1st Six Weeks Project

ISO: 800 Aperture: 2.8 Shutter Speed: 1/50 Lens: 17-50mm.

ISO: 800 Aperture: 4.0 Shutter Speed: 1/15 Lens: 17-50mm.

                      

ISO: 800 Aperture: 5.6 Shutter Speed: 1/80 Lens: 17-50mm.

Flash: 580

  

ISO: 1600 Aperture: 8.0 Shutter Speed: 1/5 Lens: 17-50mm.

ISO: 100 Aperture: 11.0 Shutter Speed: 1/200 Lens: 70-200mm.

The six weeks project that I was assigned to do was to take five different pictures with different aperture settings. This sounded pretty easy, but when I started to shoot, it proved to be kinda difficult. It was really difficult to get my fourth picture exposed just because usually when I have my shutter speed set, I change my aperture to get the picture exposed right. Due to the fact that it was dark in the room, it was really difficult to get it exposed right without changing the aperture. So what I did was bring my ISO up and then I had to hold the camera extremely still. All the other pictures weren't that difficult to shoot just because of the lighting that I had. Overall, I think that changing the aperture in a picture can help bring out the focus of the photo and it gives the photographer creative control over the image.

Water Drops :)

The settings for all of these pictures are the same:

ISO: 100 Aperture: 8.0 Shutter Speed: 1/250 Lens: Macro 50mm. 

Today during class I did water drops. In a nutshell, it is capturing images with lights. However, I leanred that you can't take your shutter speed over 1/250 of a second because if so you will get a black bar across your picture. This is because it is the fasted sync speed you can take with your strobes. These pictures were really fun for me to take because the results you get if you do it correctly are so cool!!! I will definitely be doing some more of this in the future. Really the only problem I had was getting it focused and in the frame there at the beginning.

ISO: 800 Aperture: 4.5 Shutter Speed: 1/125 Lens: 17-50mm.

This is a picture that I took today at the school’s annual blood drive. It was a different experience for me to take these pictures because I had to ask the people to take pictures of them because of some law or something. I used a 430 flash and that helped a lot because whenever I take pictures in the gym they always turn out yellow. I really like this picture because of how the hand is really in focus and then the girl is blurry in the background. The only change I made to this picture was to bring up the fill light because the shadows were kind of dark.

I'm awful at football!!!

ISO: 1250 Aperture: 4.5 Shutter Speed: 1/200 Lens: 70-200mm.

So I was sent to go take pictures of Freshman football, and as it turns out, I am absolutely awful at shooting football. I could never get the camera to focus fast enough on the football players so all of my pictures that would have been good were out of focus.. it made me want to CRY!!!!! However, I was able to get some good pictures of the cheerleaders! I liked this picture in particular because of how the light is lighting up the girls face. I also like how the background is blurred and how she is looking to the left.

Hillbilly Day

ISO: 800 Aperture: 4.5 Shutter Speed: 1/80 Lens: 70-200mm.

ISO: 800 Aperture: 4.5 Shutter Speed: 1/80 Lens: 70-200mm.

Today during photography I went and took some pictures of hillbilly day. The first problem I had was that the camera settings were set for using a flash so my pictures were kind of yellow. Another problem that I had was that a lot of my pictures were out of focus and I'm still working on figuring that problem out. It was a lot better taking pictures of the spirit day today though, because I used the 70-200mm so I could "snipe" people from a long ways away. This was really helpful because when you get close up to people they tend to look at you and pictures for the yearbook need to be candid. 

FAIL

ISO: 100 Aperture: 4.0 Shutter Speed: 1/100 Lens: 28-75 mm.

This was a picture that I took this past week at my school's annual bacon fry. As you can see already, this picture is a definite fail. Not only is this picture extremely underexposed, but if you look in the background there is another photographer in the picture. It was kind of difficult to get the exposure correct though because there was a black person standing beside a white person and there were white plates and cups in the background. It probably would have helped if I had used a flash. I didn't change anything on this picture in lightroom because I think that it is just messed up beyond repair. 

Painting with Light (part deux)

ISO: 100 Aperture: 3.5 Shutter Speed: 30 sec. Lens: 17-50mm.

ISO: 100 Aperture: 3.5 Shutter Speed: 30 sec. Lens: 17-50mm.

ISO: 100 Aperture: 5.0 Shutter Speed: 30 sec. Lens: 17-50mm.

ISO: 100 Aperture: 5.0 Shutter Speed: 32 sec. Lens: 17-50mm.

Today in class me and some friends went and messed with painting with light. My friend came up with the idea to do the hear/see/speak no evil. The first images I took were kind of a fail. In the very first picture I just used a regular light bulb and I would just flash it each time my friend changed poses. I really wanted the background to be black so I decided I need to go up the the subject and shine the light myself. This worked a lot better, except I had to figure out how long to hold the light in front of my friends face or her face would be extremely over exposed. After taking even more pictures, I decided to change from a regular light bulb to an orangey looking light bulb. That's what I used on my last picture and I liked it a lot better. This picture went through a bunch of phases before I was finally pleased with it. The only changes I made to the last picture besides cropping and straightening it was lighting up the subjects face just a little bit more. 

Spiderman!!!

 ISO: 100 Aperture: 6.3 Shutter Speed: 1/250 Lens: 28-75 mm.

 ISO: 100 Aperture: 6.3 Shutter Speed: 1/250 Lens: 28-75 mm.

Today during class we did the spiderman assignment. We did this by using a high shutter speed and flash. Our goal was to make the illusion that you were sticking to the walls just like spiderman. In reality, we were just freezing the shot at the right time. The only changes that I made to my pictures were bringing the exposure up by almost one stop. Doing this assignment really helped me with my timing of taking pictures, because that is a problem that I have encountered in the past. Hopefully my timing will get better with practice and time. However, this assignment was really fun weather you were jumping off the wall or taking pictures behind the lens of the camera.

ISO: 640 Aperture: 2.8 Shutter Speed: 1/25 sec. Lens: 17-50 mm.

ISO: 640 Aperture: 2.8 Shutter Speed: 1/25 sec. Lens: 17-50 mm.

ISO: 640 Aperture: 2.8 Shutter Speed: 1/30 sec. Lens: 17-50 mm.

These were just some pictures I was taking for fun when I was at a friends house. However, I ran into a few problems while taking them. The lighting in the room was kind of dark, so I slowed down my shutter speed to let in more light. When I did this, I didn't take into accountability that the animals were moving fast and that they would be blurry in the picture. It didn't help that I didn't have a flash, but today in class we talked about how to freeze action with a flash. Therefore, in the future, I should have better luck taking pictures of these animals inside. Due to the fact that in some instances I had to make my shutter speed a little faster, some of my pictures turned out darker. So, the only edits made to my pictures were bumping up the aperture about one stop.