Black and White

This week I decided to try and get some black and white shots, yet oddly all of my best pictures for black and white ended up being older pictures that i had already tried to take and thought had failed. Here is my best pic and a few extra.

This picture is actually a old photo shoot i did with my friend Peter (subject) which I thought I had failed the pictures since I didn't get the effect I wanted.
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1.3"
Aperture: f11

Light Painting

In this photo shoot I decided to attempt the marvel that is light painting. Because i went brain dead when i was ready to shoot (wasn't until that point) i didn't end up with much good pictures, however this is what i got.

 I really like this picture since it shows this lit person in the darkness (myself) and the conflict of multiple personalities behind one face. overall i tried to take this as one picture and it didn't work.. thus I decided to take about 13 different good pictures showing different personalities and picked the best ones to put together. Not sure of the specs since it is multiple pictures.

Nature

I decided that since spring is on the horizon to take a few pictures relating to nature. The sunsets and sunrises are starting to show their beautiful colors and this is my catch of it all with my best picture and the rest.

This photo was taken because i passed by the house and saw a beautiful scene with the branches just outside the glow of the moon with the light smoke from the chimney floating across in front of the moon giving it the glow. nice softly colored view, didn't come out quite that way.
ISO: 100
Shutter: 6"
Aperture: f4

Full Color

In this photo shoot i decided to show full color, playing on lights and shadows while showing the full colors of the world. Here is my best picture and a collection of my other best photos.

This one is my favorite by far simply because the reds of the color are so strong and illuminant yet they don't look fake. The actual book has half the color this picture shows which is only emphasized by the black and white pop color.
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/2"
Aperture: f4

Panning motion blur

Here the photography class took pictures of Mr. Bush on his bike as we tried to get pictures showing motion. This was my best picture of the mix.

Panoramic Photo

Here I took three pictures of the Saline High School commons and fused them together into a panoramic photo.

I used gimp 2.6 and blended the edges of the 3 photos in such a way that they would fit together almost perfectly as if it was one picture.

Gimp Car Editing Assignment

In this assignment I used a picture taken by Noel Jacobs and edited it to remove the background and most of the major distracting highlights.

Before:

After:

Macro

This photo was taken in the Digital Photography room on the 18th. I wasn't actually expecting this photo to turn out as good as it did, but it has appeared to me to be the best of my macro shots taken this week. Most of the class probably recalls the ridiculous beeping of my camera's timer (I'm trying to fix that) when I set up the shot.

Shutter Speed:       2"
Aperture F/Stop:   5.8
ISO:                      100

Andy Warhol effect

 This is an image of me in my photography class. I have taken the image and made a black/white version of it and created this Andy Warhol style image with 4 different colors using Gimp 2.0.

Photo Composition

These are my photo submissions for the composition assignment for my photography class. Each one shows one or multiple elements of composition but each one has a different major element.




Rule of Thirds - Tree over pond
Texture - Brick wall with rail
Pattern - Row of lockers
Depth of Field - Lens cap
Symmetry - Table
Lines - Ceiling shot
Framing - Person in hallway enterance
Perspective - Round mirror reflection
Space - Wall plug
Balance - Dracopedia
Color - Flags and the rising sun

I learned that a different perspective, some photographer manipulation, and having the right settings ready for a shot can help a lot when trying to make good looking photos. When a photo doesn't quite look right, a slightly different angle or some slight interaction with the objects may make the shot look far better.