Motion Photography Pictures

Here i have taken a few photos of freeze motion, where there isnt any motion blur, i like the effects of this as it brings out all the detail of the subject

here is one of my brother riding my fathers motorcycle

you can see in the background that some of the trees have a slight blur, this is due to the sweeping effect which has to be performed to create such a shot...


I have also cropped another image to form a letterbox effect, this limits the viewer to very little, this is a good effect and love the contrast of logos

here is another photograph that was taken in Hastings at the boat park, I have captured assorted rubbish bags waving in the sea winds, I have yet to edit this to give higher contrast and more defined areas of motion, for example the wind is very violent as it is by the sea side......

Sam

there is some really good infomation and images here but I would like to see more independant work and more of the images you have taken. You need to show how you reached some of hte outcomes and show creative and innovative ideas.

Have a good week

Mrs B

Short Films

1)  Brian Percival is a British film director, working mainly in television.

He has directedmany films and his nine-minute short About a Girl won the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film and several film festival awards in 2001.

2)  Boy and Bicycle is the first film made by Ridley Scott. The black and white short was made on 16mm film while Scott was a photography student at the Royal College of Art in London in 1962.
Although a very early work - Scott would not direct his first feature for another 15 years - the film is significant in that it features a number of visual elements that would be become motiffs of Scott's work. The film features the cooling towers of the Imperial Chemical Industries works at Billingham. The central element of the Boy and the Bicycle is re-used in Scott's advert for Hovis of the early 1970s. The film features Scott's younger brother Tony as the boy.
Scott secured finance from the British Film Institute to complete the editing and sound in 1965 including a track by John Barry called "Onward Christian Spacemen". Scott wanted to use the existing recording by Barry, but the composer was so impressed by the young film maker he agreed to produce a new recording for the film at limited cost.

3) The Terminal Bar was one of the toughest bars on Manhattan's 8th Street and for 10 years was owned by barman and manager Sheldon Nadelman, who took more than 2500 photos of his customers. This film looks back on the character and history of the bar through Nadelman's personal reflections and provides an interesting account of the changing culture of the city and the ultimate change in the area to be cleaner but perhaps lacking in the character of those times.

Colour - Hue/Saturation

Creating mono toning effects

For this task we chose to edit some photographs in various ways, the first was mono tone effects, for this

we started off with a basic image:

then we applied some basic photoshop tools e.g. below

1.     Open toning image from DVD.

2.     Click on adjustment layer and select Hue/saturation

3.     tick the colorize box (image will instantly be toned)

4.     Move Hue to get the colour you want and saturation to get the required intensity. 

5.     Try 220 and 40 for a blue toned effect

6.     Try 30 30 for a sepia look

7.     To emulate warm tone effect, try toning hue of 20 and then completely de-saturate to get a black and white result.  Gently increase saturation slider until you get the hint of orangey-yellow you require

8.     For cool tone effect, set hue at around 220 and a low saturation figure, around 20.

the result was a great effect:

Increase saturation without blocking out colours

Starting off with a basic image:

adding some simple effects e.g.

1. Open up under-saturated image (saturation.jpg)
2. Ctrl J to make a copy background layer
3. With new top layer active, go to filter, blur, Gaussian blur, enter radius of around 5 pixels.  (the whole image will soften)
4. Change the blending mode by selecting normal in the layers palette and then color (blurred effect will disappear as this allows only the colours to transfer to layer underneath)
5. Ctrl U.  Crank up saturation slider (can go further now) until you get to intensity you like.  Click ok.
   
   The result is a great sharpened image with highlighted tones
   
   
   
   Changing colours of individual items
   
   
   
   Starting off with a basic image:
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   and applying the effects shown below:
   
   
   
   
   
   1. Lasso tool, make a rough selection around phone and postbox
   2. Hit ctrl J and punch into a new layer
   3. Hit ctrl U and in the Hue/sat palette, click Master, select Reds.  Crunch sliders together.
   4. Select left hand eye dropper, click on red colour of postbox.
   5. Move saturation slider to -100.  Holding shift key, click on areas until box turns to grey.
   6. Change colour by moving saturation slider back to centre and then adjust Hue until you’ve got colour you like.