AbelPhotography

Studying Photography and Social Media at UTAS in Tasmania.

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Hobart based photographers specialising in weddings, family portraits, pet photography and photographer contracting.

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Fair well to all my #smputas followers its ben a pleasure. If you are interested in following my real blog head over here. Its been a pleasure guys. Are any of you still going to use the #smputas tag? Peace out

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Online image ownership UTAS

How do i feel about my images being shared online? I think its great, but you need to be in control of how its shared and make sure its being credited to you. I intentionally tag my photos on Instagram with hubs that share photos to grow my account. I have had one minor instance where someone in india stole my Business logo and name and started a Facebook account. I was onto it early and constantly reported it to Facebook and messaged the owner and after a couple of weeks it was removed.

Do I share others photos? Yes, not often but I do and I will always credit the author. Those people can often share yours in return and help grow your audience 

Do I take steps to protect my images? 70% of what i post is water marked and i often reverse image search my photos at random.

Does it all matter to me? in the bigger scheme of it not really? It would suck to have happen. Like Sarah Ann Loreth says “if you don't want your photos stolen, don't post them online”

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For the latest UTAS assignment we have to tell a story using photos. The story that I wanted to tell was the story of processing a photo. In these series of photos you can see the process of photo manipulation using Lightroom. I always shot in raw to make this process possible.

The main changes that I make to the photo is bringing out some more details in the shadows, reduce the brightness in the highlights and add some more saturation.

After this i will use the paint tool for some local adjustments when some areas are underexposed.

Thanks for viewing

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Creating a visual story

This was a little daunting for me as I really didn't know where to start? The majority of what I do is landscape photography how is that a story! But then I watched the Lynda.com youtube clip and it gave me a little inspiration. Why not tell the story of editing a photo of two? My aim in my next post which I will do in the next couple of days will be to take some shots and then tell the story of the editing process. Stay tuned.

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My latest UTAS assignment for project 2 is to take a series of photos with a certain theme. Here is ten photos with the theme of Hobart buildings and street art. I posted them to Facebook as we are now experimenting with social media and i mostly use Facebook and Instagram.

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Latest UTAS assignment is “how to analyse a photo” I have chosen personal reflection as my chosen method.

AT a quick glance of the photo you can see a shadow silhouette with two red lights back lighting the subject.

For me the photo means much more than the eye can see. This was part of an art exhibition at Dark Mofo. You go into a dark warehouse with earphones on to protect your ears from the huge subwoofers that make you fell like they are holding you up and make the room shake. Lights flash around the warehouse at different distances to you making you feel like the room was shrinking and growing and it was an amazing experience.

What I like most about the photo is it really makes the viewer guess whats happening and unless you were their you would not be able to guess where or what this is. I feel that people would say it looks semi commercial with a slightly creepy feel because of the silhouette looking back at the photographer.

I placed the subject on the right hand vertical line and placed to two lights in the centre of the frame creating repetition and just capturing the pattern inside the lights.

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Latest UTAS assignment is experimenting with the direction of light and the quality of light.

This photo I took of a church in Hobart I think is a good example of soft light. There wasn't any clouds to defuse the light it was at sunrise so the light wasn't very harsh.

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Latest UTAS assignment is experimenting with the direction of light and the quality of light.

This photo was taken at the Cornelian Bay Cemetery. As the sun set behind the trees the light was being filtered through the them and made an eerie backdrop to the grave stones. It made for a great back light.

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Another I'm uploading for my latest UTAS assignment. Whilst in Melbourne I noticed these colours popping on a shop front and thought they would make a great shot. I was never 100% on this photo but I think it suits this assignment well.

From me this photo is more about breaking the rules of colour matching. The reds, yellow and orange all create a harmonious scene while the green is complimentary colour to those three.

The photo has ben edited in Lightroom adjusting the white balance to make it warmer and small contrast adjustment to make the darker areas more darker.

Feedback is welcome.

Enjoy

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My influencers

Most of my influencers are on you tube (I'm more of a visual learner)

Digitalrev tv is a great channel for product reviews, Tips and techniques.

Matt granger is an Australian photographer who runs monthly competitions on Flickr (with prizes and he gives feedback). Matt also has a you tube channel with tips and techniques.

Fro Knows photo is another you tube based photographer who is more of a event photographer with more tips and techniques on his channel.

as mentioned before Stu Gibson is a Tassie local and is another inspiration to me. Also Wolfgang Glowacki is another great Tasmanian based landscape photographer.

Instagram is another great resource for inspiration, Follow tags like #instatassie, #discovertasmania for some great Tasmanian photography inspiration.

Thanks for reading

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I have chosen this photo I took under the Sydney Harbour Bridge for the latest assignment at UTAS. I have chosen it because it follows the rule of leading lines with the bridge drawing your eyes into the centre of the photo (and possibly drawing them out as well).

It follows the rule of thirds vertically although the lines aren't straight it still follows the principal.

There is symmetry in under the bridge also patterns and repetition.

and lastly is an unusual point of view of the sydney harbour bridge.

some colour editing in lightroom has been done, CC is welcome.

Cheers

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Stuart Gibson is an internationally recognised photographer from Tasmania, Australia. With a focus on surf, landscape and aerial photography.

Stuart gibson is a huge inspiration for me because we have similar interests being Tasmania, Surf, landscape and aerial photography.

Take a look at some of his work. looking through his photos you notice most of it follows the basic rules of photography like rule of thirds, leading lines etc but like most good photographers he often breaks those rules and gives a new perspective.

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This is the final mood board I am submitting for the utas project. It reflects my work ranging from pet portraits to human portraits.The other three are all landscape photography ranging from the early hours of the morning to the late hours of the night.

The reason i choose these was to show my flexibility in photography from all different types to all differnts types of light.

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Product photography. This is a tough one for me as my product is portraits and landscapes. I have chosen to use an off camera flash using a soft box to soften the light (the task was to use a light box). I couldn't use a seamless back ground as the walls in my house are not seamless as you can see but think they add a great effect anyway.

So here is my attempt at product presentation.

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This is the selfie image that I have decided to go with for the UTAS selfie assignment.

It was taken at Cornelian Bay using my drone. I chose the spot because of the lines that had been mowed into the grass and thought it would work well with the long shadow. Hope you enjoy.

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In my latest journal activity I needed to undertake was to cover these five techniques 

1.Angle & the rule of thirds.

2.Using a straight horizon

3.Stability

4.Finding interesting light

5.Subtle & tasteful use of effects & editing

Here is my take:

1.Although ignored the horizontal rule of third rule for this photo I had used the left vertical line while also adding in a leading line.

2.The horizon is straight.

3. I used a fast enough shutter speed of 1/30 to make the photo stable. Try and keep the shutter speed above the focal length. I.E this was shot at 18mm with a shutter speed of 1/30 the 30 is greater than 18 so I knew it would be a stable shot.

4. The light is shining on the trees in the background highlighting them.

5. And it is edited to make the colours pop a little and the foreground a little brighter as it was in the middle of the day an a very harsh light.

Let me know what you think.

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playing around with multiple exposure in camera for my selfie project. I don't think it is the one that i will end up using.