Photo 6: Nature and Landscape

This week I took pictures that focused on nature and landscape. I live in a rural area so I went around and just took pictures of the plants and trees. I was going to choose a picture I had taken over christmas break. But I decided to use one I took of some flowers outside my house because I really liked that one.





I've not really learned anything new this week. But I had a pretty good time going around taking these pictures. I guess you could say that I've learned my old phone could take pretty good pictures.

Motion Demo

Today we had to take motion pictures of Mr. Bush riding his bike. At first this was pretty hard but after some practice I got some pretty nice pictures. I learned a new way of taking cool pictures and I think I'm going to use it as one of my photo assignments.

Panoramic Assignment

For this assignment I had to take three pictures of different angles in the same area and merge them together      to create a kind of fish eye view. I took three simple pictures and put them together to make it look as you're looking down two hallways. I didn't really like this assignment because it was pretty hard. I had trouble fitting them perfectly together and matching the colors.

Portrait Demo

For this assignment I had to take two photos using different kinds of lighting. For one photo I had used the sunlight and a blank piece of white paper as a reflector. I had someone reflect the sunlight off the paper onto the dark side of my subjects face. For the other photo I used studio lighting to light up each side of my subject. Taking the pictures was the simple part, but the editing was kind of harder. I had a lot of trouble with the layers and getting the pictures to show on the same page.

Animal

F-stop: f/2.8
ISO: 400
Aperture: 1.7

The subject I focused on this week was animals. I tried doing light painting but my camera didn't have the right settings that I needed to use for it so I figured I'd go for the animals. I basically just tried to get a few different animals playing around or doing something so that my pictures wouldn't be to boring. Unfortunatlly my pictures weren't that great but I tried my hardest and took the best pictures I could.




During this week I learned how the minor things that surround me could make a really nice beautiful. Good pictures can be as simple as anything. I've also learned that next week I should use a better camera.