Movement-

I finally worked out how to add my photos. So this is my favourite photo from last week. The concept of movement might be one i would like to explore as my theme. I love the way this photo has a ghostly effect. It looks as though the subjects had been and gone and all that remained was a blurred version of what they really looked like. The motion of the action is captured so well and it becomes obvious as to what we would have viewed in the moment. It was great for me to get this effect by simply manually manipulating the camera, rather than manipulating the photo after it has been taken automatically.

As i was exploring blogspot and how to use it I had a look at other peoples posts about their chosen theme and started generating ideas. I absolutely loved photography in VCE and took many photos under themes such as fashion of the past (50's, 70's, 80's and today) and looked at how we appropriate ideas and specifically fashion styles from the past in fashion of today. I captured many portraits however either used a shabby old camera in which i developed photos in the dark room at school or i used an automatic digital camera and manipulated images via photoshop. I felt as though it would be helpful to look back on some photographs i have done in order to either build on these ideas or to help me streer in a different direction.

Getting started! :)

This week I got to know a little about camera (cannon slr) and all its functions and settings. It was great being able to put theories to practice in our hour out in the uni grounds. Although there was not all that much subject matter to work with, i found by just manipulating the appeture and shutter speed I got some great experimental shots.
I found that by selecting the manual focus and clicking the setting on the top (AV-Appeture) and (TV-Shutter speed) i was able to change the look of the photo quite dramatically. To get a equally exposed photograph i remembered - the larger the apeture the smaller the shutterspeed. So i adjusted the setting accordingly.
I have had some trouble uploading the photos this week as they did not seem to save to the disc i bought. However my favourite shots were ones i took using a very slow shutter speed. I sinply sat down and waited for people to walk pass, as they did i took the photo which created a ghost like effect looking as though their soul was trainling behind them it was great. My favourite shot was a photo i took of someone on a skateboard while i used a slow shutterspeed very interesting.