Photography Write-Up: Separation
Photography Write-Up: Separation
The camera I use has been rented from the ERC on a regular basis, and is a Canon 600D or 700D. The photo’s i’ve captured for this project were shot on the standard lens, with a variety of settings. I also often use a mini LED light with a daylight filter in order to create more depth in the shadows in my images, I usually place this somewhere away from the camera in order to create angled shadows instead of images being frontlit.
To start this project, I experimented with different ways of showing separation via photography. I found this quite difficult, as I found that separation is a word which connotes movement and therefore is quite difficult to represent in a 2D form. When I was first researching the …show more content…
I kept photographing broken or breaking things, as well as separations of colour and light across an image. Food was a good subject for showing separation, though I still don’t feel i’ve quite managed it, as there are a lot of layers and weird shapes in vegetables etc. I wanted to show the contrast between the whole vegetables and the separated vegetables. The onion was a very good example of separation due to the myriad of layers, though I found it a little hard to photograph. I would like to try and get some separate layers of onion and back light them, …show more content…
I felt that this related to separation because the viewer is separated from the fish by a thick pane of glass, which is a boundary between two environments which could not physically exist at the same time. Underwater and above water are two very separate modes of being, and aquariums suspend this reality by storing parts of the ocean above ground. The bioluminescent jellyfish were wonderful to photograph, as they were basically self lit! Obviously, flash photography is not allowed in aquariums and it would reflect off the panes of glass anyway, so the fact they were bioluminescent led to some absolutely beautiful photos. I spent a lot of time in the aquarium practicing with using the manual mode on the Canon in order to deal with the low light and no tripod conditions that I was in, learning about how to change my ISO and shutter speed on the fly. In this situation, the shutter speed was the most difficult to tune due to the fact that a lower shutter speed allows more light in but also makes images taken without a tripod rather blurry due to camera shake (and the fact that fish are moving creatures). I found 1/125 (or maybe 1/250) to be most appropriate, but there was a slight tendency to
The camera I use has been rented from the ERC on a regular basis, and is a Canon 600D or 700D. The photo’s i’ve captured for this project were shot on the standard lens, with a variety of settings. I also often use a mini LED light with a daylight filter in order to create more depth in the shadows in my images, I usually place this somewhere away from the camera in order to create angled shadows instead of images being frontlit.
To start this project, I experimented with different ways of showing separation via photography. I found this quite difficult, as I found that separation is a word which connotes movement and therefore is quite difficult to represent in a 2D form. When I was first researching the …show more content…
I kept photographing broken or breaking things, as well as separations of colour and light across an image. Food was a good subject for showing separation, though I still don’t feel i’ve quite managed it, as there are a lot of layers and weird shapes in vegetables etc. I wanted to show the contrast between the whole vegetables and the separated vegetables. The onion was a very good example of separation due to the myriad of layers, though I found it a little hard to photograph. I would like to try and get some separate layers of onion and back light them, …show more content…
I felt that this related to separation because the viewer is separated from the fish by a thick pane of glass, which is a boundary between two environments which could not physically exist at the same time. Underwater and above water are two very separate modes of being, and aquariums suspend this reality by storing parts of the ocean above ground. The bioluminescent jellyfish were wonderful to photograph, as they were basically self lit! Obviously, flash photography is not allowed in aquariums and it would reflect off the panes of glass anyway, so the fact they were bioluminescent led to some absolutely beautiful photos. I spent a lot of time in the aquarium practicing with using the manual mode on the Canon in order to deal with the low light and no tripod conditions that I was in, learning about how to change my ISO and shutter speed on the fly. In this situation, the shutter speed was the most difficult to tune due to the fact that a lower shutter speed allows more light in but also makes images taken without a tripod rather blurry due to camera shake (and the fact that fish are moving creatures). I found 1/125 (or maybe 1/250) to be most appropriate, but there was a slight tendency to