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Photography - Image sizes, Lightroom and editing

 RAW images are useful as they are completely uncompressed. This means no lossy or lossless compression making the image a lower quality. Exposure -  Under exposure is when an image does not have enough light. Over exposure is when an image has too much light. Histogram tool checks exposure. Use Command O to get to the histogram.

Architecture - Old vs New Contrasts

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Chosen artist - Timothy Soar.  Urban Architecture photographer who takes photos of various buildings and their surrounding, usually in an urban setting. He likes to involve people, and urban aspects such as cars and transport in his shots, to show the world how it really is. However some of his shots are completely rid of any humans, and they are completely empty, which adds a different, more interesting aspect to the photos, as all you can focus on is the structure. another artist is also Andrew Prokos. Andrew's photography is much more modern than most other photographers, as he focuses on futuristic styled buildings with mostly flat or geometrical edges, and use modern materials most of the time being glass.

Futurism

Futurism is an avant-garde movement founded in 1909 by an Italian poet known as Filipino Marinetti. It is an art movement that focuses on the power and vitality of the machine and modern life. These art expressions usually revolved around painting or sculpture. The art style is when contemporary things in the world are stylised through photography to have a futuristic feel to them. For example, the shots would be long exposure, so that light trails in the image give the photo a futuristic touch, whilst being only a camera technique. Futurist photographers also make use of lines very frequently, for example, they would use more modern appearing buildings with flat lines.

List for Sketchbook

Topics -  starter page - composition rules and examples. My own photography and examples of why I did them, experiments.

Photos for printing

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Darkroom Chemicals

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Order of chemicals - Developer, Stop, Fixer, and Water. The phot paper goes in each bath for 60 seconds, and the final water bath can be up to 25 minutes.

Pop Art and Post Modernism

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 All of these Pop Artists involve very saturated colour a lot in their work, and their work is very flat with no texture or definition. David Hockney -  Robert Indiana -  Romero Britto -  Building/architecture Photography. Take similar photos of similar buildings, same alignment and shot distance, but different colours. Then use photoshop to change the colour of the buildings drastically, to add a distinguishable pop art theme to them. Take many photos but only use three of the final photos that suit the brief.