Location Photography 23/10/14

Location Photography


What is location photography?

 Location Photography is great exercise for photographers as it come with variety of challenges, you tend to work with  landscapes, portraits, large scale and small scale work ,The outcome, however, is a strong collection of images that can prove extremely insightful.

what type Location Photography are there?

There many different type of Location photography to choose from anywhere, large or small, it’s up to you e.g  Fashion, Sports, Travel etc. Once you've decided, have a think about what it is that defines that place, what makes it different to any other place. What was it about that place that made you choose it?  Maybe make a note of some of it’s defining features and characteristics.

Fashion Photography

Fashion photography is not one man/women job, you need great team and organization skills for you to do a successful photo shoot, fashion photography is genre of photography is most ofthen used for advertisement or fashion or fashion magazine such Vouge, Vanity Fair, or Elle. Over time, fashion photography has developed it own creativity in which clothes and fashion are complemented by the presences of exotic location or accessories Fashion Photography is unique genre as you have make up and hair stylist, poses, clothing,variety of lighting, venues to all contribute to tell a storey and create a feeling. 

Key Points 

- type style for shoot

- right location

- models

-  wardrobe 

- components and  props 

- hair and make up artist
-lighting and equipment 

Sports 

Sport photography cover a variety sports e.g Olympic, Formula 1,tennis,football, horse racing, boxing etc, most majority professional sports are branch of photojournalism which
 include collecting research, editing and presenting new material for publication or broadcast, that include using images and video documentary (broadcast journalism) to tell a story for viewers and readers. The main appeal of professional sport photography is for editorial purpose, where enthusiast sport photographer will cover high octane sport action for the whole duration and return back to their newsrooms or major sport magazine ready to edit and send out to readers or viewers, However for advertising purposes,  sports and major brands will try
to build brands and promote sport by often getting high profile sport stars e.g Maria Sharpova, David Beckham and Rodger frederer  to participate in sponsorship deals for Brands like Gillet, H&M, Nike etc.           
 


Equipment

Most perfected camera in sport photography are produced by Canon and Nikon for example the Canon EOS-1D X or Canon 7D and the Nikon D4, and these are popular in professional sports also you should consider essential accessories like mono pod or tripod, memory cards, battery grip and most of all lens. Sport photographers may use remote cameras, triggered by wireless shutter devices (i.e. Pocket Wizards), for instance if you wanted to be in two place at once you should consider the  remote camera using e.g. basketball basket or horse racing etc.

Camera's

canon EOS-1D X

canon 7D

 nikon D4

Lens

Majority of sport photographers will favour different lens, but usually requires fast (wide aperture) telephoto lenses, with fast autofocus performance. Fast autofocus is needed to focus on movement, telephoto to get close to the action, and wide aperture for several reason listed below;

•  The background is put drastically out of focus due to a shallow depth of field, resulting in better subject isolation.
•      The lenses can focus more quickly due to the increase in light entering the lens – important with fast-moving action.
•        Faster shutter speeds can be used to freeze the action.

     Outdoor sports and indoor sports – in outdoor sports the distances are greater and the light brighter, while in indoor sports the distances are lesser and the light dimmer. Accordingly, outdoor sports tend to have longer focal length long focus lenses with slower apertures, while indoor sports tend to have shorter lenses with faster apertures.

Photographers tend to use Apertures of f/2.8 or faster, though f/4 is also used particularly on brighter days for instance Canon 400mm f/2.8 is particularly recommended for field sports such as football

Sport Events examples:

Architectural photography

Architectural photography is capturing shots of buildings and similar structures that are both beautiful and pleasing also producing accurate shots of your subjects e.g  stone henge, skyscraper's taj mahal, Statue of Liberty etc. Architectural photographers are usually skilled in the use of specialized techniques and equipment.

Techniques

Ten percent of architectural photography is the use of controlled perspective, with an emphasis on vertical lines that are non-converging (parallel). This is achieved by positioning the focal plane of the camera at so that it is perpendicular to the ground, regardless of the elevation of the camera eye. This result can be achieved by the use of view cameras, tilt/shift lenses, or post-processing.

Traditionally, view cameras have been used for architectural photography as they allow for the lens to be tilted or shifted relative to the film plane. This allows for control of perspective, as well as a variety of creative possibilities.

In a similar fashion to landscape photography, a deep depth of field is usually employed so that both the foreground and background (to infinity) are in sharp focus.

More recently, digital single lens reflex (DSLR) cameras have been used in the field of architectural photography. These cameras also employ detachable, tilt-shift lenses of varying (usually fixed) focal lengths.

Exterior and Interior

Exterior

Exterior architectural photography usually takes advantage of available daylight, or if performed at night, uses ambient light from adjacent street lights, landscape lights, exterior building lights, moonlight and even twilight present in the sky in all but the darkest situations.

In many cases, the landscaping surrounding a building is important to the overall composition of a photograph, and even necessary to communicate the aesthetic harmony of a building and its environment. An architectural photographer will often include flowers, trees, fountains or statues in the foreground of a composition, taking advantage of their ability to help lead the eye into the composition and to its main subject, the building.

Taj mahal, India

Interior

Interior architectural photography can also be performed with ambient light transmitted through windows and skylights, as well as interior lighting fixtures. Frequently though, architectural photographers will use supplemental lighting to improve the illumination within a building. Either electronic flash "strobes" or incandescent "hot lights" can be used , you can use large reflectors to shield any bright light. 

Blue Mosques Istanbul, Turkey 

research website:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architectural_photography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_photography

Initial Location Plan

Date:22/11/14
Topic: Architectural photography
Location: Birmingham city centre
lighing: hard soft or light
Style: roman/greek era and modern architecture
props none
Equipment:  Apple iPod touch Camera 5MP(Flash) and samsung NX300 and detected flash