photo-shoot on Campus

The photos and video footage been taken, went to a postproduction application to be edited. The applications that have been used are ScreenFlow (It can capture the audio and video from the computer, edit the captured video, add highlights or annotation and output a QuickTime video file), Adobe Photoshop (is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems as show in the videos) and finally iMovie (the user can edit the photos and video clips and add titles, music, and effects, including basic color correction and video enhancement tools and transitions such as fades and slides.)

Facebook Photography (Ellie Jones)

The use of photography on facebook allows people to put only images that they wont others to see of them so people interpret them how they want themselves to be interpreted by others. People can use photos to hide who they really are and show the world who they’d like to be.

Photographic metaphors (Carlos Walters)

One of the beauties of photography is that each photo can metaphorically represent or symbolise our emotions, values, or ways of seeing the world. This can be uplifting and motivational, and help us in the course of our lives. The great thing about this concept is that everyone will perceive photographs differently, and thus may all hold a different subjective meaning.

For me personally, the image of the barrel of a wave aesthetically symbolises the vortex of life: and the key is to persist (the task), until you make it out into the sunlight (the reward). Here is one of my barrel shots.

Techniques for Better Pictures (Ghazi Ahmed)

Making beautiful photographs involves nothing more than a bit of thought. While it often helps to have decent equipment, all you really need is to take a moment before each shot to think clearly about what you are attempting to capture or create.

If you would like to:

1. Bring home much more pleasing memories from your travels; 
2. Make more artistic portraits of your family, pets, or friends; 
3. Be satisfied and excited instead of disappointed every time you look at your photos; or 
4. Simply enjoy the process of making pictures more; 

Here is a video that that shows some of the simple techniques that help you with your photography

Warriewood Blowhole (Carlos Walters)

During the winter of 2010 I went to Warriewood blowhole - a spot that I'd heard a lot about. There is a 13 meter cliff on the ocean side that is ideal for jumping off, however you end up in churning water smashing into the base of the cliffs, and the only feasible way out is to swim through a semi-submerged passage that exits at the other side of the cliff, into what is known as Warriewood blowhole.

So it is dangerous. Water comes from both the north east side (the entrance to the blowhole) and the south east side, so the current is constantly changing, either pulling you forward or back. We managed to swim through it, which was a bit eerie, but the landscape at the other end was simply expansive and engulfing! Sheer rock walls, and water fell and danced, over a large plateau of rock, into and out of the blowhole.

I tried to capture some of this experience in my photography. The way I see photography now is in 'segments' or 'shoots' that preserve and express a particular event or day, often events that are sublime or hard to describe by words.

Telling a story (Ellie Jones)

Photography is used to tell a story about a person’s life. Photos are the evidence of someone’s life from when they were born until their present time in life. They show other people what things or activities you were interested in, who your friends were in the different stages of your life and the things you did and saw in your lifetime. Photos let you see the people you were unfortunately never able to meet, they may not be here but that photo gives you comfort, knowing what they looked liked you can now imagine them in your mind.

Best way to snap the shot (Ellie Jones)

The best photos are the ones you don’t know are being taken they capture that exact moment you can’t put on a fake expression you can’t pose, what you are doing and how you are feeling at the specific moment in time is frozen on a 4X6 image. A moment you can look back on for years to come a photo that you can show someone and tell a story about that moment.