REFLECTIVE BLOG

Lenses

Fish eye Lens Mobile

A Fish eye lens which is a piece of equipment which goes onto a smartphone. They can range from a price of £3.99 to £9.99 which is a standard and decent price for a good quality of glass for a lens. The lens will help focus on mm and zoom into a target whilst using your phone which is image control and the lens can also stable photo quality.

Lens - What they do 

I've practised using a Lens on a Nikon and Canon DSLR
The most affordable lenses are £150 - £200 each for a decent good quality of helping your camera. Camera's come in different pieces so every important part of it needs to be remembered. 
Lenses help with Control of the Aperture - The amount of light reaching the film or image sensor
Image stabilisation - Reduce taking blurry photos
Focus pulling - Control of focus
Image control - Zoom in and out / Morph focal point  

Single Lens Reflex

It uses a mirror and prism system (which is inside the camera lens) so the photographer doesn't see through the lens and see what exactly the photo/video is taking. 


Digital Single Lens Reflex

A Digital single Lens Reflex combines the single lens of the camera with a digital imaging sensor. It combines the optics and mechanisms when the photo is being taken through the lens

Experimenting with Different Lenses 


18-55mm

18-55mm

50mm

70-300mm

18-55mm

What we did 

In groups of 4 we analysed different lenses and their abilities for supporting cameras whilst taking photos. We got 1 Camera with 1 lense first and a toy to take a photo of it while experimenting with the lense at a close up shot, Medium range and far away shot but that would apply for different lenses which we tested on the toy. We had to take photos of the toy on Floor 1 in different areas of the floor, in corridors or in classrooms. This lasted for 15 minutes before changing lense. Afterwards we learned how to change the lense to a different 1 on a camera by: Disconnecting the lense by holding a red button on the side of the camera, turning the lense Anti-clockwise and getting it out, next grabbing a different lense while connecting it to the camera by turning it Clockwise until hearing a small click. 


Garage band Instrument

Went onto Garage band chose the specific Instrument sound Which was Keyboard. Chose the Electric Drum Kit on the categories on the right and then clicked on Beat Machine for the selective. Next Created a new MIDI on the soundtrack and then double clicked on it and went to the Track at the bottom of the screen with the Keyboard notes. (Some labelled C1, C2, C3 etc) On the right of the keyboard I created Notes to implement a beat or any other type of sound related depending where it was selected. On Beat Machine's track I then messed around with the Mix's and Effect's to help create better synths for the Music.

Storyboarding

Did 3 storyboard's: On Canva, Storyboardthat and 1 on paper drawing it. Had to invision to make scenes  from a task set to create a story with dialogue (if necessary). On Storyboardthat we had to log in and create a 6 photo gallery of what we we're going to create with 6 photos of storyline on it. For Canva I had to find different photos from it's gallery to combine together to create a story. Back at Storyboardthat, it's a cartoon site where it has all different categories from towns, people, time, history etc.  

For the draw sketch I had to draw a storyline involving a dragon attacking an unaware army, but the army needed and did take the dragon out. The dragon had to be drawn like a sketch, it could be any type of drawn dragon drawing and same for the army figures.  

Canvas' storyline was to create the scene of a man and woman walking in town to get picked up by a friend in a car to drive to the countryside to see some animals. The canvas website had all different styles of background, most of them based in reality or good photographs taken to create a storyline possible. 

Adobe After Affects - Xbox


Had to animate and divide 3 parts of Texts of: The globe X, XBOX and 360 - Used the pen tool to cut between them each and put them into/under layer names. Using the 'eye' tool next to the input's 1 at time to cut between the 3 parts. (3 input's for the names of each) Next had to start animating the 3 parts by clicking the little arrow next to the input's names > Transition > and using Position + Scale as the main factors for animating the 3 parts. The video had to be around 20 seconds long and for the Scale + Position the animation time had to cut between 2 seconds long for it to work. 

I was happy with my results of the finished animation as it came out completely fine with no set backs or mistakes. I did do some mistakes within making the animation but managed to fix them so the finished part came out smooth. 

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