Exercises 16 Strength of interpretation.

 taking away the colour using the tone clipping to its extreme , giving each photo from the average exposure . Colour and black and white. A low and high key.

the high key does not work so well in colour , as does it with black and white.
Although colour contrast is stronger and richer. The black and white gives a much more Artistic feel. The low light and lost shadow are not so noticeable. 

Exercises 15 Black and white,

People are very interesting in black and white . This picture taken at the night market of this person hastily securing the rain cover. The stress and struggle is more emphasised when the picture loses the distraction of colour , making the expression more prominent. 

Exercise 14 Interpretative processing.

Taking a picture that is of low dynamic range, Exploiting it to my own taste using the tools for adjustment.

Red Dawn.

Lowering exposure increase black point, A little saturation, less some vibrancy.
less blue and more red tone. (less tint, more temperature).
Colour: Less hue and more colour in red saturation. range Maximum. 

Exercise 13 managing colour

In this exercise, we are looking at colour.

Street light.

1: Very orange sodium light:

The picture here of the closed shop, renders at first, a pale blue tint from the morning light. with a strong  orange light , from the sodium lamp. With simple white balance taken from the tar mack. And some adjustment on exposure , with black point and hue. Much of the tint has beed taken out . This was a quite difficult picture to play with. using a few more tools. 

2:

This was quite easy using the same tools, watching the high light and low tone viewer. High in red, low in blue . Fine adjustment brought back the colour that was lost with the blue tint. Although losing that early morning look. Warms the picture, showing more fall off from the artificial lights.

Exercise 12 Managing tone.

Putting to the test different photographs that i have taken and up loaded to various photo stock agents. I found that some of my work that i had saved is in Tiff, by accident noting the size , not the type of file, most frustrating.  As once you need to up load these on J peg, they lose some quality and also MBs

Raw is most certainly the best file to use and save as Original. In saying this, Reading blogs and other information. there are those who save work in Tiff as archives .  I no not think this is such a good thing unless you  have the the edited version and J peg. Saved as well.

Sample Raw as I am unable to up load raw. I have taken once again. a screen shot of the raw image here. And below the edited g peg produced in aperture 3.

first step was to reduce the exposure , i executed this till the red are was completely gone. I did not that playing with colour tone and white balance reduced this also with out toning down the main image.

Then the mid tone adjustment.

More detail in the clouds and richer colour.










On the final picture here ; I use a little brightness and then sneaked in a little contrast , as after toning down , Mid done adjustment did not do much, The image still looks a little flat.  

Exercise 11 RAW.

For this exercise.I am comparing Raw to J pag. I shoot raw all the time , unless many photographs of an event are required. And the end result does not require allot of post processing.

Required : Set the camera to Raw And J peg.

Take a picture of each: 1 day light , 2 Artificial lighting and 3 high dynamic range.
Open them in the program i use, ; That is aperture 3 .

This is when problems started. At fist . Only Raw photos would dhow. So I looked into the camera setting, All was set right as above. Where are the j pegs ?

I then went into the card. There sat in the file are both raw and J peg.
I imported them again. , Still no showing of both side by side.

I then plaid with the settings. To find they started showing as J peg and no Raw.
I had to convert raw as master file. But still no J peg again. So to the Mac forums I went.
I discovered that when the camera produces both J peg and raw.  Aperture 3 only shows the raw image. Although both have been down loaded.
When producing version from master . there is not much difference.

However , not going into this matter any further.  I opened them from the card file side by side.
Just for the exercise. Raw always looks soft. and lacks colour . Allot more detail is packed together. Looking at the J peg . The image holds colour and a sharper image. with contrast. A little darker too. So the camera has done most of the processing work. i managed to drag the files in Ap3 to view them.

With extreme conditions as High dynamic ranges or other then day light.

Assignment 2 image qualities .

To produce 6 digital images with a common theme .

Each have a different lighting condition.

1 A high dynamic range ( high contrast scene)

2 low dynamic scene (low contrast flat lighting )

3 Low lighting that has a high ISO

4 Mixed lighting conditions , EG day light and incandescent  or florescent and incandescent.

1 A high dynamic range ( high contrast scene)

I played with many of the photographs I took and watched how the Histogram reacted when taking the photographs .by not using the high clipping. The picture would be much more of a high dynamic range.  Contrasty. By getting it right, then in the software I use, being aperture 3 , Its noticeable how exposure and contrast adjustment swings the colours Left to right in the Histogram. 

 Mid day photography here in borneo is more then a challenge not just from washed out colours and contrasting shadows , but the heat. So I have taken these photographs, morning and evening. The histogram when taking in the day tents to peak all over. With so much green or in the city reflected white. Finding an even required scale most certainly gave a challenge.  

In a High contrast picture like this. The colours are spread across the graph. Where as in the low Dynamic range Low contrast, Where colour is not so strong in pastel come faint low exposure. The colours are pushed to the right side of the Histogram. 

Photo 1

To get these photographs . Allot of thought, and balancing of exposure and light. both vies the camera was set on a try pod. I like to use the lower ISO from 100 to 400. 

Tuaran river view of mount Kinabalu Malaysia Borneo. 

Taken 6.09 am ISO 250, F11 1.320 sec. 

How light changes . Same location as above. But the sun hidden behind cloud gave a much brighter whiter image. Where colour is lost in high Key or Flat low dynamic range , the histogram builds up on the right of the scale. If I had taken the picture more to the right or left , including darker foreground , this effect would have been lost. 

 2 Low dynamic scene (low contrast flat lighting ):

Photo 2

Taken 6.26am, ISO125 F32, 1/15th sec 

This next picture , I took to mix morning light and the street lights. Well lets say highway lights , limited as they are . The clouds giving the highs and the road leading into the lows of the dynamic range . So the colours flow across from left to right of the histogram.  little adjustment was needed on contrast and exposure.

3 Low lighting that has a high ISO And a high dynamic range :

Photo 3

Time 6.29 am ISO 400 F9 1/160 sec

3 Low lighting that has a high ISO: Photo 4

Low light with a high ISO   8000  Taken at the Eye Of The World in Shen Zhen View from the Eiffel Tower  China.
Again the histogram is pushing the colours to the right side of the scale. Being a little more peaky. This can be changed, as increasing exposure and and lessing the contrast, Or using the brightness. A scene like this can be adjusted to ones liking  however , As it is it shows the low light, And the bridge lights showing a filtered effect of the Cities haze. Keeping a nice low key tone.

Photo 4

ISO 800 F2.8 1/30th sec. 

4 Mixed lighting conditions , EG day light and incandescent  or florescent and incandescent.  photos 5 and 6.

Mixed lighting from the same view.  day light and the city lights of Shen Zhen.

Here again, the histogram has clearly show the colours moving to the far right.

However , when moving the exposure . The colours do not move so much to the right, but flatten, instead. The sky has become the darker part due to the exposure on the city lights. More to a higher dynamic range. I feel that the sky and the stadium balance , complimenting them selves.

Photo 5

time 7.06 PM ISO 800 F3.5  1.10 sec. 

The hardest part of putting these 6 photographs together. With keeping within a similar theme. Was time , weather , location, And getting the camera setting to coincide with the assignment. Creating a diverse collection of images that fall within the histograms Highs and lows. As many photographs , depending on the colour range. The Dynamic range: Pushes those scales all over the place. peaking left and right. Bunching reds greens and blues . Not just in one place, or even as above. But like the sound scale from a rock band.
Also keeping the mages interesting at the same time.

This actually was my second attempt . As per the resulting comment from my tutor for the fist submission. The picture were taken in to much low light. And the histograms just was not in the right range. So i have completely re done this assignment.

Mixed light 3: Low light , High ISO

I wanted produce new work, unfortunately the lack of transport and weather went agains me. So here I chose another later taken picture I took for this course in Shenzhen.

This is interesting, Being taken later that evening as you can see from the timing.
The sky looks brighter. Reason being , that to produce the correct exposure for the artificial light in the above picture. The sky became darker. This was the difficulty in timing the balance between the day light and artificial light. This photograph has a more even balance of light across the scale. In colour and light.
As 1/3rd of the image is taken by the sky. where as the above photograph . Only about 1/6 the of the sky is included.

with this photograph. I played with the adjustments. If made any darker . Detail would be lost. If lighter the same in the clouds.  Dodging and burning would be required.

Photo 6

Taken at 19.29 pm ISO 800 F 3.5  1/4 sec.  

Over all, these tool help balance, or set a targets of the kind of quality in the image I want to portray. From portraits. Street, pets, wild life and more as I have shown here. From the start when adjusting the camera's settings.  In the camera, noting the histogram This takes allot of the work out in post processing.
And adjustment in post processing s well, Brings the final image to near perfection.  This has made a massive impact on the quality of my photography.