This week, our class was taught on the subject of panoramas, we were tasked with going around and shooting interesting locations for panoramic views, and then running the photos through Photoshop, and using the "Photomerge" tool to stitch multiple photos together in order to create the panoramas. Usually I shoot things free-hand, but this time around, I learned how important use of a tripod is when shooting this and other photo styles such as with long shutter speeds.
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Our class was recently introduced to a whole variety of new tools in Photoshop and we were challenged to take a picture of our school and put things in said picture to create a scene that we would not normally see. For mine I decided to take a picture of our bus loop and add on from there. I've been binge-watching a show called Supernatural recently and decided to use its main characters as the focus of my work. I changed colors and hues to make the lighting more apocalyptic and striking as added some little background demons in the sky on their way to cause trouble. We put these images together using layers and layer masks to make the objects look more natural and blended into the world. For this assignment I decided to capture "still life". What this is, is taking pictures of a subject, or subjects, and making it look the way you would see it in a professional advertisement or product shoot. The subjects I chose for this include an antique 1910 Union Leader Redi Cut tobacco tin, a vase of flowers (artificial), an assortment of graphic novels, and a few more things. During this shoot, I learned that the background of an image is just as important as the subject itself. for instance I couldn't find a plain white sheet to use for my background, so instead I sought out other things I could use and instead settled on some sheets of printer paper as the ground and a white wall and door as the vertical surface. Another thing I learned from this is the importance of light placement. It really makes a difference on a picture how dark the subjects shadow is and where it is placed. This weekend was a stay inside with a bowl of soup and a movie or a book weekend, so I decided to shoot some Macro Photography Images. I'd been working on a painting project so I thought it might be interesting to get a close up view of my work station with the paint brush and my make-shift palette, and get to see the individual bristles of the brush and even the grain of the paper it rested over. Alongside the brush, I also shot images of a 1943 steel penny, a Joseph Abboud Lapel Pin, a series of casings I've collected, and both my 325th GIR 82nd Airborne Wings and Coin. While shooting these subjects, I found it very helpful because I learned how best to use the macro setting on the camera.
In this assignment we were tasked to touch up a photo of a car at a car show and make it look as close as we could to an example that our teacher gave us. We had to use many different tools in the Photoshop software including the "Clone Stamp" tool and the "Quick Select" tool to help us in our editing of the "Before" image in order to reach the "After" image as our end product.
For this shooting assignment, I decided to use People as my subjects. I recently was invited to a Choral Conference at Michigan State University and thought it would be worth my time to bring the camera along. While there I shot pictures of some students who performed for us, as well as a couple pictures of the campus itself with students. Something I learned when I was shooting this assignment, is how critical lighting is in dark areas in photography. Shooting in that dark auditorium was a true challenge, seeing as I had to use a high ISO and a slightly larger aperture which made the image grainy and slightly unfocussed. For my best image, I toyed around with noise fixing and made it a little bit softer in its edges and colors in the "Camera Raw" filter.
For this assignment I chose to take pictures of the nature surrounding me. I went up north with my Dad over the weekend to my Grandfather's Cabin. As soon as I got there, I knew I had to photograph it. I shot multiple subjects in this. First of which was an apple on one of the trees by the cabin. It really captured my eye with its contrasting colors with its surroundings as well as the light and shadows battling on its surface. I also shot some views within the surrounding woods by their cabin and continued on to shoot some more at a nearby state park. I had a lot of fun shooting these subjects and while doing so, I learned how important all of our knowledge of ISO, Shutter Speeds and Aperture really is in composing a good photo in the real world. With some of these pictures, you can see that there is some editing. Most of these are untouched by Photoshop, but those that are, are only stripped of their color or in one case, I added color to one section of a black and white image. |
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