Photo Assignment 7 - Light Painting

For this assignment I decided to try light painting. I used a flashlight and a dark room to take these photos. My mom helped me out by being a model for them and doing different poses while I used the light to make cool effects.
Best Photo:

ISO: 64
F/8
Shutter speed: 8/1 sec

Slideshow:

Gimp Assignment 7 - Puns

In this assignment we had to make 3 pictures of puns in gimp. I came up with the puns by myself and then went on google images and selected pictures and pasted them together to make funny puns.

Pun 1: Hold your horses
Pun 2: Home run
Pun 3: Ruby Tuesday

Photo Assignment 6 - Event

For this assignment I chose to take pictures of an event. I went out to a girl's lacrosse game and took action shots of them playing. I learned that I needed to have a fast shutter speed in order to capture the image without having a lot of blur in it. I also had to take a lot of shots so I got exactly the right ones I wanted.
Best Photo:

Iso:400
F/4.5
Shutter Speed: 1/80

Slideshow:

Gimp Assignment 6 - Picture Dictionary

In this assignment I used gimp to make 4 picture dictionaries. I used flickr to find photos of a word that I looked up in the dictionary. I typed the definition and and pasted the pictures to make a collage.

In this assignment I learned how to look up words in the dictionary app and get photos from creative commons on flickr. I also used gimp more in depth for the picture dictionaries.

Photo Assignment 5: Black and White

For this assignment I went outside and took pictures of things like my lacrosse stick, watermelon, flowers, and my basketball hoop. Then, once I had taken my pictures I went to the editor in photoshop and turned them all black and white.
Best Photo:

ISO: 80
f/4
shutter speed: 1/1250

Before Editing:

When I edited the photo I cropped it and changed the color levels to make it black and white.

Portrait Demo

In this assignment we had to take two different portrait photos. There was a setup with lights in the library where we got a really professional looking photo. For the other photo we went in the stairwell and held a bounce card to reflect the sunlight on to the subject's face.

I learned how professional portraits are taken in this assignment. To take good photos it is important to have a have a lot of light. I also learned how to use a bounce card and all about the lights that professionals use.

Assignment 4- Light and Shadows

For this asignment I decided to take pictures of shadow and light. I set up two pieces of white paper for my background and got a lamp that I could hold over the objects. For some of the photos I just put objects like perfume bottles and shined the light on one side of them to create a shadow. For my best photo I turned all of the lights off and put a candle in a fancy holder and I liked it because there was light and shadows incorporated into the photo.

Iso:200
Fstop: 2.8
Shutter speed: 1/30
*not edited



 

What I learned from this assignment was that to create good shadows of an object you need to have a light source on one side. Also, it is important to have interesting objects like candles and strawberries so you can see really nice details.