Photography(People)

I took this photo under an incandescent light bulb in my bedroom. If I were to follow the Golden Rule, my face will be at the center; my eyes and one of my ears will be at the intersection of lines.

This is the tranquil surrounding of the SST. The plants seem to make visitors feel calm or perhaps even warm and welcomed into the school. The school is portrayed as a clean one in this picture.

This picture can be split into three by an imaginary line without the towering trees. This picture is something like a panoramic photography. Excluding the school building and the trees, about 1/3 of the photo is filled by bushes, grass, pathway, etc.; in other words, the piece of land we are walking on every single day. The other 2/3 of the picture will be occupied by the building and the azure blue sky.

This is a notice board that can be found on the first floor. I chose to capture this picture as it has reflections and outlines of my classmates and I. This photograph has make use of the Golden Rule.

This creative idea is the brainchild of Shawn, a fellow classmate.

MISCELLANEOUS The most important element to many great photographs is the lighting. Warmth, depth, texture, form, contrast, and color are all dramatically affected by the angle of the sunlight, and thus the time of day. Shooting at the optimum time is often the biggest difference between an 'amateur' and a 'professional' shot. In the early morning and late afternoon, when the sun is low, the light is gold and orange, giving your shot the warmth of a log fire. Professional photographers call these the 'magic hours' and most movies and magazine shots are made during this brief time. It takes extra planning, but saving your photography for one hour after sunrise, or one to two hours before sunset, will add stunning warmth to your shots. Cited from: http://www.photosecrets.com/tips.p05.html

Photography

There are many different types of photography. It can be sports photography, underwater photography, landscape photography, animal photography, aerial photography and portrait landscape, infrared photography, satellite photography, night photography, panoramic photography, etc.

We need cameras, lenses, filters, reflectors and even tripods to get a perfect picture. Aperture is a space which allows light to pass through in an optical or photographic instrument. What is the definition of focus? Why do we need to adjust the focus? Due to the optical properties of photographic lenses, only objects within a limited range of distances from the camera will be reproduced clearly. The process of adjusting this range is known as changing the camera's focus.

The shutter speed is basically the amount of time that the shutter is open. According to a website, in film photography, it is the length of time that the film is exposed to the scene we are photographing. Similarly, in digital photography, shutter speed is the length of time that our image sensor 'sees' the scene we are attempting to capture.

ISO speed stands for International Standards Organisation. It is used to measure the speed of a film. What is Metering all about? Metering is actually a process which involves the camera taking a light level reading from the scene and selecting the appropriate combination of aperture and shutter speed to set the required exposure value.

In photography, the white balance is adjusted so as to get the colors in our images as accurate as possible. As for the three main composition of photography, they are: The Rule Of Thirds, whereby the focus is on two-third of the picture; the Golden Rule, where every intersection must include the key things in the picture into the photograph itself. This will include reflections; the Diagonal Rule, which adds more depth to the picture so that it will not look "flat".

The techniques of photography is very broad so I will list out an example. We can use man-made or natural objects(i.e two rows of trees leading somewhere with a person walking between them) to create a frame for the picture. In this case, the trees will be the frame of the photograph.