Research Development.

This is the out line of the paper and it will develop over the coming weeks.

So the break down of the topic will be like this.

1. Intro to the documentary
2. What is the Industry that i will work in.Who are the main Photographers in this field.?
3. Who is your inspiration and technically and conceptually?( Give a critical analysis and example of work. this will be a in depth analysis.
4. How is your work historically contextualised/
5. What has been your work in process, Techniques, mistakes and Set up and and idea and sketches.
6. How Im I going to market my self as a photographer and what plans do i have for the end of year exhibition.
7. What is your market plan.

food shot

Break Down

Check list

• Camera/lens/battery


• Laptop/Leads


• Food pumpkin
  
• Fish tank


• Book studio/ three lights /2xP70 with grids / large soft box on boom/small soft box.


• Bucket


• Towels


• Sketch of lighting diagram


• Tripod
  
• Reflector/black card/white card


• Cardboard box cut out for dropping control
  
• Diffuser
  

This was a three light set up.

The light where run from the Bro pack Grafitt A4

There was a large soft box at the back of the fish tank for a white background. The back ground changed through the shot form black to white and then to a spot light( P70 with medium grid) was shoot through a diffuser to have spot light on the back ground. this gave me three different results

the fish tank was 3/4 filled with water and there was a a small soft box on the right hand side of the tank. the third light was to light up the pumpkin as it hit the water. so it was of to the left of the fish tank back around a 2meters this light had a P70 reflector on in with a medium honey comb grid.

I was photographing on a canon with 70-200 lens at 135mm ISO 200, at f8-1/125. this was being tethered in to light room 3.

Problems

Problem with this shoot was the main one that was getting the pumpkin sharp and in focus. so i built a drop hole that would sit on top of the fish tank and the pumpkin would be dropped in the same place every time.The other problem was that i need to have at the shortest flash duration that I could get this would all so help with the sharpness and of the images. that is why i used the Bron pack Griffit A4 has the short flash duration out of all the pack i had to chose from. Also all three light where plugged in to the one pack that help bring down the flash duration as well. the other thing was that cleaning the glass after every shoot was a pain in the bum.

Over all i would say that im very pleased with the shoot that where produces out of the camera. But with a little work in the post i would have to say that this was a successful photo shoot.

Thanks to my assistant Jess.

Portraits

having some fun with the lights .

Canberra Architecture

This is some more Architecture image that I have taken to add to my portfolio. These where shoot in the afternoon at around 3.30pm on a clouded day. There are two building that are in shoot the first is on wenthworth avenue In Kingston the other is on Marcus Clark street in the city. The Kingston building is a newly built in the pass two to three year old the shoot are detail of the front side of the building they where shoot on Canon

24-70 lens ISO 200, f5.6-1/125

This image was shot from a distant with a long lens and with an over cast weather and the sun was setting in the distant, leaving the glow on the windows of the building and a mid gray sky.

• Canon
• ISO 200
• 200mm
• f16-1sec

In Focus: Remembering Julius Shulman, 1910-2009 - South Bay Magazine - September-October 2009 - Manhattan Beach, California

In Focus: Remembering Julius Shulman, 1910-2009 - South Bay Magazine - September-October 2009 - Manhattan Beach, California

Julius Shulam

Julius Shulman was the inverter of the oasis life style, that was know and dreamed about in the 20Th century,through this Architecture photography. He got his frist brack with and Acrhitect by the name of Richard Nerutra and where he got to no other Architect, like, Rudolf Schindler, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gregory Ain, Charles Eames, Raphael Soriano, John Lautner, Eero Saarinen, Albert Frey, Pierre Koenig, Harwell Harris, and many more.

Together Shulman and the Acrhitect revolutionized the idealistic life style that was contemporary living in Los Angeles in the mid 20th century. Shulman stamped is his place and reputation as one of the greatest Acrhitecture photographer in the modern contemporary movement, with just one photography that depicted the time of what the city of Los Angeles was at that time. A city that was moving into the modern world of living.

Source.Above

History Of Architecture.

http://architecture.about.com/od/greatbuildings/ig/Modern-and-Postmodern-Houses/Vanna-Venturi-House.htm
http://architecture.about.com/od/20thcenturytrends/ig/Modern-Architecture/Modernism.htm

Julius Shulam

http://visionfield.blogspot.com/2009/07/julius-shulman-1910-2009.html


I have just watch the Visual Acoustics, The modernism of Julius Shulam.

This was a great in sight in to the way one photographer help shape the modern world of Architecture through his photography,

Julius has be labeled the great modern Architecture of his time. He was made famous by his Photo called case study 22# A photograph of a two woman sit in a glass wall room that a pried to suspended in mid air over the city of Los Angelas.

Chris Budgeon

www.chrisbudgeon.com/Chris is a Advertising Photographer. He all so had tow image in the portriat prize this year.

Retouching.

Image 1Image2

Task was to retouch two fashion images. At lest one of the images was to be a head shoot. I will be using light room and photoshop for my retouching. I have also looked a other retouching application on the wed, at You Tube and have add these tomy blog. The final hand in, should have the following things, The tool that I used where Patch tool, clone tool, High pass, Liquify tool, Bush tool, Burn/dodge tool, Masking tool, blend modes blur filter, Levels, crop tool and a few more .

• Two images that have been retouched and printed A4
• The psd file intact.
• Final flattened image
• The raw file
• Recorded the project on the blog.

Image 1

Image 2

IAAP

This sit called IAAP International Association of Architecture photography. Has great links to Architecture photographer, and all so forum's if you are a member and thing that will help you find the right photographer for the job. This all so helps connect Photographer in this field and they can discus things between each other.

Here are some photographer that I found

http://www.leckyphoto.com.au/
http://www.jmillerphotography.com/
J Miller has a forum bit on his wed site, I will have to read it I had a quick look.

Photoshop Tutorial: Easy MakeOver

Turned Inside-Out: To daylight its new Faculty of Law building, the University of Sydney presumed a central atrium—FJMT suggested a surprising alternative. - GreenSource Magazine

Turned Inside-Out: To daylight its new Faculty of Law building, the University of Sydney presumed a central atrium—FJMT suggested a surprising alternative. - GreenSource Magazine

John Golling

There was a good interveiw of John Golling. Just good little in sight about the life of this great Architecture photographer.
http://www.specifier.com.au/architects/16090/John-Gollings.html
http://www.gollings.com.au/
http://www.indesignlive.com/articles/in-review/armful-of-awards

Sydeny Architecture Photography

This was a great weekend of shooting and I, really got the best out of the buildings that I had pick to photography. I have done a lot of scouting on the web before I got to Sydney to photograph

I look at Architecture web sites and building company like multiplex and found the building of interest. I went down on the Friday and was compelled to stop in on the cement plant at Berrima an take a few shoot, before hitting the m5.

First stop the Kingford smith airport control tower. I parked at the bottom of the tower awaiting for the security to remove me but they never come.

Seconded stop was UNSW to photography the Rupert Myer building.

Next stop was Amora Hotel and the beer fridge. A quick walk to scout out kings wharf. I'm looking for the American Express building. Found it then the Macquire bank found it too KPMG found that to.

Saturday Shoot all day long at kings wharf and it was a great day for it to. In the afternoon out to the UNSW for a re shoot of Rupert Myers building as i was not happy with the light the day before. back to the hotel and beers again vary pleased with the come. while I was at the wharf I found to new building that take my fancy,Westpac Building and the Astron on Kent street.

Sunday I went to paramatta to the Sydney Water HQ for my final shoot of the weekend.

I was hard to get the buildings in one shoot sometime, as the limited space and other building in the way . with some of the building i spent most of the day waiting for that small window of opportunity we call sun light to hightlight that angle of the building. It was awaiting game as well.

It would also have helped if I had a wide angle lens that was better then 24mm I feel that it is vary disappointing that I have to miss out on the greater lens that cit to offer is not allow out. What is the point of buying these lens if they are not to used for what they are made for.

nlp

nathan lanham photography

Scouting

Here are a few buildings that I had ideas about may photographing

Phone calls

I rang the Mount Stromlo ANU. And had great success, I have been given the OK to take photo of the new building you there. yeah Also they will give me the Architect details so good news on that front .

Airport is also getting on board i have spoken to the guys at the airport about photographing the Amazing architecture that the park host So good news. fingers crossed.

The crown plaza in the city has given me the go ahead to photograph thought the window at the industry house building across the road. I Ask to get on the roof but was not aloud i guess due to health and safety. So this is a problem i have to shoot through double glass.

I guess that i will be needing a polarising filter. to help with the glare and have the lens as close to the window as possible if not touching the glass..

test shoot one

f/16 @125 The idea is to capture the object in the water as it is dropped in the water. A spot on the back ground at f/8 p70 and honey comb grids. Reflector on the left and flash on the right

Problem is that the the mob kits do not have a short enough flash duration for the sharpness that i would like i will have to use the power pack at cit or Scott was saying about the nikon flash have a vary short flash duration. more investigating about this.