Monday, February 28, 2011

Still Life Assignment




ISO: 80
Aperture: f.4
Shutter: 1/1000












The photo above is my picture for still life. It's a picture of some mailboxes on a building in downtown Saline. For this assignment, I learned how to make pictures interesting even if they are just everyday objects.


The slide show below is 5 more pictures I took for still life.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Gimp School Context
















Above is my School Context assignment that was done in gimp. What we had to do, was put things in the school that you wouldn't normally see. I did dinosaurs, and I learned from this assignment how to copy and paste different images in gimp and how to use many tools of gimp.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Architecture Assignment

The photo below is my best picture for architecture. It is a picture of one of the churches in downtown Saline. In this assignment, I learned how to look at buildings in different ways to get more interesting photographs.
ISO: 80
Aperture: f5.7
Shutter: 1/640















 Below is a slide show of 5 more good architecture photos.


Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Gimp Motion Assignment

For this Gimp assignment, I took a picture of someone riding a bike past me. My goal was to make the subject in focus and the background blurry. I learned how to take pictures of things in motion.


ISO: 80
Aperture: f 8.0
Shutter: 1/125

Monday, February 14, 2011

Shadows and Light assignment

The picture below is my best photo of shadows and light. It's a picture of my driveway, and the shadows are the trees on either side. With this assignment, I learned how to use not only light, but dark (shadow) to make a picture contrast better.
ISO: 80
Aperture: f2.8
Shutter: 1/1000










Below is a slideshow of some of my other shadows and light pictures.


Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Gimp Portrait















For this assignment, I had to take a picture of someone using the studio lights, and the other by using window light. I learned how to take better photos of people with different light.

Monday, February 7, 2011

Nature Assignment

The photo below is my best picture for nature, and it is a photo of a line of trees in the woods. From this assignment, I learned how to capture different aspects of nature. Below my top picture, I have a small slide show of other pictures that I took.

Shutter: 1/500
Aperture: f 3.2
ISO: 80