Melting Crayons

ISO: 800 Aperture: 5.0 Shutter Speed: 1/80 Lens: macro

ISO: 800 Aperture: 5.0 Shutter Speed: 1/80 Lens: macro

ISO: 800 Aperture: 5.0 Shutter Speed: 1/80 Lens: macro

This was a project that I did during class just for fun. I used a macro lens so I could get close up and a 580 flash. The hardest part of these pictures in my opinion was the set up. We had to get an easel, poster board, a hairdryer, and crayons. It was a little scary taking these pictures just because the wax from the crayons was kind of shooting out and I didn't want it to get on the camera. Anyway, I loved taking these pictures because of all the bright colors and it was just fun watching the wax drip and mix with the other colors as well. The only changes I made to these pictures were cropping them, bumping up the exposure a little bit, and bringing up the vibrance to really make the colors pop.

FORKS!!

ISO: 100 Aperture: 9.0 Shutter Speed: 1/250 Lens: Macro

This was another picture that I took for my six weeks project. Taking this picture was very interesting because it was the first time that I had ever used a gel. In order to get the fork all bendy I had my dad use pliers cause there's no way on this earth that I could do that! Haha! But that's beside the point. The only problem I had trying to take this picture was placing the light cause it took me a while to figure out where to put it to get the shadows. Overall, I liked using the gel and will hopefully use it a lot more in the future.

EGGS!!!!!

Phase #1

Egg Deyolking

ISO: 100 Aperture: 14.0 Shutter Speed: 1/250 Lens: Macro

This is a picture that I took during class today for our six weeks project. In order to get this picture, I had to first deyolk the egg (see videos above), set up the brolly box, and then figure out where to place the light stand in order to get the shadows I wanted. I also had a friend hold a silver reflector beside the eggs to get shadows on the other side of the eggs also. Overall this was a fun picture to take just because of all the shenanigans that went along with it! Taking this picture helped to give me a better understanding of lighting and how to use it to get the desired outcome.

BLUE!!! (October 19th)

ISO: 800 Aperture: 8.0 Shutter Speed: 1/40 Lens: 17-50mm

So, once again I was trying to come up with an idea for the thematic competition for ATPI. I got some food coloring and decided to just go at it. It was kind of hard to get the background I wanted just because I didn't have a white background. Another problem I had was getting the macro to focus although I ended up not using it. I think the picture could have been better if I had used a  tripod. I'd like to do this again with multiple colors together. Overall, this was pretty fun to shoot.

Haley in BLUE!!

ISO: 100  Aperture: 10 Shutter Speed: 1/250 Lens: macro

This was a picture that I took of my friend Haley during class today. My inspiration came from a magazine that had a closeup picture of a girl with bright red lipstick and matching nails. So, I figured that I could kind of do the same thing, except, because the theme for ATPI is blue, I decided to use blue nail polish and lipstick instead. I used a brolly box with my flash in order to get the soft shadows on one side of her face and light on the other. It was the first time I used it, and I liked it a lot!! The power of my flash was at 1/4, and I matched the exposure by adjusting the aperture cause you can't go over 1/250 sec when using a flash. Overall, this picture was a great me to learn more about using flash, cause before this I hadn't really played with it a whole lot. Oh! and the only changes I made were cropping the picture and adding a filter!

Steve Jobs

ISO: 800 Aperture: 4.0 Shutter Speed: 1/250 Lens: 17-50mm

ISO: 1000 Aperture: 16 Shutter Speed: 1/40 Lens: 17-50mm

This was a picture that I took for the school newspaper about the death of Steve Jobs. What I tried to do was get a picture of someone reading about the death of Steve Jobs on their phone. I used a 430 flash and the problem that I had when taking this picture was getting the picture on the screen of the phone exposed while still keeping the person exposed correctly. However, I still wanted the person in focus (2nd picture) instead of blurry. So, I raised my aperture and then I bumped up my ISO so I could have the picture exposed correctly. Other than that, this photo wasn't too hard to take.  

Dive!!

ISO: 800 Aperture: 2.8 Shutter Speed: 1/400 Lens: 17-50mm

So, this was my first time to shoot dive. I thought it was really fun to shoot, but I wish I would have had a 70-200mm. lens instead of the 17-50mm. Really the only problem I had was trying to keep the divers in focus while they were jumping and flipping in the air. Next time I shoot dive, I'm going to try to be a little more aggressive and get behind the board so that I can get some more shots of faces cause when they flip they always tuck their heads. The only change that I made to this picture was bringing up the exposure and cropping it. I hope I get to shoot dive sometime again.