11/20/2018 0 Comments final reflection postOriginally, I took this class just to fill my tech credit. Going into this class, it was pretty tough for me because I didn't have that many friends, and I thought I'd be lonely on days where we were allowed to go out and take pictures. When I'm taking notes, everything makes sense, but as soon as Mr. O'Donnell said, "Go take pictures." I was utterly lost. I kept fumbling with my manual settings, and struggling with the concept of exposure and aperture. Like, come on! It's still hard. But as time went on, I developed friendships with a few people in this class, and I started to realize, I made taking pictures to be way more complicated than it actually is. I started to love taking a camera home every weekend, and deciding on my subject, working on my manual mode and taking time (and patience) to capture what I was aiming for. I started off pretty rough, but I started to get the hang of it around week 3-4, which is when my pictures started to progress. When we started to do some photoshop assignments, I was just terrible with it. I didn't know where the buttons were, how to make a layer mask by myself, blah blah blah...and then things started to look up when I could stop tasking Natalie for help, (haha, sorry Natalie!) I have a digital camera at home, and was dumbfounded on how exactly to use it. But after taking this class, I'm going to be way more intone and knowledgeable on how to use the camera I've had for years but didn't have the will or desire to learn about. My experience with class have been positive, and at the end of the day, I'm so thankful that I took and was able to learn the in's and out's of how cameras work, learning about composition and getting myself familiarized with photoshop, which may come in handy one day. (Let's just not speak about how awful my first few photoshop assignments were...) Now that we're at the end of this trimester, it's going to hard to part with my camera. Here's an example of my pictures as they slowly went along, from week 1-7.
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11/12/2018 0 Comments Photo assignment #7: foodISO: 200
Shutter Speed: 1/100 Aperture: F4.0 All I did to edit these was brighten them a bit and put the vibrance on. The 3rd photo in the 1st row in the unedited "best" photo. I loved the pictures I took this week! I waited until Sunday to take these photos because I knew my family was making a big dinner. I actually worked with my manual settings and I think I finally got the hang of it. The food was super good too, by the way. It was fun taking these pictures because I felt like I didn't need to try so hard to take these! I can't believe that this is our second to last photo assignment. For the next one, I'm gonna try my hardest just because I want to make it the best picture possible. I think I'm going to start looking now and decide what I want to do early on so I can prepare for it! 11/9/2018 0 Comments Portrait assignmentThis was our portrait assignment! We had to take pictures in the studio, and then pictures out on our own. In the studio, we had a key light, fill light and background light, a stool and a curtain, to make these photos happen. When we were out on our own, we chose to use natural lighting and a bounce card to get the shadows off of Mia's face. We used a wide open aperture (F8.0), and a fast shutter speed (1/60) to get these cool pictures! During this assignment, I learned how to use lighting to my advantage and learned how to correctly take portrait pictures.
11/6/2018 0 Comments photo assignment #6: natureISO: 100
Shutter speed: 1/20 Aperture: F3.5 For my 6th photo assignment, I chose to do nature. These pictures were taken in my backyard at my moms house. I really wanted to capture the colors of Fall because it's my favorite season! Everything looks so pretty and colorful. I tried taking a picture successfully of the red leaves in the bushes and I think I was able to do that pretty well! I should probably work on getting different angles more often, as well as continue to practice in manual mode! (I did it for the photo sets!) For some reason, it wouldn't let me upload any of my edited one, so all of these are unedited. 11/2/2018 0 Comments photoshop tutorialsIn this assignment, we had to do several different types of photoshop. We were assigned to do "dash of color," and "polaroid." Then we were instructed to go off and find other tutorials that we should complete! I did one with the editing of a girl and her hair and one of a cat with sunglasses.
10/31/2018 0 Comments Photo assignment #5: animalISO: Auto
Shutter speed: 1/30 Aperture: F3.8 For our fifth photo assignment, I chose to capture pictures of my cat Lilly. She's someone who means a lot to me. I wanted to take pictures of her because she's pretty old, so I wanted some photos of her so I'll have those in case she passes... I debated on editing these, but I think that they're decent enough to leave plain. The only one I edited was the best picture (one closest to the bottom), and only brightened it. I learned that I need to work with my manual settings instead of always leaving it in auto. 10/26/2018 0 Comments MULTIPLE ME/YOU ASSIGNMENTFor this assignment, we had to pictures of someone using a steady hand or a tripod. Once we took several photos of someone in different parts of the picture, we uploaded them into photoshop. The goal was to create a picture having all of the shots you took combined together. It was frustrating at first if you forgot the steps, but all in all, it was a lot of fun! I learned how to use the lasso tool and how to layer mask pretty successfully, even though some parts of the photo's are kind of messed up.
10/22/2018 0 Comments school context photoshop assignmentFor this assignment, we had to take a picture of the school and photoshop it to create an entirely new context of the photo. First, we had to find a good spot to take a photo of the school, and then come up with an idea on how you want to photoshop it. I chose to do a scary graveyard in honor of Halloween coming up! This was the original photo... And here's the edited one! This assignment was a lot of fun to do. It was awesome having that creative freedom and being allowed to do whatever we want with the pictures! I learned a lot, for example, how to copy and paste photo's, cut photo's, etc.
10/22/2018 1 Comment photo assignment #4: black and whiteFor our fourth photo assignment, I chose to capture a picture of my new baby brother and put it in black and white. I know that don't seem all that great, but they hold a very special place in my heart...but I'm pretty proud of these pictures! I debated on editing these less or even more, but overall I think B&W was a good choice. I turned them black and white, fixed the brightness and contrast along with the exposure and that's about it. I learned that I need to work with my manual settings instead of always leaving it in auto. ISO: Auto / Shutter Speed: 1/8 / Aperture: F3.5
10/15/2018 0 Comments car photoshop assignmentThe edited photo The original photo In this assignment we had to photoshop an original picture of a car and use new tools in photoshop to create a duplicate of the picture that was are finished product. I learned how to use many different tools in photoshop and how hard it can be to use the the tools when you don't know how to use them correctly. I also edited my friend Kylar to even further put my newly found photoshop "skills" to the test...
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