Throughout the course of this trimester I have learned a lot in Digital Photography 1. I chose to take this class because I have always been intrigued by cameras and how to use them, and my older sister's incredible photography skills inspired me and motivated me to learn some techniques myself. I am definitely not at her level, but I definitely grew in my skills these past couple months. With regards to my photo assignments, in the beginning I struggled a lot with lighting and also clarity of photos due to focus issues. I learned that the location of the photo really matters and that you can't just randomly take a photo. A good photo requires patience to get the settings and composition of the photo correct. In my worst image you can see lighting issues, an unpleasant background, and a fuzzy image. However, my best picture is bright, vibrant, focused and well composed. An area of this class which I struggled with a bit more was in photoshop. The layer stacks and some tools such as the quick selection tool definitely stumped me. However, with each photo shop assignment, I learned to really pay attention to the directions, not be afraid to ask for help, and always be aware of my layer stacks. After I took these things to heart, I would say that my photo shop skills improved. Overall, I had a really fun time in this class and I learned a lot of beneficial and interesting information about computers and the art of digital photography.
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For this final photo shop assignment, we were instructed to use professional portrait photography techniques and take photos in two different locations or of two different people. We then had to manipulate the photos in photoshop. Some of the techniques we used were positioning the camera vertically (portrait), using a tripod for stability, using a white card stock sheet to position light and avoid shadow, and filling the frame. These were all very helpful hints and I think I utilized them correctly. Putting the camera in manual mode also helped to achieve the right shutter speed and aperture for portrait photography. The only thing I struggled with was the photoshop aspect. Using the correct tools and layers was confusing at times, but I think I got the hang of it in the end.
For this photo shop assignment, we were allowed to showcase some of our creativity and experiment with photoshop. We were given a document of tutorials for photoshop but we could pretty much do anything we wanted. I chose to do photo blend, dash of color, and polaroid. I am not the best at photoshop, so this assignment was a little difficult for me, but the tutorials I looked at were very helpful and descriptive and also had images of the layer stacks which helped. I only ended up doing two of these open assignments because I was absent one day, but I definitely think that these helped me learn a lot more about photoshop and I widened my skills. Once I figured them out they were pretty fun as well.
BLACK & WHITEFor my final photo assignment, I chose to do black and white. I had quite a few images from previous assignments that worked really well in black and white I think. I also took a few new ones at my house. This photo assignment was fairly simple, I just took pictures I had already taken and a few new ones from a quick photoshoot at my house. I then desaturated them in photoshop so they were black and white. I played with levels and brightness a little bit to enhance the black and white.
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