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.

Macro

It is the fourth photo assignment and that means we are almost done with the class. I chose Macro this week and I have to say it has been my favorite so far. There are more pictures in this set of photos that I actually like. For example, there is my favorite photo, the light switch, and the silver bead things. While shooting these photos I had to get close to the object in order to get I really deep depth of field. I also used a     high f-number to help with that. Now for my favorite photo, I really like this one because it is an art project I did in the 6th grade and I love the colors. When you look at it a certain way you can see the different levels of it and you can kind of see that from this angle.


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The Technical Data:
shutter speed:1/100
ISO: 800
aperture: 2.75


The Slide Show:

GIMP Assignment #4: Panoramic

In the fourth editing assignment we took 3 separate pictures and composited them together to create a panoramic photograph. I took pictures of our All State wall in our high school. When I put them together it was surprisingly easy to do, well after we had the demo. Now I know the picture is kind of curved but that is just the perspective of the wall.

GIMP Assignment #3: Portraits

This week we had our 3rd editing assignment. We had to use our skills we have learned before in order to complete this. As part of our assignment we learned two different styles of lighting for portrait shots (studio and window). To show case the differences we had to put the pictures side by side on a black background and give each picture a white frame. I had to use different layers and that went okay until the very end when I found out I was doing it wrong. It was fixed, with the help of Mr. Bush, but over all it was a pain to complete. Well, here it is. The girl on the left was taken with studio lighting and the girl on the right was taken using window lighting.

Light Painting

For the third photo assignment I chose Light Painting. It was fun to shoot all the pictures because the camera is on an extremely slow shutter speed so when you draw with the light source, mine happened to be my iPod touch, it will show up in the final image. For my favorite photo this week I was bored and running out of ideas so I tried playing tic-tac-toe, I am not sure why, but the end picture was kind of cool so I picked it for my favorite of the week.

The Technical Data:

shutter speed: 15 seconds

ISO: 100

aperture: 4.9

The Slideshow: