Foveas and Photographs

I am starting a ongoing blog series which explores the relationship between photography and human vision. The aim is better understand the intricacies involved with the way we see before photographs are taken, the way cameras capture our vision, and the way we see photographs when they are displayed. This will help you make better images, Images which can better fulfill your original vision.

1) A photograph is as good as blank space unless its viewed, and to be viewed, human vision is involved.
2) The vast majority of photographs are made by capturing something already seen by a human’s eye. Or a vision of how the light will be captured if we manipulate the light captured. -Exceptions; Hubble telescope and blind photographers etc, but even these photographs are subject to #1

The human eye is the most important camera to consider when photographing, because without it an image is nothing. Can a photographer afford not to train the most important camera he’ll ever use?
A little warning, if you are to take these ideas to heart you will really start to change the way you see. You will find yourself being interrogated by the people around you; “What ARE you doing?” I was sitting at a restaurant eating sushi when I unconsciously started moving my head like a charmed snake, with one eye closed, as I examined how the light was refracting through frosted glass on the wall.

Foveas and Photographs Directory;

-Introduction to Foveas and Photographs

- Benefits of Stereo Vision You Didn’t Know About
- Controlling Your Viewer’s Perception
- Field of View
- LDR -Exploiting a Shallow Dynamic Range

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Getting freedom from clients is a blessing, however it can be daunting at the same time. Our Last Crusade contacted me looking for new promos and individual shots, and all they gave me to go on was; dark, spooky, epic. For the group shot it was to have them all together standing in a line shoulder to shoulder. It gave me freedom to try some fun ideas, however it can be difficult to gauge if the concept is what they’re looking for.

Given the restriction that the guys were to be standing in a line for the group shot, I couldn’t do much in the way of making a story or narrative because they won’t be interacting with each other or the location. So I had to do all the theming with location and lighting.
The location we ended up picking is in the middle of a city park, just a group of trees which are generally nondescript. However when the trees are backlit the warped crooked nature of the trees is really highlighted.

Light setup;
First I setup two lights which illuminate the trees behind them. they are located behind Garret and Brady’s heads (2nd and 4th in the line).
The third light is a shoot thru umbrella about 2 feet above my camera.

Light test;

To avoid having the umbrella illuminate the trees too much the band is positioned quite far away from the trees, and quite close to the umbrella.

Individuals;

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