Thursday Thoughts... OR...Deliberation on the Fourth Day

I admit I was really stressed about finishing this project. Especially after Joseph said Thursday Thursday Thursday... Monday! Its due! I do believe that it worked out well though! I loved this project.

Architecture- Urban Project

01 Cityscape
3-15-13
Portland, Waterfront Rd.
ISO 200
1/2500 sec
f/7.1
When I took this I was focusing on the open space between the two buildings, the clouds looked beautiful.

02 Cityscape
3-15-13
526 SW 3rd Ave.
ISO 200
1/640
f/7.1
I like the different colors of the buildings, instead of it being boring grey.

03 Cityscape
3-15-13
SW 3rd
ISO 200
1/500 sec
f/7.1
I like the bird, and the windows.

10 Street
2-17-13
Pioneer Square
ISO 200
1/320 sec
f/5.6
This car was too cool not to shoot. (with a camera)

11 Street
2-17-13
Pioneer Square
ISO 200
1/250
f/5.0
These boys were racing to the man in the background, and the kid in the yellow won.

04 Urban
2-17-13
Pioneer Square
ISO 200
1/40 sec
f/18
It's a very busy sign and Mr. Long is in the background so it's awesome.

15 Architectural
2-17-13
Waterfront, Burnside Bridge
ISO 200
1/160
f/7.1
New favorite bridge, and awesome little boat.

05 Urban
2-17-13
Pioneer Square
ISO 200
1/80 sec
f/5.6
His tie caught my eye.

16 Architecture
3-15-13
Just off Pioneer Square
ISO 200
1/40 sec
f/18
This seems really beautiful to me.

06 Urban
2-17-13
Waterfront, near burnside bridge.
ISO 200
1/320 sec
f/7.1
This picture seems to have an intense feel about it that I enjoy

Wednesday :3

Well this Wednesday we were missing our beloved teacher Mr. Long. In his absence we worked on our projects and got a lot of work done. It was a nice work day and everyone seemed happy. I am more than half way done with my project and only need a couple pictures which I will get this weekend.

CIAO!

The Thoughts of Thrursday

Posing Techniques

• Body Turns
• When People have a part in their hair, the side with less hair tends to subconsciously be their 'good side'.
• One eye tends to be smaller, so try to have that eye closer to the camera.
• If you face the camera straight on it is not flattering.

• Creating a Base
• Where your head and hands are placed is important. It should make a triangle between the two hands and the face.

• Tip and Turn
• Jut the chin out to create a better jaw line.

• Composition
• If you show the knees, then you have to show the feet.

Thursday Thoughts

March 4th, 2013



Vignette: An unbordered picture that shades off into the surrounding color at the edges.




Chromatic aberration



Portrait Photography

Photographer: Daria Pitak

                     

Photographer: Dmitry Ageev

                               















I leaned what key lights are, and the flaps on the light are called barn doors. Also Mr. Long showed us the scrim on the light.

When you use reflectors outside, you want to bounce the light onto peoples face, to make the eyes more intense and beautiful.

Thursday thoughts

OK so I keep forgetting about thursday thoughts, so I am going to combine everything I've learned and thought this month and then start a weekly update after that.

I think my best moment including photography has been when we went into Portland as a group and shot. Joseph had lots of helpful things to say, like that we should try to look for an exciting background when we see a subject we like. And use reflection from windows. Don't make things just a little off, have it extremely straight or extremely off.

We talked a lot about tone values and white balance. I learned how to change the settings for both of those in lightroom. I perfected importing and exporting my pictures and being able to tell where all my pictures are really going.

This class is pretty great and even though I always forget Thursday thoughts I do love the class.