My name is Joey Popa, and I can now officially call myself a photographer, in the beginning of the school year I chose to take Digital Photography for two main reasons, one, for my technology credit, and two, an easy A. Coming into this class I thought that all I had to do was take pictures on a camera and then I would pass, I was totally wrong. The first day of school our teacher, Mr. Bush, told us to get out our assigned cameras and take some pictures, is that all, I thought in my head, well not exactly, when we were done taking our pictures our next step was to put them on something I never thought I would ever have to use, Adobe Bridge, what a day that was. From that day on I didn't know what to expect from this class, there was always something knew in store everyday in class, sometimes I even felt like giving up, especially when we learned how to use Photoshop and its tools, now that was a living nightmare. But there were even times that I enjoyed trying something knew. In our Shooting Assignments we were assigned each week to take pictures of a specific topic, In each of those assignments I always tried to make each weeks picture better then the one before it, from then on I began to enjoy the process of learning something new and exciting everyday. Looking back at this trimester, I've learned so much about what Digital Photography means and how I can use it in the future, wether it was learning what Photoshop does to a photo to make it look magical, or how Shutter and Aperture can be used to set your camera in ways you never knew it could, to even the fundamentals of working with a camera and its basic tools to create a wonderful photo.I can truly say that I have improved as a photographer and as a student. Here are some of my first (worst) photos. I can say that I've improved a lot as a photographer, here are some of my my best photos.
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For this assignment we learned what panning is and what It can do to make a really good motion picture.So are class went outside to take some pictures of Mr. Bush riding his bike, where the sun was shining so much that It caused most of our pictures to be completely white, but with some editing in the Camera Raw Filter we managed to pick our best and final photo assignment to share.
On this assignment we learned how to create an image that would show multiple versions of someone into the scene. This assignment I learned what Photo and Layer stacking was to create a creative photo that would show interest in pictures such as this one.
Best Photo Shutter Speed: f/8.0 Aperture: 10.0 ISO: 100 This assignment I chose to do light painting, which is a photographic technique in which exposures are made by moving a hand held light source while taking a long exposure photograph, either to illuminate a subject or to shine a point of light directly at the camera.This assignment I learned what light painting is and what I can do to make a picture look so amazing and creative.So I used some old Christmas lights and made my brother swing it around as fast as he possibly could to make a great photo.The editing on this photo was just to make the background unrecognizable. For this assignment we decided on what we wanted to do as our photoshop assignment.So we searched the Internet for inspiration on many tutorials that were available and gave them a try. I earned many new ways that are available in the application and how to create amazing new tutorials. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GsCU4wHdmg http://digital-photography-school.com/mono-with-a-dash-of-colour-photoshop-cs2-tutorial/ http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-Instagram-Filters-in-Photoshop/ This assignment we learned how to create an image that changed the context of the high school, the point of the assignment was to attract attention by doing something unexpected to a picture.We also learned how to use Photoshop in new ways like putting shadows in an image and a background that brought more excitement to a picture.
Best Photo Aperture: f/4.5 Shutter Speed: 1/125 ISO: 100 This shooting assignment I chose to take photos featuring people who are friends and family.I tried to show the personality of the subject in each of the photos, especially in my best photo with my crazy brother who had absolutely no fun while taking pictures.This photo assignment I learned that taking pictures of little kids is never easy and that everyone is different in their own unique ways.The editing I did on this photo was simply just bringing out the highlights and color in the photo. This Panoramic assignment we were assigned to find a great scene that would lend itself to being photographed in the panoramic style. We learned how to take panoramic pictures and how to put each picture, in Photoshop, together to create a great portrait.
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