Portrait

For this assignment, I had to take two pictures. One of my subject in front of a plain white wall, and another of my subject sitting on a stool with studio lights. After taking many photos, my two best were put into Photoshop and edited to make them the same size with the same size frames around the photos. The end result was neat.

During this assignment, I learned how to frame photos in Photoshop. I thought it was fun and I am getting very good at working with layers and images. This assignment was a good learning experience and I really enjoyed it!

School Context Assignment

For this assignment, I took a picture of our school from an outside view. I pulled it into photoshop and thought of a theme for what I would do with the picture. I came up with a hawaiian theme. Then, I went into Google and got pictures that fit my theme. I pulled all of the pictures into Photoshop and played around with them, putting them into my main picture of the school to make it look like the pictures are actually there in real life.

During this assignment, I learned how to put pictures into Photoshop to make it look as if the photos are actually there in the main photo. It was difficult at times for me to remember what layer I was on in Photoshop, but compared to the last assignment that we had to do in Photoshop, this one was a lot easier for me. I enjoyed this because we got to pick our own themes and do whatever we want to do. I liked this assignment and learned a lot about Photoshop!

Photo Assignment 3, Nature/Landscape

For this assignment, I took pictures of the great outdoors. I took pictures of my backyard and of a swampy, marshy area on the outskirts of my neighborhood. I took some pictures with a wide view to capture the landscape of the setting, and I also took some pictures that are a little more up close to capture the feel of nature.

Aperture: f/11
Shutter Speed: 1/250
ISO: 100



During this assignment, I learned how to use the exposure settings on my camera to capture a good picture with the right amount of light for the picture to look good. I learned that the right time to take pictures of nature and primarily landscape is either in the early morning, or at sunset. I found out that taking a quality photo is harder than I had expected and it took many shots to finally get the perfect photo.

Photo Assignment 2, Macro

During this assignment, I took pictures of things really close up. People see these objects everyday, but don't realize how different they look in a perspective that is so close up that it shows the precision of form and color. Depth of field also plays a role with macro, showing just how close you are. I took pictures of many different objects to demonstrate just how amazing the world is through macro photography.



Aperture: f/5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/40
ISO: 400




Summary: During this assignment, I learned a lot about macro photography. I didn't realize just how tricky it was to zoom down into great detail to capture an image that most people don't usually see. I really enjoyed this assignment and thought it was a lot of fun. Most of the macro examples did happen to be flowers, so added to the pictures of flowers I already took I had to find some new objects to take pictures of. You had to think outside of the box, but it was all worth the time and effort.

Reaction to Retouching

We see photos of perfect models everyday. Most girls want to be exactly like them. However, they don't realize that that is not how the girl they see really looks. That girl on the cover has been retouched to make her appearance even more stunning than her natural beauty. Personally, I don't like how there isn't a photo out there that hasn't been retouched or altered in some way. I don't mind a little bit of touch-ups, but major changes just change the girl whose picture is being taken. I wish that photographers would just let the model's natural beauty show, that way girls will see the photos and realize that they can be just like them. Here are a few videos/pictures that show examples of the differences between the before and after pictures of each model or subject:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBoR7Qc4ZjY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAW4LIFYFng&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7h9KIFX-0U&feature=fvwrel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05c0jd66Xns&feature=related

Car Editing

For this assignment, I had to take a picture of a car and touch it up to make it look like a new, shiny car all by itself. This was the starting photo:

From this photo, we had to drag it into photoshop and crop it, duplicate it for a back-up copy, adjust the levels, remove certain gleams from lights with the clone tool, tint, and add a text box. This was the finishing photo:

Summary: This assignment was a little difficult for me. It was fun to touch up the car and make it look brand new, but the difficult part for me was remembering what buttons to press on the keyboard to make certain things zoom in out or zoom out. During this assignment, I learned how to make one picture look like a new picture. This is probably what most people do when they are shooting pictures for magazine covers to make the model's skin look perfect. Altogether, this was a fun editing assignment.

Pop Art

For this assignment, we learned how to take a photo in Photo Booth and turn it into a colorful Pop Art photo. We used Photo Shop on our desktop and followed the directions in the tutorial. Each and every step was listed, and we just had to follow what the step was and execute it to the picture.

Summary: I enjoyed this assignment a lot! I thought it was interesting to take a regular photo in Photo Booth and change it, adding colors, to make it look awesome. Following the directions was pretty easy except for one part. I had to go back a re-do it because I did the direction wrong. However, in the end it turned out awesome and I can't wait to do it again.