For this assignment I had to set up props in an exciting way and light them. I decided to take photos of my sunglasses and guitar. To set up my still life, I put two boxes on a table and draped a black blanket over them to create a sort of wall to make the background look shadowy. The blanket also covered part of the table and that is where I set up the sunglasses. For the guitar I put it on the blanket and folded up the edges to raise the blanket off the ground. I turned off the overhead light and used a lamp. Since there wasn't as much light i needed to use a slow shutter speed. I did not have a tripod so I used a stool and a chair and the table itself. This made getting photos at an above angle difficult to get since the chair and stool weren't slanted. I learned that I really need to get a tripod for the clearest photographs. Aperture: F/ 5.6 Shutter: 1/60 ISO: 100 Edits: I raised the temperature, blacks, vibrance, and exposure. I lowered the highlights, shadows, and whites. I also tinted the lenses of the sunglasses with Photoshop.
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For this project we were given a photo of a car that a previous student had taken. We had to edit the photo using Adobe Photoshop to make it look more appealing. We were given a pre-edited copy of the photo as well to use as reference. Our job was to make the original car photo look like the edited car photo. The tools I used to edit this picture were the Quick Selection Tool, Levels Tool, Clone Stamp Tool, and the Brush Tool. Before Editing: After Editing: For this assignment I had to shoot pictures that I was going to convert to black and white. I had to look for areas with contrast between light and dark. I went to a few different parks around Saline to take these pictures. Something I learned was that even if the color of the background and subject was very different, they didn't always look good when converted to black and white because the lightness of the color was too similar. For example, I had a good picture of an orange leaf in the green grass, but when it was black and white they were both a light gray and the photo did not look as appealing. Aperture: F/9.0 Shutter: 1/320 ISO: 100 Editing: I increased the contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, and clarity. I decreased the exposure and blacks. For this assignment I had to use a picture of myself to create Pop Art in the style of Andy Warhol. We had to crop our photo into a square-like shape and make it black and white. We then had to make a file that was four times the size of our cropped image. We then placed four copies of the cropped image into the bigger file. Then we edited the color, saturation, hue, and lightness to create a blue, red, green, and yellow copy. Original Photo. Photo after cropping and editing the threshold (making it black and white). Final Pop Art Photograph. My own Pop Art (Just Messing Around). In this project I learned some new things about how to use Photoshop. I did not know how to change the colors of photos before. I also learned that you can use the rulers on the edges of the picture window to place photos into your file.
Aperture: F/8.0 Shutter: 1/125 ISO: 100 No Editing This is a picture of a Dragonfly I found by the river at Millpond Park. It flew away from me a few times and I had to follow it around, but this photo was worth the effort. I went to the Rentschler Farm with my friend Josh to take some of these photos. I was disappointed that I could not get a good photograph of the chickens because there was chicken wire all around them. The farm equipment was very interesting and had many different pieces and bolts, but I had a hard time focusing on them. Luckily, there were many pretty flowers in the garden that I could take pictures of. After I took a lot of pictures at the farm, I went over to Millpond Park to finish up. I found a couple frogs and some bugs to take pictures of. It was hard to get a good photo of the dragonlfy because it kept moving when I got too close. When it finally stopped flying I took as many pictures of it as I could. I had a lot of fun taking these pictures because I got to see many different animals and plants and I got to hang out with my friend at the same time.
Assignment: Our job in this assignment was to study the eleven elements of composition and take photographs exemplifying each of those elements. What I learned: This assignment made me more familiar with the elements of composition and taught me that taking good pictures is not as easy as one would expect. I discovered that many photos are necessary to make sure you get the best results. While taking the photographs may have been time consuming and sometimes a little difficult, sorting and organizing my photos was very easy because of the Adobe Bridge software on my computer. Welcome to my digital photography blog. My name is Josiah. I run varsity Track and Cross Country and I am a Cross Country captain. I also really enjoy drawing and listening to music. Throughout my day, I spend as much time as I can with my friends and try to get the best experience possible.
My family likes to take long trips across the country for vacation. On those journeys, we stop at many national parks. I always take the camera and take as many pictures as I can. I especially like taking pictures of animals in the wild. I took this class so that I can make those pictures even better and really capture the moment. While I have not taken a photography class before, I have taken a video class and some techniques used in video can apply to photography. |
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