Perspective

For this assignment, we had to take images of a subject but projected in different ways. This would mean different lens, different angles and such. I personally opt for different angles and different composition.

The subject that I decided to go for would be the gravel right outside of the school and as I’ve mentioned in my Lighting assignment, I found it rather hard to focus due to the organic texture. And perhaps, I did scan it properly for the colour is different among the images. I figured that I could edit it in post-editing however, it was really hard to colour coordinate among the photos, especially if it was already transferred as such. Thus, this was a learning point.

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Lighting

For this assignment, we were tasked to capture images with different lighting. For this assignment as well, we had to take up a medium format camera and having used a Mamiya during the eco park, that was my go to camera. However, having used it only once, there were still some things that I couldn’t get used to. Mainly the rangefinder aspect which was something that slipped out of mind, and also the light meter that was installed.

The first few photos were taken in the night and it was really hard trying to focus. Especially with those that had a lot of texture (the grass and tree) was quite iffy.

These photos, when scanned, were really bright and thus, I did some post-editing wherein I just played with the tone curves so as to bring more contrast.

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Eco Park Adventure

For one of our lesson, we ventured into eco park to test out our medium format cameras. There was a lot of uncertainty on my part because whilst the camera that I rented out looked like any ordinary SLR camera, there were a few mechanisms that had to be pushed/pulled for it to completely work. But overall, it worked out fine. Below are the photos I took.

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Being in eco park gave me only a few options: to either take photos of nature (that was vast and allowed plentiful of different takes on just one thing) or the very few human subjects around (ultimately, my friends). I personally felt that I should stop settling in my comfort zone and take pictures of non-humans, which was what I did. Surprisingly, I had a lot of fun in that one hour of taking photos where textures took precedence in the composition of the shot. Thankfully, the sun was being kind to us on that day and thus, the light was rather forgiving and kind.

After processing, regretfully, one of my exposures was eaten up by the film processing machine. Other than that, what I came to realise was also how bright and soft they tend to be, which is of course, the characteristic of a film image. I had to play with the curves to bring out more of the colours. The medium format also gave me a lot of space and allowed more details to be captured, which is something really pleasant.

All in all, I can’t wait to take more photos in medium format and see what I can come up with.