Brutalism/Brutalist

Brutalism is a type of movement around architecture, rough buildings usually made out of concrete. This first started off with university buildings, government buildings as it was cheep to make. In French Breton Brut means raw concrete

https://www.dezeen.com/2018/04/25/brutal-destruction-architectural-photography-exhibition-pinkcomma-boston/













Reyner Banham was an English architectural critic born on the 2nd March 1922 - till the 19th March 1988
















Laura Connelly

Speeds

- An Outdoor Wedding, fast because there will be movement with kids running about in some and people having a laugh through out the day.

- A Horse Race, fast because horses run at really fast paces, the photograph will be blurred and not capture the moment if it is slow, unless the photographer is trying to capture the motion they will use a slow shutter speed.



- A Meteor Show At Night - A slow shutter speed as most photographs capture the motion and the meteor moving so they can see how fast they move and the light trail left behind

ISO and Exposure

Technically, Iso is not part of exposure. Shutter Speed and aperture brighten your photo by physically capturing more light

ISO doesn't do that: instead it essentially brightens or darkens the image

ISO SETTINGS & SPEEDS

As you increase your ISO number, your photos will grow progressively brighter.

When you double your ISO speed you are doubling the brightness.

however raising your ISO has consequences and a photo taken at too Hugh of an ISO will show a lot of grain, also known as noise

ISO low vs high

The lowest ISO on your camera is your BASE ISO, this is a very important setting because it gives you the potential to produce the highest image quality.
The base ISO is generally 100 ISO

When you are fighting against motion blur, you will need to pick between a sharp photo at a high ISO, or a blurry photo at a low ISO

If you use a slow shutter speed or wide aperture to brighten a photo when photographing a fast moving object then it will be blurry meaning you will need a high ISO to brighten the image.

tasks

Rule of thirds




















Leading lines





Fibonacci spiral







TASK 1:


Here is a photographer in the postmodernism styled photography, Allan Sekula followed three rules of compositions being; rule of thirds, leading lines and the Fibonacci spiral. Sekula has used the rule of thirds as the sections are split into three sectors along the bottom, middle and top. This image Sekula has taken of his family has the bottom sector of legs and shoes, middle being body and the top being heads apart from the little girls head just being under the top sectors of rule of thirds.

TASK 2:

This is an image I took on a side walk facing the road and I managed to capture a bus with a slow shutter speed to capture the motion of the bus while it was moving, I have slightly used rule of thirds as the image is has the bottom being the road, middle being the bus and top being a car park above however the image and bus aren't fully lined up to correctly be rule of thirds but are close enough I guess.

Aperture has several effects on your photographs, one of the most important is the brightness or exposure of your images

As aperture changes in size, it alters the overall amount of light that reachers your camera sensor.

A large aperture (a wide opening) will pass a lot of light resulting in a brighter photograph.

A small aperture does just the opposite, making a photo darker

Depth of Field - The amount of photograph that is in focus

Shallow Depth of Field - Not much of the photograph in focus

Wide Aperture - big blur

Small Aperture - no blur

F-Stop / F-Number where you see the aperture value the letter will appear but the valued number.

shutter speed is responsible for two particular things:
1. changing the brightness (exposure) of your photo
2. creating dramatic effects by either freezing action or blurring motion

shutter speed is the length of time your camera shutter is open, exposing light onto the camera sensor

shutter speed also be used to freeze motion

shutter speeds are measured in fractions of a second, when they are under a second. for example 1/4 means a quarter of a second (slow shutter speed) / 1/250 means one two-hundred-and-fifieth of a second (fast shutter speed)

if we had a camera set on a slow/long shutter speed, of say 1/80, it will let in a lot of light when we take the photo

How could we use aperture to darken the image? need a smaller appetite to work with the shutter speed

Two Impressionism Photographers

Stephen D'Agostino



Christopher Dydyk

Impressionism

What do you know about impressionism?

What style of photography does impressionism relate to? This style of photography relates to documentary photography and photojournalism, an impression of real life. (to impress and show something or reflect something) this is why it relates to documentary photography and journalistic styled movement.

The development of impressionism can be considered partly as a reaction by artists to challenge presented my photography, which seemed to devalue the artists skill in reproducing reality
Detail was included in terms of painting... to create a 'slice of life'

impression developed France in the nineteenth century (1800)

The term 'impressionism' comes from a painting by Calude Monet

Impressionism Photography
- Soft Focus
- Vivid Colour
- Isolation Of The Subject
- Digital Paintbrush

- Karl Struss

Modern Imperssionist photography is called Photo Impressionism

- Stephan D'Agostino
- Eva Polak
- Kat Clay

How To...

1 - Long shutter speed and panning
2 - Zooming
3 - Selective Focus
4 - Long Exposure
5 - Focus Through