Black and white is the category I used for my fourth shooting assignment. It is definitely one of my favorites, because changing a photo into black and white can give it a whole new feeling. I really enjoyed this assignment, and I'm positive I will take more black and white photos in the future. Original Photo Edited Photo
f/3.5, 1/500, ISO 100 Some other editing I did besides turning it to black and white includes contrast, exposure, and brightness.
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During this assignment, we were instructed to use Photoshop to edit a photo of our school, and put it into a different context. Some tools I used include selection, saturation, transparency, and paintbrush. This assignment was definitely like nothing I've ever done, and I hope to try it again sometime.
I chose to focus on still life as my third shooting assignment. This assignment was really fun to photograph, because I was able to set up the scene exactly how I wanted it to look. There were some complications, however. One of which was trying to get adequate lighting. Another was positioning the background so it covered the whole photo. f/3.5, 1/125, ISO 200
In Photoshop, I raised the brightness, contrast, saturation, and shadows. For this assignment, we were instructed to use Photomerge in Photoshop to "stitch" photos together into one wide photograph. Some tools that were used include a tripod, and the automate and Photomerge aspects in Photoshop. A few things that I learned are to set the camera to manual focus, keep the exposure around the same for each of the individual photos, and how to effectively use Photomerge.
This shooting assignment category was very fun to photograph. I loved taking photos of flowers, and I'm sure I'll take photos of them again in the future. One thing that was pretty difficult about this category was getting close to my subjects without blocking out the light. f/3.5, 1/100, ISO 200 Some of the editing I did in Photoshop includes raising the brightness, contrast, saturation, and highlights.
For this assignment, we were directed to use various tools in Photoshop to retouch a photo of a car. We had to crop it, darken the windshield, take away some of the bright spots, and erase the background. Some tools we used were crop, the clone tool, the selection tools, levels, and layers. Below is the original photograph, the edited version, and a two pictures of my own. During this assignment, I learned so many new things about Photoshop and its various tools. I enjoy using Photoshop, and I can't wait to see what our next assignment is.
The second category I've chosen to focus on is Macro. I really like the thought of revealing details not commonly noticed or seen, and I believe I can learn a lot from it. A few inspirational photos from the Internet are below: All four of the images above did an amazing job at catching the eye and focusing in on small details people generally don't see.
For this assignment, I had two different subjects. I also learned a few things while photographing them. The lighting in my kitchen was awful, so I ended up holding a light over the subjects to better illuminate them. One of my favorite parts of shooting this assignment would probably be setting the subject up to look a certain way. f/3.5, 1/25, ISO 200
Some editing I did to the photo includes raising the brightness and contrast, and making it more vibrant. In this quick assignment, we were instructed to edit and colorize photos in Photoshop. Some editing elements we used include ruler, crop, hue/saturation, copy and paste, and resizing the canvas. I learned a variety of helpful techniques in this assignment. Not only did I learn how to use the above tools, I feel much more confident with Photoshop and how to navigate it.
The subject I have chosen to focus on for my first shooting assignment is food. Baking is another one of my hobbies, and I think it'd be fun to combine the two. I also think food would be a good subject to test ISO on. Below are a few inspirational photos from the Internet. All of the photos above did an amazing job at conveying different composition techniques, such as color and balance. The photographers also did a great job positioning the food so it looks pretty and appealing.
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