Writing with Light Experiment

ISO: 100

Aperture: f/5.6

Shutter Speed: 1"

I think the photo is mildly interesting but with a much slower shutter speed we could have created a more compelling and unique design for the picture. I think we also could have done more with the lights, such as using techniques we learned in the earlier lighting unit. 

Motion Blog Assignment (2)

Blurred Motion

Both of these pictures use the rule of thirds to emphasize the blurred motion prevalent in the image.

Chrono

These images use curved lines to show the time elapsing in each of the subjects jumps.

Frozen Motion

Both of these photos use movement to guide the eye through the perfectly captured and frozen action in the image.

Panning

The first panning image of a bike employs color by having the background be a medley of different bright shades which helps the visual appeal of the picture. The second picture with the flying duck uses simplicity to emphasize the duck against the tan blurred background. 

Writing with Light

These images use bright, glowing colors in such a way that it stands out against the dark or black backgrounds and makes the photo much more interesting. 

Zooming

These pictures use repetition, whether with a patch of tulips or a pile of leaves, to help emphasize the use of zooming throughout the image.

Motion Blog Assignment (1)

Blurred Motion

The shutter speed is low in these pictures so as to achieve the effect of blurred motion .

Chronography

Each of these photos were created by setting the camera up in one place and taking a bunch of different pictures of one person in different places. The different images were then edited to make it all one picture. 

Frozen Motion

These photos were all taken by using extremely high/fast shutter speeds to help effectively capture, or freeze, motion in the image.

Panning

Panning is employed by the photographer by focusing in detail on the object in motion, and then following the object in motion as the picture is taken, with a slow shutter speed.

Writing with Light

To take a picture with light writing, you must use a very low shutter speed and with any sort of light, such as a laser pointer or flashlight, you repeatedly create patterns in the air with the light while the picture is being taken.

Zooming

Pictures with zooming are taken by identifying a subject and with a slow shutter speed, moving towards or away from the subject while taking the picture.

Aperture Quiz

 f/5.6

f/9

f/16

This assignment really tested me on my knowledge of camera basics, particularly using aperture to manipulate depth of focus in a photograph. For my subject I selected a collection of books with contrasting colors in the fore and background which I used to help emphasize the depth of focus. The subject in each photograph was the middle ground which contained three books of similar shades of hot pink/red while the blurry fore and background showed books of darker shades which helped bring out the brighter colors in the middle ground.

I think one major thing I could have improved on in this project was working on the composition of the picture. 

Depth of field is great to use in photography because it helps to bring out the subject or focal point of the image and also to help better demonstrate usage of other principles of design in the picture. Depth of field is manipulated by changing the f/stop or aperture of the image, which affects how wide the opening of the camera lens is, therefore making a photo more or less blurry.