Time awaits for no man (or woman)

Time awaits for no man  (or Woman ) Edition 2 

Time awaits for no man  (or Woman ) Edition 1 

For this mini movie subject, I have used a my kitchen clock to demonstrate  the basic principle for this assignment of stop frame photography, to do this I photographed  the large hand  as I moved the hand's position  every five minutes to make up the hour, it took twelve images to make up this hour 

The software I used for both mini movies was the basic Window's Movie Maker on vista. 

As you can see I did two version of the same movie with title "Time awaits for no man (or woman )".

In edition 1 I used basic tools to make this version.  

In edition 2 I used extra tools to enhance the movie with special effects, this turned out to be better movie then edition 1.

The equipment that  I used for the images to start the process consist of: 

Sony A350 DSLR camera with 16-80 mm Carl Ziess Lens.

Tripod .

Remote Control lead.

The location again was in my flat.  

Evaluation on the mini movies. 

Both movies "timepiece Edition 1 & 2" and "the short journey by  Landrover in ToyTown" went well, as for doing any type of research in to this type of assignment I did not do a lot of it and I certainly  did not see any reason at all for loading down other peoples work, as I understood what was needed,  after being through some of the  previous lessons, all I needed was a subject that was original in thought for it to work, showing the technique of using  the movie maker software,editing and adding titles and credits, special effects and sound.
This has been an enjoyable assignment as I had not done this kind of  photography before, its certainly has given me an appetite to do some more in the future.
as for making any changes to the two subjects done, no I don't thinks so I am more than satisfied with what I have done.

Short Journey By Landrover in Toytown

This short film took me ages to make due to inexperience in the use of the windows movie maker software  but once I got the hang  of it. I did enjoy producing my final movie film. 

having spent a lot of time trying to think of a suitable subject which incorporate the following text editing, credits and music.

I finally decided on borrowing and using my nephew's  road rug which he had as a young child, with a toy land-rover with trailer (thats mine), the location for this epic adventure was in my flat in the lounge here I set my camera (Sony A350 DSLR and 16-80mm lens) on tripod I used manual exposure setting to ensure  the exposure was even through out the scenes. I took at least 40 images and after editing the images on my Photoshop elements 9 finally settling on around 30, which I  used in the final cut. 

Camera Equipment.

The camera equipment I will be using for most of the assignments on the blogsite would be my Sony DSLR outfit, the A350, A100 with the 16-80mm Carl Ziess lens and the 70-300mm SSM "Super Sonic Motor" G series lens  where it  is necessary.
The exception to this if I do studio work there I will use the college Equipment.

  

Evaluation

Equipment used was the Sony A350 with 16-80mm lens and the software used was Adobe Photoshop CS5.1

I did not came across any problems to speak off.

I am please with the work I have done and I would not change anything.

fantasy landscape

fantasy landscape

Research - Fantasy Landscape

Our last task is to create a fantasy landscape. It should consist of more than one picture which is cut and pasted together.  People like John Goto and Seung Woo Back are known for doing this. See images below.

None of the above images represent actual places. They are fake landscape - here the camera lies. Technically they have been made very well through cut, pasting and merging images together. 

Digital experimenting - Liquify

To liquify your image you need to select Filter and then Liquify. Following this you need to select an appropriate brush size and alter / move / liquify your chosen area. This tool i often used in fashion photography to slim or enhance a model. 

Image manipulations

To layer images on top of one another you simply copy and past one image onto another and then change the opacity in the layers box.

Adding a border

To add a boarder you need to select the image, choose Edit, Stroke, 20 and pick your colour.

Presenting the images

To present final images you need to make a new file, copy and paste the images onto the new file, change the size of the images and arrange them appropriately.

Renaming a file or a folder

To rename a file or a fold you have to select the number (at the bottom of the image) twice and simply call it whatever you wish.