Consistency

23.5.2014, Week 8
Tia Nellisa Binti Noor Badrol Akram (0320027)
Introduction to Photography
“Consistency"

Lecture:
For today’s class, we learn about consistency. Mr. Vinod posted few links at the Facebook group page for us to check it out before coming to class. As he was giving a briefing about what’s consistency all about, he open those links and talk about more deep meaning about it and, of course, asked us what kind of setting they used when taking this kind of particular photo and such. All the photos from the link were mostly scenery and portraits. Mr. Vinod also said that we are going to have a project based on consistency pretty soon. For now, Mr. Vinod just gave us an assignment that needed to be done before coming to class next week (week 9).We would need to take a selfie. Not a typical selfie we always see but an extraordinary selfie. For this task needs to use our DSLR and phone camera.  Before the class dismissed, we show him our hardcopy.

Some notes about consistency (sorry about my handwriting)

 


Instructions:
1.Make some correction on our hardcopy
2. Finish our selfie assignment before coming to next class;

[You are to take a creative self portrait of yourself, using what you have learned in exposure and composition, you "may" attempt to go beyond the boundary or stay within what you have learned. What is essential is that the "selfie" must be unique.

Do not, make the selfie look like an illustration, the elements that make a picture look like a picture must remain. You may choose to experiment with composition and exposure, and later visual-compositing.

Just remember, the selfie does not need to reflect who you are precisely, it can reflect who you aspire to be, or the image you aspire to have, etc.

The selfie must be shot using your DSLR and your smart phone, you may enlist help when taking the picture, so long as it is you art directing the shot.]

Exercise:
no exercise for this week

Reflection:
Experience:
For today class, about our selfie assignment, I can’t help but wonder what we are going to do in the next class and why do we need to take it by our DSLR and ALSO our phone camera. Mr. Vinod did say that we need to keep that kind of question for the next class. It was a bit weird and confusing at first but I think I get it somehow in the end. When I was doing the selfie assignment, I asked my sister to help me since Mr. Vinod said that it’s ok to asked help from others, but I have to adjust the settings and such by myself. I had so much fun while doing my selfie homework. We both laughed a lot and took so many pictures, however taking a photo using a phone camera somehow had slip out of my mind, so we had to do it again. I didn’t know that posing in front of the camera was so tiring and difficult. I don’t usually take a photo of myself that long.

Observation:
In today class, I find that all the photos Mr. Vinod showed us was beautiful. The scenery photo was mind-blown, it took my breath away and the self-portrait photos were amazing, because there’s a meaning behind that photo of a person. I also notice the theme of that particular style of photography. The pictures may be different but it is related with one and other. I think it leaves an impression to every one of my classmates as well. When I did my selfie assignment, I was wondering what I’m going to do and how I’m going to do it. It’s very hard to take a selfie picture by yourself when using the DLSR, as I have to take by using a self-timer, it’s very troublesome and hard. It wasn’t easy to actually pose in front of a camera rather than taking the normal typical selfie.

Findings:
For today class, consistency is more what kind of theme of that certain photography is really about and it’s important to find what suit us the best. Not everyone can take a self-portrait photo of a prisoner and make them look like an innocent, normal people. Just like a Israeli photographer Michal Chelbin; ‘Revealing Portraits of Prisoners in Ukraine and Russia’ ( http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/michal-chelbin-sailboats-and-swans?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews ) Not everyone can take a photo like a German artist Kai Ziehl; ‘Taking Some Alone Time in the Stunning Symmetrical City’ (http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/kai-ziehl-abstract-architecture-photography?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews) And so on.  It’s important to find our own style. My favorite out of all the links Mr. Vinod asked us to check it out was ‘The Infinite Beauty of Classic Japanese Architecture’ by a photographer named Yasuhiro Ishimoto (http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/yasuhiro-ishimoto-katsura-imperial-villa?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews) I wonder if I will be able to take photos like that in the future. I know it going to be a long road since most of them are professional, but I will keep on trying. I want to be better than I was before and I need to try even harder. I love photography, it able to capture those many moments we had, happy or sad, it will always remain the same even if that person or something is already gone. When I did my selfie assignment, it is more fun when there are people around, someone who you’re close to, it’s more comfortable and I don’t feel tense at all. Since posing or some people called it modelling in front of the camera is not an easy task.