Halloween Extra Credit

Assignment #5: Color Theory

The most successful part of this assignment for me was the lighting. I think I would like to try finding/creating more vibrant color examples to exhibit next time, but the lighting in the frames I did take improved the compositions a ton. Window light and shady/cloudy light is bomb.

Assignment 4: Motion and Depth of Field

 Near Object in Focus

 

Far Object in Focus

 

Sharp

 Narrow depth of Field

Wide Depth of Field

 Fast Shutter

 

Fast Shutter

 

Slow Shutter

 

 Slow Shutter

Well. This was an assignment of trial and error for me––leaning on the error side. My main difficulty was making the slow shutter speeds work. I definitely need to invest in a tripod because camera shake was a huge problem for me and limited the kinds of shots I could take. I think next time I would shoot the dandelion shot on a fast shutter speed (which was impossible because we lost the light upon that epiphany) and I think varying my lighting would have offered greater diversity to the look and feel of my shots. Time was another huge constraint because I often lost the light that I wanted to work with which either caused my shots to turn out with a bad or undesired exposure, or just forced me to stop shooting. I need to plan out my shooting times better in the future.

Assignment #3 Bracketing

I wanted to try working with different light in this assignment. The first picture of the salt shaker was at night under kitchen light on a hard white surface. The second picture of the lightbulb was shot in the early morning light on white cloth. The low-light shot of the scale was done in the dim light of the bathroom at night. And the last dim light photo is a black dish set done on a brown cloth background in the shady morning light. I learned a lot about working with light and trying to both manipulate it and work with what you already have available.