Today we went to Penryn Campus for the first time to undergo a short photography course and to create a mixed media piece using process skills.
Photography:
I didn't think that I would like photography much but I ended up loving it. I enjoyed learning about all the effects one could apply to get the desired picture. I really liked learning about the technical jargon and all about the camera's features.
We learnt about :
Exposure- the amount of light per unit area
Shutterspeed- you can get a motion blur for objects. It is the length of time a camera's shutter is open
Depth of Field- distance between the nearest and the furthest objects
Aperture- the amount of light that reaches the film or image
After we experimented with all of these features and had a short vocal test we went into the digi lab to have an introduction on photo processing and health hazards of sitting in front of the computer for too long
Rules:
Blink
Move
Work Comfortably
Breaks
Saving Files:
JPEG- smaller but it changes your image
Raw file- saves it exactly how is is taken (pixels or ink), you can save it as a TIFF later for printing
Print:
Adobe RGB sees more colour
sRGB- not so many colours but easy to convert for web use
Photoshop:
Adjust in navigator bar
Mixed Media
During the mixed media course we learnt about how we can build our artwork. Basically what we did in the class was create a large mixed media piece using our entire hand. There were no rules with the piece just that in the beginning it had to be utter chaos. We had to use our entire hand to make marks on the page with graphite sticks. Then we were aloud to define certain features that came out at us ie: faces, shapes, objects, animals. Then we had to turn it upside down and find what was coming from the new angle. Then we could keep building on it using different materials.
What I learnt from this exercise is that you have to create a basic skeleton. You can't think about what you already know, just create chaos and extract something useful from it. Then look at it from other sides and angles, then apply your other knowledge from different fields to improve it until you can no longer work at it anymore. The one thing that I did find about this task is that sometimes you can overwork something. I came to a point in the project which was wholly happy with it but kept working on it anyway and ended up making it just a little weaker.
Photography:
I didn't think that I would like photography much but I ended up loving it. I enjoyed learning about all the effects one could apply to get the desired picture. I really liked learning about the technical jargon and all about the camera's features.
We learnt about :
Exposure- the amount of light per unit area
Shutterspeed- you can get a motion blur for objects. It is the length of time a camera's shutter is open
Depth of Field- distance between the nearest and the furthest objects
Aperture- the amount of light that reaches the film or image
After we experimented with all of these features and had a short vocal test we went into the digi lab to have an introduction on photo processing and health hazards of sitting in front of the computer for too long
Rules:
Blink
Move
Work Comfortably
Breaks
Saving Files:
JPEG- smaller but it changes your image
Raw file- saves it exactly how is is taken (pixels or ink), you can save it as a TIFF later for printing
Print:
Adobe RGB sees more colour
sRGB- not so many colours but easy to convert for web use
Photoshop:
Adjust in navigator bar
Mixed Media
During the mixed media course we learnt about how we can build our artwork. Basically what we did in the class was create a large mixed media piece using our entire hand. There were no rules with the piece just that in the beginning it had to be utter chaos. We had to use our entire hand to make marks on the page with graphite sticks. Then we were aloud to define certain features that came out at us ie: faces, shapes, objects, animals. Then we had to turn it upside down and find what was coming from the new angle. Then we could keep building on it using different materials.
What I learnt from this exercise is that you have to create a basic skeleton. You can't think about what you already know, just create chaos and extract something useful from it. Then look at it from other sides and angles, then apply your other knowledge from different fields to improve it until you can no longer work at it anymore. The one thing that I did find about this task is that sometimes you can overwork something. I came to a point in the project which was wholly happy with it but kept working on it anyway and ended up making it just a little weaker.