NATURE

For this week's photo assignment, I focused on taking pictures of nature where I captured images of a yellow rose. The one I chose as the best for photo #7 was the one on the windowsill because of the lines it created in the picture.

ISO: 125
Shutter Speed: 1/60
Aperture: f/2.8
no flash

Visual Dictionary

This week's gimp assignment was to create a visual dictionary. In order to do this, we had to select a word and add images together to visualize the definition of the word. Looking online, I found the word "vacuity" which means emptiness, and immediately came up with an idea for it. In the end I didn't mean for it to be such a dark picture, but I think it captures the word fairly well.

Black and White

This week I decided to take pictures in black and white and focused on taking pictures of some of my mom's antiques because they gave off some nice shadows that I thought added to the pictures.

ISO: 200
Shutter Speed: 1/8
Aperture: f/2.8

Visual Puns

This past week's gimp assignment was to create visual puns. The puns I created were "pearls of wisdom," "potty mouth," and "belly laugh."

Panoramic

This week's gimp assignment was to make a panoramic picture. In order to do this, we had to take three pictures that had roughly a 20% overlap between them, which we would then open up in gimp and manipulate with different techniques so we would get an overall view that would look somewhat normal.

Portrait

This week I took portrait pictures of some of the children at my mom's daycare. The picture I chose as the best was one that captured the personality of the little boy, Whit, because he's such a character and always makes the funniest and cutest facial expressions. I also had him wear his jersey because he's obsessed with hockey :)

Shutter Speed: 1/8
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 80
no flash

Shadows and Light

For this week's assignment, I decided to capture shadows and light. The images I focused on were candy, the lamp next to a window, and a bowl which all gave off different reflections when hit with sunlight. The picture I chose as the best had a lot of different shadows and light compared to all of my other pictures, which I thought were really interesting. woohoo :)

ISO: 80
Shutter Speed: 1/60
Aperture: f/2.8

Portrait Demo

This week, we did a portrait assignment by taking portraits using window light and portraits with studio lighting. For the window light, we had to use a reflector, which was a poster board, to reflect the light onto the side of the face that was shaded and in the studio, we used what's called "sandwich lighting.

Event

This week I took pictures at my cousins wedding for the "Event" assignment. I tried to capture the bride dancing and doing various things throughout the reception, but I had to battle against the lighting be extremely dim inside the reception hall, which caused my photos to be rather grainy. The picture that I chose as the best, was one that really grasped the personality of my cousin, because she's just a good time charlie and is extremely entertaining. I overall thought the picture explained the night of the wedding.

ISO: 250
Shutter Speed: 1/60
Aperture: f/3.2

School Context

In this assignment, we were supposed to take a photo of the school and manipulate it and add different things that you normally wouldn't see in a school. I decided to make my theme Harry Potter and I used gimp to help me do this.

Still Life/Product

This week's assignment, I chose to do the still life/product since I went to the auto show. The one I chose as the best one, was picked because it focused primarily on one color and had a reflection against the floor which I thought added to the picture. The only dilemma I came across was that it had to be taken through glass, and there were lines through the picture because of where the glass separated. By getting rid of the lines, I used gimp to edit them out by using the new techniques we've used within the past week.

ISO: 80
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter Speed: 1/200 no flash

Photo Retouching

For this gimp assignment, we learned some basic and somewhat advance techniques to edit photos to enhance the quality of the photo. We learned how to get rid of distraction in the background, to enhance colors, and to get rid of light reflections that are unnecessary. The end result was a photo of a car that could be seen in a magazine.

MACRO

This week I focused on the digital macro setting and took pictures of a baby and his pacifier that's at the daycare my mom works at. With the macro setting, you can easily see the fuzz that is on the pacifier, which you can't necessarily see with the naked eye. I really liked the photos of him crying in the background because it made him seem like he really wanted the pacifier, which I thought added to the picture, but the picture I chose as THE best was the one that truly showed the unseen details on the pacifier, which is what the macro setting is all about. And I promise the baby didn't even want the pacifier :)

ISO: 200
Aperture: f/2.8
Shutter Speed: 1/40
no flash

Gimp Assignment

For this assignment, we used a picture of a person and created a "pop art" effect. We did so by copying the image four times, and giving each image a different color. This effect was suppose to resemble Andy Warhol's work like he did for Campbell's Soup and Marilyn Monroe.