Thursday Nov. 19, 2015

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These are the pictures from the science fair. There really was no description on the pictures so I got one on the way there. The person said to get some of them talking to the kids and some of them debating them. 

I was kind of iffy on this assignment because I had heard from the past that getting pictures of middle-schooled kids was an iffy subject. I tried to avoid getting the kids in the pictures but looking back now I realize that I probably should have gotten some more with them in it. I really like the last picture because it looks kind of like you are seeing the perspective of the kid. I like the second one but it was really underexposed because I was still trying to figure out my settings for the flash at the time. This one on here is after bringing up the exposure a good little bit. 

If I could go back and re-shoot this I would definitely try to get more creative and push the limits on what I could do. There were a couple of time I was tempted to shoot through the poster boards, but I didn't want to completely scare the already nervous 6th graders. I really don't like the first one because he is eating a cookie. I just fell like that just makes it look like they were just there for food. I have some abstract kind of pictures also, like shooting down the posters and a close up of a grading sheet. I know on the second one I cut her head off, but I wanted to keep the title of the project in the picture one to show the amusing title and then kind of show what she was actually looking at. All in all I liked the assignment but I really wish I could go back and redo it.

Tuesday Nov. 17, 2015

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The assignment was to get pictures of her pricking her finger to show diabetes. I was told to get close ups of her. I didn't really know how close they wanted so I got both.

I started out with her actually doing with close up shots. Then I just had her act it out again to get the ones that show her whole body. I made sure I had my settings right before I even started so I didn't make her have to prick her finger more than once.  After I took several test shots to make sure everything was okay, I got her to start the whole process. The close up ones I shot at 2.8 because I felt those looked better because then the midsection of her body wouldn't be in focus. The ones of her whole body  shot at f4 because at f2.8 her body wasn't in focus. 

I feel like I was more aware of everything on this assignment. I know I was more aware because I didn't want her to have to repeatedly stick her finger, the I would've felt really bad. I really like the one of her hand with the blood drop on her hand. I'm not a big fa of the full body shots because they really don't show the detail of the picture. This photo assignment taught me that I really need to sit back and really think about the small little details of the picture and making it easier on the person I am getting a picture of.

Thursday Nov. 12, 2015

I have started planning out my self portrait. I have several different ideas that I want to try.  There are about three different things  I want to try

The first plan I want to try is sitting in a chair with the light from the sun shining on part of my face, and let the sun be the light source. I want all of my pictures to be shot at 2.8 so the background will be blurry because no matter where I take it the background will be distracting. I want it to look kind of like some of the pictures from Emily. The plan is to have a light source on the side of my face by the window. I plan on doing it when the light would be softer so there won't be harsh shadows.  Part of the problem will be the light source being so weak that there really won't be any light or the shutter speed will have to be really slow or I would have to have a high ISO. If I did that though my picture would't look like how I wanted.

The second one I want to try is to me laying down on a windowsill looking out and using the sun again. However, I kind of want to try and using a light with an umbrella to add a little bit of light to the part that would be shadowed by the sun light. That way it would be a little more difficult to do.

There are some more abstract ones, like me doing something a little more difficult to get a picture of like me dancing, reading, or just something different. I look at Emily Sandifer's and yes they are good, but they just look like so many posed pictures, like the person looking away trying to look all sophisticated. There is never really any thing abstract. The difficult part of getting a picture of me dancing is getting the focus point to be right because the people helping me don't know how to dance.   This is one that I really want to push myself on. I really don't want to be the norm on this. I want to try and make motion, like a slower shutter speed and blurring like my hair. I really want to make it different and really challenge myself.

Tuesday Nov. 10, 2105

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This assignment was to shoot freshman and jv football. The freshman team made it to half time before the weather cancelled the game. The jv team never got to play. This assignment was difficult to get people to want to cover it.

I tried to shoot it the same way I shoot varsity, but that didn't work to well. The plays are a whole lot quicker and you don't really know what is going to happen. The fact that they have less experience is a determining factor in how they shoot. They don't know how to play and tend to just run around trying to get to the infield, so I had to try and keep up and watch out for what I thought might happen. however, like in varsity they were unpredictable, but more than most. There was one boy that completely abandoned the play and ran zig zag down the field. Also the lighting was a difficult thing. At the beginning of the game I didn't need a flash. but as the night went on it got darker, but the flash was to bright so I had to turn down the flash. I hated the lighting.

The first picture would have been good, but it was out of focus and centered. Also, none of our players are really able to be seen. The thing I like about the picture was the fact that their player was dropping the ball.The second an third pictures are nothing special, just normal football pictures.The thing that annoys me the most about the second one is the two people on the left side of the picture, they don't really look like they are there to play. On the last one I really wish that there were other people, someone else to be tackling the people. It just seems like those are the only two people playing football. I really wish that the feet of their player weren't blurry. I kind of wish that the jv game wasn't cancelled because then I would have been able to get a lot more pictures, but I was also happy that the games got cancelled because I got to go home and do homework. 

Thursday Nov. 5, 2015

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The assignment was to shoot the football game. The assignment was just to get pictures of the game. Then shoot afterwards to try and find people crying.

I shot the football like I always do, just follow the ball. I made sure that I didn't get any pictures of dog piles.

The game was really interesting because we had them from the beginning. The problem was when they got the ball they would run it to  the other side of the field, where I can't shoot. Shooting football with the rules of composition are hard for me because I don't anticipate where they are going so I have to follow them. Then I wind up giving them room to make sure I don't cut anything off, then they are in the center of the picture. I feel like these were good pictures for me to leave varsity football games on. They seem to be sharper and more detailed to me, maybe just because I am being sentimental. But overall I think they are good pictures, but not great. I think this was a good ending to football season for me. I hate to say it, but I will miss it.

Tuesday Nov 2, 2015

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The photo assignment was really nothing. No one said anything about it at all. I asked a fellow classmate if she had any idea for it or knew anything about it. We discussed it and then asked input from our teacher. The picture we were thinking of was just him going to be in front of a computer. Our teacher told us to literally spotlight him. 

My partner thought that we would need a coozie, but but our teacher told us we wouldn't need one. We took several pictures trying to get the position of the lighting right.We had a slight difficulty with getting the light high enough because of the ceiling. Then, the problem was blocking the light from hitting the background. The second one is one that wasn't put in Lightroom and have the background darkened. 

Looking back I realize that if we had something like black paper on the back side of the flash, but not right on top of the flash we could have blocked the light from hitting the background. Then, we wouldn't have had to go into Lightroom and make the background darker. That would have required a third person to hold the paper. Yes, it would have been more difficult, but I believe you get it looking closest to what you want on the camera instead of using the computer to do it.  I feel like if we had a third person this picture would have been so much better and easier looking.

Thursday October 29, 2015

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This is the blog that has two of the outside assignments on it. When looking to make sure that my blogs were done I noticed that I didn't have these two assignments on it.  The first ones are from field of faiths and the second group are from the Pine Tree football game. The fields of faith was hard to shoot because it was hard to find the THS kids in the mix of everyone. Part of the problem is I don't know a lot of kids that go to our school. Those that I did know I weren't there. This assignment really taught me that I really need to get out there and not care what people think of you. I know that part of the reason these photos suck is because I felt really uncomfortable being there. I shied away to the back and didn't want to be at the front of the crowd. This really taught me that I need to just don't care about what people think while I am on an assignment. Part of the problem with shooting this was people didn't understand so they kept looking at the camera weirdly like the kid on the edge of the second picture. Now onto the football pictures. I really like the second picture because it is framed by the other two people, however you can't really see the ball carrier. The first one looks like it is know of titled, but I think it is just the way that he is running. The last one I like, but I cut the legs off the people. Also, you really can't tell who our player is, but you can tell who their player is.