The Difference Between Digital and Film Camera’s

Digital is always stuck in whatever quality you shot it.
Digital or video has nothing to rescan.
What you got it is all you’re every going to get.
This is why some films are shot on film.
10 or 50 years from now they can still get better and better images by rescanning them.
For Example: the latest DVD of ‘The Wizard Of Oz’ that was shot on film in 1939.
They simply went to the vault and rescanned the film with modern technology.

Advantages:

Film:

DYNAMIC RANGE: Film has a huge advantage in recording highlights.
COLOR: Film records and reproduces a broader range of color.
LONG EXPOSURES: Film works great for long exposures running into the minutes.
DOUBLE EXPOSURES: No problem. Almost no digital camera can do this
PERMANENCE: Film does not erase itself. Film does not become unreadable for no reason. It doesn’t have file compatibility problems. Traditional black and white film and prints will outlast any of us.

DIGITAL:

Image Quality: Digital SLR cameras like the Nikon D70 have no grain.
Digital has no “negative” stage. Because of this, digital usually looks much better than most prints made from negatives.
Digital gives me better and more consistent color than I get with regular print film
Long exposures are a problem. The image sensors have leakage which add random white dots into your image with long exposures. Some cameras try to compensate for this. This is never an issue with film.
No digital camera except one model of Pentax can make double or multiple exposures.

Workflow Speed: If you are publishing in print or Internet or email you already know how great it is to have your files ready to go right from the camera. It’s wonderful not to have to process and then scan each of your film images. With digital you can post web galleries with hundreds of images the same morning you shoot them.
With film it takes months to get around to scanning all the images the hard way.
Permanance: With digital you can use standard computer methods to backup and store exact copies of your original images in multiple physical locations. Duplicates of film images on the other hand are worse than the originals. You can send your digital images to your clients and never have to trust your original to leave your possession. Of course people who don’t back up their computers will soon be discovering that they will lose years of work and family memories when their computer dies or if they forget to copy everything to a new computer.
Fun:: There is nothing more fun than shooting away and seeing what you just shot, and then emailing it to everyone you know. You can experiment and fool around and learn a ton, which then you can apply to your film shooting, too.
Physical Storage Space: Hard drives and CDs can store bazillions of images in far less space than binders and files full of film.
Indexing: Since you’re already in the computer, file indexing and organization is easy. Film needs to be tagged physically by hand.
Speed: With film you wouldn’t shoot 100 images of nothing just for the hell of it. With digital it’s common for people to shoot 900 of random things on a walk or a day out, just because you can.
Cost: Shoot as much as you like, it costs you nothing. On the other hand the cameras cost four times as much as film cameras.

Disadvantages:

FILM:

IMAGE QUALLITY – High speed film is poor. Prints from color negatives usually have poor colors unless printed yourself.
PERMANENCE – Color film fades. Digital files don’t.
STORAGE SPACE – You end up with shelves and shelves of images. Digital stored on CDs or hard drives can take much less space.
TRANSMISSION – You have to send the original image everywhere. If you lose it, you’ve lost it. Backup copies are always a little worse than the original.
COST – you pay as you go.

Digital:

Highlight Rendition: Digital still has a huge problem with highlight reproduction
Black-and-White - Digital does have more shadow detail than film.
Depth of Field: Digital SLRs have about the same depth of field as 35mm film cameras. Compact digital cameras have almost infinite depth of field, meaning you can’t deliberately blur backgrounds.
Exposure: Digital has the advantage of immediate feedback, but also the disadvantage that exposure is more critical than film.
Permanence: I have lost days of work when memory cards become unreadable.
Cost. Digital cameras are very, very expensive for what they do. They become obsolete in a year, unlike film cameras which, in the case of 4×5, even 50 year old cameras and lenses are in use daily. Digital cameras pay for themselves if you use them a lot

This is an image i have edited via photoshop, i made the background darker, and placed all the birds into the image from separate images.

More Photographic Evidence

Evaluation

Target Audience
The target audience that I have produced these images for are for the older citizens, due to landscape photography not being much of a common hobby/ interest for the younger generations, if I were to produce these photographs for a magazine, it would be for a landscape magazine such as Country Life or Essex Life.
There isn’t really a set age for landscape photography, but both male or female’s could enjoy the outdoors, gardens, landscape photography gardening, forestry, who can appreciate a good scenery, mostly the older generations would benefit from the magazines as they have more free time and they can learn to appreciate the little things that can take a huge effect on someone, like pictures.
After I showed my class mates the photographs I had taken I got back both positive and negative feedback, but to me all feedback is good because I can learn from both especially negative feedback as I can grow and improve my work from it, one of my class mates called Holly Baker said; “The lighting in your images is not very good, as one picture is really dark, but i like the angle you have taken the angle of one as you have got the whole of the building in it and it looks really good.”

Historical/ Cultural Context
The images I have captured were taken in september therefore they would be published in the October issue of the magazine.
Images of scenery and landscape are really well studied and thought about, landscape and scenery can change and develop in weeks, months, years and centuries.
The image I could take today of a scenery could no longer exist in 2 years time,due to climate change and the constant development that are taking place, so the images could be the only existence of that place in a few years time.
Production
When I first started taking photographs, the lighting and the thought that went into the pictures were not very good, so over the past few months my technical and creative ability has increased. I couldn’t even hold a SLR camera when I first started, my angle and positioning have also have become a lot better since I started photography back in september, by changing the settings and aspects on a SLR camera you can produce a completely different photograph even if you are capturing a photo of the same object.
It is essential to use the setting correctly depending on the image you are capturing to take a good picture you need to consider the aperture, ISO and the shutter speed.
For example if you have a narrow aperture and a slow shutter speed you will get a sharp and focused image, where as the opposite would create a background with a blurred and out of focus image.
I have also learnt about thirds and composition, e.g. negative space, lines, texture ad depth of field.
If I wanted to edit a photograph I am able to use photoshop which is a software that allows you to enhance the images.
Reflection / Self Evaluation
I feel as thou when I started photography i didn’t know anything, when i was being taught about lighting, lenses, flash, aperture and shutter speed, I didn’t really get a feel for myself how to take a picture until i went out on my own and started capturing the images. I am now able to talk about the settings on the SLR cameras and explain about each one myself, talk about photography techniques, and i can use photoshop, although i can only perform basic skills on photoshop there is still a lot of room for me to improve and learn new skills on the software, i tend to forget how to do certain effects, so i need more practice with the software.
All the tasks  that i have been given to me i feel as though i could have maybe put a little more effort in but i do feel as thou what i have done is quite good. after taking the photographs i did try and get feedback from my friends and family. This allowed me to find out what they thought of my pictures and what they felt when they saw my photographs.
I didn’t mind getting positive or negative feedback as both are good as i could use it to my advantage and improve my work as soon as i could.
I did tend to try and manage my time correctly, but when i was using photoshop the time seemed to go quickly, so i lost a lot of time taking photographs.
When it came to capturing the photographs i did manage to take a lot of decent photographs and i used the time i had wisely, i used my imagination and put myself into someone else shoes looking at the picture and to see if i could take it any other way to make it better.
I planned ahead effectively as I researched photographers work and ideas before I captured my images, by doing this I was able to be creative and imaginative, which allowed me to show what i could do, After i took them, i pressed the wrong buttons and ended up deleting everything i had captured , so i quickly took some more, but i was very disappointed as the photographs i did capture were so much better and said a lot more, and captured a lot more emotion, but the photographs i have submitted are okay, so i am happy to submit them, but i would have prefer not to have to.
Overall, i probably could have produced better photographs, but they are all reasonably good, but i did complete all my tasks so i am happy that my work was all submitted.

In this post I will compile research, notes, evidence of planning and test shots of a chosen specialism. The specialism I have chosen is landscape.

As i need to include researchers i will include research on famous landscape photographers, and their work.

Why i like there work, and where i would see their work, magazines, brouchers, Harlow website, etc.

Finally i will take some test shots of images that i feel show some influences of the profesional photographers. As my Photos were taken randomly with friends and family about there is no real plan about them.

Research:

Tony Howell is a well known landscape photographer. Some of his work is below;

This picture is taken in bristol, in Sneyd Park, he picture is of beech leaves which are scattered across the path in the autumn, at clifton downs. This picture lets off a warm feeling, the colour of the leaves and the sun shining through the leaves, makes you want to be there, even thou it is an autumn scene the picture really makes you wanna be there. i would find this picture in a leaflet, or booklet about bristol or a park. It could be used in a magazine as well, telling people about the scenery.

Creative thinking

Brainstorming my ideas of landscape photography

-Plants.
-Trees.
-Horizon
-Sky
-Greenery
-Clouds
-Land
-Darkness
-Silhouettes

The following images are picture i have taken:

 

 

I would find hopefully find these pictures in a country life magazine.

Magazine Cover!

Photography Equipment and Techniques

Lenses

The main puprose for a lens is to collect light. Types of lenses; 50mm for general, everyday shots and the occasional portrait, 85mm/135mm short telephoto. Perfect for portrait photography, 200mm, 400mm, 500mm and 600mm long telephoto. Mainly sports and nature photography.

Lighting

There are a variett of differnt lighting to choose from Including; Natural, windowlight, Outside/sunlight, natural plus fill-in flash, Flash/Speedlights, Ambient, Studio/Softbox.

Flash

The function of the flash is mainly to get a clearer picture of what you are taking a picture of so its not iin total darkness, or to illiminate red eye.

Tripod

Having a tripod is like putting stabalizers ona bike, Ther for support for a more smooth ride, so in the case of a digital camera it is there to allow you to achieve better composition, allow you to better quality pictures and can have a slower shutter speed.

Aperture

The aperture of a lens is the diameter of the lens opening and is usually controlled by an iris. The larger the diameter of the aperture, the more light reaches the image sensor. The aperture is usually shown in numbers of way; Maximum Aperture, which shows the maximum aperture for the lens, Aperture Range, which tells you the the maximum and minimum aperture and Maximum Wide-Angle and Telephoto Apertures, which gives the maximum aperture wide-angle and telephotu focal lenghs of a zoom lens.

Shutter Speed

Shutter speed is the length of time that your image sensor ’sees’ the scene you’re attempting to capture. Shutter speed is measured in seconds. If you speed up the shutter speed you’ll need to increase Aperture or make the ISO faster to compensate for it.

Focus points

The focal point of a lens is the point where all light reflected from an object is in focus.

Focal Length

is a measure that indicates the angle of view of a particular combination of a camera lens and film or sensor size.

ISO

ISO is the abbreviation for the International Organization of Standardization, The letters ISO on your digital camera settings refer to the film speed. The most common ISO settings are: 100, 200, 400 and 800. But on some digital cameras the ISO may also be 64, 100, 160, 200, 400, 640, 800, 1600.

Digital Manipulation

Cropping refers to the removal of the outer parts of an image to improve framing. Digital manipulation gives you the potential to create an illusion or deception.

Photographic Equipment and Techniques

The Difference Between Film and Digital Cameras

There are a number of differences including; The sensor, The Capacity, The Feedback, Shooting Angles, Correcting photos, Changing conditions and The quality.

The Sensor

Film camera’s, A film sensitive to light is placed behind the lens. When a photo is taken the shutter opens for a certain amount of time and light hits the film. The result is the photo “printed” on the film. The film has to be rolled to take a new picture and a fresh new film is placed behind the lens. Whereas digital cameras a fixed electronic sensor is (CCD) is situated behind the lens. The sensor is built from little light sensitive sensors each representing a pixels. All the pixels create one photo, to take a new photo the photo is saved on to a digital media and the CCD is electronically emptied. The main difference is the depth of the field, Digital sensors are smaller in size, than a 35mm film, the depth of the field will be much higher.

Shooting angles

With digital cameras you can take photos without having your eye glued to the viewfinder. Overhead shots where you raise the camers above your head are much easier to do since  you can still see what the camera is shooting by looking up at its LCD screen.
You might have to take about 20 photos to get one exact if you done it like that, so for film you would have to take ages looking through the viewfinder perfecting that one shot which would probs take much longer to do than to take about 20 photos using the digital camera.

The Capcity

Digital cameras can hold hundreds and sometimes thousands of photos on a single media, changing the memory card is quick and easy, which means a digital cameras have infiite capacity. Unlinke film cameras as they are very limited, For exapmle a roll of 36 can only hold 36 photos, and changing the film takes time and is not easy to in certain situations, so therefore professional journalists carry a few cameras and change camera, so they dont miss a shooting opportunity.

The Feedback

Digital cameras have instant feedback, almost all digital cameras include a small LCD screen, once you have taken a photo you can go back and look at it on the screen, which results in better photos as you can see what has been taken, if it is not good you can take another one, being able to look at the photo on the spot allows the photographer the decide how to fix the photo, or how to better compose it. With film cameras, there is no way of knowing how the picture looks until it has been printed so if it is wrong you would have lost the chance to take another one, or you would have to go back and take it again.

The Quality

Film photography has its advantages, but the film is no longer superier to digital, as the digital cameras have evolved, the quality of the best SLR cameras are superb and in many ways are better than film. Digital cameras high capacity, has not cost and instant adaptability to changing conditions, therefore photographers are able to produce better compositions and are able to experiment more.

Correcting Photos

With digital cameras photos can be corrected using photo editing software. Digital cameras have some correction abilites but there are lots more on software devices such as photoshop. With film camers what you get is what you get, after you have developed a film it is very hard to make any corrections. Usually if corrections are urgently needed the nagative or the printed phots will be scanned, converted to digital, corrected and then printed agian, which takes a lot of time and is very expensive to do.

check photoshop stuff!

Different styles of photography

Danial Boud is an all round photographer, he has Portrait pictures, Music photography, Documentary photography, Fashion photography, etcc.. he has covered all sorts of photography.

I particularly like his Documentary and Music photography, they are two totally different forms of photography but he makes them look really do, you can tell that he has put a lot of effort into making them look good, and making sure they  have a meaning, the picture i particularly like from the documentary photographs is a picture from the “Sydney’s Apocalyptic Red Dawn”

http://www.boudist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/sydney-red-dust-storm-24.jpg

This picture is a line of symmetry, symmetry is something that could either be very good, or something you want to avoid, but this particular picture using symmetry has made the picture complete and given it a whole new life, it makes it seem as the bridge is disappearing into the unknown. the colour and the lighting of the picture, is centered as well, as most of the light is in the middle of picture as well, the reflection of the bridge in the water is beautiful, the whole picture as one. The camera angle, is a low angle, which gives the impression that the bridge is more dominant., and over powering the picture, as well as the colour. This type of picture could be found in the newspaper showing “The Sydney’s Apocalyptic Red Dawn” and it could also be used in an exhibition, showing how to use colour and symmetry to your advantage, without even using photoshop. This pictures could also be used online to represent the news.

Another picture taken of the Sydney Bridge from a different angle and different period of the day, is taken by a guy called “Michael Boniwell, who works for a company called “chockstone photography” has really changed the look of the bridge the colour of it, the camera angle is still low point thou but its not a symmetrical picture i think it would have ruined this photograph if it was symmetrical, the colours and the lines from the building reflected in  the water really makes it stand out, the lights reflecting into the river has created a feel of warmth, the colour is contrasting against the dark colour of the rest of the picture. the brige is the centre point of this picture as well.

http://chockstone.redbubble.com/sets/15915/works/338040-6-sydney-harbour-bridge-at-night-australia

Danial Boud’s published work is really good, especially the article with “Ruby Rose” The pictures of her are amazing.

http://www.boudist.com/archive/2009/03/18/ruby-rose-cover-shoot.php

Portfolio Photographs are really good, the contrast of the lipstick, against her skin makes it really stand out and put’s a bold colour in, which empahsises the photograph of her. the use of the strwaberry and the rose is really good cause it highlights the colour of the lips and contrasts with the colour of her hair and dress.

Adam Slinger’s  Portfolio Photography is rather amazing the contrast between his clothes and the background in these particular, pictures really makes him stand out, and emphasises the main vocal point of the photograph, in the picture where “Greg Holden” is wearing a blue and white stripy top, standing with his back towards, of what looks like a fence, the different direction of the Lines really make him stand out, so the photographer, has done an all round good job. These particular photo would be used in a magazine, for example a music magazine, promoting him, or online, which would also be promoting him.

Danial Boud and Adam Slinger, both take portfolio Photographers, but they both use different techniques so, they are both are worth looking at there work, to compare how they both work,.

I recommend you go and take a look at all of there work!

http://www.boudist.com/

http://www.adamslingerphotography.com/

http://chockstone.redbubble.com/