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Photography for Multimedia B.Sc. (Hons) Multimedia Computing Media Technologies Photographic Principles

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Photography for Multimedia

B.Sc. (Hons) Multimedia Computing

Media Technologies

Photographic Principles

Agenda

Film types and formats Themes Colour Model Equipment Lighting Developing & Printing Traditional v Digital Photography

B.Sc. (Hons) Multimedia Computing

Media Technologies

Themes Still-life Portrait Landscape Sports Social & Documentary Travel Scientific

B.Sc. (Hons) Multimedia Computing

Media Technologies

Traditional Photography is based on the subtractive Colour synthesis model

Equipment Taking pictures

Cameras (bodies) Lenses Lightmeters Flashguns Motordrives Gadgets (tripods, filters, bags, close-up equipment

Developing pictures Darkroom ( dry and wet equipment) Developing tanks, spools Enlargers ( lenses)

Camera Types Rangefinders Single Lens Reflex (SLR) Twin Lens Reflex Monorail Specialist

Professional cameras:Nikon

Professional cameras:Canon

Professional cameras:Olympus

Professional cameras:Minolta

Professional cameras:Pentax

Medium format cameras

Medium format cameras

Twin Lens Reflex

Large format cameras:(5x4)

Digital accessories

‘Even the most sophisticated camera is just a light-tight box’

Exposure of image on film via light-source Balance of amount of light for a given time Sensitivity of film ( ASA / ISO 100 = standard Amount of light (aperture) Time (shutter speed) Each combination of aperture and shutter speed for a

given film speed ( sensitivity) has a particular exposure value (EV)

Lighting Available light On-camera flash (usually gives red-eye) Off camera flash - diffuse lighting via bouncing Studio flash - multi-flash setup

Traditional v Digital Traditional

larger range currently available less expensive high-end equipment need to support legacy stock image libraries

Digital more accessible by novice users professional equipment very expensive still needs to improve resolution for high quality production

requirements

Developing & Printing (D&P) Darkroom (wet-side)

developing (developer, colour developer, fixing, stablizing, washing)

Darkroom (dry-side) Contact sheets Enlarging image onto photographic paper Producing prints from slides Improving image by ‘dodging’ and ‘burning’ areas of the

image ( like Photoshop)

References

B.Sc. (Hons) Multimedia Computing

Media Technologies

Digital Multimedia 2nd EditionChapman N. Chapman J. Wiley. 2004

http://www.nikon.com http://www.olympus..com http://www.pentax.com http://www.minolta.com http://www.canon.com