For this third photo assignment I picked food as my subject. I feel as if food is a little bit easier to work with except that, depending on the type of food being shot, bright colors are tricky to make presentable. Fruit also isn't in season in Michigan during this time of the year. I mostly focused on shooting fruit and smaller foods because they are easier to work with. I tried to make my pictures seem interesting by arranging the food into interesting, vision capturing shapes. I took a food-in-a-magazine approach. I learned that I don't particularly enjoy shooting food, and I wish that I had shot the pictures at a different time because the lighting outside was very gray and dark. Best picture above. Exposure: ISO 400, f3.5, 1/30 sec. Editing: Clarity, vibrance, blacks, contrast, and highlights.
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For this photoshop assignment the class had to take an unedited photo of a car and retouch it (the picture of the car was provided for us). In this assignment we explored the cropping, clone, selection, levels, and layers tools in photoshop. Our tasks included removing the background, tinting the windshield, and removing light glares off the hood of the car.
Introduction/summary:For this photo assignment I shot still life. One of the challenges I dealt with was the poor weather outside and how natural sunlight was hidden behind the clouds for the entire day I decided to shoot pictures. I struggled with using alternative light sources because of the yellow tint it adds to the pictures, and many of my pictures were very dark. From this shoot I learned that I am running out of interesting things to photograph, and still life is a very vague/ open ended subject. There is no clear guidelines for what counts as still life. In this shoot I shot pictures of a variety of objects as opposed to what I did for the first assignment. ISO 800, f3.5, 1/40 sec. Editing: contrast, shadows, clarity, vibrance. For my best picture I selected a picture I shot of a rose that was dying. I used the light coming in from a window, and the rose is lying on top of a white sheet of printer paper. I wanted to capture the beauty of the rose, but to make the picture more interesting I also wanted to capture its shadow.
Introduction:For the first photo assignment I ventured into the macro setting on the camera. Macro photography includes shooting the subject very close in order to capture details that aren't normally seen. In this photoshoot I shot pictures of a glass ball that has an intricate pattern within it, a rose inside a glass box, and a bottle of nail polish. I had a great time doing this assignment. I had already had the idea in my head about what I wanted to shoot, and I was very happy that the pictures exceeded my expectations. In this shoot I learned how tricky it can be to properly expose an image and have the colors in the picture mirror the actual color. Not using natural light made the latter quite difficult. Pictured above is my best picture from this photoshoot. ISO 200, f8.0, 1/10 sec. Editing: contrast, shadows, blacks, clarity, and vibrancy. This is a glass ball that I got in Connecticut back in July. It has an intricate design inside of it, but I do not know what it is made of. I shot the picture on a windowsill with a piece of paper curved around the back of it to create a white back drop.
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