Period 2 Personal Struggle and Solution

My biggest struggle that I face is procrastination. One way that I can overcome this is by getting rid of the distractions such as the television and computer and just lock myself in my room and focus on what I have to do. If this doesn't seem to work, I can also stay after school more frequently for tutoring and work on my homework assignments with a teachers assistance.

Period 2 Film and Digital Portraits

For this assignment we were asked to take portraits with outdoor lighting with both film and a basic point and shoot camera. For both of these photographs I really didn't intend to have a meaning behind them, my goal was just to take a basic beauty portrait and make sure my subjects had that "gleam/sparkle in their eyes" so they wouldn't look dead or emotionless. We also had to make sure that half of our subjects face was lit and  the other half have a shadow. This is where I faced a bit of difficulty because when shooting there really wasn't a lot of light out and I couldn't use a light board to correct and enhance the lighting on their faces. Overall I feel that even with the lighting mishap, I successfully took two nice portraits of my subjects.

Period 2 slow shutter speed assignment

 

For this assignment we were asked to either pan, have a slow shutter speed, or do a stop motion photograph. I decided to go with setting a slow shutter speed on my camera to create a ghostly effect as you can see in the photograph. I also decided to go with the slow shutter speed because it produced the best results for me when shooting rather then the other two options. In this picture my 3 subjects are Yanel (center), Nic (left), and Nathan (right). What I wanted to portray through this piece was how some people feel lost amd alone in a fast pacing society like ours. In order to do this I had my model Yanel sit down and have him hug his legs close to his body in order to show that he is  keeping to himself and distant. While he did that, I had my other 2 models walk in oposite ways infront of Yanel. I only did this to have have the sense of walking and motion in the picture. This is also the part where I had the most difficulty. When taking the picture I had trouble getting all 3 of my subjects to be in the frame. The problems were either that only 2 of them were in the frame and 1 of them was cut off because they were walking at different rates, or it was when I took the picture they were both infront of Yanel, blocking off my main subject. It all came down to a matter of timing. Overall I feel that this photograph works because I was able to capture all 3 of my subjects, my 2 walking subject came out nicely blurred and I was able to portray what I wanted to say.

Period 2 Personality Portrait

For this assignment I was asked to take a photograph of a person but portray their personality through it. In the photograph is my main subject, Justin. His personality is very childlike and spontaneous, however he's very large and manly on the outside. With this, I wanted to incorporate both his child and man-like tendencies together. For the shoot I had Justin tie his sweater around his waist like children tend to do. I also had Justin carry around a pinwheel (which symbolized his child characteristics) and just let him freely pose with it and be spontaneous. In order to address his manly characteristics I made sure that he had a partial beard as well as have his facial expressions be aggressive looking. I feel that overall mt photograph does work because It includes what I wanted to portray, It has a nice white as well as a nice solid black, the lines in the background lead the viewers eye to and from my main subject as well as the angle my subjects body is making, and my photograph follows the rule of thirds. If I did have to change some things about the picture I would say that I should have portrayed his child personality a bit more, and fix the lighting on his forehead because there are weird shadows being cast on it by his hair.

Period 2 First Assignment: Outdoor Portraits

For this assignment we were asked to practice taking pictures with our slr cameras, since it was our first day shooting. We had to include some elements of design as well as follow the rule of thirds. For my photo, I used Nic as my model and incorporated the use of lines to keep the viewers eyes looking around the whole picture and not become bored. These lines can be seen on the background, his shirt and his elbow as well. I feel that overall my photograph does work because it has nice contrast and the lines lead to the main subject of my photograph; which is Nics face.