Final Project

Voila! My final project. It wasn't a hard decision figuring out what I wanted to do for my final project. I love good pictures of hands and feet. I love the detail you can see in the skin in a really in-focus shot. And if it is in beautiful light, It looks gorgeous. So this time I actually took my time and looked for/created good light. MY favorite is the one with my dad's hand struming the guitar because I LOVE the lighting, and how you can really see the detail (like the viens) in his skin. But Mr. Slade has something againest guys playing guitars, and me and Chan figured out that it's because he had a girlfriend who dumped him for a guy who plays the guitar, and she made Mr Slade take pictures of him for his album cover, and he was jealous. Anyway, my other favorite is the one with the feet on the carpet. I was going upstairs when I saw this amazing light on the ground coming from a window so I dragged my brother off the couch and made him stand in it. I love the deep black in between his toes and the strips of light under his feet.

The other ones I printed are the ones of the hand with the pen, and the close-up of the crossed feet. I'm not crazy about the pen one, because I focused on the tip of the pen, so the cap is blury and distracting, but I really like the stripes of light across the paper. I love the light on the feet (artificial), but it's barely, barley a little soft. The other two are ok. The one with my dad's left hand on the neck of the guitar is good composition-wise, but the lighting wasn't that great. The one with my mom's hand cooking, I don't like. The lighting isn't very good, and there are a lot of distracting objects in the background that take away from the main point of the picture, the hand.

Overall, I think I did a good job of finding good light and focusing. I'm really proud of some of these shots.

This term has been a lot of fun. Being my first time using digital (in a class) and learning how to use photoshop- I learned "In histogram we trust" -Mr. Slade. And focus is extremely important! If it looks slightly soft, it's annoying. And if you find great lighting, your picture can be beautiful. And setting time aside for taking pictures and really taking time to set up and focus, can be rewarding.

Assignment #5- Reshoot

So here's the shot I reshot. It was from our bracketing assignment, and honestly, I wasn't really paying attention to the lighting or anything really when I shot it. I must've been in a rush to get it over with. So, it turned out looking grayish and overall just really bad. There is also that big window on the left that your eye goes right to and distracts from the music. When I went to reshoot this, I made sure that the window was out of the frame, and to get better lighting. The first time I reshot it, the window wasn't in the frame, but the lighting wasn't very good. So Mr. Slade advised me to look for light that would "roll" off the pages of the music book. Since I live at school and don't get home until it's dark, I had no idea when I would ever have time to reshoot this, again. I felt in denial I guess you could say. So I decided maybe if I got up earlier than normal in the moring, there might be some good light. So I drag myself out of bed only to find that it's still too dark outside. But since I was already up, I decided to see what the light look like if I just turned on the lamp in that room, and it ended up "rolling" off the page and I loved it! So I moved a bunch of furniture out of the way, set the lamp in the perfect spot, and shot it. I'm so happy I did because it looks so much better. What I changed in that shot though, was the music holder metal thingy. I got rid of it completly because the gleam of the light reflecting on it is really distracting. Other than the curves and layers, I didn't change anything. I really love how the background is dark then there's that ray of light "rolling" over the pages. I'm glad I reshot this one. It looks a lot better.

Final Project Idea

OK, so I think I've decided what I want to do for my final project. I think I want to do it on feet and hands. These are my favorite type of portrait, so I think it will turn out cool. I especially love hands/feet shown in black and white. I think every wringle and crease looks awesome, wiht good lighting, that is. I'm really excited to get started. It's a really simple concept, but I plan to devote a lot of time into working on this to make it turn out great. Here are some feet/hand portraits that I found online that I really love.

Converting to Gray-Scale!

BEFORE

AFTER!

BORED

WOOHOO! BLOGGING! THIS IS SO GREAT. I HEART BLOGGING! WELL, ONLY WHEN I HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO DO IN PHOTO BECAUSE SLADE IS SICK! Ok, done with caps lock. So for this next assignment- I have no idea what I'm going to shoot because all the shots that didn't turn out well I hated because they didn't turn out well! UGH. now I will list the 10 things I would rather be doing now.
1. Watching The Office
2. Having a frapachino from Starbucks
3. NOT LIVING IN UTAH
4. Sleeping
5. Eating FRENCH FOOD- because it's SO much better than tacos
6. Taking pictures that would actually turn out great
7. Shopping
8. NOT LIVING HERE
9. Dancing- but not class. class is tedious
10. Basically anything else but being bored in photo.