Black and White Assignment

For this assignment, I wanted to take pictures that had a lot of patterns. I decided to pick pictures with more dull colors, because otherwise they look better with color! I took many new pictures of objects around my room, but some of the photos were old. When looking back at some of my pictures, I decided to convert them to black and white because I thought they were very eye-catching. My favorite picture was of a necklace that I placed on the bench in my room. I accented to red color, so only the bead on the necklace sticks out.


Best Picture:
ISO- 250
Aperture- f/2.8
Shutter Speed- 1/30 sec

Architecture

For this assignment, I went to downtown Ann Arbor and took a pictures of the old buildings. I really liked the old buildings on campus, so I tried to capture the archaic look. As I kept taking pictures, it was starting to get darker and darker so some of the later pictures have a little bit of digital noise. My favorite picture was of the old church by the diag. I took the shot from down below between a fence, and I really like how the tree frames the church.

Best Picture:

ISO- 800

Aperture- f/3.2

Shutter speed- 1/40 sec

School Gimp Assignment

For this assignment, we took a picture of the school and used the editing tools in gimp to place unexpected objects in the picture. I decided to take a picture of the stair case and used the bucket fill tool to create a red carpet. I then cut and paste the rest of my picture, like the wedding couple and the flowers, into new layers. I really like the look of the red carpet, because you can still see the outline of the steps which makes it look more real.

Still Life

For this assignment, I chose to take pictures for the still life category. I used a black, velor blanket as the background. The material caused the light to catch it in certain ways, and the way it was propped up caused some of the wrinkles in the cloth. I took the pictures in my living room, which had many large windows and allowed for a large amount of natural light to come in. I took quite a few photos of the same subject, because I wanted to make sure that i snapped the picture at the best angle and perspective, with the light shining in just right. My favorite photos were of the Mexican Train set. I thought the colors of the trains and the dominoes really popped against the black blanket. The game set also demonstrated aperture and depth of field really well, which I thought improved the pictures quality. My final picture is a basket of pumpkins tipped over and it was my final chose because I liked how the light was hitting the basket and the pumpkins filled the wrinkles in the blanket.


Best Picture:
ISO- 400
Shutter Speed- 1/4 sec
Aperture- f/2.8

Gimp Assignment 4

For this assignment, the goal was to catch the personality of the subject in a portrait photograph. The main focus in this project is the lighting. For the image against the wall, we used a technique called a bounce light. We stood by the window and then used a shiny surface, or a poster board, and reflected the natural light onto the subject's face. This way there was light shining on both sides of the face, therefore there was not any shadows. The second technique was a more professional photograph, with the "sandwich technique". With this set-up, we used a key light to shine straight on the subject, a background light for depth on the curtain, a hair light to shine from above, and a fill light to provide another light source. This type of portrait picture turned out very neat, and it looked very professional.

Animal

For this assignment, I took many different pictures of pets. I only have one dog, the white one, who's name is Snickers. The rest of the animals were friend's and neighbor's pets. There were also a few pictures of roosters and donkeys at the pumpkin patch. When capturing the pictures, I tried to show the personality of the animal. The picture I liked the best was of the donkey from the pumpkin patch. I really liked the contrast between the colors, and the shadows in the background.


Best Picture:
ISO- 160
Aperture- f/4
Shutter Speed- 1/1250 sec