Monday, October 12, 2009

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.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

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.

Monday, October 5, 2009

Architecture

For this assignment, we had to take pictures of architecture. I took pictures of my house. I used higher ISOs inside and lower ISOs outside. I messed around with the exposure compensation and focal length. For the outside, I used sunlight for my white balance and florescent light inside. I also used my exposure bracketing as well and noticed that it is a lot easier to shoot with that and try to find the best image. My exposure bracket only goes from -1, 0, +1. I didn't know that my camera had this feature and I thought it was pretty cool.

Monday, September 28, 2009

Landscape photos

For this assignment we had to take pictures of landscape using the different types of exposure compensations. I took pictures of Forest Park and Mastidon Park. Some pictures had a foreground, middle ground and background. I noticed that the higher the number of exposure, the lighter the picture and the lower the number of exposure, the darker the picture. I also used an ISO of 100 and 200 and sunlight as my white balancing.

Monday, September 21, 2009

Electronic Flash

For this assignment, we had to use the different types of flashes on our cameras and experiment with slow sync. flash. I used auto, slow sync., auto/red eye, and forced flash to see what that does to the picture. I noticed that my flash stopped my mom in mid jump without being blurry and on slow sync. mode it made the pictures blurry.

Monday, September 14, 2009

Photo Journalism


For this assignment, we had to take pictures of an event. Unfortunately, no one would let me use them for my project so, I had to improvise and do it myself. Therefore, I didn't have much fun with this project . However, I did get some pretty yummy cookies out of it! I also realized that it would be easier to video tape something than to take a bunch of pictures instead. I used florescent light as my white balance and my highest ISO setting for this assignment.

Monday, September 7, 2009

Portrait and ISO



I took pictures of my dogs, Toby and Fluffy for this assignment. I used low ISOs for taking pictures outside and high ISOs for taking pictures inside. I noticed the pictures that I took inside were grainy and the ones that I took outside were nice and sharp.