Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Interior Photo



For my interior photo, I decided to take a picture of an award I got this year that was sitting on my desk. I thought it provided some cool lines in the picture. Through photoshop, I emphasized the star by blurring the background. I took this picture with an 800 ISO, f/4, and 1/4 sec. shutter speed.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Chapel Photo


This is a picture taken at Mercy's chapel in the morning. The light was very low causing the shutter speed to be very slow. I shot on 800 ISO, f3.8, and 1/8s exposure. I like this picture because it showed the depth of the chapel as well as the lines in this picture.

Monday, February 22, 2010

Panoramic Photo


This is a panoramic picture of the pool at mercy. The picture is made up of 6 or 7 picture spliced together with Adobe Photoshop CS2. This was done in the morning by shooting on continuous and panning across the scene.I like this picture because it shows a lot of the scenery and the blue from the pool contrasts the rest of the picture.

Photo Essay #3

Part three of my photo essay.
In this picture, I really tried to capture this kid feeling alone and depressed. He is sitting out in the bleachers looking at the kids who are playing out on the field. I like this picture because of the lines from the field leading people to Joey and Joey falling on the rule of third line.




Here is sort of the same picture as earlier, just a wider angle shot. I blurred the background a tad bit to really emphasize Joey longing to hang out with other people.

Photo Esasy #2

This is part two of my photo essay.
Again, I tried putting my subject on a rule of thirds line and tried to emphasize the use of proportion in my pictures.
Here is a picture of another one of my models, Joey sitting alone on bleachers at school. This picture showcases lines, proportion, and my subject falling on the rule of thirds line. I really wanted to capture the essense of being alone with no one around.

Photo Essay #1



These following pictures are all part of my photo essay about teenage lonliness and depression. This is my first picture done at a park in the afternoon with overcast. I liked this picture because the proportion of my friend, James, to the rest of the picture is cool and how he sits on the rule of third line.



This is my second picture in my photo essay. I took this picture trying to capture more of the lonely side of this kids story.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Stop Motion Photography

This is a series of pictures of Tim Wood doing a "James Bond" type of walk and shoot. This was done outside in front of a fence with no sunlight. I was shooting on 1/1000 second shutter speed, f4.2 for f-stop, and a 1600 ISO. I edited the pictures so that there was blood falling from the top of the screen just like the opening of the James Bond movies.

Falling Action Shot


On a very cloudy day, I was hanging out at school before rehearsal started and I had my camera on me. I decided to do an falling action shot by having my friend Chris, jump from his car onto the ground. I shot from a very low to the ground so that I could get an angle from below Chris. This picture was inspired by Aaron Siskind and his falling pictures. I whited out the background and changed the image from color to black and white. I was shooting on 1/400 seconds and f18 for the f-stop.

Water Action Shots


This weekend was raining very hard, so Mr. Hermano decided to have us take pictures of water falling. I walked outside my house to patio where a clear overhang was covering me from the rain. I took a picture of this water droplet dropping from the overhang. I was shooting with an 800 ISO, 1/1000 second shutter speed, and f9 f-stop. It took a while to be able to capture a good droplet falling from the overhang, but I found that shooting on continuous to be very helpful.

Sports Photography




Motion photography was our topic for this chapter. I went down to Oakland for a girls volleyball tournament that my friend was playing in. I was shooting with a 1600 ISO, 1/320 seconds for my shutter speed, and f4.5 for my f-stop. People can see that the volleyball falls on a Rule of Thirds line.