Still Life Photos

photo info

ISO: 800

F-Stop: 3.5

Exposure: 1/40

For this weeks assignment I decided to do Still Life as my last photo assignment. For this assignment I decided to use a collection of things I love like baseball, basketball, golf, and hats and used them as props for my photo. In some of my pictures I used a black background for the photo but eventually thought that a brighter color would look better and then changed it so I had a brighter background and this is what I got.

Portrait Photos

ISO: 500

F-Stop: 4

Exposure: 1/60

For this weeks assignment I decided to do portrait. I found this one pretty easy because it was pretty easy for me to interact with the person that I'm shooting of. For the photo I choose AJ and I were messing around in the other room and trying to get some good portrait photos. We got a lot of good photos but they were boring and just of him smiling. So finally we decided to make him do a little something and I caught him at a good time in order to get this photo.

School context assignment

In this assignment our job was to take a picture of something at school and then using gimp add other things that were not in the photo into the photo to make it look like that they were actually in the photo. I took a photo of a tree outside and added a few things to it such as a fire a tent and a pterodactyl. Some things I struggled with in this assignment were making it look real and like it was actually there by cutting and erasing stuff that wasn't needed. It was also difficult to decide how to scale it and how to make it proportionally equal to the rest of the photo.

Black and White

ISO: 100

F-Stop: 4

Shutter Speed: 1/80

For this weeks photo assignment I decided to do Black and White. For this assignment the only thing that was a real struggle was to find somewhere where I could take a photo where it looked good in black and white that may not have looked that special with normal colors. The photo I took was of a bench in my backyard where it was kinda worn down and cool looking. I thought it was a good photo because the sun in the background is kind of giving it a cool aspect to it which I think looks cool in black and white.

Portrait Demo

At the beginning of the week we were told that we were going to be working with portrait photos. We learned about the 3 point light set up which has a key light, a fill light, and a hair light. The majority of the light comes from the key light which is on either side of the face. the fill light which is on the opposite side of the face gives some light to make the other side of the face not look like its in shadows. The hair light is on the top of the head or on the back of the head to make it look like it has some depth. After learning how to capture a good portrait photo it was my turn to go out and try to get one and this is what I came up with.

Light painting

ISO - 100

 f stop-2.8

Shutter Speed- 15 seconds

For this weeks photo assignment I decided to do light painting. I took the camera home for the weekend and messed around in the basement with it. I used my ipod as a light source to make it look like I was drawing lines with it. In this assignment some problems and challenges I ran into was when I was taking my photos my light source would be in the pictures at places where I didn't want it and was hard to hide. Also another problem I faced was 15 seconds was not always enough time for me to do what I wanted to do.

landscape photo

For this assignment our jobs were to take 3 photos all of which were next to each other. Then we had to put them all together to form a wide photo shot called a landscape. From there our challenge was to put all three together and edit them in GIMP to make it look like its just one big photo not 3 different ones. I learned a lot during this assignment. I learned how to connect photos and make them look like there was no change, how to use the different tools in GIMP to give results like the one above, and also learned for about a landscape photo and how much editing is done to each of them.

Macro

For this weeks assignment I decided to shoot for macro. I was without a high quality camera school camera so I was forced to use  a low quality everyday camera, but was able to make use out of it. For this photo I ran over to my grandparents house to pick up the camera and when I was leaving I thought the back of my car looked cool with the specs of dirt and decided to take the picture.

Photo Info:

ISO: 1250
F-Stop: 2.8
Shutter Speed: 1562/100000

Gimp Car editing

Before

After

For this assignment our job was to take a car that was given to us and edit it to make it look for professional and a better looking car. During this assignment I learned how to crop out things that I don't want like the background or small details on the car. I used the layers tool to make the colors pop out more and make it look for defined. I learned a lot of things in this assignment that will help me with my own photos that can help them look so much better

Nature

For this weeks photo assignment I decided to shoot for nature. With all the leaves changing colors I thought it would be a good opportunity to get a lot of interesting photos of the different colors of the leaves and how they contrast with each other. The photo above was a picture of a tree outside the school.  I choose this photo because I thought it had a good sense of balance with the way the branches broke off from the middle to the outside and also the texture of the bark.

Exposure: 1/60

ISO: 400

F-Stop: 3.5

Architecture Photo Assignment

In this photo assignment our job was to pick a category from a selected list. From there we had a week to take as many photos as we wanted to get a few great pictures for our album and our overall best picture. My best picture was down the long hallway of the school. I had a lot of fun taking photos for this assignment because I had the chance to look at different architecture structures in different ways.


Photo Information:

ISO: 100
F-Stop: F-4.3
Exposure: 1/25

Architecture Album

Gimp Assignment Pop Art

For this assignment our job was to take a picture of someone or yourself and upload it to GIMP our editing software. From there we were told to make it black and white so it had an interesting affect. We then changed the size of the photo and copied and pasted 4 of the same photos and put them all next to each other. After that we changed the photos to a new color, yellow, green, red, and blue. Finally we anchored the layers so everything is on the same layer.

Composition Assignment

In this assignment our jobs were to go around the school and take photos of the different types of composition in photography. These elements of composition ranged from color to balance. There are eleven different types of composition that we were expected to capture.

Photo descriptions:

Texture = "Light on wall"
Pattern = "Lights down long hallway"
Symmetry = "Down long hallway"
Rule of Thirds = "Bus driving by pond"
Depth of Field = "Puppet on finger"
Lines = "School architecture outside"
Frame = "AJ in elevator"
Perspective = "School parking lot"
Balance = "air of shoes in a tree"
Color = "Flags in sky"
Space = "Warning sign






During this project I have learned many things about photography. One thing in particular is how to incorporate different elements of photography into your photo to make it look more professional or better looking. These different elements give a new perspective to the way I took my photos.