When I did the macro assignment, I really enjoyed taking the pictures and thinking up new things to actually take pictures of. I did nature this assignment so that I could take a handful of macro photographs and still use them. This was my best photograph of the week...
Exposure Triangle being:
ISO 250
Shutter 1/60
Aperture 2.8
And here are some more of my best photographs from this week:
I really enjoyed taking nature pictures, I like the whole concept of capturing details that most are not aware of. The week went pretty smoothly for me as well, and I'm mostly happy with my final product.
The objective of a panoramic picture is to show a widened view of a photograph. There is only so much that can be seen with a single picture, with a certain lens. In Photoshop, using multiple photographs, you can combine them into one. Several photographs of one scene, (slightly staggered) can be placed together for one photo. Here are my five panoramic photographs.
I enjoyed this project, because I have always wondered how pictures are taken that are so wide. To create one photo out of multiple was a very interesting experience. It was not too difficult due to Photoshop making it relatively easy.
For the second photo assignment I chose to use pictures of animals, simply because I was around animals that particular week. I tried to capture the personality behind them, but as you could assume, capturing the personality of animals was hard. I took the majority of these pictures at a farm near my home. Here's my best photograph...
Here is my exposure triangle:
ISO- 400
Aperture- 3.5
Shutter- 1/ 60
and here are my top photographs.
For this assignment, I found it difficult to get an interesting picture of each animal. Sure, animals have personality, but do they show it? Not too much. I thought that it still worked out really well, it just required a bit more work to get there.
For this week's assignment I chose to use the macro composition element. The directions, as they will be every week, were to take several photographs of various things- close up. After searching for our best photographs, we were to blog about them. The photos also were not supposed to be edited.
I had trouble deciding what photograph to use. I had three or four really nice ones of dandelions and a butterfly. I chose the dandelion in the end because I felt that it was the absolute best representation of macro. My ISO triangle was the following:
Exposure time- 1/60
FNumber- 8
ISO- 80
I learned that there are actually quite a few things out there that look better close up. Standing ten feet away can sometimes be a great picture, but when you get every detail caught, it can really make or break the photograph.
Description: For this assignment, we were given a before and an after of a car photograph- before and after Photoshop. Using the after photograph as a reference, we recreated it on our own.
What I learned: All the different aspects of Photoshop and how to use them, and also the many things that can be accomplished using Photoshop.
For my first assignment I am considering trying my luck with the Macro. I think out of all the examples I've seen, I am always been most drawn to the close-up photographs. I also live on a farm in the country, so there's plenty of opportunities at my home. I can do nature or animals.
Here's some of my inspiration. I think these pictures are intriguing, as they show details not always seen. They enhance the beauty of the subject.
