When I first started this class almost three months ago, I was not sure how to even change the settings on my camera. Aperture, shutter speed, and ISO were mysteries to me. How they worked together... I was even more clueless. In my first shooting assignment, I chose people. I had real trouble getting the exposure on my brother's face right, and did not know what to do about the shadows on his face (turns out I should not have had his face directly in the low sun). Likewise I didn't exactly know how to change the settings as to lessen the harshness of the light. My first few photos were as such: So, as you can see the shadows and angles are not ideal at all. However, just a week ago I chose to take some pictures of him again. You can see I have a firm grasp on light exposure settings now and the best light to shoot in.... Likewise, when it comes to photoshop, the first day I tried to use it I had no idea how to even change the contrast, levels, saturation etc. Being some of the most basic actions, I never knew I would be able to quickly merge multiple photos together, learn how to erase whole entire elements from the photo with the clone stamp tool, and create cool double exposure images.
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Using my cumulated photoshop skills throughout the trimester I was assigned to create puns through images and added context to a word's definition by adding pictures behind. Visual Puns: ------ Onion Ring --------------------- Butterfly --------------------- Pineapple ------ Visual Dictionary:
Although I did not get photos directly of the graduation because of my vantage point, I took photos of the orchestra/crowd as that was what was available to me of the event. I dealt with some problems of getting clear shots of people in the crowd being properly exposed because of the bright light; however I just had to alter the shutter-speed and aperture. I learned that for shooting an event next time, I should focus more on people's interactions instead of just singular people to really get context of an event. Best Photo is above.
Camera Settings: Shutter Speed: 1/400 Aperture: 6.3 ISO 400 |
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