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.

Shooting Exercise and Edit - Architectural

My Shot

Tali's Shot

Tasha's Shot

Shooting: When Tali, Tasha, and I went out to shoot, we circled the building in search of things that popped out to us. We didn't plan to all get something blue, but that is how it turned out.

Importing: I am starting to get a lot more comfortable with remembering how to find my photos and get them into lightroom. 

Renaming: I always wonder what I should name my photos and I discovered that if I think too much about it I will get hung up on something as simple as a name so I just call them whatever I first think of.

Editing: This is my favorite step. I learned from Lauryn that there is a way to cover up "blemishes" by copying another part of the photo and putting it over the part you dont want.

Exporting: I think I am really getting the hang of this as well :D

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