1st Hour, Digital Photography
Frank Parkinson, 1st Hour, O'Donnell For me to show and explain my growth as a photographer this past fall, I must start at the beginning. My first day I walked in unsure of what to expect from the class, of course I knew I had to take pictures and learn about photography, but what specifics. I had taken photos before with my family's camera but all using the auto feature which requires minimal camera knowledge. I knew nothing at the time and practically just walked around and snap whatever I thought looked cool. I remember the first few days of class we had to take some practice pictures that I luckily saved. Which can be compared below to a picture I took later in this class using learned knowledge about the exposure triangle. To go into greater depth of my growth you must also look at two of the biggest parts of the class; photoshop and shooting assignments. My shooting assignments is an amazing way to demonstrate and give a better understanding of my growth as a photographer. During this class we had to do seven shooting assignments, where we chose a category (i.e. animal, motion, nature, etc.) and used what we learned in class to take the best photos. Once we've sifted through and picked out our six best, we blog them. With the pictures is also an explanation of what we were tasked to do, but more importantly the What I have Learned section. Which is a great way to track my growth from assignment to assignment. I have varying levels of difficultly from assignment to assignment, but I can say I enjoyed every one of them. From setting up the camera, running next to my dog, and waiting for by friend to hit a wiffle ball I could find joy in each one no matter if I was completely satisfied with the outcome. Photoshop is another way to show growth, but it's harder to show from assignment to assignment, because they're all completely different from each other and all require different aspects of photoshop. It's a greater showing of growth if you take into account that before this I had barely ever used photoshop. Coming into the class with minimal knowledge of photoshop, this was the most challenging and interesting part of the class for me as I was entering "uncharted waters." Throughout the class, probably about once a week, we were given a photoshop assignment. Mr. O'Donnell would give us a brief overview and tutorial of the assignment to us. Then we would go to Mr. Bush's website to follow directions until we completed the assignment. From my first day when I was lost the second I opened photoshop to know where I know so much about the tools and how to use the program effectively.
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Frank Parkinson, 1st Hour, O'Donnell This week we were tasked with creating a visual dictionary. A visual dictionary is a wordbook that primarily uses pictures to illustrate the meaning of words. To do this we had to take pictures from the internet, combine them on a canvas, put on definition's and combine both images. In this assignment I practiced many skills in photoshop, such as image resizing, cropping, text and the magic wand. This assignment was pretty easy, because we only had a few steps to do to create it. The only trouble I had was being a little behind on other assignments so I had to work on this quickly an diligently.
Frank Parkinson, 1st Hour, O'Donnell This week we were tasked with creating a image with three visual puns. The definition of a visual pun is a joke or form of word-play that exploits multiple meanings of one word displayed in an image. To do this we had to take pictures from the internet, use those to create three visual puns, and the put them into photoshop and combine them. In this assignment I practiced many skills in photoshop, such as image resizing, cropping, lasso and the magic wand. Most of the assignment was pretty easy, just think of a funny idea, grab some pictures of the internet, and photoshop them together.
Frank Parkinson, 1st Hour, O'Donnell In this assignment I was tasked with taking pictures of an event. I decided to take pictures of my Cross Country banquet at the High School on Sunday. Most Event Photography involves taking pictures of emotions, people, food, and any other aspects of the gathering as it varies depending on the type of event. Original:Aperture: f/3.8 Shutter Speed: 1/400 ISO: 1000 *No edits made to the original photo* Honorable Mentions: I wanted to do my best and try to capture the mood and emotions of the event, which was mainly nostalgia and anticipation. I thought the shoot went very well, I was able to incorporate many aspects I wanted to, such as depth of field, framing, and texture. One variable the affected the shoot was the noise. The noise of the camera focusing and taking pictures was quite distracting so I wasn't able to get the pictures I wanted of close ups or multiple takes because I didn't want to distract from the speakers. Lastly I learned some valuable knowledge in depth of field, framing, texture, and many other Event Photography related skills.
Frank Parkinson, 1st Hour, O'Donnell This week we were tasked with taking picture the same subject with the same setting and using photoshop to make them all one picture. We had to take at least 4 pictures of our subject in different poses and the put them into photoshop and combine them. A technique which is known as Multiple Me.
Frank Parkinson, 1st Hour, O'Donnell In this assignment I was tasked with taking pictures and putting them in black and white. Black and White photography is a genre of photography defined as taking pictures of nature, architecture, etc. and putting them into black and white using an editing software, such as but not limiting to photoshop. In black and white photography framing, depth of field, and contrast are all huge aspects that are used by photographers to create great black and white photos. Lighting is also a huge part of black and white photography, because if a photo is over exposed the contrast will be off. Original:Aperture: f/5.6 Shutter Speed: 1/30 ISO: 1100 Edited:Honorable Mentions:To capture some pictures for black and white I grabbed my camera, tripod, and raincoat and took to the neighborhood. I knew that a lot of great black and white photos deal with nature or architecture so I replicated that be taking pictures around my house. I thought the shoot went very well. I was able to incorporate many aspects I wanted to, such as depth of field, framing, and texture. One variable the affected the shoot was the weather. I ha to put on my raincoat, cover the camera, and bring an umbrella to keep myself and the camera try. Also it took me a lot longer to set up my tripod and the angle, because I needed to keep the camera dry.Lastly I learned some valuable knowledge in depth of field, framing, texture, and many other Black and White photography related skills.
Frank Parkinson, 1st Hour, O'Donnell This week we were tasked with taking portrait photography. We had to take two pictures; one from the studio in the hornet hub already set up with lights. And one from around the school using the window/bounce card technique. From there we followed instructions on Mr. Bush's website on how to put this into photoshop and create a clean template. In this assignment I practiced many skills in photoshop, such as image resizing, cropping, compositing and the rectangular marquee tool. Most of the assignment was pretty easy, just set up the camera and say cheese. The only problem I faced was with finding natural light from around the school, because our class in first hour, so I opted to use artificial light for our bounce card picture.
Frank Parkinson, 1st Hour, O'Donnell In this assignment I was tasked with taking pictures of Still Life. Still life photography is a genre of photography defined as taking pictures of inanimate subjects, such as food. Many photos under the genre focus on filling the frame, using multiple subjects, and depth of field. Lighting is also an extremely important part of Still Life photography. One can conclude that Still Life photography focuses more on your ability to set up the subject and its scene, as well as a create a story, then capturing any moment in time. Original:Aperture: f/5.6 Shutter Speed: 1/30 ISO: 560 *No edits made to the original photo* Honorable Mentions: To capture some pictures of still life I set up a white background, a tripod, some lighting, and used various subjects. I also researched more about the genre of Still Life to learn more and took some inspiration from the photos I saw. I thought the shoot went very well. I was able to incorporate many aspects I wanted to, such as depth of field, filling the frame, and shadows, etc. One variable the affected the shoot was light and background. I had to take many shots for most of my photo ideas to get the right angle, so that the background wasn't exposed and the lighting and shadows were just right. Lastly I learned some valuable knowledge in lighting, angles, depth of field, filling the frame, and many other Still Life photography related skills
Frank Parkinson, 1st Hour, O'Donnell
This week we were allowed to pick our own photoshop assignment. We were tasked with going online and finding photoshop tutorials for ourselves and had the freedom to pick which one we wanted to do. From there we do our best to replicate the tutorial and hopefully our struggles and successes help us learn some of the photoshop tools involved in the tutorial.
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https://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/screen-jump/
https://photoshopstar.com/how-to-create-mental-sphere/
In this assignment I learned many skills in photoshop through the tutorials, such as, desaturation, history brush, polygonal lasso, commands, layers, free transform, Elliptical Marquee Tool, etc. Most of the assignment was pretty easy, just following the steps, but I tired one that involved creating a movie-like poster and that was very difficult.
Frank Parkinson, 1st Hour, O'Donnell In this assignment I was tasked with taking pictures of motion. Whether this involved motion blur or freezing the motion we had to practice many skills in the exposure triangle. In motion photography sometimes your subject is moving very fast, which means you have to set up the right exposure triangle and already have the picture framed so when action takes place you are ready to capture it. It also means that you may have to take multiple shots to get the right one and be ready to take photos at any second, because your subject does not always corroborate. Original:Aperture: f/5.3 Shutter Speed: 1/1000 ISO: 800 *No edits made to the original photo* Honorable MentionTo capture some pictures of motion I used a tripod, framed my shots, and took pictures outside where motion seemed to be more common. One thing I did to create some motion was have my friend Ryan, who is seen in a few other photos, throw a frisbee to my dog. From there I would capture some of the action taking place. I thought the shoot went very well. I was able to incorporate many aspects I wanted to, such as filling the frame and freezing the motion. One variable the affected the shoot was light and background. I took my pictures outside to hopefully give the photos a natural lighting. I also had to take many practice shots to get the right exposure triangle, so that the photo was not under or over exposed. Lastly I learned some valuable knowledge in shutter speed, aperture, ISO, filling the frame, etc.
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AuthorI'm Frank Parkinson, a 1st hour student in Digital Photography. I'm currently a sophomore at Saline High School. Archives
November 2017
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