Monday, November 14, 2011

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.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

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.

Monday, November 7, 2011

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:)

Friday, November 4, 2011

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.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

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. :)

Monday, October 31, 2011

Assignment 4: Animals

Assignment Description:
So this week, I chose animals to capture for my assignment. My Toy Fox Terriers, Scottie and Tabby Sue, are very photogenic. They pose all the time, are silly yet cute:). Hope you enjoy.

Aperture: f2.8
Shutter Speed: 1/20
ISO: 640





What I Learned:
I learned that I need to use a higher shutter speed because if an animal moves, you can still capture them. I had a 1/20 shutter speed and my best picture wasn't the best. With a higher shutter speed, I could've captured Scottie's wiskers, moisture on his noise, etc. Practice makes perfect, right?