Must Be Converging Lines

I first duplicated a layer, and then added guides. I then began to change the levels and curves to make the image look more dark, mysterious, and have a heavy contrast.

Week 4-Thursday

The standard resolution for print should be at least 300. If you are outputting, if your final destination is the web or a computer screen, the maximum resolution is 72.
You can always downscale and image and it wont loose any quality. You can not take an image and upscale it and have it be the same quality. It will begin to pixelate.
Naming photos should include: location, people/objects, type of shot, maybe even specific emotions. Be detailed.

Week 3 Summary

Week 3 Notes- 9.8.11

AV=Aperture priority, you set the aperture, camera sets the shutter.
Shutter priority: You set the shutter speed and the camera sets the aperture
Shutter speed: How much light gets in the camera. Slower shutter speed=more light. Faster shutter speed=less light.
Manual: You choose ALL settings
AF: auto focus
MF: manual focus
*What is the difference between auto-focus and auto-mode?
If you are shooting things in action, your shutter speed needs to be a t least 1/125th per second

Week 3-Wednesday

Rule of thirds- The eye does not go to the center of a picture. The rule of thirds divides a picture into 9 parts of a grid. Foreground, Middleground, Background.
Tonal value: the amount of darkness in an image, less to do with saturation, more to do with the amount of blacks and whites that you see
Lines:
Three basic shapes: Square, Circle, Triangle
Jusxtaposition: Taking two elements that are different that we can compare and contrast
There are two types of shapes; Geometric and organic.
Geometric: Definite edges, straight lines.
Organic: Think nature.
DSLR= Digital single lens reflex
Aperture: controls the amount of light that is permitted to go through the camera's sensor
ISO and shutter speed, F-Stop. lower aperture value, the bigger the opening, the hight the aperture value, the smaller the opening.
PHOTOGRAPHERS WRITE WITH LIGHT.
Aperture along with shutter speed allows how much light gets into the image, aperture also controls the depth of field.
Shutter speed controls the amount of time/length of time gets through.

My favorite types of photos to take are tree's, and portraits. I love the silhouette of trees. and I love capturing people in how they react to things they love. I love dramatic photographs. Drastic coloring, photographs that tell a story, and leave you wondering on the setting what they were thinking, when was it taken, etc. Mysterious, yet captivating.

Week 2-What I Learned

This week, we conversed about composition, different types of angles, and how to better articulate.
We talked about how different angles convey different messages, about how what you leave out of a picture is just as important as what you leave in it. The frames were a very exciting visual and was cool not just through a camera but the actual frame.