Applied photography techniques Project 2

For the second project I tried to create different timelaps using a phone app.

The choice of this project was born out of the curiosity to find out if a cell phone can really recreate a photographic technique that will definitely require much more equipment, effort and post production.

Time lapse photography is a technique by which videos made of frames taken at a much lower frequency than those of a reproduction, are produced by performing several shots of the same scene at regular intervals and then assembling them in a video, one shot byframe. The time between shooting and shuttering is always such that the frequency of shots is inferior to the video playback rate (24 frames per second) so you get the characteristic "accelerated" effect in which everything moves very quickly.

To create these videos I then bought an app that allowed me to work on this technique, the app I used is called lapse it.

 




This app lets you take these photos by choosing the shooting range and the time range, exposure, ISO, focus.
One of the important things is being able to keep the phone in the same position as much as possible, so I decided to buy a cellular tripod to keep the still image
In all of these videos I tried to pick a shooting point that would allow me to frame a motion scene, such as a panorama from where you could see a busy street or the city's chaos in the busiest hours of the day.
Once created the video, this app also allows you to do some modification such as different effects that can give you more light, warm colors, helping you improve the video quality.
Once you've created the video, you can save the video on the phone roll, so you can publish it on any website; In my case I have all published using vimeo.
Outcome

https://vimeo.com/user65847270


By evaluating the final job I can say that while not having a high quality video, with these types of apps it is really very simple and practical to recreate a technique that with a camera would definitely require much more time and effort; As I have already said the quality of the final job will never be completely perfect, but using a cell phone we can at any time of our day and anywhere create something different; One of the videos, for example, has been taken up inside a very crowded cafeteria, so we can understand that with the equipment of a camera it would practically be impossible to resume a scene for very long times, while with the cellphone I could very well make the Videos without disturbing or being noticed by someone.

Applied photography techniques project 1

In this first project I decided to create a series of portrait shots, the motivation for this choice is that since I started learning about photography, this has always been the kind I preferred compared to others
Using this technique I tried to create a series of images my partner could choose to use on his facebook page, instagram, which he often uses to publicize his music channel on soundcloud.
During several days we have experienced different locations, always preferring the open spaces, so all the photos were taken in various parts of the city, several hours of the day.
Our goal at the outset was to highlight with these photos the style that represents andrew, so we decided to choose different clothes that would highlight his way of being, since he should have advertised himself and his music; Most of the time musicians or singers also use their dressing style to emphasize their style of music and personality, having a particular care of it seems to have become almost essential nowadays.
To capture this photo I decided to use a 50mm 1.8 lens, in this type of photography is one of the most suitable goals to use, these goals are among the brightest ones, so open diaphragms allow you to shoot in situations of poor brightness Especially to control the depth of field, getting blurry backgrounds, a kind of characteristic that helps you in portrait photography.
To better understand the style that these photos were supposed to follow, I've done a lot of instagram research on singers, musicians who follow my partner's style, what kind of photos they prefer to advertise their image.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 In all these photos portrayed people can capture the attention both to the particular way they have to dress from which their style emerges, and to the particular locations that have been chosen, another important part is the poses with which These people are photographed, making the subject as natural as possible to create the image more or less credible, the naturalness of the subject is the thing that in my opinion manages to make the portrait more fascinating; It is by no means easy for the subject to be credible in this type of photo so the communication between photographer and subject is very important, the photographer can help the subject choose his best poses.


OUTCOME

By making a final evaluation of all these photos I can say I'm pretty happy with the result; The lens I used as I said was the 50mm 1.8, was the first time I used this lens, compared to the photos I took previously I definitely see a remarkable improvement, but still not entirely satisfied; In many of these photos the subject is not well-defined and is very blurred, I think the reason for this is surely for my mistakes, but also because this lens works better when there is much light, while in the later hours of the In the afternoon it does not do so much; For this reason I would try to buy a 50mm 1.4, maybe improving the quality of these photos
I have managed to find some of these photos to satisfy Andrew's requests, which he has published on various social issues;

These are the shots that have been published.