Assignment 7: Landscape

In this assignment I took photos of landscape. My pictures were taken out at my grandparents house. They live on a lake. I used the trees to frame the lake and the land around it.

Best Photo:

Edit:

ISO: 100

Shutter Speed:1/250

Aperture: f/10

Original:

 

I learned how to use the elements that were natural resources to make a good photo, for example, the trees for framing, the sun for lighting, and the beach as a focal point.

Gimp Assignment 8: Puns

This assignment we had to come up with "puns". Once we found 3 puns, we had to demonstrate them using pictures, making a "visual pun"

Wave-Runner:

Pan-Cake:

Foot-Ball:

 This Gimp assignment was difficult for me, because I could not think of puns to do and that I could put into a picture.

Gimp Assignment 7: Dictionary

In this assignment we had to find some words and define them. After we defined them, we put up pictures to represent that word or that went with that word.

Family:

Summer:

 

Love:

Childhood:

I liked this assignment a lot, because I got to use words that I liked, and also I got to incorporate my own pictures that went with my words.

Assignment 6: Animal

This week's assignment, I took pictures of animals, my dogs. All I did was take pictures of them doing what they do. Laying down, playing with their toys, tricks, and eating or drinking.

Best Photo:

ISO: 400

Aperture: f/4.5

Shutter Speed: 1/60

 

I learned how to use different settings of my camera to make sure I captured what my dogs were doing. 

Assignment 5: Nature

This week I chose to do "Nature". All I did was went outside and took pictures of all the bright, full flowers. It was pretty easy to take pictures of the flowers because it's easy to set them up to make a good photo.

Best Photo: 

ISO: 100

Aperture: f4.5

Shutter Speed: 1/100

 

I learned how to really focus on a key point in pictures. You need to take your time in taking pictures of nature so you get the right focus and right blur.

Gimp Assignment 6: Portrait Demo

In this assignment we took picture of people to make portrait photos. Then we took it to gimp and made a frame around the pictures. We took pictures using natural light and using lighting used in a studio.

I learned how to make frames around pictures and filling in selected areas with different colors. There was also layers being used in this assignment.

Assignment 4: Open-Love

This weeks assignment, i chose to do an "open assignment" and I did the theme of "love". I took pictures of things that I thought represented the word love.

Best Photo: Edited

Original:

I learned how to use different editing tools that I haven't used before.