Color Pop

This week I choose pop color as the category. I liked shooting for this and found it a little easier because there are many things around that have a lot of color in them and 

People

Black and White

ISO: 80

Aperture: 5.8

Shutter Speed: 1/30

This week I chose black and white for the category. I thought it would be easier to do this but I found it was pretty hard. I couldn't find anything to shoot that had a lot of contrast in the picture, and it's hard to find something that would look good in black and white. I went around my yard taking pictures of anything interesting I saw.

Portrait

In this assignment we two different pictures and they were both in different kinds of lighting. The picture on the left was by a window and we used a white piece of paper as a reflector. The one on the right is in a studio where there were specific lights set up. We opened them both up in gimp and edited them by adjusting them to the right levels and put frames around both of them. In this assignment I learned how to add frames around two pictures and also how different lighting works in two different settings.

Food

ISO: 80

Aperture: 5.8

Shutter Speed: 1/25

This week I shot food for the category. I tried to shoot different foods but taking pictures of these cookies was my favorite because I liked the colors and because of the sprinkles they looked cool up close. I found shooting food not very hard, but it also wasn't very easy. I found it easier because I was shooting close up but getting the food at a good angle was the harder part.

Context Assignment

For this assignment we took pictures inside the school and had to add something to one picture that would change the school and make it look different. We used gimp to edit the photos. I took pictures of the  outside of the school and decided I wanted to add some kind of cartoon character in it so I put batman and superman flying above the school. I found this assignment difficult because it was hard to think of something unique and different to do and still be able to not do something that would be really difficult to accomplish. I learned how to add images onto another using layers and how to do it by keeping the original background of the first picture.

Motion Blur Assignment

For this assignment I learned how to take a motion blur picture. I learned that when taking this picture you need to hold the button you take a picture with half way down, while following the object that is moving in front of you. Once the object comes to the center, take the picture. A good shutter speed to take this kind of picture is 1/30 or 1/40.