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.

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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.

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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. 

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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. 

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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.