Prism Frames

Prism Frames is a photography based blog centred around the idea of expressing and accentuating the hidden emotion of everyday colours through everyday life '

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Cold Reflection

A cold riverfront is reflected by a mirror against an element worn blue wall. The frame of the mirror is covered with text from magazine clippings, meaningless empty words. Our gaze of this cold blue world is restricted. We are denied peace. We avert our eyes from one point to another, but its useless.

With this picture I wanted to try and articulate depression in a unique visual way. The idea of this picture is that there is no focus points of relief. Everything in the picture is designed to be either unpleasant, or cold. First of all, I changed the colour temperature to cold to make the entire picture feel cold. Then I changed the wall colours to an unpleasant grayish blue, and changed the water colour to a very cold blue as well. The magazine clippings that I added to the picture are words, and slogans from various magazines advertisements. The words have no real significance on a whole, their intention is to add to the depressive atmosphere. The hollow words of advertising converging on the reflection of a sad cold day.

My camera specifications for this picture: 37mm. F/16. ISO 640.1/13

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This picture was taken at my friend houses’ balcony. I am choosing a full of water wine glass cup, and using the water as a reflection.  I tried took photo at 4:00PM, 5:00pm, 5:30PM, 6:30pm. I found out 5:30 PM will be the best time for shooting this week’s topic. The setting sun blue the whole sky. and the water in the cup can give the best reflection. The only problem with this photo is I don’t have a tripod, it is a little bit shaking. 

This picture was shot with a Nikon D7000 with a Nikon 50mm f/1.8 AF-D. The exposure was 1/5 sec at f/1.8. The focal length was 50mm and the ISO was at 400.

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Reflection: this specific picture contains several supernatural attributes. The sky's colours change as it gets closer to the lightning. This specific lightning reflects on the water in a near impossible way. The man's face in the picture is warped, giving off a ghostly vibe as if he has been changed by this experience.

The blue is important in this photo because it represents a ghostly ominous emotion that makes you feel uneasy upon looking at this photo.

I was very happy to be able to catch lightning in a photograph, and i do not take this lightly. I really appreciate how interesting nature is to capture, and look forward to taking more nature shots

ISO: 100

f-stop: f/5

exposure time: 4 sec

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The topic for the fifth week was reflection and my group’s theme was the color blue. It took a while to get this picture taken, because I took this in an elevator of a busy building. It also took a while to get the right angle in order to use my model to be reflected in 4 ways. After many attempts and a lot of people asking us what we were doing, I managed to get the picture wanted.

This picture was taken with a Canon Eos 6D with a 24-105mm EF lens. The exposure was 1/100 sec with an F-stop of 4.0. The focal length was at 24mm and the ISO was set at 320. This camera was taken with an off camera lighting system. I hooked a pocket wizard to my DSLR and hooked on blue gel on the flash. In the post-editing stage, I used Lightroom to brighten the blue in the picture.

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This photo takes in a park. Blue colour builds the environment more cold and bleak

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The topic for the fourth week was macro and my group’s theme was the color green. I took this picture in studio B because I wanted to utilize the lights they had in the ceiling. The lights in the studio did not bring out the color and texture I wanted on the leaf. After realizing this, I went on to using an umbrella lighting system with a pocket wizard. My subject sat on a chair and I use the light to beam his face with the leaf on top of his left eye. I also managed to use the off camera lighting system to get the certain texture I wanted on the leaf.

This picture was taken with a Canon Eos 6D with a 24-105mm EF lens. The exposure was 1/100 sec with the f-stop at 4.0. The focal length was at 105mm and the ISO was at 400. After this picture was taken I used Lightroom to crop the picture to emphasize the leaf and the eyes. I then brightened up the color of the leaf in the picture and brightened the eye color into a greener color to match the leaf. 

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Waiting

The seasonal change is in place, and the trees have begun to shed. A lone green leaf lays on the ground, almost defying gravity, beginning to make its final transition among an audience of others that already have.

For my macro shot I decided to do something with the seasonal change. I at first thought against it, but the season change provides such an interesting aesthetic that it was hard to ignore. For this picture I used my default lens with my canon t3i as I didn't have a macro lens, Which means that I had to get really close to get the shot, finding the right distance to achieve the best effect.  

In post-production I altered the colours on the picture to make a sharper distinction between the subject and the background.

My camera specifications for this shot: ISO100. 44mm. F/5. 1/640

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Macro: This photograph presents a very small post-it note, that reads “Your life is just beginning.” This message says a lot about our youth, and people seeing small things as the end of the world. This is sort of just a reflection of the fact that we should just cool down and enjoy our life, and realize there is so much still ahead of us.

The green in the photo represents growth. This photo is about young people growing into adults, and that is where most of us are at right now as university students.

ISO: 10000

f-stop: f/11

exposure time: 1/30 sec

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Macro photography is the extremely close up of the subject. Show subject more details than the actual looking. In the picture, focus on the moss on the tree trunk.

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This week’s topic is Green Macro. As I posted , this is a chestnut my friends found. Macro photography is photography magnified.  AND after the tips I read online, It is generally recognized as “macro” when you are increasing the size of an object in your picture from about half life-size, as represented on the image sensor, to five times life-size. 

This picture was shot with a Nikon D7000 with a Nikon 50mm f/1.8 AF-D. The exposure was 1/250 sec at f/1.8. The focal length was 50mm and the ISO was at 100.

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In this topic, I would like to try a yellow car on “speed”. But in Windsor, it is hard to find a yellow car. So I was think about movement locus. My subject holds two yellow balloons, and make a heart.  

This picture was shot with a Nikon D7000 with a Nikon 16-85mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR.. The exposure was 1.3 sec at f/4.5. The focal length was 35mm and the ISO was at 100.

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Speed: This photo represents stillness in nature, and speeding through beauty. It also represents radiance, and how bright nature can be.  The driver gives this photo a ghost-like presence, as it does not even look like he is in the car.  What is interesting is that you can still see the leaves through the car, but not the driver

I decided to go to Rondeau park, as it had been fall time, and the leaves had been a very warm color in which I could capture a vehicle driving through the road in which all the trees were covered in yellow.  It was a challenge finding the best shutter speed to fit this photo, but how it turned out is the best I could have hoped for.

ISO 400

F-stop: 3.5

Shutter speed: 1/50 sec

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The topic for the third week is speed. My group’s theme for this week was yellow. This picture was taken on Ouellette Avenue, which is a fairly busy street. During the beginning stages of taking this photo, I practiced the speed shot with many different cars. I wanted to get a shot were my model would stay still but the car would be blurry. I played around with many settings and I finally got the blur I wanted. It took over an hour to find the perfect yellow car and taking it at the right moment was what I wanted. At first, the car I liked drove way too fast and I was not able to get the shot. I tried to get shots of taxis and busses that had a distinct color of yellow to them. In the end, it was a Mustang Gt that helped me get this photo. As for this picture, I wanted to portray how in life everything moves in a different pace. I believe moving too fast will blur out the positive aspects in life. This could be aspects such as growing up too fast and not enjoying what you’re supposed to enjoy at a certain age.

This picture was taken with a Canon Eos 6D with a 24-105mm EF lens. The exposure was 1/25 sec with an f-stop of f/6.3. The focal length of this shot was at 35mm and the ISO was at 100. In order to edit this, I used Lightroom. I started off by cropping the top in order to highlight my model using the rule of third. I then brightened the yellow in this picture in order to pop out the blurred image of the car. As I was done this, I noticed that the picture would look better if I turned everything else except for the car to be in black and white. This made the color of the car look more vibrant.

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In this picture, I try to freeze the motion that my friend browsing website. It can be seen that two/three pictures overlap on one frame.

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Beautifully Frantic

Every element of the world is in utter chaos, even its beautiful aspects. She understands it and lays in peace.

This picture started off as a happy accident. I had moved my camera while taking a slow shutter speed picture of a tree transiting to autumn, and was really taken by the shot. It reminded me a lot of a brushstroke.I also thought that yellow leaves when taken this way represent something raw, almost like an energy force, which I also thought could be used to represent chaos. I decided to try and incorporate this element for my speed picture. I did this by taking a picture of my subject laying down in a bunch of leaves, while I was elevated on a ladder. I then took a picture from the ladder, moving the camera fast with slow shutter speed to create the blur effect. In post I first heightened the yellow in the blurred picture, and then moved the subject into the picture.

I hope to inspire two challenging emotion. With the fast moving landscape I want to create a sense of frenzy, almost overwhelming feeling in the viewer, which clashes against the subjects calm visage.

My camera specifications for the shot of the blurry grass and leaves: 1SO 200. 18mm. F/16. 1/30.

My specifications for the shot of the subject: iso 1600. 41mm. F 16. 1/160.

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Solace in Oblivion

Seeking to escape the infinite darkness, the wanderer crouches against a wall. He or she sits pondering, or asleep as the light bathes them in temporary orange solace. Our gaze of this person is from a distance as we are hesitant to approach. For if they are a victim or an enemy we can do nothing in this darkness but watch.

For my night exposure picture I wanted to do something moody. I searched downtown riverside for interesting lighting subjects, and stumbled across this area facing the river. I had my subject wear baggy clothing in an attempt to look gender neutral, and had them crouch with their face down. Once I had the subject in place I moved from a distance, and began to take pictures to find an interesting composition. Once I began taking pictures I noticed how little other light was present in my pictures, and then decided on that being a central part of the picture. In post I removed a building to the right of the subject that was emitting light. I also heightened the orange coming from the lights slightly.

My camera specifications for this shot were: ISO 3200. 33MM. F/16. 1/4.

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Low light conditions at night. So, it needs high ISO, or use tripod if need a long exposure picture. In the photo, I just use a wide aperture, and make sure hands no shake without tripod. My subject has a depression mood at that day; she tries to run away from home.