Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Gimp 6: Dictionary

For this assignment I was supposed to pick a word from the dictionary and find pictures the show that word. I was also supposed to put the word in the picture and define it. I chose the following words,
Peculiar,















Awesome,


















and Silly.


















I learned that putting photos together takes a long time and requires a lot of tedious work.

Monday, May 23, 2011

Assignment 5: Architecture

This week i decided to do architecture. I was supposed to take pictures of buildings.


Best Photo:


Exposure Triangle:
ISO: 160
Aperture: 3.5
Shutter Speed: 1/1250








Friday, May 20, 2011

Gimp 5: Portrait

For this assignment I was supposed to take two pictures, one with all of the lights and the other with a bounce card near a window.















What I learned: I learned how to reflect the light using a bounce card.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Assignment 4: Black and White

For this week I did black and white and I was supposed to take pictures in black and white.

Best Photo Before Editing:














Best Photo After Editing:















Shutter speed: 1/250
ISO: 200
Aperture: 4



Gimp 4: School

For this assignment I was supposed to take a picture of anywhere in the school and add random things and make them look real, which is the challenging part.

Before:















After:
















I learned that editing pictures is much harder than it seems. I also learned how to make shadows for objects.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Motion Blur Demo

For this assignment I was supposed to take a picture of Mr. O'Donnel while he rode around in a circle and I had to take a picture with blur in the background.

















I learned that I'm not very good at taking pictures with motion blur.

Monday, May 9, 2011

Gimp 3: Panoramic

For this assignment I was supposed to take 3 pictures and put them together to make them look like one whole picture using Gimp.

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Assignment 3 Still life

This week I decided to do still life. For this assignment I had to take pictures of inanimate objects.

Best Photo:














Exposure Triangle:
ISO - 1600
Shutter Speed - 1/60
Aperture - 2.8




Summary: For this assignment everyone got up close to everything they were taking a picture of, but as you noticed in mine, I stood back more.

Assignment 2 People

This week I chose to do the people assignment where I take several pictures of people.
Best picture:


Exposure triangle:
ISO - 400
Shutter Speed - 1/20




Summary: For this assignment I didn't want to do it how everyone is doing it, so I took pictures of people when they weren't paying attention. Unfortunately, because of that, some of the pictures were blurry.

Monday, May 2, 2011

Gimp Car Retouch

Assignment Description: For this assignment I was given two pictures of a car. One was edited and the other was the original picture. I was supposed to edit the original picture to make it as close to the edited picture that I was given.
Before:      



After:
















My attempt: