Tuesday January 26, 2015

ISO-1600

AP-4.0

SS-1/250

ISO-1600

AP-4.0

SS-1/250

ISO-1600

AP-2.0

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ISO-1600

AP-4.0

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This was the basketball game against Mt. Pleasant. This game was definitely not my best game. I kept cutting off people's feet or arms, or the basketball was out of the shot. All my decent pictures had a body part cut off. Honestly this was a day I just wanted to go home, so I feel like if I would have been in a better mood my pictures would have turned out better. I just really don't like to shoot sports in the gym period. When I tried to get sideline shots because there was hardly anyone in the audience, there really was no reactions to anything. I got several pictures of the faces and interaction between the players. The one with the coach is okay, but it could be so much better. Part of the problem wit shooting sidelines is at 2.0 the field of focus is so narrow. I really wish that the players would show more reaction to the game even if we are winning by a mile.  Overall I am disappointed in myself with this game. I know I can do so much better than this, and I just sucked that night. I feel really bad about it because I know that we need all the basketball pictures we can get and I got crap from one whole game.

Thursday January 21, 2016

These are two more advertising photographs I really want to try. The one with the apple and earbuds doesn't have anything complex to it so I really don't like it. I could make it complex by putting a schnoot on the flash and aim it from the side shooting just across the apple symbol.

The coffee one is more complex. There is a flash to the left and has a schnoot on the flash so it only hits the beans. It is a flash with no umbrella or light diffuser because there are harsh shadows under the beans. It looks like the steam from the coffee is photoshopped on there. I know my ISO would need to be at 100. Other than that getting this picture will just be trial and error.

Tuesday January 19, 2016

These are the two pictures that I really want to do for advertisement, but I don't know if I will be able to get a metal honey dipper and I can't use a wooden one because then you lose the reflection. I could use a beater or a whisk but it isn't the same thing. The problem with the makeup brush is figuring out the lighting. I feel like you would need a flash to the side to catch the powder. I feel that the color of the powder was made in photoshop. To get the brush to stand up I could stick it in a water bottle and cut the bottom of the bottle disappear. If all else fails I could just tape it to the table. The powder deep in the brush will be just a little bit difficult. If I look really closely I can tell that they have a flash to the right of the brush because the shadows fall to the left. The honey dipper has a light underneath it shooting through the bowl with colored stuff.

Thursday January 14, 2015

ISO-1600

AP-1.8

SS-1/60

ISO-800

AP-1.8

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ISO-400

AP-2.0

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ISO-800

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ISO-800

AP-2.0

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From these I learned that you never trust your sister to try and help you get a self portrait. I was trying to recreate a combination of the lemon and orange pictures.

When I was doing my pictures I tried to put them together by not cutting the lemon off halfway, however I think it might look better if I did that way I don't have to worry about my fingers. This was my attempt and it wasn't really that successful. I really wanted to do it outside but by the time I had the makeup done and everything it was to dark to use the sunlight. That was the first fruit picture. The first two were just some I was doing and had some ideas, but they weren't that good. The last two were inside and they worked a lot better. I was bouncing the flash off of a fridge to get the lighting right. I really wished I could have gotten the placing of my face right so it would look more like the picture with the orange. I hate the fact that because I didn't have the setting right I looked like I really didn't have any clothes on. I however like the lighting but it wasn't really any use of direction of light. I really want to do these again and use time exposure and the rays of the sun so I'll have to try these pictures on a day when I'm not in school so I can get better sunlight. Other than that I liked the outcome of these pictures.

Tuesday January 12, 2016

ISO-400

AP-4.0

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ISO-400

AP-4.0

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These are the pictures that gave me a new experience with lighting. It was a rainy day, which should be good for lighting, but I had problems.  Every time I tried to put the twins in the sun, the sun would come out really strong, so I had to put them in the shade. Then when I used the flash under the ceiling it would make them really bright, so I turned the power down. It still exposed them to much, so I tried to put them where there was front lighting on them. However I feel that it was still crap. They looked so ghostly white and pale.  By the time I got the teachers picture the light had started to cooperate. I had them at the edge of the awning so they wouldn't be right up against the brick wall. After I got back and thought about the pictures I realized that I could have shot the teachers at 2.8, but of course I wasn't thinking when I got the pictures. This made me realize that rainy days can be very contrary with lighting.

Thursday January 7, 2015

This is the other book cover I plan on doing. The cover is simply tacking nails in what looks like to be a piece of wood or a wall. There are two different light sources in the middle face out wards towards the nail. There is also one above the nails and facing towards the bottom. The words over the top with the shadows is something they did in photoshop, so I'm not going to do that. For setting everything up I would put the piece of wood flat on the ground so the light stands won't be so far up. The parts where the lights hit overexpose the nails on the bottom. The hard part will be not making the white so bright that it is almost a high key. I will have to find a way to make sure the white remains darker. I think that I need to put the flash above being level with the piece of wood, but not so far up that it hits the top of the nail. The flash is aimed directly at the nails with no umbrella.

Tuesday January 5, 2016

These are the two book covers I am wanting to recreate, but I'm not sure that I want wither one of them to be my final one. The second one I can't get the actual picture of the book to load( My Life as a Traitor). I know that on the first one I need a soft light source to the left go the person. The hard part of this I think will be finding something to be the background.

This was the plan sheet that I had when I originally tried to recreate the book cover since the actual cover won't show up on my blog. The second one I need to set the flash to the left of the person and where it barely hits the back of the woman head. I would probably have to snoot the flash so it will only hit the back of the head. The light will need to be higher than the person so it flows down the person. If I shoot it at ISO 100 and 1/250 shutter speed then I would have to do it to find the aperture.