Open Assignment: Toys

Toys Assignment

This is my favorite picture from this assignment. the scuffs on the baseball, and the beat up typewriter box give the picture a rough worn out look, yet the bat and the mat are new and shiny. I also really like the amount of different shades of brown in the picture, the bat is different from the mitt is different from the floor is different from the marks on the baseball, this I think, creates a strong bond and a feeling of things belonging together in the picture. The settings are: ISO 200, f stops 6.3, shutter speed 1/200 sec.

 

This assignment was really cool. I got to use so many new things and so many new props that this project seemed like a total step up from the normal black stool and mag light. I got to use A great camera on this project and I got to use a "window" as an actual studio quality light. I can't really think of a much better way to go into a vacation than this: last photography assignment turned in, (better than the rest put together) no homework, nothing to do but relax.

gimp school assignment

this assignment was a pretty cool one. How often can you take something you see every day and make it totally new and interesting? This project was easily the most fun one I have been assigned. The most fun part was not finding the images but improvising them so they would work. I think the best example of this was the bather. I copied and pasted her into the image and then realized even after my cropping she had gaps that showed a background that was a different color than the one I placed her on.  This Isn't a problem I thought, I zoomed really far in, re-cropped her border but instead of just tracing around her I traced through her wrist at just a small place and cropped the inside of her arm and exited the same way I had entered. I did the same for a gap in her legs you could see the sky through. The little incisions I made are actually still there in the final photo but I made sure to zoom in far enough so as not to have them be seen without close in zooming. How is that for improvisation?

Motion Assignment

Photo Assignment 5: motion

This project  isn't the best I've ever done but I think I did okay. The lighting outside was  terrible, sky overcast but I took some decent photos. I tried to follow the cameras light sensor but my max possible shutter speed if I followed it was like 1/125 of a second with 1600 ISO and max aperture size. this project was okay any will at least let me do better next week, more opportunity hopefully.

 This is my favorite picture from this project. I was surprised how well this turned out with the low light. I improvised and to do a few stop motion pictures I asked my brother to move in slow motion, I don't know if that is cheating but I think it was just adapting to the situation and compensating for the low max shutter speed. If this is thought to be "cheating" I have one argument against that thought: I was still capturing motion, just less motion. The settings on this picture were: ISO 1600, 4.3 F stops, and 1/125 sec shutter speed.

Light Painting Assignment

This assignment was fun to say the least. This way of taking pictures was totally new to me and the neon-ish effect was really cool to look at. Though the longest shutter speed I could use was 15 seconds and the only tools I had were a green laser pointer I managed to get some cool effects in photoshop.com by only tweaking color and balance a little bit. This project I tried to get some cool looking pictures, look at the pictures and tell me if you see a solar system, meteors, and angels who radiate light, I am curious to see whether or not anyone sees this or if it is just me trying futilely to get a cool photo.

This is my favorite picture from this project, I tries to get a solar system look with the green as orbit paths and a maglight as the "sun." the settings are as follows: shutter speed 15 seconds, ISO 100, aperture 5.6.

Portrait Demo

This portrait demo was surprisingly fun. I have never really liked portraits especially much as an art form but in a relatively short time I managed to without too much frustration take and edit two pretty good pictures. This was, I thought going to be a harder subject to take pictures of, but I think I had the lowest pictures taken/ pictures used ratio of any project. Given this is just a demo it is true that the actual project could get much harder but now I know that the project is within reach, and is fairly fun to take pictures of.

Black and White Assignment

The black and white assignment really came at me fast, I didn't even really know what project I was doing until I saw some cool black and white opportunities in the past assignments. so I set out to try and duplicate these pictures to the best of my ability but in black and white. this may not be my most original project but I got some really cool pictures that I can be fairly proud of.

 

This is my favorite photo from this assignment. I like how the light seems to almost jump out at you from behind the blocking barrier and lines help to draw the viewer to the center of the light, which incidentally also pulls the eye to it by its extreme dominance in the photo. Also the little light circles around the center were an unexpected and cool add on to the picture.  If I could go back and change one thing I would lower the exposure just a bit as it seems a little overexposed to me, its values are: ISO 80, f/8, and a 1/2500 of a second shutter speed.

macro assignment

This is one of three photos I am very proud of from the macro assignment. The rest of these three are the second and third photos in my slideshow. the settings are as follows: ISO 80, 3.5 fstops, and 1/4 second shutter speed.

 This assignment I liked a lot, closeups have always been interesting to me. The quality of images could've been better but then again the quality of camera could've been better also. In short this assignment interested and challenged me as a photographer without over-stuffing my already packes schedule.