Sidewalk Chalk Photography

Today's lab,, Sidewalk chalk photography. 

I'll be honest, this is not my favorite. I think i'd like it more if we had more time, more materials, and a heads up for this lab activity. My first attempt, and initial vision for this lab activity was to do a Wizard of Oz theme. I wanted to draw the yellow brick road and have my friend pose as Dorthy. If we were told a week in advance of this lab, I believe I could have nailed this project. I actually have a dog that looks like Toto so that could have been a great added effect. But for what it's worth, this picture is decent. What I dislike about this picture is that we had to cut off the moon. In the middle of coloring I noticed a little too late that the moon and the stars surrounding the moon we colored in sunlight. Also, my shooting star was cut off too. All in all, this is a learning experience. I have to put more thought into the angle of the picture, have to beware of the sun, and think more creatively. 

Bye bye for now, see you next week!

- Alina ʕ´•ᴥ•`ʔ

Panning

This weeks technique was called Panning. I don't know how to affectedly and accurately explain the technique of panning, so instead I shall copy and paste from Wikipedia. In Wikipedia, "..panning refers to the rotation in a horizontal plane of a still camera or video camera. Panning a camera results in a motion similar to that of someone shaking their head from side to side or of an aircraft performing a yaw rotation. Or to that of an opening door if the door stays facing one way". SO we basically had to put the camera in TV mode, adjust the shutter speed between 1/115- 1/130, and have the f-stop at 4.5. We had to follow the car with the camera as it was moving and press down on the shutter. At first I wasn't aware of this and the majority of my pictures were really blurry. I was focused on our objective to make sure the subject was in a 90 degree angle. but after a few suggestions from our T.A., I got it down pretty quickly. I wouldn't say this was a hard technique, it just took some practice and playing around. Although this picture isn't precisely 90 degrees, I still like it and am satisfied. Oh, did I mention that it took 404 photos to come out with a few ( 3 to be exact) decent pictures. Yes, yes practice makes perfect, and I'm obviously still in the practice stage as this is not yet perfected, but I shall get there in due time. All in all it was pretty fun. I think the highlight of this experience was people driving by noticing you are photographing them and witnessing the varied reactions. Some were upset, some where happy, some where mutual. The most memorable reaction was when a man gave a thumbs up as he was driving by and my friend and classmate Amanda actually got it on camera. Until next week, lovelies! 

Razo, OUT! *BOOM*  ʕ´•ᴥ•`ʔσ” 

P.S. If it didn't occur to you my last name is Razo.. kay, bye. 

Monocrome Shots

For this picture assignment we had to take a picture of a car in monochrome ( black & white ). Instead of taking an ordinary straight shot picture of a car, I wanted to take it in a different angle, in a different perspective. As I was brainstorming I knew I was pressing for time, and as I looked at my watch I realized my watch was a mirror. It took me a LONG time to get it right. The first obstacle was making the camera focus on the watch. The second obstacle was fitting the car in the face of the watch, and the third was finding which car I liked. I think it came out great, what do you think?

Extra Shot

As I was playing around I took this shot. Although it wasn't an assigned project, I still loved it and thought I should share it. This is my favorite picture so far. 

Until next time,

Alina ✿◠‿◠

Portrait Practice!

For today's "assignment" for my photography class, we had to take portraits of people. Our teacher, Derek said the hardest part will probably be to find a subject and convincing them to allow you to shoot them. He also said as photographers, we'd have to get comfortable with talking to our subject and trying to make them comfortable. I'm very awkward when meeting new people, so I opted by shooting my friend and classmate, Amanda! Isn't she pretty? Look at those eyes! I really love this picture, but I'm not going to lie, it took me many attempts and failed shots to get this. It was hard, but not too hard. Practice makes perfect right? The main thing that was hard to remember was to adjust the ISO according to the environment. All is well though, according to this decent shot. What do you guys think? (づ｡◕‿◕｡)づ❁

Hello World

 

Hi!

This is my Self Portrait "Only Me" that I had to take for the Photography class I'm taking.

As time goes on and I learn more, my progress will be tracked on this blog. 

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