Painting with light

For this assignment, we had to paint with light. I set my shutter speed for 10 seconds, had an ISO of 100, and an aperture of 4.5. I used my cell phone as a light source and drew some really fun designs. I really enjoyed doing this assignment.

Slide show with music

I had fun making a slide show with music. I never really got my graduation pictures developed, so I thought that making a slide show out of them would be better. I hope to use this a lot more often.

Video with Camera

For this assignment, we had to shoot video using our camera. I already knew that my camera had video, but I have never used it before until now. However, I didn't know that my camera shot in HD, which I thought was really cool. I would probably still use my video camera instead of my camera unless I didn't have my video camera on me and I still wanted to record something.

Black and White Photography

For this assignment, we had to take pictures and put them in black and white. I found out that my camera had a black and white setting, so I just took my pictures in black and white from my camera. My family and I went to a pumpkin patch to pick out our pumpkins for halloween, so I took pictures of the pumpkins. I also set my camera to RAW as well with the pictures I took of the pumpkins.

Macro Photography

For this assignment, we had to use macro on our cameras. I like taking pictures of flowers, so I really enjoyed this assignment. I used ISO 100 outside and ISO of 800 inside. I noticed that taking pictures of high ISOs makes my pictures really noisy, so I don't really like them. I also noticed that if I zoomed in on my subject it made the picture blurry and if I kept it on wide angle the picture came out alright. I also messed with my white balance for this assignment.

Portrait lighting with artificial lights

For this assignment, I took pictures of my mom using three different types of artificial light. I used two different lamps and a flashlight. I used 1250 ISO, florescent lighting as my white balance, and 3.2 for my aperture. I used +1/3 for my exposure. What I noticed while doing this assignment was that it matters where you set the light, so that you don't have a shadow on their face.

Meramec Lobby

This was an in class assignment where we had to use the different types of exposure compensation with our cameras. Tony, our teacher, also showed us what braketing does on our cameras, where it takes 3 different shots of exposure from -2, 0, +2. I learned that my camera only goes from -1, 0, +1.