Here is a final slide show. These are some of my favorites and I used Animoto to make it. I didn't really have anything else so here it is.

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Animal

Well, I made it to our last photo assignment. For the final one I choose animal and took pictures of my cats. It was harder to take the pictures than I expected because my cats kept moving. I will admit I should have seen it coming but overall I think I have good pictures. My favorite photo this week is of my cat in one of his favorite spots, by our coat rack. He is looking up at the window above there and I just think he is cute.
Just for fun, my cats names are Buddy and Mo (short for Mo-Mo). Buddy is the black one and Mo is the withe one with the striped spots.


The Favorite:

The Technical Data:
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/13
Aperture: 2.6


The Slideshow:

GIMP Assignment #6: Visual Dictionary

For this week we got to choose the editing assignment we wanted to do. There was a choice between visual dictionary and visual puns. I picked the word serenity for the dictionary. When I think of serenity, I think our a peaceful and calm place like a spa or a zen garden. In my picture I used bamboo, rushing water, and the Chinese symbol to show the definition of my word.

I did not take all these pictures, I got them off of Flickr's Creative Commons so I must give credit to the photographers. The background was taken by Zechariah Judy, The splash of water by Rakesh Rocky, and the bamboo was taken by Troy Mason. I also got the definition from the dictionary application on the Mac.

Shadows + Light

We have six down and one to go. For our second to last photo assignment I choose shadows and light. I wanted to demonstrate the different kinds of light such as sunlight, lamp light and flourescent light. My favorite pictures were the ones that used sunlight because those photos had better shadows.


Favorite:

The Technical Data:
ISO: 80
Shutter Speed: 1/1250
Aperture: 4.3


The Slideshow:

GIMP Assignment #5: School Context

In this assignment we had to change the context of our school by putting pictures from the internet into one of our school. I started by doing "Where is Waldo?" but I couldn't find the right pictures online so I decided to put my favorite band into the school. My favorite band is Mumford and Sons and I took a picture of them from the Grammy's  and framed them in the windows by our library.

black+white

For the 5th photo assignment I took pictures and then changed them to black and white shots. Some of these pictures I took while shooting for other assignments but I didn't put them in the slide show. My favorite photo this week I had originally shot for the nature assignment but I thought it looked better in black and white. I also think that the photo has a nice balance of light and dark.


Favorite Photo:

The Technical Data:
ISO: 80
Aperture: 4.3
shutter speed: 1/1999


The Slideshow:

Motion Demo

Our teacher, Mr. Bush, rode his bicycle across the commons in our high school. We sat at the lunch tables taking pictures of him as he rode by. Our goal was to pan the camera and keep the subject in sharp focus while making the background blurred. We shot in shutter priority mode and the hardest part was finding the right speed. I learned it make take a few tries before you get the right photo and then sometimes getting the right shot is matter of luck. Here is my best attempt at motion blur.