Thursday Thoughts

21 February, 2013 Edition

Today, we're deciding on places to shoot. We talked about respect in people and businesses and also the project in general.

On Tuesday, we talked about aperture, f-stops, and depth of field to refresh our memories and just to learn it again. We also talked about respect of our subject.

Thursday Thoughts

14th of February, 2013 Edition

We focused on ISO this week - like if we were inside shooting with unnatural light, what would the ISO be, and what it would be shooting outside with natural light.

We shot photos at school - which are in the previous post.

Today, we also took a walk around the area of school. We ended up at Target where Tali met enlisted members of the United States military and a photographer named John.

John had many stories to tell, and we had to leave before he could finish his story. He talked of an Indian wedding in Fiji - how it lasted 7 days, a fourteen-pund wedding dress, and the ceremonial baby powder throwing at the end of each day.

Lizzy also handed out candy to strangers and waved at them as well.

On our walk - to and back from Target - we shot in the style of street photography. We shot moving objects, people, lost shopping carts, and anything we could find along the way.

So even if you're just walking to the store down the street, you can find little things that catch your eye(s). Instead of a ten minute trip to Fred Meyer's. it turns into a hour trip.

Shooting Exercise and Edit - Architectural

So Lizzy and Joelle were in my group for this exercise. We were told to focus on things with typography. Some of our photos weren't focused on typography but were more focused on juxtaposition and details.

Step 1: Lizzy, Joelle, and I get assigned to a group. We go outside to take photos.

- we used manual focus and we adjust everything by hand.
- shot in aperture priority

Step2: We strolled around outside looking for subjects for our photos that are in plain sight and unnoticed - or subjects noticed too much and therefore not appreciated.

Step 3: Saunter back to class since the camera battery was "exhausted."

Step 4: Transfer Photos

- personally, I prefer to transfer the photos from the SD Card to the computer/mac before importing to Lightroom.

Step 5: Import to Lightroom

-  using add instead of copy since I already transferred the photos from the SD Card

Step 6: Sort through photos
- flag, delete from lightroom, etc.
- be sure that I keep the photos the group chooses

Step 7: edit
- crop/rotate
- white balance
- exposure
- highlights, lowlights, midtones
- blacks, whites
-clarity

Step 8: export
- Quality @ 100
- press export



The Photos

My Photo

Lizzy's Photo

Joelle's Photo

Thursday Thoughts

31st of January Edition

So last week I was ill. But I made it on Monday - where we talked about WHITE BALANCE.

We figured out where to change the white balance and that was incredibly helpful since photos can look over exposed or under exposed quite easily. If you change the white balance, you may not have to change the shutter speed or the aperture.

Thursday Thoughts

The 7th of February Edition

So this week we learned about - and refreshed our memories about - EXPOSURE.

Especially today.

Today we wen over Exposure Compensation.

According to Nikon:

"Exposure compensation is used to alter exposure from the value selected by the camera, making photographs brighter or darker.

In modes P, S, and A, the camera automatically adjusts settings for optimal exposure, but this may not always produce the exposure the photographer intended. Exposure is a matter of personal preference, and an exposure brighter or darker than that selected by the camera may sometimes better reflect the photographer’s intent. The feature used in such situations is called exposure compensation. Digital SLR cameras allow you to check the results immediately, so you can take a photograph, display it in the monitor, and then raise exposure compensation for brighter results or lower exposure compensation for darker results and take another picture."

So yeah. Exposure Compensation is an important factor for a photographer's choices of places to shoot and how to keep shooting everywhere you go.

Sadly, Joelle, Lizzy, and I could only shoot for about 10 minutes since our camera's battery became exhausted.

The Loss

My emotions are not at their best moment.

I knew it would happen sometime this week, but nothing prepared me for it being so incredibly soon.

I've given up on doing homework for the time being. Homework is not something I should be thinking of at this moment.

Why, you ask?

A death in the family.

Someone who I was relatively close to.

Someone who made the best applesauce.

Someone who died literally two hours ago.

(It is 9:03 PM currently)

She died peacefully.

No pain.

No suffering.

All I know is that I can't focus currently.

I don't think Mr. Johnson would want my math assignment to be all wrong, so I'll wait.

I am a wreck.

I am an emotional wreck.

I am such an emotional wreck that I can't even cry.

That's probably because it isn't fully processed.

But for now, I mourn the loss of my cousin's grandmother.


She was a great woman.

Her husband taught me how to play ping pong when I was young.

I grew up with them both.

Needless to say, both of them were very proper people, and they loved me.

And I loved them, too.

I still do love them.

Even though I am not crying, I still love them.

They were real people.

Galen and Beth were important to me - they still are, even after both of their passings.


The point of this post is to say something important.

And I hope you have found it in my words.

I hope I made sense.

And I hope you realise just how important every second of every day is.


Beth, here's to you.

The best of luck to you in the Great Perhaps.

I'll see you there hopefully after many many years.

Allons-y.





-fin-

Thursday Thoughts

24.1.2013 Edition

This week was a short week - but with two full length photography classes, I think the class an manage.

This week I learned all about the exposure triad.

Always - Aperture

Savor - Shutter Speed

Ice Cream - ISO

ISO should normally under 800. So if you're outside in the sun, the ISO should be low - probably 200. If you're inside a dark building with terrible light, your ISO should be at around 800. Make the camera work for the good photo, don't settle for noise.

I also learned about white balance. White balance is kind of self explanatory. If you're outside, change the WB setting to the outdoors setting, and if you're inside, change the setting to the being indoors setting. White balance will help with exposure.