Photo Assignment 7-Motion

In this assignment, I used my dogs as the target for capturing the motion effect. I had a really fast shutter speed and a pretty high ISO to create this effect. I had my dad throw up a tennis ball or have them run after one. My dog can jump really high so I got a great photo of her in the air.

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ISO:800
Shutter Speed: 1/1600
Aperture: f/5.0




I had a fun time doing this assignment. I got some great shots and took the ability of my dogs jumping power to create great photos of motion. I also learned how to get the timing just right to get the best photo. I would defiantly do this assignment again if we had a choice.

Visual Dictionary

This assignment was all used through photoshop. We took a word of our choice and found the definition online and put it on a new photoshop item. We than took 3-4 photos from flickr and put them in the new item that involved the word.

I had a good time doing this assignment and I would defiantly do it again if I got the chance. I would find some more unique words next time to help my photo look even better than now. I also learned how to use all the tools I learned in photoshop and use them in this assignment. 

Photo Assignment 6-Nature

This week, I took photos of nature. I also have some photos I took on the cruise in week one instead of seeing just snow. I captured the elegance and the beauty of nature in my photos. I took my final product and edited it in photoshop by changing the levels, cropping and using brush tool to soften the horizon.
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ISO: 200

Shutter Speed: 1/100

Aperture: f/5.4

I had a great time doing this assignment. I would love to do it again. I learned how to capture the true beauty of nature by having a longer aperture. I would definitely do this assignment again if we had the chance.

Photoshop Tutorial

I used a reliable looking website that had many different tutorials that I could chose from. I decided to go with one that took 7 different photos and created a dock with a huge rock that looks like a house out in the middle of the ocean. I had to create many different layers and I had to use the lasso tool. I had to blend two sky's together and two oceans together to create a great effect. I had to make the horizon be softer. I had to create a shadow effect with the windows and the door. I used that brush to create very soft blackness to dim down the dock and sky.

Here is the website: Tutorial

At first, this was a very challenging tutorial but it got a little easier. It took me three days to create this photo. This was a challenging tutorial but I learned a lot from it and can use these skills in the future with editing my personal photos.

Context Assignment

In this assignment, I took photos around the school and created a photo that has water in an area that would seem like its supposed to be cement. We took real photos and made them look like why is that there.

I thought this was a difficult assignment and mine did not turn out so well. I thought my idea was good but it was hard to come up with things to be in my picture. I would not want to do it again if we had to choose.

Photo Assignment 5-Light Painting

I used a tripod and camera to create light painting for this weeks photo assignment. I had a dark room and a flashlight to create the painting of the light. I had to use a very slow shutter speed so I was able to create the paints.



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ISO:100

F-Stop: f/5.0

Shutter Speed: 15 sec

I learned how to use a flashlight to draw light in a photo. I thought it was a challenging assignment, trying not to get the flashlight shine in the camera or getting all of your outline done before it is done taking the photo. I would love to do it again, but it was a hard topic to do.

Photo Assignment 4-Macro

In this assignment, I got up close to trees and snow to capture there details to create great macro photos. I used the sun to create a good shadow and on the needles of my tree photos. I used the ability to blur the background out and keep the branch in focus with a low f/stop number.

ISO: 125

F/Stop: f/2.8

Shutter Speed: 1/1000

I learned how to capture really good up close photos to get the fine detail in the plants and show. By having a great sunny day, I could really get good detail on the photos. I would love to do this assignment again.