Friday, May 9, 2014

CONTEST PREVIEW, SHOW & TELL



SELF PORTRAIT 2004


SELF PORTRAIT 2010
 This photo's lighting is nice and balanced and centered on the sheet of the girl. I love the shadows and the exposure. 

SELF PORTRAIT 2012
This photo has really nice exposure and shadows. Its not too dark and not too light. 

5 websites #2

WEBSITE 1:
2.  On this website i looked at different pictures from different places. There was pictures of landscapes from different places like Iceland and Bolivia. 
3.  What did you learn new? I learned that if you take pictures at different times of the day it changes the effect of the photo.
4.  

5.     If you have a photo to post, please answer the following questions:
a.     I picked this photo because i liked how it was taken and the way the sunset looks.
b.     The rules of photography in this photo are lines and possibly rule of thirds.
c.     Who took the photo? Bruce percy 

WEBSITE 2:
1. http://rodmclean.com
2.   On this website i looked at a bunch of different pictures. There was pictures that were taken of the army, Landscapes and people doing different things like golfing, swimming, or biking.
3.  I learned that anything is possible when you are a photographer. Always be ready to do the unexpected if it means getting the best possible pictures.
WEBSITE 3:
1. http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-capture-motion-blur-in-photography
2.   I looked at the ways to show motion in your pictures and the different effects you can create.
3.    I learned new ways to show motion in pictures and make it look really neat.
a.    I could possibly use this later to show what is going on in a picture i take.
b.     Did this expand your knowledge of an Adobe computer program? If so tell me the program’s name is.
4. If you had time to try to recreate this with your own image, please post that image on your blog.

WEBSITE 4:

1. http://photographylife.com/introduction-to-infrared-photography
2.   I looked at infrared pictures and how they look when you mess with them in photoshop. How to make the pictures look really pretty and real when you have them infrared.
3.     I learned what IR means and what it is.
a.   I can use this to make my photos have more color and give a different feel to them.
b.     Photoshop Lightroom.

Thursday, May 1, 2014

HDR photography

1. What does HDR stand for?
-High-Dynamic-Range 
2. What is the idea behind an HDR image?
-HDR images can represent more accurately the range of intensity levels found in real scenes, from direct sunlight to faint starlight, and is often captured by way of a plurality of differently exposed pictures of the same subject matter.
3. What is exposure bracketing (you may have to click a link on the wikipedia to find this)?
-where the camera is set to capture the same image several times with different exposure settings, both over-exposed and under-exposed (lighter and darker) compared to the current setting on the camera
4. Can you do this with video?
--I donut know