The Making of the Favicon
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GIF Experiement  Here is a GIF file experiment using the continuous shoot mode on the Cannon 450d of a woman walking down an alleyway on her own whilst traffic in the background is going past. This was when I wanted to try and use the burst setting on the camer a which allows me to shoot continuously for 53 photos which is around 1 and half seconds to make it look video like. This particular GIF is 17 photos in length. When making the GIF what I found most difficult was the fact that the image quality was so high that Photoshop CS5 found it very difficult to process such large files when creating the animation. This was due to the fact that I set the image quality to 'large smooth edge' in the camera's picture quality menu. This made the images very large in terms of megabytes and in the end I had to downgrade their quality to be a more manageable edting size. I did this by recording an Action to re-size them all and then batch processing the folder in which they were in to solve this. This setting is useful in terms of when there is somethign fast moving and you want to get as many photos as possible to choose later on in terms of what looks the best. However a disadvantage is that if it was slightly blurred you would just have a load of images that would all just be burry and would be no use and would have taken up all your memory in the memory card as well. |
 | This is me with the Cannon 450d SLR experimenting with the shutter speed on my photo shoot in Portsmouth of a water feature. In this photo I wanted to capture the flow of the water and so put the shutter speed on 1/120 th of a second and as a I didn't bring a tripod with me I had to compensate by making myself a tripod by going down on my knees to get a stable enough shot. The result, is that the camera is picking up the fast motion of the water along with the larger amount of light being let in through the lens creates very white feathery appearance. |
I then took the same picture but with the shutter speed sent to 1/100th of a second creating a freeze frame of the water in midair falling in to the pool. This gives it a very static air about it. This is re enforced with the very cold temperature of the white balance and the under exposure of the image which makes it much darker due to the amount of light not be let through the lens. |  |
 | In this experiment with the 450d SLR I wanted to see the differences in colour temperature as light is a fascination with me and how it works with the camera so I wanted to experiment in how they different white balance pre-sets effect the image. In this image I have put the white balance to a cloudy setting as it was indeed on the day. Cloudy. It turned out pretty flat. I noticed it tried to distribute the light over the whole image. Also I found that although the camera did its best in the distrubution of light the colour temperature is very white in the sky than it is on the ground however I think this is to do with the high aperture setting I had at the time. |
In this image all I changed from the first photo was the the white balance from cloudy to tungsten. This made the image a much more colder look as the Kelvins in this is only 2500 especially in the level of light that it was on the day. This gives the picture a kind of gritty quality to it and gives the effect of an almost of a grey scale picture because of the amount of shades that of only one colour which is blue. I learnt from this that the higher the colour temperature the warmer the picture but depending on your white balance can effect the amount of exposure there is on a photograph. |  |
