Joe Cornish

My second photographer is Joe Cornish a landscape photographer.Joe was born in Exeter (UK) in 1958.He studied at Exeter University.Initially he started his photography in studios.But later his attraction changed to outdoor photography.He became very interested in light and its influence on landscapes.Between 1986-1995 he provided lots of photos for travel books.He worked under the famous landscape photographer Ansel Adams working in Yosemite Valley for 8 years. Later he moved to north Yorkshire and began taking pictures of Yorkshire valleys and then coasts and mountains in Scotland.He has contributed heavily to National Trust publications.He has written many books in photography, but his first book was 'First Light, a Landscape photographer's Art. I was fortunate to attend one of his lectures which he delivered at Burton College.He showed his best collection of photos.He stressed the one can take good pictures in rain,snow,and frosty conditions.He also said he does not strictly observe the RULE OF THE THIRDS.I was surprised the several of his landscape photos are in vertical format.I had always thought that all the landscape photos had to be in landscape format, hence the name. But it is not to be.

This is a beautiful landscape and the reflection of the castle in the water.This must have been taken during dusk and the water is still.He must have spent a lot of time waiting for the right time.Very sharp picture indeed.

This is my picture which I took at Stratford upon Avon.Well, I did not use any tripod nor I had enough time as I was only visiting with my family.The reflection is not clear as the water is not still.May be on my next visit I will use a tripod and spend more time to get better image.

This is a beautiful picture of sun set.The sun is small at the horizon and he has covered a lot of land to give a lot of depth of field.Another feature is that the picture has a very little sky and a lot of land. He must have spent a lot of time to compose thispicture.

This is my picture of the sun rise.The difference is that I have included lot of sky and very little of land.I did not spend much time taking this image as I had not much time.Again I should have used a tripod which would have made a lot of difference.I have learnt some ideas from Joe's picture.

This picture was taken by Joe Cornish for the purpose of greeting cards.Very sharp and blurred background, which indicates that he has used a large aperture to highlight the main flower.

This is my picture of a geranium flower.I think ther is a good sharpness in the picture and also the blurring of the back ground.I am quite leased with this picture.

 This is another picture by Joe Cornish for greeting cards.Good sharp flower with some blurring of the leaves.

This is my picture of camalia flower from my garden plant.There is good sharpness in the flower and little blurring of the leaves.Good contrasting features, yellow, white,pink and green

 

Light writing

This is a new technique we learnt at the course.The use of  BULB aperture in which one can control the shutter opening as long as or as short as one wished.This is the first picture and as we got more pictures we got better and better.

This is the second picture, slightly better.

In this picture I tried to write my name over my face, which was not so good.

Here i got a little better, one can read my name though S is missing,.The trick is to write the reverse way.

This is a different technique, using the light source around ones body.

This is again same, a bit of fun as well, like having a crown over the head

Ideas and research

I was very much interested in photography from a long time.When I was a school boy I borrowed a camera from a friend and asked another friend to jump from a tree onto an underlying river.and I tried to take pictures and I may have taken about five shots and when I got the pictures printed I was very much disappointed as all the pictures were very blurred.I had no clue as to why it happened as I did not have any idea of shutter and speed of the shutter.Later on I got used to cameras and I always used the automatic setting.But the pictures came OK and until recently about 5-6 years ago I read about cameras, lenses, apertures and shutter speed. So to improve my techniques I joined the photography course at Burton College and I am learning new things.I am mainly interested in landscape photography, taking pictures of sunset, sunrise,landscapes, flowers and rivers.
when we asked to write about five photographers I chose John Blakemore
John Blakemore was born in Coventry in 1936.He was a landscape photographer.He mainly took black and white photos.He went to Tripoli and started  his work with RAF.Then he returned to Coventry and started taking pictures of buildings those destroyed in the bombings in the war and at the same time buildings under reconstruction. He is now emeritus professor of photography at university of Derby

He enjoyed taking pictures of tulips and studied the flower and came to a conclusion that tulips undergo continuous mutation..He has written many books about black and white photography.He has exhibitions all over the world. The above first photograph is one of John Blakemore and the second one I had taken in colour and changed into black and white.There is a lot of difference between the two pictures.In my picture I had captured the whole plant and the background as well.Studying the picture from John Blakemore Now I know my faults are and I will try to get better in future by focusing mainly in the flower.Again converting from colour to B/W will not be as good as the original B/W.

Assignment 5 Image manipulations

In this assignment we are asked to manipulate a picture using photoshop.I have used this picture for the exercise

This picture has been altered into B/W from colour.The first step is to open up the photo shop program.,select images,in the drop down menu select adjustments, click on black and white, and the picture becomes B/W.Now to save the picture,press command+shift+4. Now using the cursor cover the whole picture and let go.The picture is saved on the desktop

The same picture, this time it has been altered into half B/W and the other half colour. For this again open up the photo shop, images, then click on the square on the left side menu and drag the square until one half of the picture is covered and let go.Now click on the images and select adjustments and click on black and white.The picture is now half colour and half B/W.Press command+sift+4 and save the picture.

This is the same picture.And here the picture has been made B/W and the colour of the two cars has been restored.To do this open up the photo shop program, select images, go to adjustments, select hue and colour.Now go to window and pick the history and click on it.Then select the brush which is tenth in the left hand tool kit.Select the brush and drag it on to the object in the picture.Use the brushing action and cover the whole object and the original colour of the object is restored.Now save the picture as before

Assignment 1

This is the same view at 1800, it was raining and was dull.Aperture priority at F3.5

This is the first assignment in the photography course at Burton College.We were asked to take images of one object at four different times of the day.This is a view from my window.I used Nikon D5000.Time 0700,aperture priority at F8 and focal length of 18mm.There is a distinct blue tint as the sun is not risen as yet

This is the same view at 1400.Bright sunshine.Aperture priority at F8 and focal length 18mm.Picture is very bright

This is the same view taken at 2100.The street lights are on and it was not bright enough and so there was a camera shake,F9. To avoid the camera shake one has to use a tripod

Assignment 4

This picture was taken to show the fast moving cars on the bridge using a fast shutter speed so that the picture is clear.I used shutter priority at 0.167sec or 1/6 sec at F13

The same situation, this time I used the slower shutter speed at 0.400 sec or 1/3 sec.The vehicles are blurred.

This picture is a close up using a long focal length of 120mm.The picture shows only the swan

The same picture using a focal length of 28mm, now showing the surrounding trees and plants and part of the river

The same situation using aperture priority, aperture set at 4.5, the distal objects are slightly blurred

Here aperture is at 13 and distal objects are more clearer

In here the aperture is the smallest at 25(smaller the number the bigger the aperture) and a great depth of field and picture is much sharper