1. My favorite project was definetly the Career Photo project.
a. I loved taking and editing photos of my freaking babe friends because they looked so good I didn't have to edit them that much. 2. Least favorite was the shutter speed project a. trying to get the shutter speed and metering the light just right b. taking them in the day time because shutter speed is hard at night to meter the light.
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Reflection The photography career I chose to do was portrait photogarphy. This career incompaces taking family pictures and portaits, peronal portraits, wedding photography/formal photography, etc. Portrait photogrphay captures moments of facial expressions, body language, and posed and candid pictures. It takes on the job training, a portrait photography certificate, and a bachelor's degree if you want to be a professional. Portrait photography is practiced in areas where the photographer finds fitting for the subjects to have the best lighting and background. These include studios, outdoors, and indoor scenic areas. I would be interest ed in making this type of photography a career for me because I enjoy capturing people's feelings in their face's and body language.
One photographer that is an example of portrait photography is Talia Jensen. She is really big into the wedding/formal photography. Her photos are very simple but complex. She has bright but dark contrast and colors in her pictures as well. I love how her poses are totally candid and not posed awkward. She has bright pictures, but also moody, dark pictures. My experience taking portrait pictures went really good. My friends were willing to let me take photos of their beautiful faces and they turned out very good. The setting helped alot with my photo compositions, such as framing and repetition. Using my mom's canon eos 80D really helped the quality of these picutures. I felt like if I was an actual professional photographer because I was working with "clients." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1GPbuv0IwM
I used these tutorials to make Laura and Renae's shadows more prominent and dramatic. http://www.bing.com/videos/search? q=Photoshop+Change+Eye+Color&&view=detail&mid=BCFAB2A84C864C1FDA30BCFAB2A84C864C1FDA30& FORM=VRDGAR In this picture, I learned how to use the selection and saturation tools to change Laura's eye color. s/o to carlie for actually coming to school
Yousuf Karsh was born on December 23, 1908, and died July 13, 2002. He was born in Madin, Armenia and was considered to be one of the world's most renowned portrait photographers. He photographed a lot of many great celebrated people in his generation. When he was 14, he fled with his family to the safety of Syria, because of the genocide of Christian Armenians by the Turk government. There, the Canadian Prime Minister discovered Karsh and liked him. The Prime Minister introduced him to many dignitaries, and from there, his portrait capturing career took off. Yousuf Karsh's work includes portraits of statesmen, artist, musicians, authors, scientists, and men and women of accomplishment. In his early work, he worked on artificial light (for the first time in 1929-1941.) He searched for his own form of expression during this time. During 1952 he started building on the success of is Winston Churchill portrait. During his career, he held 15,312 sittings, and produced over 150,000 negatives. This was an indelible artistic and historic record of the men and women who shaped the twentieth century. Karsh inspires me because of many reasons. He went through a lot in his early life, and he created success out of his hard times. His photographs (especially his portraits) speak so much more than a photo of a person's face. Many of his portrait subjects were very important people in history (such as Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr. , and JFK) and I find that inspiring because he came from such a rough background. His images almost show all the emotions the subject is feeling, and the lighting brings even more depth into his work. I hope to be able to recreate his work in a way to show the depth of the subjects in my photos. My Interpretation I really enjoyed trying to mimic Yousef Karsh's photography. Making Laura and Renae pose for me the way Yousef positioned his subjects really helped the photos turn out. I really tried to focus on the dark and light areas in them, and the contrast really helped bring the emotion I wanted to convey. I'm a little disapointed on the quality of the raw picutres though, they were really blurry and not perfectly in focus. But photoshop helped a bit. I'm pretty pleased on how I tried to mimic this amazing artist.
What I learned: I learned how to combine photos and adjust the fill and opacity percent's to make it more transparent. I also learned how to add two images combined onto a white background. This made more of an affect on the face of my subject.
Doing the studio lighting project was a very interesting learning experience. Renae, Laura and I had a rough time trying to position the light just right for loop and back lighting, but most of the other lighting techniques worked out great. I think all of the techniques are really impactful if you do all your lights right. Adjusting the camera's ISO and shutter speed really helped compensate with the hard lighting.
Reflection: I used mostly macro and manual mode, but I could've used aperture priority too. I loved using the macro lens because it brought so much detail to my subjects. I like using macro mode the best because I feel like I get the most texture in my objects I'm capturing. I like using this editing technique to enhance the contrast and emphasis on my photos.
I think this quote is really accurate because sometimes people think that how they capture the photo is more important than what they capture. The photographer just portrays what the earth gives.,
SO to carlz for sportin the three stripe gang and Ammon for twinin with the vanzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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