School Context

For this assignment we had to take a simple picture of the school, and add to it. Make it look like something you would never actually at the school. I chose a panoramic that i look outside the school, and added my favorite movie characters to it from Up. We used photoshop to add and edit the pictures onto ours.
Here is my final photo!

Photo #4, Light Painting

This weekend I shot for photo #4, I chose to do light painting. At first, it was really hard for me to get the hang of, but as I shot more photos it got easier and easier. I shot pictures of my violin and my guitar with a white sheet behind them. The violin turned out better because I liked the way the light reflected off of the shine on my violin. The guitar also had some cool ones, but was much bigger so it was harder to do. Which is weird because i chose a guitar one for my final photo. But I shot all of the pictures on about a 10 or 15 second shutter speed. Depending on what design i was doing i would just choose a number between that.
Here is my final photo!

Photo Assignment #3, Macro

This week i chose to shoot macro. At first I wanted to somehow shoot bubbles close up, but as I first tried to take pictures i was running into the problem, i couldn't even see the bubbles. So, i walked around my backyard thinking to go with the typical close up of a flower for macro. But I came across our old raspberry bush, looking close it had a lot of detail I wanted to capture. I chose this picture for my final photo because it shows the most crisp detail, depth of field, and color.

Panoramic Assignment

These are some of my first panoramic's that i shoot around the school last week. We had to take three to five pictures for each panoramic. you then uploaded them onto photoshop, and photoshop basically stitched them together. The only struggle I had was some of my pictures tuned out blurry, so when I tried to put them together parts were blurry.

 It also was kind of hard because we could only shoot in the school because the weather outside was so rainy.

Photo Assignment #2, Landscape

For my second photo assignment i chose to do landscape. For this theme I went out on some backroads right by my house. I wanted to make sure the color of the leaves really came out, and the beauty of the countryside. so I tired to get the bars, corn, dirt roads, and trees. I took a lot of pictures so it was really hard to choose what ones I wanted to use for my slideshow and what to choose for my final picture.

 This was my best picture shot at an ISO of 80 (same as last week), I didn't adjust my aperture or shutter speed while shooting landscape. I chose this picture because i felt like it showed the best contrast of colors and is had the corn, and the dirt roads. Even though it isn't like a pan of the land, i feel like it describes the landscape in the country and has the warmth i had in mind while shooting.

Here are the rest of my ten pictures, enjoy!

Photo Assignment #1, People

Each photo is shot in a different angle, but they are all very similar, the fisrt picture is the only black and white one in my slideshow, the rest are all in color.



In this assignment I went out and took pictures of my two little sisters, Allison and Andrea. I tried to incoorperate composition skills like balance, symmetry, lines and color. I took several pictures so it was hard to choose which ones to use in my final slideshow. I edited a couple of them using what we learned about photoshop, so I adjusted the levels making the photos either brighter and or lighter.



This is my final photo, it was shot at a ISO of 80. I think it is my best because it is shot at a different perspective and it a clean photo.

Car Photoshop: Retouching

We have started using photoshop a lot more in class, we were assigned to "touch up" a photo of a car. 

This is what we started with!

We used different tools in photoshop like the crop tool, we adjusted the levels( making it darker) we tinted the window also using level adjustments, we used the clone tool to cover up some shine spots, then to finish we used the polygonal lasso tool to select the background and fill it black with a normal brush tool. For sure I learned a lot about photoshop. Hopefully I can use it to edit my pictures for our project.  

Here is the final photo!

Motion Demo

 On Wednesday of this week we had our motion demo. We were taught how to blur the background of the photo while capturing a moving object in front . All you have to do is adjust the shutter speed to about 1/60, keep a steady hold, focus your camera and when the object passes by, you basically pan across. 

Amanda's Inspirations To Photo Assignment

Yesterday we were assigned a new photography project. We have a large amount of time to take multiple pictures of different catagories. The first theme i'm using is people. From the website "fickr", I have found a few pictures that help inspire me to go out and start taking pictures of my own.

Some examples I really liked were:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/korkai-uranus/5220596782/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/flutterbye856/506166508/

I hope to be able to apply these into my pictures. Like the blue eyes on a kid, or adding other things in the pictures like flowers or feathers. People could be hard to shoot, but I have some good ideas and hopefully my sisters will let me shoot them!