T2_Food

The objective of this assignment is to capture delicious food and/or beverage in variety selections. The following photos are the best selections of this theme.


Picture 1: Antipasto / Pawn Potato Salad
Explanation & Ingredients: This is a classical and fresh pawn potato salad that consists of organic golden potato, low-fat creamy, and fresh pawn. This dish provides a smooth and fresh taste before the main dish or Entree.
Photo Taken By: Ava Chen
Photo Details: F/5.6, 1/50, 44mm, ISO800
Place: 品田牧場 http://www.pintian.com.tw/menu_E.htm
Date: 07/11/2013

Antipasto / Pawn Potato Salad

Picture 2: Red Bean Soup with Osmanthus and Japanese Style Mochi
Explanation & Ingredients: This is a health dessert soup that consists of red bean, sugar, Osmanthus flower. It tastes the best when you go with Japanese non-sweat Mochi.
Photo Taken By: Ava Chen
Photo Details: F/5.6, 1/8, 35mm, ISO800
Place: 品田牧場 http://www.pintian.com.tw/menu_E.htm
Date: 07/11/2013

Red Bean Soup with Osmanthus and Japanese Style Mochi

Picture 3: Bubble Milk Tea
Explanation & Ingredients: Bubble Milk Tea also known as Pearl Mile Tea, which is a Taiwanese tea-based drink. It consists of a mixture of hot Taiwanese black tea, small tapioca pearls, condensed milk, and syrup or honey. This is a good choice if you feel hungry in the late afternoon.
Photo Taken By: Ava Chen
Photo Details: F/5.6, 1/3, 27mm, ISO400
Place: Chun Shui Tang Cultural Tea House http://chunshuitang.com.tw/
Date: 07/11/2013

Bubble Milk Tea

Experiment 03 - Metering

The objective of this experiment is to explore the function of metering. For Canon 650D, there are 4 metering selections: (1) Evaluative Metering, (2) Partial Metering, (3) Spot Metering, and (4) Center-Weighted Average Metering. The metering functions allow photographer to control the subject's brightness in order to match their preferences of subject's representation.

1. Evaluative Metering

2. Partial Metering

3. Spot Metering

4. Center-Weighted Average Metering

For additional information about how to control metering function, please check the following references.
1. Metering Mode Explained: http://digital-photography-school.com/metering-modes-explained
2. Understand camera metering modes from Youtube by photoblazr

T1_Sky คน

The objective of this assignment is to capture a particular theme - Sky and to select three best shots among the photos that have taken by photographer.

There are three best shot that have been selected from the photographer's point of view. Hopefully to receive some of commons and feedback for the future improvement.

Picture 1: Summer's Enthusiasm

Picture 1 Explanation

• Title of Picture 1: Summer's Enthusiasm
• Photo Taken By: Ava Chen
• Section Idea: To express the combination of green leaves, blue sky, and white clouds as the theme in order to create a sense of enthusiasm of the summer season. 
• Photo Description: Aperture F/11, Shutter Speed: 1/400, ISO: 200, Focal Length: Canon 55mm 
• Date: July 2nd, 2013

Picture 2: Mystery Sky

Picture 2 Explanation

• Title of Picture 2: Mystery Sky
• Photo Taken By: Ava Chen
• Section Idea: To express the mystery of the sky surrounding by the building, bridge, and river. 
• Photo Description: Aperture F/5.6, Shutter Speed: 1/50, ISO: 400, Focal Length: Canon 55mm 
• Date: June 27th, 2013

Picture 3: A Walk in the Clouds

Picture 3 Explanation

• Title of Picture 3: A Walk in the Clouds
• Photo Taken By: Ava Chen
• Section Idea: To express the feeling of walking in the clouds in order to create the atmosphere of the relaxation and romantic melodies
• Photo Description: Aperture F/13, Shutter Speed: 1/400, ISO: 100, Focal Length: Canon 55mm 
• Date: July 2nd, 2013

Experiment 02 - White Balance Control

The objective of this week is to learn how to control the white balance (WB) in appropriate setting. Most of camera has set up auto white balance control. However, being a professional photographer, WB is one of function that he/she must know how to adjust in different setting. The pictures below were taken during the exercise session, which may represent good / bad setting of WB.

Pic 1: WB in Daylight  (Approx. 5200K) with white light support.

Pic 2: WB in Tungsten (Approx. 3200K)with white light support.

Pic 3: WB in Daylight (Approx. 5200K) with orange light support.  

Pic 4: WB in Auto WB. 

To summarize the White Balance (WB) function, a beginner photographer must understand the differences of WB selection. The functions of WB in Canon 650D include (1) Auto WB, (2) Daylight (Approx. 5200K), (3) Shade (Approx. 7000k), (4) Cloudy (Approx. 6000K), (5) Tungsten Light (Approx. 3200K), (6) White Fluorescent Light (Approx. 4000K), (7) Flash, and (8) Custom. Most of time, we may intend to use the Auto WB when taking picture due to it's easier to control the result of photo. However, being a professional photographer needs to know what appropriate selections of WB are in order to express the outstanding result of the object or subject. 

Experiment 01 - Camera Control

The objective of this week's assignment is to be familiar on controlling of our camera in different functions with particular focusing on aperture, shutter, and lens.

The manual control function was selected with lowest aperture (F5.6). All of pictures were taken in between lens of 55 mm and 18mm.

1st Picture (F/5.6, 55mm, 0.5meter)

2nd Picture (F/5.6, 18mm, 1meter)

3rd Picture (F/5.6, 55mm, 0.5meter)

4th Picture (F/5.6, 18mm, 1meter)

5th Picture (F/5.6, 55mm, 0.5meter)

6th Picture (F/5.6, 18mm, 1meter)

To conclude the understanding of the depth of field and lens differences, being a beginner photographer must know how to control the setting of aperture, shutter, and lens. The appropriate adjustment of aperture allows photographer to take a decent picture with the blur background, which is the shallow depth of field in the technical term. As comparing the pictures that were taken above, we can notice that the closer pictures represent the blur background. Not only because of the close up of the object, but also the lens and aperture control that allow pictures to have the shallow depth of field. Moreover, when taken the pictures with the lowest lens of 18mm and lowest aperture F5.6, it cannot represent the better result of the shallow depth of field. Unless you close up the object, but still the representation will not be outstanding.