Weekend Assignment Review

hehe, looks nice :-) good job on using the paper and cellphone for creative lighting!

 

I told him the same thing about how badly I do at stars. 

Scoooore! Not one bad thing about them this time!

Victory is mine!!

Weekend Assignment 07

So this assignment was so neat! I'm just going to link it here so you can see the amazing example they provided. 

Click here. Seriously see how awesome this can look. DO IT

I was aiming for a elephant to be shooting stars out if it's trunk. I kinda got it. But I stink at drawing stars as it is. I really don't know how I haven't gained that life skill. Really I have no idea. Then cutting it out, oh boy. But for how bad I am at that, I'm not dejected in how things turned out. 

Diffused cell phone light through white construction paper

Cell phone light no diffuser

Cell phone light diffused through green construction paper

This assignment was fun! I haven't gotten any feedback since I just submitted it. I might hear something tomorrow.

Weekend Assignment 6

This weekend assignment was light painting and using slower shutter speeds. :(

I suuuuck!

 Didn't help there were 35MPH winds outside.

Prime Lens

I found a prime lens! 

I drool over it's aperture capabilities.  I've read that this one is great for portraits so I was curious. I've tested it out on the kids since they are the only ones I can play photographer with. I was struggling with this lens though. It kept getting over exposed really easily. The downside with kids is that they don't stay still long enough for you to figure out a shot.

First one isn't one that I'm happy with. It came out over exposed in the end result. I made it look a little bit better end result.  But here you can see how lovely that aperture is!

I think Cole's came out nicer since he was actually listening to the directions...sorta. He was a little easier to pose a little bit. 

I"m still learning with this lens. Either I'm in my head or it's a little more difficult to find the settings for this one. I might try Aperture priority mode to see what that does. Make the camera do the rest of the work.

Weekend Assignment 5 Review

Reviews are in.

It feels mixed. 

Whomp Whomp

"if you want practice... try 5 photo's of just that lego board... there are lots of ways to photograph something... top view was nice, now try more artistic ones"

So I've been thinking about how to do the lego one with more dramatic lighting and different ideas. I'm coming up dry. I'll keep thinking though and see what happens. 

Do you know how small this lego actually is? 

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About that big and completely flat. 

Why did I take a picture of a stupid lego??

Weekend Assignment 5

Hi photoclass,

it's friday again so, time for a new assignment. As we haven't really gone in to the technical parts of the class, these early assignments have the goal to train your "photographic eye".

And this week, I want you to try and find repeating patterns, shapes, lines.

The goal is to show the play of light and beauty of repetition, of strong lines, of patterns in all it's forms.

Nature has some really beautiful ones, so do man made structures, so there are a lot of them around, now it's up to you to find a way to show them...

So I'm finally beginning to play catch up. 

 

 

These are in order of my favorite to least. Now I wait and see what's wrong with them.

Behind in my photo class

Doh! I've fallen behind. I plan on catching up soon. I've been focusing on other endeavors that require all my attention. Not because I love those endeavors. I just really suck at them so I need try super hard. 

I did get out and about on Sunday.

They came in a little underexposed I think So I corrected that. Then I made some colors brighter to make them stand out a little more.