Here is the link to my final movie:
WilliamDigitalPhotography
Tuesday, 13 December 2011
Monday, 12 December 2011
Thursday, 8 December 2011
Assignment 6 Multiple Imagery
Double Images:
My sister on her flying board traveling around the earth!
A picture of me looking into the water and seeing the "end of the world" in the reflection.
Diptychs:
Two different point of view of the forest with the one on the right looking like I'm turning around in circles. Two different point of views of around the same area but one during the afternoon and the other one in the evening.
Jerry Uelsmann
Undiscovered Self
By the title itself, you can already tell what message this picture is trying to convey. Basically, it is saying that this person does not know who he/she is; does not know him/her self. You can see that there are many body parts which all seem to belong to different persons. That person could be going through a part of his life where he is trying to find where he belongs, who he/she is. We could also say that he/she may have a personality disorder and has lost his/her true self behind all these "covers".
Thomas Herbich
Elephants
I am not too sure what Herbich is trying to say in this picture but we can definitely see his out-of-the-ordinary and unconventional style. Here, a group of elephants seem to be traveling with nomads, according the the person sitting on top of one of them on the left side. They are trying to cross a bridge that is standing over dangerously high are. An actual bridge would probably collapse from all the weight of these huge elephants and it is very unlikely that elephants would travel around such an area but the image itself is very freshening because of Herbich's style.
Sunday, 30 October 2011
Assignment 5 Studio and Outside Studio Portraits
Studio Portraits:
What was your best lighting in studio?
The third time we went was when I put the ISO to 400 and -0.75 exposure. I got better results using the black background paper and exposing the subjects to littler light than the other times. With other settings, the pictures seemed either too bright or not sharp enough. Using a tripod also greatly helped with the quality of the pictures. I also tried using many angles but found that simply facing the subject gave better results.
Link to Studio Portraits
Outside Portraits:
What was best outside studio:
Overall, I preferred taking pictures outside than in the studio. I feel like the biggest advantage about taking pictures outside is the sun's lighting which makes very beautiful pictures and all the colors especially on a beautiful day that make for a stunning background. There is also much more possibilities for creative pictures and there are props everywhere even if you do not bring your own.
Link to Outside Portraits
Outside Portraits:
What was best outside studio:
Overall, I preferred taking pictures outside than in the studio. I feel like the biggest advantage about taking pictures outside is the sun's lighting which makes very beautiful pictures and all the colors especially on a beautiful day that make for a stunning background. There is also much more possibilities for creative pictures and there are props everywhere even if you do not bring your own.
Link to Outside Portraits
Assignment 4 Stop Motion and Blurred
Stop Motion:
The overall assignment was probably the hardest one yet especially because it required better technique and a camera that is not too automatic to be able to do it easily. The stop motion part was not as hard as the other the blurred one and also because my camera does not manually adjust shutter speed which left me with only one option: The "sport" setting. The harder part of this was to find interesting ideas to take pictures of but it turned out pretty good.
Blurred Motion:
This was the hard part. After many attempts, I finally got the hang of it. My camera does not manually adjust shutter speed and leaves me with a few options. I went with the "night portrait" setting but even with the pre-set low shutter speed, it was still hard to pull it off because I could not adjust it to my liking. Only a few came out acceptable out of the many pictures I took and I am overall not very satisfied with the ones I got but at least I tried.
Photoshop Assignment
The Original:
1: On this one I decided to boost the highlighting, the brightness and the contrast to the maximum to her look like an angel and also really pop-out the light blue color from her eyes.
2: I used the grainy/portrait-like effect on this one and also put the setting very high around her face which makes it seem like she has no nose and almost like her face is coming out of the wall/ background behind her or simply blends with it.
3: For the third picture I used a shadowy/grainy/watery effect and put the settings on almost 80% for each category to not completely hide her face with the shadows. I ended up with a Mona Lisa-like scary women with no eyes holding a champagne cup with her left hand with a dull grayish background.
Thursday, 22 September 2011
Assignment 3
Original:
Black and white:
Here, I tried boosting the shadows and slightly increase the highlights to add to the glossy effect of the painting reflecting with the sun of the top left part of the picture.
Famous photographer (Ralph Gibson):
I like this picture because of the emphasize put on the sunlight and the high-contrast, minimalist black and white.
Original:
Sepia effect:
I also significantly increased the shadows and put the highlighting slightly higher because I wanted to give a warmer effect to the picture without overdoing it.
Famous Photographer: (John Crocker)
I like how this picture still kept its modern feeling despite the sepia tone which usually makes pictures look older.
Original:
Soft focus:
Similarly to my black and white picture, I wanted make the top left part of the picture where the sun is reflecting more obvious and eye-catching. I also enlarged the soft focus point and increased the amount of focus to really bring out that part of the photo. Still, out of all the effects, I felt like this one did not work quite as well as the others because of the focusing effect itself.
Famous Photographer (David Morel):
Original:
Same Colors, different shadow and highlight:
This one has to be my favorite. I think the picture already looks great originally because of the way the colors turned out be. Adding more shadows makes it look cleaner and the very bright blue produce by more highlighting gives it a happy and colorful feeling.
Black and white:
Here, I tried boosting the shadows and slightly increase the highlights to add to the glossy effect of the painting reflecting with the sun of the top left part of the picture.
Famous photographer (Ralph Gibson):
I like this picture because of the emphasize put on the sunlight and the high-contrast, minimalist black and white.
Original:
Sepia effect:
I also significantly increased the shadows and put the highlighting slightly higher because I wanted to give a warmer effect to the picture without overdoing it.
Famous Photographer: (John Crocker)
I like how this picture still kept its modern feeling despite the sepia tone which usually makes pictures look older.
Original:
Soft focus:
Similarly to my black and white picture, I wanted make the top left part of the picture where the sun is reflecting more obvious and eye-catching. I also enlarged the soft focus point and increased the amount of focus to really bring out that part of the photo. Still, out of all the effects, I felt like this one did not work quite as well as the others because of the focusing effect itself.
Famous Photographer (David Morel):
Original:
Same Colors, different shadow and highlight:
This one has to be my favorite. I think the picture already looks great originally because of the way the colors turned out be. Adding more shadows makes it look cleaner and the very bright blue produce by more highlighting gives it a happy and colorful feeling.
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