The World Turned Upside Down

I took this picture because I remembered that a lot of people don't look at the floor, unless their self-confidence has been broken time after time by small minded morons. I tend to look on the floor a lot too ... also people like to throw stuff on the floor, like chewing gum / bubble gum or wrappers

I took this picture because I like shadows ... I find them interesting. They follow you around and copy you. They're usually visable on sunny days but other sources of light cause shadows. Shadows make me think of my past sometimes. The amount of times people left me in the dark...

Camera Obscura

What did you see whilst you were inside the camera obscura?

We were in a room that was pitch black. Except for a small hole in the wall which was letting a tiny amount of light in. It took a while for our eyes to adjust to the lack of light but after a while, we bagan to see something on a screen. It was blurry at first but after a while, it became clearer. Eventually I saw that it was the street outside the college, but it was upside down!

How is this camera obscura similar to the inside of a camera?

The lens in the camera would of had the same effect. It captures the image and the lens turns the light from the image upside down.

How is it different?

The size is different because the hole wasn't (and isn't) adjustable. If we cut the hole bigger we wouldn't have seen the image at all and we would never get it smaller again


Why is the image upside down?

The image is upside down because a lot of light is forced to go in a certain direction which slows the light down so it projects the image. But the human eye turns the right side up image upside down

SLR Camera Notes

1st way to control light in the camera:
Shutter Speed- the time it takes for the shutter to open and close

The slower the shutter, the more light hits the film
The faster the shutter, the less light hits the film

Foreground

Background

Depth of Field (DOF)

2nd way to control light in the camera:
Small Aperture - Less light (Greater Depth of Field)
Large Aperture - More light (Lesser Depth of Field - Blurry)

Lower number - Larger Aperture
Larger number - Smaller Aperture

Notes from Last Lesson

Last lesson, we looked at an image of a painting by Renee Magritte called "The tretchery of Images". The painting is an image of a pipe and the caption underneath reads "Leci n'est pas une pipe". This is French for "This is not a pipe". This is supposed to make people think differently and that was when we began to look at Semiotics (study of images) and Representation. We looked at examples of this through images and their meanings. After that we looked at Signifier (the thing itself) and signified (the reaction to the thing) Then we looked at Denotation (to list) and Connotation (complex observations), which in my opinion was very repetative and boring (No offence, Chris)