When I first came into this class, I wasn't sure what to think. I was a little worried about how it would go since I never really used a camera other than when I was a lot younger, but it wasn't nearly as nice as the school's. When we first took out the camera's I had a little trouble messing with the controls, but I quickly got used to it. When I first was able to go out and take photo's in automatic mode, I had a lot of fun and it got me excited for what was to come for the rest of the trimester. During the first photo assignment, I had a lot of fun going out and taking landscape photograph's. I drove around near my house and parked when I saw a good photo opportunity. My first photograph turned out really nice, but in a lot of my pictures I had trouble with camera shake and digital noise more and more as the sun set. Here are my favorites from my first photograph's: I believe my pictures for macro were the best I had. The color turned out nice along with the depth of field. You could really see the details in the snow and the bark of the tree. I was really impressed with how they turned out. This is my best photo of the class: My worst photograph of the class was probably my photograph of food. It didn't crop well, the lighting was very unnatural and it just overall wasn't very impressive. This is how it turned out: These are another couple of my photograph's that I both liked and disliked from the class. The picture of my dog, Jack, I believe was one of my best pictures. I think the light painting of my mom on the pool table was one of my coolest pictures but isn't the best because it's a little grainy. The picture of motion of the creek by my house I believe was one of my worst photos. The picture of Blaze is also a very nice picture of him. The pictures all show elements of composition, or lack there of that I learned in this class. For my photoshop assignments, my worst photoshop assignment was my school context assignment. It just turned out very unnatural, and although I followed the theme of Harry Potter it just turned out kind of random and I felt fairly rushed on the assignment. Some of the placements of the images also turned out jagged and unnatural. My best photoshop assignment was probably my tutorial where I turned Kat into a fairy. I liked the colors of the photo and the relatively smooth editing. I think it turned out really well and blended together nicely. Here are those two assignments: Overall, I learned a lot in this class. I grew in both being a photographer and working in Photoshop. I had some good pictures and photoshop assignments, some bad, but overall I liked most of the work I created in this class. I learned so much about the composition of photographs and how to use the camera in manual mode. Coming into the class I had no knowledge on photoshop or using the camera in manual, and now I can create cool pictures in photoshop, and take nice photograph's as well. I'm really glad I took this class, and I'm proud of how I've grown and what I've made while in this class.
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For this assignment, we had to take nice portrait photographs, and edit frames onto them with a black background. We had minimal instruction on how to create the frame, but we were taught ho to take good pictures for portrait. For this assignment, I learned how to take well set up portrait photographs. It also taught me how to be more independent with photoshop because although there was instruction on how to size the photos, we weren't told how to make the white backgrounds. Overall, this assignment was fairly easy and I enjoyed doing it.
For this assignment, we were able to do open tutorials online for photoshop. The first one we had to do though was dash of color. This is how mine turned out: This is how my other photoshop tutorials turned out: During this assignment, I learned how difficult it can be to make your photos turn out as well as the original editors. This assignment was fairly difficult, and also considerably time consuming. In the end though this assignment was fun, however I do wish my pictures would've turned out a little bit better.
For my last photo, I chose to do people. I chose to take pictures of my friend. Here's how my top photo turned out. Original: Edited Version: Exposure Triangle: ISO: 80 Shutter-Speed: 1/320 Aperture: f/2.8 Here's 5 more I liked: During this assignment, I learned it can be difficult to take pictures of people because they tend to act goofy while having their photo taken. Overall though, it was definitely fun to take pictures with friends, even if it could be difficult at times. In the end, I like how the photo's turned out.
For this photo assignment, I chose to do motion. I took pictures of a nearby creek where the water is flowing relatively quickly due to the recent snow melt and rain. I had to use a really slow shutter speed to get the pictures to show the motion. Here is my best photo: Original: Edited: Exposure Triangle: ISO: 400 Shutter-speed: 1/5 Aperture: f/5.6 Here's another of 5 photo's I liked:During this assignment, I learned while taking photo's that show motion it can be really difficult to prevent camera shake. It's also hard to take the photo' when the wind is blowing because everything starts to show motion blur. I had to go to many different settings trying to get the right speed of water for my photo's. In the end though, I think they turned out okay.
For this photoshop assignment, we had to edit a picture of multiple of the same talent in a similar picture. This is how my two photos turned out: During this assignment, I learned how to use many new tools like stacks and layer mask. This assignment was not particularly difficult, but it was time consuming to get the pictures you as wanted them to be. In the end, this assignment was fun and I actually really liked it.
For this assignment, we had to edit a picture of the school we had using photoshop to change the context. I chose to put my picture in the context of Harry Potter. Original Photo:Edited Version:During this assignment, I learned how to use many different tools in photoshop, such as the blur tool, filters, and the cut/copy and paste tool. This assignment was difficult with the theme I chose, because almost all the pictures online weren't of the highest quality, and it was hard to select the pictures with tools to cut them out because photoshop had trouble distinguishing between the colors on the pixels. Photoshop also freaked out more than once and messed up my progress. Overall, I thought this assignment was cool, but I felt it was fairly difficult.
For this assignment, I chose to do food. I had to position the food very specifically with good lighting to actually produce good pictures. For editing I used photoshop to turn up the contrast and crop the picture. This is my original photo compared to the edited version: Exposure Triangle: ISO: 800 Shutter-Speed: 1/50 Aperture: f/4.0 These are 5 other photo's I liked:During this assignment, I learned how hard it can be to set up photo's and get the perfect lighting. I had to keep retaking the photo's using different lights and angles, with and without a piece of paper trying to get a good photo. In the end, my pictures turned out okay, but they could have been better.
For this assignment, we had to go out and take multiple pictures using a tripod, and put them together into a panoramic using the tool photo merge in photoshop, and crop them to make them look good. These are my top 5 panoramics I took: During this assignment, I learned the multiple aspects of what goes into taking a panoramic photo. You most likely have to use a tripod, you have to take multiple photographs, overlapping each photo approximately 40% and put them into photoshop and merge them using the photo merge tool. Typically, the panoramics came out slightly jagged, and you had to crop to get rid of the jaged edges. Overall, I liked this photoshop assignment.
For photo assignment 4, I chose to focus on taking macro photos. I had to use a new focus mode in the camera, macro, to take these photographs. This was my top photograph: Original Photo:Edited Version:Exposure Triangle: Aperture: f/3.5 Shutter-Speed: 1/25 ISO: 80 Here's 5 other photo's I took that I also liked: During this assignment, I learned how difficult using macro mode actually can be. The focus area is so small that it can sometimes be hard to get the subject in the perfect spot for ideal focus. I had to try multiple times at some point before getting the result I wanted. Overall though, I really like how my pictures turned out, and I enjoyed this assignment.
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