Class Feedback

I liked this class because it was fun and it had a lot of freedom. We also learned some cool things that I didn't know before. I disliked some of the photoshop assignments but they were necessary to what we learned so it was cool.
I especially liked the photo assignments because we got to take photos under a certain subject and that was cool.
What I learned:
I learned how to use photoshop and use the certain tools in it, how to set up a studio lighting situation, and how to use all the elements of composition to make the photo better.
My best/favorite photos are:

In this assignment I took pictures of still life. My best photo is of a die on a backgammon board. It's visually interesting because it has bright colors and shows lines. I made it brighter in photoshop and cropped out the shadow and fuzzy part.

 ISO: 800
f/stop: 2.8
shutter speed: 1/15


I this assignment I found it difficult to take  interesting pictures of still life because the lighting wasn't that good and things that I thought would look good, didn't always turn out that good. I ended up taking a lot of photos in order to get some good ones.

Photo 6: Black&white

This week I did black and white for my photos. I took some of my photos that I had already taken that I though would look cool in black and white. My best photo is a picture of a frog water fountain. It has character and interesting lines and displays the rule of thirds.

f stop: f/4

shutter speed: 1/80

ISO: 100

In this assignment I learned which photos looked better in b&w and which photos looked better in color. I also learned how to change it in photoshop and which adjustments looked best.

Dictionary

These are my dictionary photos. I choose the words ailurophilia and ostentatious. Ailurophilia means love of cats so I put picture of cute cats everywhere and cat paws. Ostentatious was my second word and it means showy and pretentious so I put a rich guy in a garage full of nice cars.
In this assignment I combined photos to get across a theme.

Puns

In this assignment we combined photos in photoshop to make puns. I learned how to effectively combine photos using the magic wand tool, free transform and changing image sizes and canvas sizes. My puns were eggplant, doctor pepper, and hole milk.

Photo 5: people

For this assignment I toke pictures of people. My best photo is a picture of my mom looking pensive because we were on a college visit. I cropped it to make it square and changed the contrast and brightness so it didn't seem to faded.

ISO: 400

f-stop: 4.3

shutter speed: 1/125

I learned that capturing the expression or certain look that you're looking for is difficult and takes some time. I think I was able to capture a pretty cool picture though. I think photoshop really helped the picture in this case.

School Photo

This is the before and after pictures of a photo that I altered. I added pictures of Jaws, Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt, and other things to make a surreal thing look real and that it took place at our school. I also added a shadow to Usain Bolt using photoshop.