Assignment #4.5 - Random before and afters

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For this image i bumped the exposure down just a little bit and then tried to change the blacks but the actual water of the pond ended up getting too dark and i tried to fix that by bumping up the exposure more but that did not work out well. So i changed the blacks back and tried not to have too much gray.


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For this image i had to bump the exposure up quite a bit almost .7 which is more than i wanted to but it worked out pretty well. The trees on the right side of the image were getting way too dark when i changed the black at all so i ended up hardly even touching the black slider. It took a long time to develop this image because if i changed it hardly at all it would look fake or too dark or too light. It was cloudy/dusk when i took this and so it feels dark but it is still a little too gray.


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WAYY hard to do anything to. It was such a cool shot to start with because the sky was actually gray and the sunlight was streaming through the clouds and it was hard when i took this because the scene lost a lottt of the detail directly under the sky and the light wasn't as cool in the camera.

Assignment #4 - High and Low Key

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This assignment was very fun and hard too. I didn't believe Mr. Slade when he said that the whites would be delicate but they are!!!! It is very hard to get whites that are actually white and not blown out and print them. Bracketing helped a lottttt with this assignment and so did manual focus. The focus was so important because to make a picture look really good it has to be "tack sharp" The darks were not as delicate but the lighting was definitely more important for the darks.

Irving Penn

Irving Penn was a great photographer. He just recently passed away on Oct. 7th 2009. He was famous for photographing people in a simple way by posing them with just a backdrop in black and white. He became well known for his glamour photography. He worked for vogue for many years and he worked to draw attention to the person in the photograph's expression, so he made the background simple and the person more dramatic.

His style is consistent even though the subjects varied a lot. He is also known for his usage of light. He mastered studio flash but also used light from windows. He would organize every object in the frame very carefully and sometimes his photos were considered ahead of their time and they would not be recognized until much later. He said "photographing a cake can be art" and that says a lot about Irving Penn because he could make almost anything look like art. His style is simple and complicated at the same time.

Assignment #3 - Bracketing

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For this assignment we had to bracket and it helped alot to find a good exposure that didn't need to be edited hardly at all. I took the unedited image and printed it and then i edited it slightly and printed it again.

Assignment #2 - Numbers assignment

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For this assignment we had to find and photograph the numbers 0-99. It was very difficult to find all of the numbers in new and creative ways. I decided to think of a way to get all of the numbers and i decided to start writing them in different places and in different ways. My shots are for the most part WAY too gray but it was a fun assignment and i look forward to doing a better job on it next year!

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This lovely photo was taken during a storm and i could see the whole valley. It was cool

Chewy

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