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.

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.

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.

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.