Monday, October 15, 2012

Photo Assignment 2, Still Life

  For this assignment, I chose to do still life. The pictures I took were of pumpkins that I always put up for Halloween. I took some pictures with the flash on and you could not see the lights the pumpkins were showing off. So I decided to take all the rest of the photos with out a flash. It was easy to take the one hundred photos I was told to take with each assignment. The best photo I had to chose was the hardest to find because some of them were very good and others though were not that well. For the slideshow I found that pretty easy because I really liked at least 10 photos, so I just used those ones


This is the photo I thought was the best photo I took this week.




For the technical data, or image triangel, the ISO is 400. The Shutter Speed is f/3.5. The Aperture is 1/10 of a second.

This is the 10 best pictures I took this week.




    For this assignment, I chose to do still life and I stuck with it. For still life, it is easy to find things to take pictures of. You can take pictures of anything you want. But the pumpkins weren't my first chose. I first wanted to take pictures of my violin, but then I didn't bring it home with me to take pictures of. Then I chose to take pictures of flowers. But to me, it seemed like a lot of people will take pictures of flowers for still life. So then I chose to take pictures of the pumpkins. After that it was pretty easy to do everything else.








Friday, October 12, 2012

Photo Assignment Car

    For this Photo Assignment, we learn about and how to use more tools in photoshop. This one was a bit harder then the first one we did because there were  a lot more tools that we had to use and some of the tools were hard to get down. But for this one we got a picture of a car that we had to recreate. I thought it would be pretty easy like the first one but I was wrong.


This is the demo photo we used for this assignment.


And this is the car I did from this photo


Thursday, October 11, 2012

Inspiration

  For my second photo assignment, I have chosen to take still live photos. I hav e chosen to take still live photos because I like the look of the photos and I think it would be fun to take this type of photos. I don't know what I will finally take pictures of, but inspiration will come to me soon.


Here are some photos that have inspired me

Violin and bow
Pink rose
Flower in a Vase


Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Photo Assignment 1, Macro

     For this assignment, I got a sheet of paper with 12 different types of pictures I could take. I looked them over and I thought I would do people because it would be the easiest for me. But while I was taking pictures of my sister, I got a great picture of her eye I could not pass up. So once I got the picture the way I wanted it to be, I changed my assignment photos to macro [close up]. I was told to take at least around one hundred pictures, then I would find the best ten of them. Once I found the best ten pictures I would make them into a slideshow. But then I had to find the photo I thought was the best and also turn that in.


This picture is the one I thought was the best. Hope you agree with me.

       
                                        



     For the technical data or the image triangle, the ISO is 400. The Shutter Speed is f/6.3. The Aperture is 1/60 of a second.



This is a slideshow of the best ten photos I took pictures of.





    For this assignment, I totally changed what I thought I would start with. I first started with people, then I changed to macro because I took a picture of macro just having fun and really liked it. I learned that even the littlest thing can make a huge difference in a photo. I changed the photo to black and white, then I sharpened the light in the eye and that completely changed the photo. Then I learned that when you take about 100 pictures, it could be easy to pick one of the best photos but yet it could also be really hard. When I picked the best photo, it was easy because it stood out to me. But all the other pictures were hard to pick because I had 99 more photos to pick from.

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Photo Assignment Popart

   This week in digital photography, we got our first photo assignment. We had to go to photoshop and learn all about it. We took a picture and downloaded it to photoshop and turned it into a popart photo. We learned how to crop and how to use the rulers to allow us to have four pictures on one picture.




  When we first started this assignment, I knew next to nothing about photoshop. But now that I have done an assignment that uses almost all the tools, I think the next assignment will be pretty easy. I didn't take that long to do this assignment, but I did have some mistakes that would make me pretty mad, but next time I don't think I will have any mistakes like that again.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Composition 2

  For this assignment, I had to take 5 different types of photos. Framing, balance, space, color, and perspective photos. Before I got to take my camera out and take the photo s, I had to take notes on them. I went to mrbushmedia.com and found composition 2 and started reading. After that I went around the school and took some photos. I didn't take all the photos I wanted so I went home and took some photos that I really like.



  • Color - Shells up against a wall
  • Perspective- Picture of girl
  • Space - Elephant
  • Balance - Ducks in the pond












     With this assignment, I learned that getting a photo to look right, it might take sometime. To get the best balance photo, I take a photo that I thought would be a good balance photo, but once I look at on the computer or the camera screen, it would look nothing at all like balance or what I thought it would look like. The easiest photos were color and perspective. Those all you needed was a thing with lots of color and put something in front of it. For perspective, you need to find a thing you can take pictures of and take different perspectives of them. Space was also pretty easy.

Inspiration

    For my first Digital Photography Assignment, I will be taking pictures of people. I will be taking pictures of some of my teammates from field hockey and maybe some pictures of my family. I want to take pictures of people for my first real project because I am most comfortable with this. I don't want to take pictures of something I don't know how to take a good picture of.

Here are some photos that I found inspirational.


Girl Laughing
Little Boy Looking Up
Two Little Girls