Portrait

For this week's photo assignment I chose to take pictures for the photo topic, Portrait. So, I called my friend Madeleine and had her come over so I could take some pictures of her. She has a really crazy personality so we had a lot of fun but ended up with a lot of wacky pictures. For my setup I put a White sheet up in a door frame and then had a lamp behind it and next to Madeleine I put another lamp to add more light. For my best photo I chose a picture of Madeleine "modeling" a box of brownies. I like this picture because it really showcases her personality.

Technical information for my best photo:
ISO:400
Aperture:3.5
Shutter speed 1/5 sec

Portrait demo assignment

For this week's demo we learned how to take two different kinds of portrait/ lighting setups. The first setup we learned how to do was in the studio using a "Pancake" setup. For the other setup we learned how to take pictures using a window as our light source and having an assistant use a bounce card to reflect the light. After we took our pictures we uploaded them into Gimp, made a black background, and then put a white frame around the actual pictures. The picture on the left was the picture that was taken using the window as light, the photo on the right was taken in the studio. Here is my final product.

Inspiration for photo #7

For this week's photo assignment I would like to take light painting pictures. I am not sure exactly what I want to do for light painting so I went on flickr to find some inspiration.
The first inspirational picture I found, that I thought was really cool, was taken by "Gerbren.nl"
Another picture I found was by jeremyknight221, I thought this picture was really unique and I hope to be able to do something similar to this picture when I am doing light painting.
I also liked a picture I found that was taken by Patrick Long.
After looking at all these really cool light painting pictures I have some ideas of what I am going to do when I go and take pictures. I hope to get some really interesting and unique photos for my 7th photo assignment.

Five Senses

For this week's photo assignment I chose the topic 5 senses. Instead of taking pictures of just eyes, ears, noses, mouths, and hands I decided to try to be a little creative. For sight, I took a picture of my moms glasses, for touch I took a picture of my dog and my mom doing a high-five, for hearing I took a picture of my iPod and my stereo, for taste I took a picture of a bunch of snickers bars, and for smell I took a picture of a candle and the garbage. For my best photo I chose the picture of my dog and my mom doing a high-five because I thought it was very creative and unique.

Technical Information for my best photo:

ISO: 80

Shutter speed: 1/60 sec

Aperture: F4.9

Gimp Context Assignment

For this week's Gimp assignment we took a picture of some part of the school and then changed the context of it completely. I chose to take a picture of the commons and then turned it into a circus because sometimes it feels like it is a circus in there during lunch. I thought this Gimp assignment was really fun and I learned a lot from it as well. I learned how to use several different layers, to add a bunch of different pictures that I had found on the internet, to add to my original picture.

Motion demo

Today we used a technique called panning, where you move the camera with a moving object to get a blurry background but a crisp subject. Mr. Bush rode his bike while the whole class took pictures using the panning technique that we had just learned. I learned that when taking motion pictures it is extremely important to pay close attention to how you set your shutter speed, ISO, and aperture to get the type of picture you want, also, you want to move the camera with the same speed that your subject is moving at. Overall I thought this was a pretty easy technique that I will definitely use in the future when I am taking motion pictures.

Architecture

For my 5th photo assignment I chose to take architecture pictures. I found some very interesting architecture pictures right within my town. I took pictures of a church near my house, a historic church in town, that after it was used as a church, was used as a building for one my favorite small businesses, a locally historic house, some unique condos, and a house that resembled the shape of a barn. I enjoyed this photo assignment topic a lot because it really opened my eyes to all of the great architecture within my own town. For my best photo I chose a picture I took of the house that resembles a barn, I like the interesting architecture of the actual house and how the house is framed by two large trees in the picture.

Technical info for my best picture:

ISO: 200

Aperture: F9.0

Shutter speed: 1/125 sec