Overview of the Night and Day shoot in Auckland City
Juxtaposition
Concepts / Planning: Areas of choice Auckland City. Lighting and movement. People going about their daily business during the day. Evening just relaxing hanging out with friends or heading home. I am looking to create something special for the viewer. Walking around the inner city centre gave me a better idea and concept of the angles and positions for the photos. To be able to merge each photo to look different and create interesting juxtaposition. I printed each photo after the first night and day shoot. Reference: Week 3 Portfolio Shoot 4#
Theme: Photos to be a bit more interesting, dramatic, even mysterious, drawing attention to the images.
Presentation: Day and Night for my presentation looking at 4 to 5 photoshop manipulated images. Framing the photos with a border about 70mm. Not sure if this will be white or black. Another theme of juxtaposition is the look through Reference: Week 2 Portfolio Shoot 2# I decided to leave this project and re-visit at a later date.
Taking the shoot list:
• Tripod: creating selective blur with slow shutter speeds - like moving lights writing their magic lines and shapes. To prevent even the slightest vibration the finger on the shutter release might cause. Camera's self-timer or a cable release to the shutter.
• ISO: No tripod available? Boost the ISO.
• Long Exposure: tripod-mounted long exposures, Slow shutter speeds will let in more light, as the shutter speed slows and the exposure lengthens, the magic happens capturing what the eye can't see.
• Autofocus Control: once focused, may need to shoot more than one picture, leaving the AF on for long exposures, the camera's going to search for focus before it shoots. AF sensor to that area, focus on it; switch off the AF to MF.
• Exposure Methods: exposure compensation, three-frame bracket.
• White Balance: auto white balance
Technique: Photoshop to merge the Night and Day to create a juxtaposition for the viewer. Aim to create a bit of mystery as to what is happening. Why? How? When?
Position: High angle to capture the whole area. Leading lines using the pathway. Keeping the balance, waiting for people to enter the frame to added interest to the image.
Lighting: Natural lighting using the lights for contrast. Shadows. No rain, sunny day so the blue sky can help boost the contest with the day and night.
Position to working the DOF of field and angle is different.
Night 33mm and Day 24mm. Day photo has being reduce and slightly angle to see if this helps.
Theme: Photos to be a bit more interesting, dramatic, even mysterious, drawing attention to the images.
Presentation: Day and Night for my presentation looking at 4 to 5 photoshop manipulated images. Framing the photos with a border about 70mm. Not sure if this will be white or black. Another theme of juxtaposition is the look through Reference: Week 2 Portfolio Shoot 2# I decided to leave this project and re-visit at a later date.
Taking the shoot list:
• Tripod: creating selective blur with slow shutter speeds - like moving lights writing their magic lines and shapes. To prevent even the slightest vibration the finger on the shutter release might cause. Camera's self-timer or a cable release to the shutter.
• ISO: No tripod available? Boost the ISO.
• Long Exposure: tripod-mounted long exposures, Slow shutter speeds will let in more light, as the shutter speed slows and the exposure lengthens, the magic happens capturing what the eye can't see.
• Autofocus Control: once focused, may need to shoot more than one picture, leaving the AF on for long exposures, the camera's going to search for focus before it shoots. AF sensor to that area, focus on it; switch off the AF to MF.
• Exposure Methods: exposure compensation, three-frame bracket.
• White Balance: auto white balance
Technique: Photoshop to merge the Night and Day to create a juxtaposition for the viewer. Aim to create a bit of mystery as to what is happening. Why? How? When?
F3.5 1.3 ISO400 EF24-70mm@33mm Tripod
Night shoot long exposure to capture the light and movement. Wide DOF. Natural light of the surroundings. The evening turned out to be great no rain.Position: High angle to capture the whole area. Leading lines using the pathway. Keeping the balance, waiting for people to enter the frame to added interest to the image.
Lighting: Natural lighting using the lights for contrast. Shadows. No rain, sunny day so the blue sky can help boost the contest with the day and night.
F5.6 1/80 ISO100 EF24-70mm@24mm Tripod
Day shoot Natural light of the surroundings. Wide DOF. F5.6 aperture primarily to get more light for the background.
Myers Park
Merge Day and Night photos. This is not working as the DOF and positioning is incorrect. I will reshoot the Day photo.
Steps in Photoshop:
Photoshop
2x layers opacity less for the top layer. This help to see the position of the two images.
Night 33mm and Day 24mm. Day photo has being reduce and slightly angle to see if this helps.
The channel shows the
area masked. Version 1#
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The channel shows the
area masked. Version 2#
When looking at the photo I would like the viewers to stop look then look and wonder? What is happening here? Does this make sense? A good way to get the imagination wondering? Where a day and night photo used? If this happens I have created a successful juxtaposition.
This building was a challenge in getting the positions and angle to fit. A bit of manipulation in photoshop help create the final image.
Planning: To take a series of photo and position to see which angle would look the best. Final image below.
Series of Day Photos planning and testing position and angle.
Steps in manipulating the Night and Day Building:
Areas in Auckland City choices:
Aotea Square Reference: Week 3 Portfolio Shoot 3#
Civic Centre: Enjoy the shooting especially the evening with the night street movement and lights.
Aotea Square Reference: Week 3 Portfolio Shoot 3#
Civic Centre: Enjoy the shooting especially the evening with the night street movement and lights.
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| Idea: Movement and bright colours of the night added to the concept of the juxtaposition. Warm colours. |
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| Day shoot looked a lot different the colours where not as warm. Building did not look as attractive as the night shoot. Cooler in colour. Steps in manipulating the Night and Day Civic: Photoshop lightened the day shoot to create a better contrast between day and night. |
Examples shoot not working
Photographing the Myers Park steps in the correct position did not work on the day shoots. The angles and DOF are not the same. A 3rd reshoot could possibly correct this for positioning of the photo merge in photoshop. Shooting the night photo had good composition. Night shooting was a lot easier than the day for positioning and composition.
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