Still Life

ISO: 200
Aperture: f/2.6
Shutter Speed: 1/8 seconds
In this photo assignment, I chose to shoot Still Life. Still Life is when you shoot a picture of something that is set up for the picture. This is our last photo assignment, and I had fun shooting it.

Portrait

In this photo assignment, I chose to shoot Portrait. I used the techniques that we learned while shooting the portrait demo. I used a window for the key light, and then a poster board for the fill light to reduce shadows.

ISO: 200
Aperture: f/2.6
Shutter Speed: 1/60

School Context

In this project, I took a picture of something you would see everyday and changed it into something unexpected. I took a picture of water bottles in a vending machine, and then I put pictures of insects from the internet onto the picture using the editor called Gimp. I used techniques that I have already learned to create this picture, so I didn't have to learn anything new. 

Light Painting

ISO: 100
Shutter Speed: 15 seconds
Aperture: f/2.6

In this photo assignment, I chose to shoot Light Painting. Light Painting is when you set the shutter speed to the lowest it can go in a dark room, and then you use a source of light to "paint". This picture was taken in the studio at our school, and I set the shutter speed to 15 seconds.  I set the camera on a stool and stood behind her with glow sticks and waved them around. I had a lot of fun shooting this assignment, and this picture was the best out of all  the Light Painting ones I took.

Portrait Demo

In this project, we learned how to take a good quality portrait picture. We took one in the studio, and one next to a window. To take a good portrait picture, you need 3 sources of light. They are called the key light, fill light, and a hair light. The key light is the main source of light, and on the side of the subject. The fill light is on the opposite side, and that is used to reduce shadows created by the key light. The hair light is placed behind the subject, and it is somewhat dim. In the studio we had all of these lights for us to use. But in the window picture, the light from the window was the key light. For the fill light, we had to use a white poster board as an alternative. We then combined the two pictures in one on Gimp. I learned a lot in this demo, and it was fun.

Black and White

In this photo assignment, I chose to shoot Black and White. This picture was taken in a park by my house. there is a pond under a bridge, and I thought it would be a pretty picture. I like how the bridge creates a sense of lines and shadows. I like this picture, and this one best displayed my abilities of Black and White.
ISO: 80
Aperture: f/4
Shutter Speed: 1/250

Panoramic

In this picture, we were practicing panoramic pictures. We took 3 pictures with a 10-20% overlap between them. We then used the online editor called Gimp to put them together seamlessly. When I first aligned them together, there was a distinct line between the pictures. So to eliminate this, I used the eraser tool in Gimp to make it blend together better. This was a good experience because it taught us more about GImp and how it works.