photo basics

http://www.photonhead.com/simcam/

SLR - single shot reflex.

Apperture- one way of controlling the intake of light by widening and shortening the lense. widening the lense is used in dark areas or night to help gather as much light intake and shortening the lense is or lighter or day pictures for less light intake. sizes between 2.4-22

Shutter speed- the slower the shuter the shutter speed exposes mored light to the film and the faster exposes less. speeds between 4 seconds and 1/4000 of a second.

if using hand held you have to set the speed as 1/25 of a second as minimum as the natural shake of the hand causes bluring on anything slower.

DOF depth of field the ower the F no. the smaller the DOF and vice versa.  

TATE Modern

TATE Modern

Your next post will be about your trip to the Movium and Tate Modern. I want you to put the titles and creators of the two works that you viewed, into two separate posts.

The first blog title will be. The Tate image I liked. In this post you will need:

1. The title of the work, "block head"
2. Name of the artist "paul mcarthy"
   
3. and a short description of the art work stating what you liked about it. I like this because it has a sense of futurism in it, also you can amke out a bodily shape in this sculpture but is hidden by the padding causing a barrier between us and the actual shape itself.
   
4. Then try and find an image of it.

The second post will be about the work you disliked. use the same detail as above,

1. Title of work, untitled
   
2. Name of artist "claude monet"
   
3. and why you disliked the work. It has no effect to any senses, doesnt draw my eye to the actual picture/object. No name was given for the painting. the colours are bright and vibrant but not used in a way where they become interesting or even have a meaning. It annoys me that something so easy to paint is famous and/or worth alot of money, for the the amount of effort not put into it.
   
4. Again find an image of the work.

use the following links to search for the works

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/

http://images.google.co.uk/imghp?um=1&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images

my intro to photography

I often take pictures on my digital camera mainly of my surroundings and people/nature in them surroundings. on some occasions i take pictures of friends and family at events using my mobile phone as it is small and easier to you use.