Week 8

 

Week 6/Assignment 5: Portrait (Eli)

 I apologize for the delay in submitting this- my friend let me use their fancy camera, telephoto lens, and tripod, but it took a bit to coordinate. These were taken with a Panasonic Lumax G100 with a 45-150mm F4.0-5.6 ASPH lens. My subject is my friend River, one of my oldest and closest friends in the state and one of my chosen family. This assignment was definitely difficult, but I enjoyed seeing what the camera could capture of River's warm and vibrant presence.

Week 7

Assignment 1

 I wanted to focus more on texture and lines. 

Portrait

 

I had trouble getting this done, so I attempted to do it myself, and I included pictures I took from a basketball event

 

Portrait

 I planned on doing this weeks portraits on family members which unfortunately ended up not how I wanted ( no one approved of their own pictures LOL) so I figured the next best thing would be my pup rylo .

I played with some of the PS edits. Utilizing filigrees and contrasts and also texture. 

Jessie Schreck: Week 6 - Window Portrait

Photographing people definitely proved more difficult than any of the other assignments (especially young squirmy people with short attention spans). I managed to get a few good shots, some with more contrast on faces, some with less contrast, but all with a soft diffuse light source. 

shadow redo

 

 

its cool how you can manipulate shadows with light

The Digital Dog Portrait

For this assignment, I had planned on photographing my relatives. However, each prospective sitter ran into medical issues this week. As my plans were derailed, my sitter became my dog, Melon. She enjoys looking out windows and knows a command to look at me which was very useful, but I ran into issues. The split coloring of her face caused problems for my photos. Despite my use of a white duvet to reflect the light onto the darker side of her face, it was hard to find a good balance of light and dark. Another issue was the space next to the window, as I needed to be an adequate distance away for my DSLR to focus on her.

(My favorites are the top two and the two bottom ones.)

John Dacey window light