wide Angle Lens:

• Ideal for fitting a large area into your frame.
• Especially useful for landscape or street photography
• Almost everything is in focus unless the subject is very close to the lens.

Standard Lens:

• Offer a fairly accurate representation of what the human eye sees, both in terms of visual angle and perspective.
• Images taken with these lenses are perceived as more natural than those taken with other types of camera lenses.

Tele Lens:

• Great for isolating a subject that is far away.
• Allows you to photograph subjects from a distance thanks to their magnification.

DSLR VS Smartphone:

Pros:

• Familiar with device
• Good quality
• Easy to learn

Cons:

• Still limited
• Good but not great
• Non-ergonomic shape

DSLR cameras are designed to capture images, and phones are meant to carry out a multitude of functions.

Phone cameras are very limited by size, entry-level DSLRs have much larger lenses and sensors than mobile phones do.

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TUTORIAL

[How you can make a DIY photography studio at home - Video Reference]

[Digital Imaging Exercise 1: Heart Mansion Breakdown]

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Tutorial Briefing

1. Watch the video provided
2. Demo Shazam exercise

Shazam Exercise: 

For the tutorial, we were given a demo video to use to create the Shazam exercise as a practised outcome to test our knowledge.

Fig 1.1, Process of Shazam exercise

Practised Outcome

Fig 1.2, Practised Outcome of Shazam exercise

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PRACTICAL

[Digital Imaging Exercise 1: Heart Mansion Breakdown]

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Practical Briefing

Using the same demo video, we need to create our own version of the Shazam exercise we did for our final outcome.

Fig 2.1, Process of final outcome

FINAL Outcome for Heart Mansion

Fig 2.2, Final outcome of Heart Mansion

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MyTiger Values SDG (Research)

We were briefed about the Project 2B poster design that we had to create for the competition. The SDG I chose was Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production.

I needed to study and gather all the related information about my topic and write a summary of said topic to get a better understanding towards what I needed to create. So I started off by finding inspiration from Pinterest and gathered 3 posters that I felt were right or connected to my topic. Once I was done with that, I went ahead with summarising what I found.

Fig 3.1, Mood board for MyTiger Values research

Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production:

This SDG aims to ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns. It acknowledges that while the earth has abundant natural resources, they have been irresponsibly exploited, leading to excessive consumption. To address this, we need to emphasise the need to adopt sustainable practices for both consumption and production. This highlights the importance of reversing the harm caused to the planet by learning how to responsibly use and produce resources in a sustainable manner.

The targets include:

1. Implement the 10-year sustainable consumption and production framework. 

2. Sustainable management and use of natural resources.

3. Halve global per capita food waste.

4. Responsible management of chemicals and waste.

5. Substantially reduce waste generation. 

6. Encourage companies to adopt sustainable practices and sustainability reporting.

7. Promote sustainable public procurement practices.

8. Promote a universal understanding of sustainable lifestyles. 

9. Support developing countries’ scientific and technological capacity for sustainable consumption and production.

10. Develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable tourism.

11. Remove market distortion that encourages wasteful consumption.

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REFLECTION

This week's exercise was a fun but challenging one, I didn't think I would be in the outcome of the Heart Mansion exercise but it was a pleasant surprise. I was also able to learn quite a lot about cameras and the different types of lenses it can have which can also produce different results. I may invest in a budget-friendly DSLR in the future with this new information obtained!