Lighting Assignment

Assignment 1 was to use a white poster board to reflect light, I did not use sunlight because there was no sunlight so I used direct light from a lamp. When I was reflecting the white poster board on my subject it made it a little darker.

Here are some pictures I took of my family over the weekend!

My event was a softball game.  It was the district championship.  As I was taking these photos I was acting like I was working for the newspaper and that they were going to be using my pictures for a story about the outcome of the game.

My question for Denise McGill was what inspires her to do these photos?
Her response was that she just likes to use people and their stories. She gets her ideas like that, then goes and takes the photo.

I chose the landscape photos for my critique in class because I felt the landscape pictures were my strongest. This is my favorite photo from this assignment. The left photo is the original one and the right photo is the photoshop one. All I did to this photo was change it to grayscale and then messed with the levels a bit. While taking these photos I was really focusing on the horizon and lines throughout the frame of the site.

This is assignment 3, using word, idea, or concept as inspiration for your work. When I was shooting these photos, I wanted to use different angles. I was straight over the set up, on the side, then in the middle. I used the tissue paper to give the photo some lines. The left picture is my bad one because the light too much to handle. It was too bright. The right picture is my good one because the lighting is perfect. The angle of the photo makes the picture what it is!