On the very first day when we walked into class and Mr. O'Donnell told us to go take some pictures, I had no idea what to do. I'd always enjoyed taking pictures on my phone, but I barely knew how a camera worked. Since then, I've taken pictures and adjusted the camera's settings in more ways than I could've imagined, such as macro, panoramic, and even things as simple as adjusting the ISO, SS, and aperture. Now, I feel entirely confident that if I were randomly told to go out and take photos, that they would actually turn out to be good quality pictures. The photo of my cat was one of my earliest pictures I took for this class. It is one of the worst pictures I took for many reasons, such as the composition, the blur, etc. The cactus picture is one that I took for my Macro assignment. It is my best and my favorite picture that I have taken because I love the coloring, the composition, and overall just the way it turned out.
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In this project, we chose 3 different puns that we wanted to visually represent. Then we used photoshop to combine images that show the pun. These are my three: In this assignment, learned how to open different documents in one photoshop project and then later combing them. I also got better at putting many pictures onto one file and arranging them so they look the way I want.
For our last photo assignment, I did Nature. I got pictures around my neighborhood of the trees in the fall with their changing leaves. This is my best picture before and after I edited it: For the edit, I changed the contrast and darkened it. Aperture: 4.0 Shutter Speed: 1/160 ISO: 320 Next best five: Summary: In this assignment, I got better at using angles for composition. I also had fun going around my neighborhood and finding the most colorful trees.
During this assignment, we found photoshop tutorials. We got to choose which ones to use and we followed the instructions, making edited pictures. These are the before and after edit pictures: Link 1 (dash of color): https://digital-photography-school.com/mono-with-a-dash-of-colour-photoshop-cs2-tutorial/ Link 2 (Polaroid): https://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/polaroids/ Link 3 (Old daguerreotype): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS6OooobAsM I learned how to use multiple layers and make copies of them at the same time. I also learned how to use the history brush, and how to fit different layers to each other before changing their visibility. Dash of color was about making the picture mono, and then bringing back the color of just one thing. It was really easy and there were only a few steps. The polaroid one was about giving the appearance that there was a collage of polaroids revealing the whole picture. This one was harder and some of the steps were kind of confusing, but it mostly just took a long time. The daguerreotype project was about giving the picture an old, scratched up look like what might have come from a long time ago when cameras were much newer. This one was also a bit harder, but mostly because you had to reveal the layer in just a certain way that they fit each other.
For the sixth photo assignment, I chose the topic Black and White. I used previous pictures and changed them to black and white in Photoshop. This is my best picture before and after the editing: For the edit, I changed the colors to black and white. Aperture: 4.0 Shutter Speed: 1/2000 ISO: 100 These are my next best five: Summary: In this assignment, I learned how to change the image to black and white. I learned how to adjust the different settings to darken and lighten certain parts as well.
In this assignment, we took pictures of ourselves and combined them in photoshop to give the appearance that there were multiple of us. I learned how to use layer masks in this assignment. I also learned how to fix up the images using the brush tool on the layer masks.
During this project, we took a picture somewhere around the school and then edited. In Photoshop, we changed the scene, and I used the theme of dragons for my scene. I learned how to erase different layers to show others. I also got better at working with so many pictures and then combining it into one by copying and pasting.
For these pictures, I did the topic Event. I went to Wasem's Cider Mill and got photos. This is my best picture: I cropped the image, changed the hue/saturation, and brightened it a bit. Aperture: 4.5 Shutter Speed: 1/800 ISO: 125 Next five: Summary: I got better at adjusting the ISO in really sunny areas, and then changing the SS and Aperture to compliment it. I also tried to use different compositions in some of my pictures (not all are shown), and I changed the angles a bit.
This time, I chose the topic of Macro. I went out in my back yard and took pictures of leaves and flowers and more in the macro setting so it was magnified a lot. This is my best photo before and after editing: For the edit, I cropped the image, changed the hue/saturation a bit, and made it brighter. Aperture: 5.6 Shutter Speed: 1/640 ISO: 100 Next best five: Summary: In conclusion, I learned how to use the macro setting. It wasn't all that different from the other settings except for the focal point and that the flash had to be used in some of the pictures.
In this assignment, we went around and took pictures. Then we used photoshop to make the phos a panoramic picture. I learned how to take panoramic pictures on my camera. I further learned how to put those photos together in Photoshop to make it the full panoramic picture.
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