Photography recap

Throughout the trimester, we learned many settings of the camera and ways to utilize these settings into taking pictures. We have learned three very important settings, including shutter speed, ISO, and aperture. We also learned many compositional techniques like color, space, perspective, balance, and framing. I think this class was very useful because it opened me up to a new type of technology. Not only did I get better at using a camera, but I learned how to use an apple computer better. I learned applications on the mac and I also learned how to use them to my advantage. I think my favorite part of the class was definitely becoming more intact with programs like photoshop. I really liked editing photos, and learning the tools of photoshop. I think this class in a way was really hard for me, it's my lowest grade, with a B+, even below chemistry and geometry.

I think this Gimp assignment was actually very hard. I think it was hard to get each photo to the same zoomed in length. I think mine turned out fairly good, though I don't think it's perfect.

Light Painting

Shutter Speed: 15/1 sec

ISO: 80

Apereature: F/3.2

To create this photo, I used a technique called light painting. It was difficult at first, but I found it to be very fun once I figured it out. I wasn't sure which photo to use, but I ended up choosing this one because I like all the colors and how you can see the features of the face,

These photos were also all taken using light painting. I like the picture with the 2 stick figures a lot, and I think the picture with the two green faces also turned out pretty good.

Photo 7: Patterns and Shapes/Shadows Inspiration

Shadows and Light Inspiration

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31097516@N04/3370299018/: Taken by Shadow Walker

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wan-der-lust/2295798346/: Taken by Day 132

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tariq-m/3814759437/: Taken by TARIQ-M

Patterns and Shapes

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pankcho/571840199/: Taken by Panchko

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcdead/3326102446/: Taken by Phillip

http://www.flickr.com/photos/muzuto/2921028949/: Taken by Phillip

Gimp Assignment : School Context

In this assignment we were asked to take a part of are school and add whatever we wanted to it, which would change the perspective. I found the Scooby doo characters off of Google, and changed the car green using tools in Gimp. I really enjoyed this project, and liked it the best out of all the Gimp assignments!

Architecture

I chose this picture, because I think it really demonstrates architecture, because of the shapes, curves, and colors. I also like that there is brick showing which shows you that this is part of a building. I think the fact that the subject of the photograph is hard to tell what it is makes the photo more interesting.

ISO: 80

fstop: f/5.8

Shutter Speed: 1/160

These pictures were taken all around downtown Saline. Most of these pictures are of a large building that shows architecture, but the main photo I chose shows a zoomed in image of architecture against a small piece of a brick wall.

Panning

(name is hard to see, because I blurred it)

I learned from this assignment that it's very hard to get the blur and also keep the subject in focus at the same time. This photo was my best example, even though the cars and the far background are the only blur in the photo. A lot of my photos showed too much blur, where even my subject was blurred. I think this happened because I didn't pre-focus my subject enough. Overall, I think this photo is pretty decent, but I would like to get more practice with panning.

Shutter Speed: 1/60 sec.

f stop: f/8

ISO: 80

Still Life

I chose this photo for still life, because I think it shows good compositional techniques like the texture of the shells. I also like this photo a lot because I like how the mirror in the background shows the back of the starfish.

Shutter Speed: 1/20 sec

ISO: 400

f stop: f/4

These photos are also of still life, and they are also of shells. The smaller shells were brought back from Ft. Lauderdale beach, and the starfish and other large shell were brought back from a beach in California. The photo with the marbles was taken through a glass jar which is why the photo is a little blurred. I think these photos were pretty decent, but I found the starfish photo to have the most compositional techniques.