For this week's assignment, I chose to do people. For this, I hung out with my friends and just took pictures of them goofing off, trying to receive the most candid photos I could. Sometimes this was difficult because they were moving too much and were blurred in the photos. I found this assignment easy because the pictures capture the personality of the people and the fun they were having. What I learned from this assignment is that some of the best photos are the ones that are unexpected. I chose this photograph as my best because they fill the frame and their smiles reflect the genuine fun they were having that afternoon. Best Photo
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This week's Photoshop Assignment was a portrait demo. We learned the different lighting techniques for taking a window portraits, where natural light was shined onto the subject, and studio portraits, where multiple lights were shined onto the subject. I liked this assignment because it showed me different ways to light my subjects for future photo assignments.
For this week's photo assignment I decided to do black and white. I decided to do this because I liked the way many of my other pictures look in black and white and decided to use them for this assignment. What I learned from this project was that even though a photo looks good in color, it may not look as good in black and white. I decided that this was my best photo because I liked the character that the black and white gave the picture. The black and white simplifies that picture while also making it more interesting with all of the different shades that are visible. Best PhotoFor this photoshop assignment we were allowed to picture our own tutorial to follow. Doing this I was allowed to pick a tutorial that matched my interests and what I wanted to learn in Photoshop. I decided to do a sci-fi landscape because I wanted to learn how to blend many different photos and use new tools to be able to create one picture that could be real.
I enjoyed this tutorial because it taught me multiple different tools and settings that I did not previously know how to use as well as reenforced other techniques that I did. Although I did need some help understand some the tool/language of the tutorial, as soon as it was explained I understood what I needed to do. This week I decided to do light painting. Earlier this week we learned about light painting and the different ways to achieve certain looks. This was interesting because I was able to learn by trial and error the best way to create a light painting. I used my sister as my subject in several of the pictures as well as another pair of hands for others. I chose this as my best photo because I liked the way that the light reflected off of both the ground and the subject. If I were to create this again I would try different patterns or different colored lights to receive a different affect. Best PhotoFor this Photoshop assignment, we were tasked with creating five panoramas. To create the panoramas, multiple pictures with a 30-40% overlap were required. The multiple pictures were stitched together to create one panoramic picture.
I learned that taking panoramas is easier than I thought, but there are certain guidelines that should be followed. In addition, I learned more about Photoshop and the different settings that are a part of Photomerge. For this week's assignment I decided to photograph nature around Ann Arbor. As I walked around, it was difficult to take multiple pictures because everything is very similar, but changing the angle as well as the position of the subject in the frame allowed for multiple great pictures to be taken of the same object. My best photo is the of the swan and the duck. I liked this photograph because the swan and the duck are both positioned in the same way. I also like the depth that is created in the picture with the bushes in the front of the photo. Best PhotoIn this Photoshop assignment, we were tasked with changing the context of the school. This assignment was interesting because there were so many directions this project could have gone. However, there came a point where the more I tried to add, the less realistic the picture looked. In the end, my picture is different than the original (bottom) and more interesting.
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