Thanksgiving Photo Challenge

Reflection: Motion Photography

1. I think the knife picture is the best shot of the assignment because it came out exactly how I wanted it to.
2. I think the balloon picture is the weakest shot of this assignment because it does not have great lighting.
3. The weakest image can be improved in future shots by assuring that there is good lighting before taking a picture.
4. I used Photoshop, specifically brightness, contrast, levels, curves, exposure, offset, gamma correction, vibrance, saturation, color adjustment, and the crop tool.
5. I was able to meet the goals of the assignment by adjusting the shutter speed of my camera to get blurred and stop motion photographs.
6. What was easy about this assignment was editing the photos because I am more familiar with the tools.
7. What was difficult about this assignment was coming up with ideas for the photographs because I could not think of anything.
8. If I could dot his assignment differently, I would get a change one of the photos of the dye in water to something else.
9. I would rate my effort on this assignment a 6 because the pictures are not great.

Motion Photography

    Blurred Motion

    Stop Motion

    Blurred Motion

    Stop Motion

Reflection: Depth of Field

1. The green plant picture is the best shot of this assignment because it is large enough to be clearly in focus and the background is simple and has different colors.
2. The fly picture is the weakest shot of the assignment because it is small and hard to tell that it is in focus.
3. The weakest image can be improved on in future shots by either placing the camera closer to the fly or taking a picture with a larger subject.
4. I used Photoshop, specifically crop, brightness, contract, levels, curves, exposure, offset, vibrancy, and hue.
5. Changing the aperture and shutter effects the depth of field by the camera focusing on things at various distances from the camera.  I do not find capturing one easier than the other.
6. Taking the pictures was the easiest part of this assignment because we has a lot of time to do it.
7. Assuring that the pictures were clearly in low or high depth of field was the hardest part of this assignment.
8. If I could do this assignment differently I would get closer to the fly to make them more detailed.
9. I would rate my effort on this assignment a 6 because taking the pictures was quite easy.

Depth of Field

    Low Depth of Field

    Low Depth of Field

    High Depth of Field

    High Depth of Field

Reflection: Backlighting

1. The skeleton is the best shot of the assignment because the photo has light come through the bones of the skeleton, which makes for a more interesting silhouette then having the outline of my brother's head with headphones.
2. My brother playing video games is the weakest shot of the assignment because it is not as interesting of a silhouette as Bob the skeleton.
3. The weakest image can be improved on in future shots by the subject having more cut outs.
4. I used Photoshop to edit the picture with the tools of brightness, contrast, levels, curves, exposure, crop and vibrance.
5. I was able to meet the objectives (goals) of the assignment by assuring that what I was taking a picture of was obviously what it was.
6. What was easy about this assignment was getting the pictures because I had ideas of what I was going to take a picture of, so I did not have to search for something.
7. Making sure that my brothers head was not visible on other things was a difficult aspect of this assignment because it was difficult to get the right angle.
8. If I could do this assignment again, I would take more pictures of the skeleton image because I did not get many.  I liked the picture I took but maybe there would have been a better one if I took more.
9. On a scale of 1-10 (10 being my best effort) I would rate my effort on this project a 6 because I did not do much to get the pictures to where they are, I either shut off lights or put a mask on a skeleton and moved him but I got multiple angles for the photos.

Backlighting