BEST PHOTO EVER

So this trimester is over. I probably will not do weekly post weekly but I will be posting once in a while. This best photo was taken for my composition assignment way back at the beginning for Depth of Field. I love the innocence of this flower and how it was just randomly placed there by whomever. Hope you enjoy!

Assignmet 7: People

This weekend as I was babysitting, I took pictures of the four girls that I babysat. I had the privilege of using a very nice Canon DSLR camera from my church. I felt so professional:)
 Below is the original and photoshoped photo.
Original:

Photoshoped:

 

Shutter Speed: 1/50

Aperture: f5

ISO: 3200

I learned that when photographing children, they move and squirm a lot, so in those cases, you need to use a higher shutter speed to catch them in action. It was very cool to use a big, fancy, (expensive) camera :)

Tutorial

We had to look up a free photoshop tutorial and try and do it on photoshop by ourselves. I chose to do a simple wedding invitation. Below is the link and my finished picture.
http://pshero.com/photoshop-tutorials/graphic-design/a-simple-wedding-invitation

The tutorial wanted you to download grunge brushes off a website that was free. I didn't follow all of the steps, I just made it my own. It was hard to figure it out at first, but if you are familiar with photoshop then you should be fine:)

Assignment 6: Black and White

This weekend I was inspired by a pair of boots I bought at a new resale shop in town. It has all vintage things and these boots seem to just illuminate in the black and white setting. It brought out the antique look of things like the scuff marks and creases in the leather. I also put thte photo in phototshop and did some thing with the levels. Hope yall enjoy:)
Original:

Photoshopped:

Aperture: f4
Shutter Speed: 1/80
ISO: 800






I learned that it is better to shoot in manual because then you can adjust the aperture, shutter speed and ISO to fit the lighting within the space.  Sometimes I got the background wall to be way too over exposed and then others it was too under exposed. I like playing around with the camera. Twas a good experience:)

Visual Puns

For this assignment we had to think of three puns and put them into context with pictures. We also used photoshop for this, and had to create a 5x5x72 pixel per inch canvas for each one and then put all three puns into a 15x5x72 pixelperinch canvas. For some reason, I had a reel difficult time thinking of puns...

Visual Dictionary

For this assignment we had work with photoshop a lot. First we had to make a 7x5x72 pixels per inch canvas and then think of a word that has meaning. We then put the definition onto the canvas along with pictures that represented the meaning of the word. We had to complete three of these.

I really enjoyed this project because it REALLY got me familiarized with photoshop.

Happy Veterans Day

Currently I have a sister in the Army National Guard. My father and uncle have both previously served our country and impacted it in a very positive way. Thank you to all soldiers. God Bless.

Assignment 5: Still Life

So I went into my mother's sitting room, shut the blinds, turned off the lights, got a flashlight and shined it on some of my jewelry. I think they turned out pretty good. My Kodak camera always puts out a lot of digital noise. It really erks me... But photoshop can fix many a things!
Original:

Photoshopped:

Aperture: f3.8
Shutter Speed: 1/40
ISO: 400






I learned that my Kodak camera produces major amounts of digital noise and I hate that. You have to really go into depth with setting up a still life shot. But it was fun:)

Portrait Assignment

We learned this week about the "3-Point" Lighting Set-up. This setup for a portrait shot. We took these photos in our library studio. We then had to take a window lighting photo that involved us using a big, white sheet of paper to have the light from the window bounce off and balance the lighting on the person of interest's face. This is what it turned out as:

 I learned how to set up a "3-Point" lighting, and how to position the object of interest under the lighting. With window lighting, I learned that you cannot keep the same settings as 3-Point light in window lighting. With the tungsent white balance setting, it will make the photo tint blue.

School Context

Our job was to take a photo of our school. We then had to "change the context" of the school by placing different pictures of our theme, that we had chosen, to make the school look somewhat interesting.My theme was a ballet studio.

I learned that you always need to make sure you see/change the size of the photo before you select and paste it on to the school picture. I had trouble with that and had to start over multiple times. But I love projects, like this one, that involve using photoshop. :)