For the final photo assignment I had nature as my subject. The only problem about nature being my subject is that it's February in Michigan. Everything is dead. Fortunately, I had a clever idea to make it work for me. In my house we had some flowers leftover from a bouquet from my senior night meet, and I thought that I would take the flowers outside to shoot with the dead nature. I wanted to incorporate the bright colors of the live flowers with the dead, dreary-looking plants outside. One of the challenges I faced in this assignment was the wind factor. It was kind of cold out, but the main problem was the flowers blowing in the wind. Also, because of the sun placement, it was difficult to not catch my shadow in the pictures, but to also not to get a side picture of the flowers, Exposure triangle: ISO 100, f3.5, 1/1250 sec. Editing: contrast, clarity, and vibrance.
0 Comments
For this photoshop assignment we worked in small groups to explore different methods of taking portrait pictures. One of the methods we used was a studio, set-up method which uses three lights: a dominant light illuminating the face, a duller light illuminating the shadows on the other side of the face, and a "hair light" which creates depth between the subject and the background. The other method we used was to use a large piece of paper to serve as a light reflector. We used natural window light to highlight one side of the face, while using the reflector to lightly highlight the other side of the face. In photoshop we worked with creating frames for the pictures. The two goals were to create two portraits using different techniques and use our expanding knowledge of photoshop to frame the portraits in one picture.
In this photo assignment I decided to try and tackle light painting, and I tackled it with mild success. These aren't the strongest pictures I've taken through the year in terms of creativity, but I successfully worked in manual mode and manual focus. Light painting is quite frustrating in terms of correctly having the focus on the subject. I did this project in a bathroom in my house using the small flashlight on my car keys. One of the problems I had is that the light cast a really wide, funneled light, so I had to use sharpie on tape to cover the sides of the light. I had the same issue with a light up pen I had. It cast light in every direction which illuminated my hand and all the objects behind me, which I fortunately covered up in the editing process. In my best picture I wish I had captured the star in full, but the top edge got cut off. However, it shows how I figured out the timing of light painting. Best photo. Exposure triangle: f5.6, ISO 100, 5 sec. Editing: Contrast, blacks, clarity, vibrance, and saturation.
For this photoshop assignment we were instructed to find photoshop tutorials online and then try them out ourselves. For this assignment I tried two tutorials: a 3D effect tutorial and a double exposure tutorial. I found both tutorials to be fairly easy considering how new I am to photoshop. The 3D effect tutorial was much easier than the double exposure. A challenge that I came across was neither of the tutorials provided images. Searching for images that were supposed to look good together was difficult. The images below are the ones I used for the double exposure tutorial. 3D effect tutorial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GsCU4wHdmg
Double Exposure tutorial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-19z_ldzPes&t=460s For the fifth photo assignment I decided to shoot pictures of my two nephews. It was kind of spur of the moment as I forgot they were coming over, and I had to babysit them. I originally intended to try light painting for this assignment because it seemed easier than trying to photograph two children under the age of four. I had a difficult time getting pictures of them that weren't blurry because neither of them could grasp the concept of not moving. The fact that I was able to get at least 10 non blurry pictures was sheer luck. I learned that it is much easier to shoot portrait pictures with older subjects, but it is more fun to shoot subjects that don't understand what you're trying to accomplish. Exposure: f3.5, 1/40 sec, and ISO 200. Editing: contrast, shadows, clarity, and vibrancy.
For this photoshop assigned we had to take a minimum of three overlapping pictures and Photomerge them in Photoshop to create panoramic pictures.
For this fourth photo assignment I tried to do black and white. I used a rose in a glass box and a ceramic rose as my primary subjects. The hardest part of this assignment was turning a color picture into a black and white picture that wasn't just pure gray tones. It was challenging to capture an image that I could imagine would look good in black and white. It was cloudy when I shot the pictures, so they are not as bright as they probably could be. Because of the sun placement in the sky, I lost some of the shadows. I learned that it's much easier to shoot the pictures in color and then control the process of turning them black and white. Exposure triangle: f8.0, 1/30 sec., ISO 200. Editing: Contrast, saturation, shadows, and blacks.
The goal of this photoshop assignment was to take a picture of any place in the school then add other images to in photoshop to make the viewer have a double take. The end result was a picture that distorted the reality of the school, but, at the same time, the picture looked natural. For this project, I took a picture of the hallway and photoshopped in a picture of a train from the London tube system. My desired endgame was to make the hallway on the first floor look like the underground train platform of sort. In this picture I placed the image of the train and the image of the "mind the gap" sign. To the train I added in shadows and motion blur in order to create the appearance that it was moving through the hallway like it was a tunnel.
|
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
February 2017
Categories |