Photo2Q2.5: Light Painting

ISO 200, f/10, 10s ISO 200, f/13, 4s ISO 200, f/10, 5s ISO 100, f/10, 8s ISO 200, f/10, 8s I tend to shy away from slow shutter simply because most of the images that I take don't need to utilize a slow shutter. In addition, it creates unattractive images (at least to me) when it's fiddled with, especially in portrait settings. You can usually fix brightness and grain in post production, but you can't really fix motion blur. Still, I am fascinated with some experienced slow shutter...

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Photo2Q2.4: Bokeh Tasks 2-4

Bokeh Daytime I felt that I was most comfortable doing portrait shots for this bokeh task. It was easier and recognizable to me, as I enjoy shooting candid portraits over simple objects. At the very least, I would want the object to manipulate with a subject somehow, so that's why I asked Reynaldo to balance his shoe on his hand (as shown above). Ensuring bokeh was in the background was quite easy as I was using a f/1.8 50mm lens. I left it wide open (smaller numbers) and adjusted accordingly....

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Photo2Q2.3: Natural Bokeh

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Photo2Q2.2: Halloween Bokeh

I am all too familiar with the concept of bokeh since my favorite and most addicting lens to use is my 50mm f/1.8. Watching the videos provided on Google Classroom, all of the information made sense. But there's always more to learn. Thus, when I learned about custom bokeh shapes, I was particularly interested in the effects it could provide to some photos. Now personally, I think it's too dominant of an element to include in a photo if done too excessively that the bokeh becomes the main focus...

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Photo2Q2.1 Fast Shutter Part 2

My initial project theme was on "displacement". Usually this would involve a liquid collision with a physical object, but due to some limitations, later concepts became immensely scaled down or differed from that idea. I was largely inspired by a slow motion YouTube channel I'm subscribed to. I've also drawn some experience from a sleuth of other places such as Google and particularly Pinterest. This is also where I decided to choose the variables/constants that I wanted to manipulate/keep respectively,...

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Photo2Q1.6: Best Photograph + Two

At this time, I feel that this photo is my best because it is one of the few that is capable of painting a textual image into viewers without the help of facial expressions. By taking it almost entirely away, the photo raises questions; what is she looking at outside the window? The lighting just so happened to be so bright on this day that when exposing for the subject, the outside became overexposed (but that's fine because it works with my goal with this image). A bit of retouching in Lightroom...

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Photo2Q1.5: Fast Shutter Part 1

Thumbnail My project theme was originally "displacement", but it is such a vague term in retrospect. I was particularly interested in achieving the shots photographers are able to get with using food coloring, and simply expanded into a broader perspective from that point. They looked very neat and there's a lot of opportunity as to what one can do with the photos that result from it (like an overlay onto a graphic, for example). Also, from watching slow motion YouTube videos for quite some time...

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Photo2Q1.4: Pre-Fast Shutter Speed

All of the above images were grabbed from Pinterest. In order to demonstrate my understanding of fast shutter speed, I will be doing "displacement" as a theme for my project. I am electing to focus on this because they, like many things in life, are brief moments in time that often go unnoticed because they are simply too fast and are "second-hand" to the beginning and end of the action. I feel that using various food coloring droplets into water will help illustrate that. Based on the feedback,...

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Photo2Q1 (Bonus): Homecoming 2018

These photos were from the class cheer competition and homecoming parade. Was fun; seniors won the overall competition so that's all that matte...

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Photo2Q1.3: One Hour Photos in a Bag

This activity was very interesting and fun to do because of the difficulty that was added to it. The objects were very interesting and difficult to incorporate, however I feel that in order to grow as a photographer, sometimes you need to be given limitations and constraints. Mainly, my idea with the objects I was given was to mix them together and literally integrate them into nature somehow I intersected items together and put them with nature and tried to see how they interacted with each other. Lens^2  Global...

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Photo2Q1.2: Camera Tasks

Thumbnail (for now) I often utilize my ISO settings last and prefer to keep it at around 100 or 200. Obviously, situations change, but most of my photos require natural and good sunlight (something Hawaii provides an abundance of). Thus, I use it last. For darker, evening, and indoor environments, I may bump it up higher in the 400-1600 range, but I highly shy away from those as I like adding my own grain; not the destructive color grain that comes with high ISO on most cameras. The aperture...

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