Photo Assignment #7 Animals

Technical Data:
Aperture: f/5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/200 sec
ISO: 250

For this assignment I decided to do animals because I got food poisoning after my meet and could no longer go out to take motion shots as I had originally planned. My best shot I actually took in December over winter break, when a hawk landed right outside my window. The rest of my shots are of my cats and one of my friend's dogs. It was extremely difficult to get any good pictures because they were always moving and whenever I got close to the dogs all they wanted to do was lick the camera, but it worked out in the end.

Photoshop Assignment: Visual Dictionary

For my three words I decided to do trust, time and tranquility. Each of these words I think has a deeper meaning that goes beneath the basic definition of the word. I believe that the pictures I chose represent the word to a significant degree. During this assignment I also discovered the smudge tool which I continued to use on all three of my images in this assignment.

Photo Assignment #6 Event

Technical Data
Aperture: f/3.4
Shutter Speed: 1/20sec
ISO: 400

For this photo assignment I decided to do event due to the fact that my gymnastics team hosted a meet at Saline Middle School called the Wolverine Classic. Even though I was there for hours upon hours this weekend I still found it difficult to find time to take pictures between competing, working, and assistant coaching at the meet.  I ended up taking a lot of photos of the decorations and a few of the level 4s who I occasionally help coach. The meet was a lot of hard work and took a great deal of time, but it was still a fun experience. For my best picture I turned it into black and white to make the symbol stand out more and to help minimize the distracting background.

Open Tutorial Photoshop Assignment

For this assignment we had to find a photoshop tutorial online that we wanted to try and create a picture. For mine I used a picture of a campfire and photoshopped it to look like the horses mane and tail were on fire. By doing this assignment I learned quite a bit more about photoshop, especially using the liquify and  the brush tools.

The website where I found the tutorial is http://wegraphics.net/blog/tutorials/painting-with-fire-using-photoshops-liquify-filter/.

Photo Assignment #5 Still Life

For this assignment I decided to do still life. I ended up using a black sweatshirt on my bed in order to get the background. The necklace in this picture is really old and belonged to my great-grandmother so I tried to get the beat feeling that it gives off in my picture. The only problem was that I had to use a high ISO in order to expose the picture enough so it got a little grainy. I also like how the chain in the background is in the shape of a heart.

Technical Data:
Aperture: f/3.4
Shutter Speed: 1/8
ISO: 800

Photo Assignment #4 Food

Technical Data:
ISO: 400
Aperture: f/3.4
Shutter Speed: 1/80 sec

For this assignment I chose to do food. I had planned on during architecture since I was in Chicago, but it was snowing the whole time so my pictures came out unfocused and grayish. This picture was taken on my kitchen table with the use of a desk lamp to give it shadows and depth. I also had a few pictures of desserts that I had already taken at an earlier time to add into the pictures I took last night. It was fun to shoot pictures of food, but it was difficult to not eat it at the same time.

Portrait Assignment

For this assignment we learned about two different lighting technics. The first is called the window light portrait. For this one you use sunlight and a white bounce card on the opposite side to combat the shadows from the sunlight. The second one is called the "3 - point" Lighting Setup. This involves having a backdrop a hair light to help separate the subject from the background, a key light which is the brightest and a fill light which helps remove the shadows. Between the key light and fill light you want about a 60 - 40 balance in brightness.