Vintage Postcard

Regular

Black and White

Color Splash

1. My favorite image is the color splash one because the letters really jump out off the page.  It is cool that the background enhances the photo.  My favorite image within the letters is the picture of Patrick and me because it fits the frame well and he is a good friend of mine.

2. I like how the letters flow (wave) and how the letters are each individual and have their own meaning behind them.

3. I think I could have done a better job brightening some of my photos because a couple of them are hard to see.

4. A layer mask cuts out a certain part of a picture and allows you to edit a layer without editing the entire picture.

Webquest Blog Reflection

The Webquest project really encouraged me to learn more about different photography techniques especially pertaining to what things to look out for when taking the photo.  A lot of importance in a photo comes not only from the subject but also from the rest of the picture.  Important questions to ask when taking a picture are "Does the background enhance or detract from the subject?  Is the background too distracting? Does the background make sense with the subject?".  Through this Webquest I was able to explore the ways in which the rest of the picture really has an influence in the overall composition.  Also learning different ways of framing the subject was very interesting, especially the ones with leading lines and lead room.  I thought leading lines was really cool because it really directs your eyes to the subject and I liked lead room because it implies action or motion which really makes a photo more real.  I also enjoyed learning about the rule of odds because I have never heard of it before and it definitely helped to enhance the photos that I was taking, especially when the object is repeated it looks good to have an odd number of items because then the natural center will be one of the items and not just some random gap between two things.  This project overall was really cool because it highlighted some of the photography techniques that we have already learned in this class and also informed me of new techniques that can further enhance my photography.

Good vs. Bad Advertising

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Color Splash

My Baby Cousin Cameron

Still Life

Still Life #1

Still Life #2

Still Life #3

1. I liked having the continuity of the shoe in all of the images and using various other props to help enhance or detract from the shoe.  The background color is really simple so having the flowers on the simple background made them stand out more.
2. In the first two images I used the soft lighting and in the third image I used the direct light.  I liked the sift light better because there wasn't as much shadow in the image.
3. I mostly adjusted the hue, the saturation, and the contrast of the images.  In the first two images I turned the saturation up and in the third one I unsaturated it.  The first image also has more of a warm hue whereas the other two have more cool colors.
4.  I think that my composition could be improved by having more of a focal point in the image because my props are pretty scattered throughout the images.

Surreal Photoshop

1. My photo is about a baby polar bear who is on a grass patch in the quad at Cal High.
2. It was hard to find a grass patch that wasn't blurry and also fit the angle of the picture I took.
3.  I used layer masks and blending to make my image, I also had to warp the grass to align it a little more with the ground.
4. I think I could make the image more coherent and have all of the images come from the same perspective.

TED Talk

1. What is the most important aspect when creating his work?
His most important aspect when creating his work is capturing an idea instead of capturing a moment.  When combining the photos it is important to make sure that they have the same lighting, same perspective, and the viewer of the image should not be able to tell where the two photos were blended together.
2. What do you find interesting about his work?
I find it interesting how all of his photos have a different idea and they are all portrayed in different ways.  He tries to make all of his photos tell a different sort of story.