Going HDR

High Dynamic Range Imaging (Wikipedia)
High dynamic range imaging (HDRI or HDR) is a set of methods used in imaging and photography, to allow a greater dynamic range between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than current standard digital imaging methods or photographic methods. HDR images can represent more accurately the range of intensity levels found in real scenes, from the direct sunlight to faint star light and is often captured by way of a plurality of differently exposed pictures of the same subject matter.

Dave Hill
A commercial photographer living in Los Angeles with his Wife, was born in 1979 and grew up in San Diego.
Dave Hill's work. http://www.davehillphoto.com/

Lee Jefferies. A professional portfolio of a photographer. England.

 

Lee Jeffries's work.  http://leejeffries.500px.com/

Those two photographers take HDR style pictures, so I researched a bit information about them.

So this task is to go HDR, and theme is still about environment, I sketched my ideas.

 

My first idea is to gather random people into my photoshoot to represent Greenpeace is a Non-government organization, and everyone is one of it, such as Lee Jeffries's portfolio work.

So I gave a try.

 

This is how I gave a try, I didn't use RAW+Large, that's why the image quality is very bad.

 

But then I thought, why don't I just combine Greenpeace and Recycling together, so this is my final idea.

 

Waste is a very usual thing in this world, eating is a very usual thing as well, so it led mt to Wasting food, and using wasted food to represent "Don Waste"

Here is my final work.

 

Greenpeace logos as the background represents Greenpeace organization, chilli in the middle of the image and in the middle of the plate on the left side represents it's a "heat" not to waste, and wasted food on the left represents Waste does not look pretty.

 

A reused box and a reused bottle on the model represent "recycle" I drew a Greenpeace face on the box to represent Greenpeace organization, a recycle logo in green background represents recycling is green; "Hi my name is RECYCLE represents recycle wants to meet everyone and give its spirit to everyone.

So this is how I went HDR, Hope you enjoy it.

 

 

Diesel Global Warming Ready

 

(Wikipedia)

Diesel S.p.A. is an Italian design company. It is best known for luxury, pret-a-porter clothing aimed at the young adult market. The company is owned by its founder Renzo Rosso, and is based in the former Laverda building area in Berganze, Northern Italy.

 Pret-a-porter, ready-to-wear.

Diesel, the Italian clothing manufacturer has been raising the heat with a provoking advertising campaign. "Global Warming Ready" launched at the end of January.
A series of newspaper, magazine and billboard advertisements shows model posing in Diesel clothing in a world affected by raised water levels and temperatures.

 

Tropical birds in St. Mark's Square, Venice.

 

Sandy desert overtakes China Wall. 

 

Beach scene at Mt Rushmore. 

 

Summer holidays with the penguins in Antarctica.

 

London, a water playground.

 

New York city submerged. 

 

Tropical plants growing in Paris.

 

Rio de Janeiro underwater.

"Global Warming Ready" at first glance appears to be just another fashion advertisement. On second glance the campaign appears to be an arrogant swipe at the concerns of environmentalists. Wealthy people will continue to buy fashionable clothing even in a world affected by climate disaster. A visit to the website reveals further ambiguities.

The campaign won a Silver Lion for Cannes International Advertising Festival 2007.

Reference

All information comes from, http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/2007/diesel-global-warming-ready/

Littering Fact

Time goes by, it's 2012, 21st century already; what's our earth like so far?

 

It's like this, -Environmental Issue,  http://www.biophage.com/environmental-issues.html

Environmental issues are harmful aspects of human activity on the biophysical environment. Environmentalism, a social and environmental issues through advocacy, education and activism (Wikipedia)

There's a list of environmental issues I found on Wikipedia

List of issues

-Climate Change

-Conservation 

-Energy

-Environmental degradation

-Environmental health 

-Genetic Engineering

-Intensive farming

-Land degradation

-Land Use

-Nanotechnology

-Nuclear issues

-Over population

-Ozone depletion

-Pollution

-Reservoirs

-Resource depletion

-Toxins

-Waste

(Wikipedia)

Littering is one of the ways to waste on our earth, and it will be a huge problem if we don't stop and continue doing what we are doing and acting like we are blind.

Litter consists of waste products that have been disposed of improperly, without consent in an inappropriate location (Wikipedia)

Cigarette butts are the most littered item in the world, with 4.5 trillion discarded annually. (Wikipedia)

 

Littered Cigarettes Butts, http://www.sushi-suzuki.com/blog/2007/01/tax-cigarettes-in-way-that-makes-sense.html

Smoking is harmful to human health, but people still do smoke, even though it's harmful  to our home- earth, cigarettes butts are very small pieces, but when you put them together, it will be a big chaos like the image above, think about how those cigarettes butts are going to be disappeared in the world, there's no way to make them disappear in this world, the more people smoke, the more pollution we get. There are many solutions, and many things we can do to stop this harm for our earth. First of all, stop smoking, or smoke less; do not throw cigarettes butts everywhere; and recycle them to make them into new products.

Illegally dumped items containing hazardous waste can harm the environment and have a potential negative impact on human earth. Hazardous items are often dumped in isolated locations, such as National forests and other public land. (Wikipedia)

 

Illegally dumped items,  http://www.hkcleanup.org/en/content/illegal-dumping-fact-sheet

This about this, who is going to pick the dumped items in the woods? Nobody, nature would like to be ruined by this way? Think how beautiful the forests look like to you, would you still dump in the forests? In this image, it only contains tires and some furniture stuff, what if it's hazardous dumped items right there, how bad would it be in this woods? How do we stop this? -Dump those items in the certain areas such as recycling bins or recycling garbage to recycle the items.

Litter can exist in the environment for long periods of time before degrading and be transported large distances into the world's oceans, Litter can affect quality of life.

 

Litter affects the quality of life,  http://media.herald-dispatch.com/blog/cobb/2008/04/litter-affects-quality-of-life-in-our.html

Such as the image above, what is it's in front of your house? Would you ignore or would you go mental? I would personally go mental; trash are degraded in a very very long period, and some of the trash are even meant to be sent to the oceans, how many people do litter everyday? If everybody does littering very often, our earth would be covered full of dump, would you live in a better life or a worse life? So stop littering for a better quality of life.

I personally went out to shoot some littering facts around me, the photographs are awfully gross, and the facts are on our campus, people litter so much that they don't even notice this fact.

Dump's everywhere next to the soccer filed, nobody cares, everybody just simply walks by and never pays attention to it; dump stinks very bad, this makes the quality of our life worse on the campus. There are many solutions, such as setting up different trash bins, recyclable and non-recyclable, and separate the trash into different bins where the trash belongs, recyclable trash will be recycled to be made into new products.

 

 

Beautiful green soccer filed with one piece of white dumped item. I visualized how my campus would look like before I got here, it was a green campus, beautiful and refresh grass land everywhere, but by the time I got here, I asked myself "where the hell am I?" I personally chase after being perfect, I want everything perfect around me, a big white trash spot does really not look good on this peaceful green soccer filed, let's start with not littering everywhere, but in the bins!

 

The gutters are full of dumped items. Gutter, nobody ever simply cares to have a look, but when I saw this, I was shocked, gutter is for the water to run away, but these ones are basically to resort the trash, and I bet the trash will never be gone if there's still no body cares about this huge issue.

Animals are even living in a bad quality of life, not only human beings, animals have life like humans do, they need clean homes as you do, human beings usually clean and decorate their houses into perfect heavens, but they've never given much thought to out there, look what kind of environment those animals are living at? Would you live out there if you were them? 

The lake would  be beautiful if they didn't dump the trash here.

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Disgusting fact

This is where we live

The lake, the school. Can you actually see the facts? We live in a "deep shit"! What's the lake for on our campus? For everyone to chill at, not for everyone to dump their crap out there. I don't know what karma we are going to get, because I am not a fortune teller, but I have a very good example to show people what kind of karma we might get.

 

The Simpsons Movie,  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons_Movie

Everybody knows what The Simpsons is, there was a movie published in

2007 called The Simpsons Movie, it's basically a story about how Homer Simpsons destroyed the whole town by dumping his "Spider Pig's" crap into the lake, and evil happened after all.

We don't want that, do we?

So from now on, let's start on our own, stop dumping, stop littering, let's all protect our home- earth!

 

 

 

High and Low (studio)

This task is about High key and Low key, so I did some research.

High key (Wikipedia)
A high-key image consists primarily of light tines, without dark shadows. A photograph or printing that aims to reduce the lighting ratio present in the scene. This was originally done partly for technological reasons, since early film and television did not deal well high contrast ratios, but now is used to suggest an upbeat mood. It is often used in sitcoms and comedies. High-key lighting is usually quite homogeneous and free from dark shadows. The terminology comes from the key light (main light)

Low key
Low key as a term used in describing printings or photographs is related to but not the same as low-key lighting in cinema or photography.
A painting or image is low key if it's dominant values are dark.

After the research of high-key and low-key, Mr. Shawal gave me some lectures of studio lighting.
 Basic Studio Lighting
There are 2 basic types of studio lights
1 Strobe light/Studio flash.
2 Tungsten light

Fronting lighting, to light the object from at the front, it does no shadow, images are flat and white.
Side lighting, to light up the side of the object, the shadow part and the bright part should be equal.
45 degree lighting, to light up the object from 45 degree corner, a triangle shadow at the side.
Top lighting, to light up the object from the top, it gets butterfly effects
Bottom lighting, to light up the object from the bottom, the shadow goes upwards.
Back lighting, to light up the object from behind, it's either to light up the backgrounds or light up the object, which is called silhouette.

Silhouette (Wikipedia)
A silhouette is the image of a person, an object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single color, usually black, its edges matching the outline of the subject. The interior of a silhouette is basically featureless, and the whole is typically presented on a light background, usually white, or none at all.

Main  light, the one flashes and connects to the camera.
Fill-in light, to make the shadow side brighter.
Background light, behind the model.
Hair light, to highlight the hair)
Snoot, a snoot is a tube or similar object that fits over a studio light or portable flash  and allows the photographer to control the direction and radius of the light beam.

After the lectures, it's supposed to be the practical work, so I tried each lighting, there they are:

 

Front light

 

Side Lighting

 

45 degree lighting

 

Top lighting

 

Bottom Lighting

 

Back lighting Silhouette

Then the lecturer gave me more techniques on how to shoot high-key and low-key

High-key

1, Eliminate harsh shadow.

2, Create a bright environment.

 Requirements

Studio lighting, 4 pieces (2 background lights, 1 fill light, 1 key light (main light)

Low-key 

1, Highly dramatic

2, indoor/dark

Requirements

One light (Min) not more than 2 lights, the lights can be everywhere

Then I did some high-key and low-key practise

 

Low-key

 

High-key

So this shoot is about environment, I did some research for the ideas.

Greenpeace (Wikipedia)

Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

 

Greenpeace logo

Recycling

Recycling is processing used materials into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution and water pollution by reducing the need for "conventional" waste disposal.

Recycling logo

So my high-key idea is to draw these 2 logos on the models and to deliver the Greenpeace and recycling messages.

 

These are my final work.

My low-key idea is to rob the toilet papers around the models and deliver the message of waste, and represent how awful you look like when you waste.

 

Final work

In the shooting, couple of the images were shot with the slow shutter speed.

This is my High and Low assignment, hope you like it.