Architecture

My intent when taking the picture was to capture the full slide so the picture would have good movement in it. I was trying to focus on the slide. I think the photo is successful, even though most people dont think of a slide as architecture.

Double Exposure

I created this image by first exposing the picture to the background, which is the driveway and the trees, and I exposed the picture a second time with the picture od the dog before putting it into the developer. The focal point of the picture is the dog. I like the look of the double exposure but I wish that it wasn't so dark and you could see the dog better. I think if I played around with it more then I would really like the look of the double exposure much better.

Close Up

No I didn't have too much trouble getting a close up image, I had to take a couple before I got the hang of it but after that I thought it was easy. My background is blurry but you can still make out the objects behind it. I like how you can see details on a picture very clearly in close up pictures.

Blemish Removal

Before

After

Yes I think this is a helpful technique to know incase you are photographing a person up close and they don't like their freckles or they have a bad breakout and that way you can easily edit the blemishes out

Background Change

I liked how the quick select tool made the erasing go much faster and easier, but I didn't like how sometimes if objects around the person were really dark it would keep trying to cut it out so it made it very difficult.

Point of View and Pets

For the point of view, I got down on the ground and shot an ants eye view of this object in the mulch in the garden. What makes this unique is that this is not the way you would see the lady bug if you were just standing, instead you would see almost a bird's eye view.

It wasn't hard to get a picture of this one of my dog's because she is still a very curious puppy, and she kept giving me this look, but sometimes she would jump at the camera after sitting there for a long time. When she was playing, it was hard to get a picture because she moves so fast and the pictures of those were blurry.

35mm Lighting and People

The light source came from the sun, and to make good composition I had my friend sit on one side of the picture and have her body be pointed into the other side to balance the picture.

Lighting and Panning

I chose this picture because I really likes the colors and I thought the lighting was unique because it really hit the petals of the flower to make the petals look bright and the center of the flower look dark showing contrast.

I used a picture that was supposed to be panning but it looks more like just a person in motion. I used a shutter speed that was very quick that showed little motion in the high range of shutter speeds.

Self Portrait, Photoshop

I chose the artistic filter, and used the colored pencil filter. I also made the background brighter and made te pencil be "pressed" darker, and the pencol strokes smaller. This describes a part of me because colored pencil is my favorite medium to draw with in art.

Scavenger Hunt/ Studio Portrait

I like using the digital cameras better because I can see exactly what I took and delete some if I need, and retake the ones that I liked but were blurry or too dark or too light. There was also a lot less that could go wrong.

Karin and I were trying to figure out what to do, because neither of us had ever done that, and we were trying to get creative with the light so i had her hold it on her lap and face it up, so it got a creepy lighting on her face. I chose it because I didn't think anyone else would have a picture like it.

This picture was taken inside the studio portrait area, and I thought it looked cool when Karin just set them down so we both decided to take pictures of them. The reason I chose this picture was I thought that everyone else was going to have the same pictures since we just have to go around the school and I wanted my picture to be different than everyone else's.

High Contrast

I think I was able to get high contrast in both pictures. Both pictures have whites and blacks mainly. It was mainly my subject matter since my barn is black, white, and a lighter cream color, but i also used the enlarger settings to intensify the blacks and whites. Yes I like how my pictures turned out, besides the white corner in the top of the first one, but besides that I was very satisfied with my project.

Dodge and Burn

I thought dodging and burning was hard to grasp at first, but after the first two photos it became a lot easier to do. I did enjoy it but I don't think I will use it again because I would be too scared to mess up my photograph, just because i have only done it once. To improve this picture I made the driveway lighter, and tried to make the trees a little darker, so i dodged the driveway and burned the back of the trees. Each one was for about 5 seconds.

Solarization

This is a photo of the bell that is outside of my house. To get these results, I exposed the picture originally for 8 seconds under the enlarger, and then put it in the developer right until the picture began to show up. Then I re-exposed the picture to white light for two seconds and then put it back into the developer and finished developing the picture normally. By doing this I got a small glow around my picture and the border was black. I would use this in a final print if the project was abstract.