Wow this is it... our final blog post after all these weeks in this trimester. I walked into this class thinking I knew most stuff about photography and then just after the first day it hit me that I knew very little compared to what I was about to learn over the course of this trimester. We started off by taking a lot of notes and learning the basics of it all. Then we were told we had to make a blog of all of our work and wow did that scare me to death. Just the thought of all of the photos I was about to take over the course of this trimester out there for everyone to see and most of all for everyone to judge was very scary. We went on to create our blogs and start taking photos to soon put on our blogs. We started off by taking photos and learning how to edit them in photoshop and then save them as JPG and post them on our blogs. We then soon moved on to learning how to photoshop different things in photoshop which was very cool. As I started to play around more and more with this very new thing to me called photoshop I got more and more confused but I kept going forward hoping that soon I would understand. Soon did come… but soon was probably 2 weeks ago, and yet I still don’t know everything there is to know about photoshop. We went off to do composition and that was something I knew how to do so I was very excited to feel like I could actually do something in this class. As time went on in this class we did many more photo assignments and photoshop assignments which with time did seem to get easier and as always got to be very fun. Here are some of my favorite photoshop assignments. I am sad this class has finally come to an end but i’m also very excited to take these skills I have learned with me and continue to take photos. Thank you Mr.OD for everything :) The school context photo. Popart Photoshop. Multiple Me. Photo assignment #2 Nature Visual Dictionary Puns: 1. "Deer God" 2. "Jack and the Beanstalk" 3. "Beauty Queen"
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For this assignment I picked to take photos of food. I didn't do any editing other than a little bit of cropping. I choose a weekend to do these photos when I knew I would be out to eat a lot. I had a lot of fun taking pictures of all the food I love!
For this funny puns assignment we had to make up or create a funny pun to make into an image. For my first one I did a photo of a deer sprawled out on the floor and a cross over it for ( deer- god). The second one I did a bean stalk and Jack Gilinsky for (jack and the bean stalk). Last but not least I did a women with lots of make up and a ball gown on with a emoji crown photoshopped on her for (beauty queen). In this assignment I think it took more thinking than it did computer skills :) but I did learn how to make a photo a certain size before I even had the picture in photoshop and then size the original photos down to fit in that certain size frame.
For this photo assignment I picked to do macro. I learned that not all things look super cool or pretty up the close... So some of the things that I though I was going todo I ended up not being able todo. I thought flowers looked really pretty up close and thought all the colors looked exquisite. I learned that while taking photos that are either really close or really zoomed into the subject take a little more time to focus and really get the right angle for that specific subject.
In this assignment we had to take one photo in a studio setting and take one photo somewhere else in the school with a plain background and using a bounce card. Then we had to place the two photos over a black background and place white borders around them.
In this assignment I picked pets for my pictures to capture. I tried to capture the dogs in multiple settings to show the different personalities the dogs have at all times of the day. I learned more about taking pictures of a moving subject... getting these two cuties to sit still is a hard one.
In this assignment we had to look up some tutorials of editing to do in photoshop. I did 2 that we learned from Mr.OD in class and then a harder one that I picked on youtube. It was fun to learn new things that I might not have discovered if not given this assignment. I learned new brush tools, I learned how to distort a portion of a photo and many more cool things.
Here is the link to the tutorial I did that I found on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xgOWWfurpU&t=183s This assignment was a color pop assignment... we could use our own photos or get some off the internet. I choose to take some of the Internet of something I have a passion for and that is working with children with special needs. I took these two of photos and picked a portion of the picture to bring the color back after I had turned them black and white.
For this weeks photos I was in Chicago so I decided to take photos of the many buildings around this beautiful city. I got some from farther away and closer up, I learned to capture a builds look you have to figure out which angle the building looks best at.
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