Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Photo Assignment 6

The thing that I pick to do this week was color. I had done this before during the composition project the which was the first assignment we had in the class. I stated to want to do this after I saw the flowers that bloomed in my back yard over the weekend.

Picture
Small Flowers





I learned in this project how light affect the picture. I had to wait until the sun was over the flower so that the colors would be very bright and vibrant. I also tried to find a part of the flowers that had A lot of different colors.

Friday, May 27, 2011

Visual Dictionary

This assignment made use find picture that show the definition of a word of our chose. we had to creat five of them and use our own pictures in 2 of them.

Picture
Gigantic








This assignment helped me learned where to find go pictures on the internet that aren't copyright and I can use in my projects. Also I learned what to do a few new thing on gimp such as backgrounds which further added to the picture.

Monday, May 23, 2011

Photo Assignment 5

We had a demo over light painting in the dark room which I though was very cool because of what simple light can do in a picture when taken right. You draw in the air while the picture is being taken and it come out in the picture.

Pictures 
Light Paintings







I learned many new things in this photo assignment. One of these are the way to create pictures in a dark room with only a camera and a light source. This is done when you move the light around and the picture is taken with a long shutter speed will create a cool effect with colors and a black background.

Friday, May 20, 2011

Portait

The assignment was about taking posed picture of people with light put in a place so that it creates shadows  on he person face. The pictures were in a professional booth and a make shift on near a window. THis show that you can take the pictures anywhere.

Pictures
Kirsten and Jamie



In this assignment I learned new things in gimp, how to take portrait pictures, and how to make lighting look good against peoples faces. I learned how to put frames behind people in gimp so that the picture looks professional. I also learned how that light can add to a picture by creating new shades on  peoples faces.

Monday, May 16, 2011

Photo Assignment 4

The option that I chose to do this week was Macro.This is when you take pictures really close up and your target is small. A bit part of this the small things in the picture that you can see usually with the naked eye in day to day life.

Pictures
Micro Chip







In this assignment I learned many things about taking pictures of really small things. First you need to make sure that the camera is focused or the picture will look bad when you blow it up. Another thing is that you need to get minimal glare on the object. Last you need to edit it on photo shop and make it look good.

School Context

This assignment was made so that we could roam gimp and do what ever we wanted to a picture that we would take of the build. This was important so we could learn new techniques in this photo-editing program.

Picture
Crazy School



In this assignment I learned many new thing that I can do to pictures that I didn't know was possible. Like taking thing out and adding new things in the ground and ceiling by erasing the layers of the school with different pictures underneath. This was one of my favorite assignments so far because it gave us so must control over the assignment.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Gimp Assignment Biker

This assignment taught us how to pan the camera to create a blurry background while keeping the subject in focus. It also was done outside with Mr. Bush riding around on his bike and us taking pictures of him when he was riding.

Pictures
Biker







This assignment taught me how to pan the picture. It also showed me some new techniques in gimp that will be useful in later assignments. Such as writing text and darkening the photo. This was pretty straight forward and after getting use to the panning it got much easier to achieve the desired affect.

Photo Assignment 3

This assignment is about taking a picture as a advertisement or showing a product to interested buyers. This is used a lot in commercials today and is a way that people can see if they want to buy the product.


Pictures
Headphones
iPhone
Headphones
Headphones
Red car







In this assignment I learned a lot about the placeing of the object in the picture. This was important so that viewer is intersested and would want to own the thing that I was taking a picture of. I also learned how to use color pop on photo shop which is an effect to make everything black and white except for one color in the picture. I did this to bring out the color of the logo.

Monday, May 9, 2011

Gimp Pano Assignment

This assignment was another one on the program gimp. It was us putting three pictures over each other to create a wide view of a scene in the school. This Assignment was challenging because the pictures need to look like it was one picture, which is hard to do.


Picture
Hallway in the school




In this assignment I learned many new things on the program gimp. One of these was how to size pictures and anchor them to layers in a picture. This was need in the process of creating the pano affect in the picture. Another thing that we learned is how to erase parts of a picture which is needed to make the picture look better in its wide form.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Photo Assignment 2

This assignment was black and white pictures. I that a major part of this assignment is the contrast between black and white because there isn't color. There needs to be lot of different shades of grey because the lack of color which meads you need a diverse picture.

Best Picture
Fire hydrant

F stop: 8.9
Shutter: 1/125
ISO: 50

Pictures:
Cars
Pond
Doors
Camera
Bus
Elevator Buttons
Grass
Fire hydrant
 







In this assignment I learn many thing about taking black and white photographs. One of these thing was how to change them in photoshop. This was easier after I figured it out. I also learned how to get the blacks and the white to look very different in the final picture. This assignment was not the hardest after you learned all the editing things that go with it.