Photo Assignment 7- Black and White

This week, I decied to try Black and White pictture taking. It was a challenge to find objects/things that contrasted well and appeared better in black and white. After a few attempts I started to get the hang of things. To the left, like always, is my best photo. This week I was torn between two pictures, the one to the left and the other flower picture that appears in my slide show below.

Shutter Speed: 1/250
Aperture: F 4.5
ISO: 80

For the rest of my pictures in this weeks shoot, I once again decided to spice things up and create a slide show in Animoto. I feeling I am a much better photographer and am continuing to become better!

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Visual Puns

For this weeks Gimp assignment we created Visual Puns . See if you can figure mine out :) (ps. they are pretty easy) I also decided to create a slide show on "Animoto" instead of my usual manual slide show, spice things up a bit :)

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Visual Dictionary

This weeks gimp assignment was creating visual dictionary. As you can see, I collages several pictures together that described the word. Time was the big issue for me this week as we had to do 5 of them. Overall I really like my dictionary for "Affection" and "Supernatural".

Photo Assignment 6

For this week's photo assignment I shot for the catigory animals. My best photo is to the left. For this photo shoot, my biggest issue was getting a non-blury pictures of my pets. In the end it all worked out. :)

Shutter Speed: 1/500
Aperture: 5.6
ISO:200





The rest of the photos in set, all had the same issue of moving animals and not being able to tell them what to do. Overall, I feel I am becoming a better photographer!



Photo Assignment 5 - People

This week's assignment, I decided to shoot for people, although, I only shot photos of one person, my sister. My sister was a great model, she was easy to work with, and would do just about anything I told her to do weither it was lying in the grass or hanging upside down from a tree. To the left is my best photo. I liked the perspective from which I took it, along with her serene facial expression, which really shows off her personality.

Shutter Speed: 1/500
Aperture: F 5.6
ISO: 200

For the rest of the pictures in my photo shoot, I tried to keep the poses fresh. I tried many different ideas on unique shots and found that there is a lot of cool way to take pictures of people. I definitely think my sister should consider modeling as she proved to me she is photogenic. :) I really enjoyed this weeks shoot.

Gimp Assignment 5- Portraits

This week we focused on portraits. We learned about the Three Point Light set up (the picture on the right) which is a more professional photo, and the Window Portrait Light Set up (picture on the left) which tends to be a less expensive set up. During this photo shoot,   I learned that talking to your model makes for a better picture because it helps break the tension. For portraits you want to strive to get the models personality to show. Overall I had fun with this assignment and learned proper ways to take a portrait.

Photo Assignment 4- Macro

For this week's assignment I decided to try Macro. Macro is basically a setting on the camera that allow one to take very detailed pictures of objects. I chose to shoot flowers, just like everyone else :) For my best picture however, I picked the one to the left because it seemed different than all your other typical flower pictures. I really liked the way the rain left beads of water opposed to drops. What I mean by this is the water appears to be in ball like forms and more three- dimensional. I also like the contrast of the white petals and the dark green leaves.

ISO: 200

Aperture: F 3.2

Shutter Speed: 1/200

For the rest of the photos, I only struggled with one thing: wind. The wind made it hard to get a decent photo of the flowers with out being blurry. Even with a fast shutter speed, the pictures were not to my appeal. I did however get a good handful.