lighting assignment

lighting tips

      Environmental portraits
        ~ keep it as natural as possible
        ~ read the light
        ~ fight with the light

Portraits

This is my mom, i like this photo of her because i think you can tell that she doesn't want to be in the outdoors. 

I love this photo because their are a lot of things you can take from it and make it relate to you.  I love how dark the photo looks and how he pops out of the photo. My grandad is always outside, he takes a walk every morning, he works on the yard, and always pointing things out.

i love this photo because again it could mean a lot of things. The leaves vary in color and make the photo look more hopeful.

portraits intro

1) In school I'm going to photograph alena, each person has a backstory that you may not know about. i want to capture that backstory. at home I'm going to photograph my dad because he looks intense when he is working, and focused. He is an important in my life . im going to try to capture texture, intensity, expressions, create a backstory, and feeling.
2) Five things i learned was the difference between candid and portrait, the difference between getting up and personal and far away

I like the intensity in her legs but yet she seems so laid back making it look easy

i like this picture because of the natural framing and the bright colors, he doesn't notice the beauty around him.

Like this photo because the photo looks bright but because the child has a flashlight impies that it is dark. Making him look or imply that he is scared, but his facials don't show it.

Motion

This is my freeze action

This is my panning

this is my motion blur

Rule of thirds

This photo follows rule of thirds because the middle of the glasses are on the point of intersections on the lines

Darkness

I chose this photo for darkness because theres no greater darkness than the ones in our head. 

Exposure

NOTES

-exposure is how much light hits the sensor while taking a photo

-longer the exposer, the lighter the photo

-large aperture, small shutter, little aperture, big shutter

-ISO effects graininess, noise

-a properly exposed photo combines aperture, shutter, and ISO(film speed)

-little aperture, longer speed. lots of aperture, little speed

-big number, small opening. small number, big opening

-aperture~amount of light

small to big aperture

big to small aperture

-shutter~speed

-ISO~film sensitivity

Photoshop 2

I cropped this photo and used auto contrast

I cropped, leveled it out, and used auto tune

I cropped and used auto tune, auto contrast, and auto color.

Fall photos

This picture reminded me of fall because fashion week and dark makeup looks remind me of fall, brown eyes also are the most appreciated in the fall time.

This photo reminded me of fall because fall feels very homey and chilly.

Fall is the season to stay inside, read a book or watch netflix, and cuddle with a cat.

My composition pictures

1)Rule of thirds

2)Balance

3)Lines

4)Symmetry

5)POV

6)Background/foreground

7)Depth

8)Framing

9)cropping

10)break the rules

Rules of composition

1) Rule of thirds- important things along the line, pictures of people should look/act at the open third.

this follows the rule of thirds because the butterfly is along the line of focus.

 2)Balance- subjects balanced out across the picture.

the stick and city balance etcher out.

3)lines- the literal or imaginary lines in a photo.

the lines from the house and the window create natural lines.

4)symmetry and patters- both sides of the photo are very symmilar, not perfectly symmetrical.

this picture has symmetry because the trees are symmetrical, and the wooden posts are.

5)POV- where you take the picture from, shows importance or the story.

it tells a story with the way the photo was taken

6)background/foreground- content of the background or floor.

the focus is on the flower but the mountains are just as important .

7)depth- making a 2D photo seem 3D.

this perspective makes the photo look very deep.

8)framing- draws your eyes to the subject naturally.

the window frame frames the trees and lake naturally. 

9)cropping- crop a photo where a small subject would be lost is now the main point, get up close.

this photo was cropped in on the pencil tips so you can see all the detail, which you wouldn't have seen before.

10)break the rules- the rules of composition are not a necessity, they are a guideline but break the rules with a purpose.

Favorite First Photo

This is my favorite photo because of the texture of the rocks, the ridged feel of the baseball and the way it looks in the ring. Also the lighting bouncing off of everything.

Welcome to my blog!

I'm craving food.

I like this picture because of the way the leaves look in the light. The woman in this photo looks almost porcelain and very dainty.

I like this photo because of how simple it is. And although its simple there's a lot of feeling behind it and a lot of details.