Snow photos

I took some photos in the snow weather and so I decided to upload them.

Decaying photos task

We had to take photos of decaying things.

I took a photo of a mouldy orange that we were about to throw out. The lighting in the kitchen was bad s i used the torch on my phone to create a light coming from the side. I liked that the reflection of the orange showed in the counter:

I took a photo of the flower petals that had fallen. I sat the camera on top of the piano so i wouldn't shake and made the fallen petals in focus:

I took a picture of the same petals but this time I changed the shutter speed so that it was longer. This made more light go into the camera meaning there was more light showing in the picture of the petals:

Film Cameras (Single-lens reflex camera)

Film cameras are cameras that have a role of film inside of them that are used to take the photos. They come in a variety of sizes and types although the most common is the 35mm single-lens reflex camera (SLR). It is popular as it is inexpensive and is of a good quality.

This type of camera uses mirrors so that what the photographer sees through the viewfinder is what the lens sees. this means that the photographer is seeing exactly what the photo would be like. When the photograph is taken the mirrors then flip up so that the film is then exposed to the light entering the lens. This takes the photograph.

The shutter is always closed until the shutter release button us pressed, this means that the film is kept light-tight and so is not damaged. The SLR can also use changeable camera lenses so that photos can be taken at various distances, zooms and angles. It is one of the few camera that have complete interchangeable lenses.

Once the film is complete, it must be processed. This takes place in a dark room and must have the correct solutions and conditions for it to work properly. The photographs can only be seen once the whole film has been exposed and processed.

I think this would be bad as it would be hard to know if you've taken a good picture or not as you cannot see the photographs. It could also be hard to get the mix of things in the dark room completely correct for the photographs to be processed right. However, it would be a good camera for beginners as they would have a range of lenses that do different things that they could try out.

 

SLR camera:

 

 

 

SLR camera and film roll:

 

 

Dark room:

 

 

http://www.guidetofilmphotography.com/35mm-film-camera.html

12 days of christmas task

 

We had to take pictures of the 12 days of Christmas for out homework task. We could interpret it in any way that we wanted.

 

For " A partridge in a pear tree " , I took a picture of a pear. I put the torch on my phone and held it up so there was a shadow created by the pear to make the image more interesting:

 

 

For "two turtle doves" I took a picture of my sisters 2 toy turtles and a dove product that I had. I used the torch on my phone to create light and shadows within the image:

 

 

For " three French hens " I took a picture of 3 eggs that I had with a moustache that seemed like a stereotypical French guy moustache. I used the torch on my phone to create a cool shadow of the eggs and moustache:

 

 

For " four calling birds " I took a picture of my phone getting a call from 'ma bird'. To take this, it took a while as the phone kept ringing out and it was difficult to get the phone and writing not blurry:

 

 

For "five gold rings" I took a picture of a gold ring of tape on my hand in the shape of a number 5. I took it against my mirror so that my Christmas hat and decorations can be seen:

 

 

For "six geese a laying" I took my duck cuddly toy (as I didn't have a goose toy) and put it in between the doors of the mirrors in my mum's bedroom. I made it so there was 6 geese as the song says:

 



 

For "seven swans a swimming" I made an origami swan and put it in between the doors of the mirrors in my mum's bedroom. I made it so there was 7 swans, I likes the shadows around the edges:

 

 

For "eight maids a milking" I took a picture of a toy cow in between the mirrors, I made sure that there were 8 in the picture, it was difficult to take the picture as the doors had to be held whilst I tried to take the picture:

 

 

For "nine ladies dancing" I took a picture of my toy ballerina, I didn't take a picture of 9 reflections because I didn't realise it was the wrong number until I uploaded it to my computer. This one isn't my favourite picture because I think that the ballerina could have been more visible:

 

For "ten lord's a leaping" I took a picture of a gold Christmas crown. I made sure that there were 10 crows visible in the reflections. I tried to make the focus on the first crown:

 



 

For "eleven pipers piping" I took a picture of the wooden tube in the wrapping paper, this is because it was the closest thing to a pipe that I could find in my house. I took the picture from above to make sure that all 11 could be seen. I liked that the reflections could be seen by the mirrors:

 

 

 For "twelve drummers drumming" I took a picture of a drum my sister had. This was the hardest picture to take as it was the hardest angle to hold the mirror doors at. I liked the shadows made from the door in each of the reflections: