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.

still life/ product assignment

Still life/ Product Assignment

This is my favorite picture that I took in this assignment. It has the settings: ISO 80, 3.5 F stops, and 1/4 second shutter time.

 

This assignment helped me to realize the amount of work that goes into advertisement photography. The aspect of lighting and conditions is extremely hard to perfect, I went through around 150 pictures before I had even close to the number of good pictures I wanted to have. This assignment really challenged me to do the work to get good pictures, everything from dusting a guitar to running around trying to keep a sculpture from falling apart.

Motion Demo

  

this is just a quick picture from the motion demo we did yesterday, it took a little cropping to remove the date stamp (i haven't figured out how to do that via camera menu yet.) but i am fairly proud of getting this good of a picture on the first demo and any comments would be welcome.

light and shadow assignment

In this assignment I tried to show photos that had strong elements of composition as well as a strong emphasis on light and shadows. i spent practically all night in my basement making it into a photo studio of sorts and taking pictures. these are my best ten picturesin this assignment, i hope you enjoy them, constructive comments are welcome.

 

For this photo I used the image settings as follows: iso rating 800, exposure 10/10 sec, and 4 f stops aperture setting.

Travis Krause gimp assignment

this asssignment was an intro to the gimp program. I had never used the gimp program before this so a am extremely new to it. although from what I can see this program will be very useful to me in the future.

 

This photo program has allowed me to do extensive editing with ease.  and i would love to see how i can use it in the future.