Sunday, August 1, 2010

Lesson 11 : 24.5.2010 - Lens Aberration Assignment Pressentation

Lesson 11 : 24.5.2010

Lens Aberration Assignment Pressentation

Todays lesson was used to give our speeches on our lens aberration assignment Elanna and Sophie were my group members and we did a short powerpoint pressentation and speech demonstrating the task and the results that we obtained.

Lesson 10 : 17.5.2010 - Image Performance, Display and Storage

Lesson 10 : 17.5.2010

Image Performance, Display and Storage

This lesson i found to be very useful with the upcoming submissions of this semesters work. We watched a demonstration on how to display and mount our photographs.

Mounting Equipment
- Metal Ruler
- Stanley Knife (Blade must not bend)
- Matte Cutter

- Use either white or off-white no colour!
- Foamcore or window mount
- Acid free and ligment free

Cardboard Material Brands
- Novocore = Low Quality
- Alfamatte = Medium Quality
- Alfarag/Ragboard = High Quality

Lesson 9 : 10.5.2010 - Copyright Law and the Photographer

Lesson 9 : 10.5.2010

Copyright Law and the Photographer

Powerpoint pressentation and talk on the copright laws that effect photographers.
Website: Australian Copy Right Council

Learnt a lot of information that i believe will become more relevant as we move into the workforce as a photographer. The most interesting thing that I found was that the Copyright length of protection is the life of the creator plus 70 years.

Lesson 8 : 3.5.2010 - Maximum Lens Aperture

Lesson 8 : 3.5.2010 - Maximum Lens Aperture

Maximum Lens Aperture

- How large the hole opens
- Figure is shown on the lens
- Ratio 1:1.4 = Max Aperture Diameter : Lens Focal Length
eg. If lens focal length = 50mm the max aperture would be 1:4 and the aperture diameter would be 35.7
- For every 1mm of aperture diameter there is 1:4mm of focal length.

Relative Lens Apertrue - Each f number is related to the lens focal length

f2 on a 25mm lens has aperture diameter of 12.5mm
f2 on a 50mm lens has aperture diameter of 25mm
f2 on a 100mm lens has aperture diameter of 50mm


Lens Aberations is an optical error
- no lens is perfect
- many aberrations can be corrected by inducing
- alternative errors in the lens
- some errors are welcomed - soft focus lens

Why do aberrations exist?
- light is bent or refracted as it passes through glass
- amount of refraction varies with wavelength of light
- different wavelengths do not focus at same point

Chromatic Aberration (Colour)
- light passing through glass is dispersed into its colours
- axial (logitudinal) and transverse (lateral)
- common in long and wide lenses
- addition of flourite in glass reduces this

Coma
- an off-axis spherical aberration creating cone shaped points
- stopping down can slightly reduce effect
- can be reduced through deliberate use of other aberrations

Astigmatism
- off-axis aberration causing vertical and horizontal lines to to be focused in two different planes
- reduced slightly by stopping down

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Lesson 7 : 19.4.2010 - Lens Types

Lesson 7: 19.4.2010



Lens Types

Wide Angle Lens: a wide-angle lens refers to a lens whose focal length is substantially shorter than the focal length of a normal lens for the image size produced by the camera, whether this is dictated by the dimensions of the image frame at the film plane for film cameras or dimensions of the photosensor for digital cameras.Longer lenses magnify the subject more, apparently compressing distance and (when focused on the foreground) blurring the background because of their shallower depth of field. Wider lenses tend to magnify distance between objects while allowing greater depth of field.

Zoom Lens: A zoom lens is a mechanical assembly of lens elements with the ability to vary its focal length (and thus angle of view), as opposed to a fixed focal length (FFL) lens.

Long Focus:

Telephoto Lens:

Retro Focus Lens:

Quashi Fish Eye Lens:

Fish Eye Lens:

Catadioptric:

Macro:

Teleconverter:

Supplementary or Close Up Lens:

PC or Tilt Shift Lens:

Lesson 6 : 29.3.2010 - Light Meters & Incandescent Studio Lighting Equipment

Lesson 6 : 29.3.2010

Light Meters & Incandescent Studio Lighting Equipment

Sensor Array Size
Tungsten Lighting

Lesson 5 : 22.3.2010 - Exposure, Sensors and Image Capture

Lesson 5 : 22.3.2010

Exposure, Sensors and Image Capture