Thursday Thoughts

What I have learned this week

The three parts of an image

• Shadows
• Highlights
• Mid tones

When I take an image into lightroom, the first thing I do is crop and straighten. Then I set the white balance.

We are starting to take photos of windows and doors. The hardest part for me so far is to find something interesting and to make the lines straight.

Exercise-architectural shoot

  I learned on this assignment that when you are shooting buildings or windows then it is really hard to make all of the lines as straight as you want them. You have to pay a lot of attention to setting up the photo before taking it. Also making sure your photo's aren't grainy is important.

  Once in lightroom there are some features that I didn't know about before, such as luminance. This will make your photo a lot more smooth and take away a great deal of the grainy looking parts if you have any.

I worked with Kelsey on this assignment.

How To Succeed

To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child or a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition, to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

And will you succeed? Yes! You will indeed! 98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed!

~Doctor Seuss