Friday, February 28, 2014

Unusual Perspective/Close up



   Starting this assignment I had the idea of taking photographs where my subjects or part of my subjects were supposed to pop out of the frame. This was easier said than done. I needed to find interesting subjects where I could blur the background and foreground. This would give the effect that I wanted, or it was supposed too. These three pictures are the ones that worked the best. When I trying to do this, I had to come up with perspectives where the subject was in the foreground, middle ground, and background to fully achieve the pop I wanted. This was a good assignment revisit f-stop settings.

Monday, February 24, 2014

Light Painting



            This was a great assignment to start off the class. It really helped by revisiting manual settings. Taking these light photos forced me to work with the f-stop and shutter speed. After playing around with the settings for a few minutes I started to understand how those two settings play into taking a quality image. To take a light photo the shutter speed has to be extremely slow because you want to capture all the movement of the light. You can't go into this knowing how you will take the picture because only through experimentation will you know what you want in the end. If you want to try something new or outside your comfort zone this is definitely something worth trying.