Other Worldly Landscapes

To receive the result of these photos, I played around with the brightness and saturation a lot. Using these editing tools cause a bright array of colors to form on the bland image. Another thing I added to the image was clouds. I simply took a picture of clouds off the internet and used a command to bend it in with the preexisting landscape. Liquify is another tool I used to swirl the image around.

Why Photography Is Important:

Photography can be found all over social media and is the main source of content on the platforms. It can show photos from the range of somebody’s daily activities to educational and informational events. It can allow others to see what important events are happening from all the way across the world and even encourage others to raise awareness. Photography is also a main source of documentation of important events in history. It is one of the only tools that allow people to grasp a feel of what these events were actually like.

Photography is important to me because it allows me to go back to earlier times. It can allow me to see pets or family members that are no longer with me. Photography captures happiness from moments that are special and one of a kind. It brings the feeling of familiarity and warmth when I look at certain moments in time which reminds me of how lucky I am to have a keepsake of special life experiences.

Pop Art

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Andy Warhol
  1. Pop art is when iconic people or modern objects are edited with bright colors. They can sometimes be placed in collages of the same image but with heavily edited colors to create dimension between each image.
  2. This artist’s work is considered Pop Art because of the simple image used in all six squares. Each image is edited with their own colors which makes them all different, although it’s the same image.
  3. Andy Warhol is known for his bright and colorful pop art. All of his pieces contain bright colors that create dimension from existing photos or objects.
  4. I picked Andy Warhol’s artwork because he’s known for his work in pop art. I like the bright colors Warhol uses in all of his images and how they’re consistent with his entire gallery but still are unique from one another.

HDR Landscape

When shooting this image, I had to take at least five pictures of the same landscape at different exposures. I had to do this often because I would move the camera which would throw off the overall alignment of the photo when I was in the editing process. When the photos were merged, I fixed the saturation levels and the vibrancy to bring out all the small details in this image. I then edited in clouds to fill in the empty space above my image to create this outcome.
HDR Photography is when multiple images of the same landscape is shot at different exposure levels and merged to form one image. They are then edited to bring out every little detail in the setting.

Am I Talking To Myself?

My Inspiration:
My inspiration was the struggle of trying to keep your composure when your grades are struggling. I had my model go around and pose as if she was looking for something, to me, this represents searching for ways to try and do your best when you know you’re not doing well. I know lots of people who deal with stress in different ways which leaves you to choose whether you rise up to the occasion, or crumble under the pressure.

Shoot Like Aaron Siskind

M, f/5, 1/200 sec, ISO 3200, 56mm
M, f/5, 1/200 sec, ISO 3200, 56mm
M, f/5, 1/200 sec, ISO 3200, 56mm
Aaron’s work is mainly black and white and it contains photos where you have to take a second look to understand what you’re looking at. He uses angles and filters to create composition. I like his style of photography because it’s simple and creative at the same time.

Lenses Read & Write:

  1. All cameras have a selection of lenses which vary from fisheye lenses to 800mm.
  2. Fisheye Lenses give you a 180° field of view to telephoto lenses up to 800mm.
  3. The lens you get depends on what you want to shoot.
  4. The lens could be for sports, wildlife, birds, landscapes, architecture, portraits, or any number of other subjects.
  5. Your budget on lenses also matters because of the features that come with each individual lens.
  6. Less expensive lenses have variable apertures, as you zoom, the maximum aperture gets smaller.
  7. More costly lenses have fixed apertures.
  8. All major camera and lens manufactures offer a variety of focal lengths to accommodate to most budgets.
  9. Wide angle lenses go from 10mm to 35mm
  10. Wide angles give an expanded view of landscape.
  11. Not being close enough to the foreground makes less impactful photos.
  12. Wide angles can look great in small rooms, cars, caves, and small areas.
  13. Standard lenses go from 35mm to 85mm.
  14. Standard lenses are versatile which allow the photographer to do wide angle landscape shooting.
  15. Standard lenses are also great for portraits when zoomed in.
  16. Standard lenses cover moderate wide-angle focal lengths all the way down to a medium telephoto.
  17. Kit lenses are lenses that come as part of a camera package.
  18. Prime lenses offer one focal length.
  19. Prime lenses go from 35mm, 50mm, and 85mm.
  20. When film was used back then, the most popular standard lens was standard prime.

Jpeg VS. Raw

A RAW image is a file containing unfiltered or little processed data from the sensor of a digital camera. Before they can be printed, shared, or displayed on a display device, RAW photos must be post-processed in software. RAW is a format that is related to a certain camera model; in order for software to work with a RAW file, it must be compatible with the camera used to take the RAW image. When compared to JPEG photographs, post-processing RAW images can give wider dynamic range, superior colors, and in some situations, even more detail.

JPEG is a lossy compression image format that is used to store and display digital images. JPEG is the most widely used and widely embraced image format today, with built-in support for reading and displaying JPEG images in most display devices and software. When compressing JPEG photos, different levels of quality can be applied, affecting the image’s overall quality and final size. Lower quality conversion yields higher compression rates, smaller files, and compression artifacts, whereas photos stored at a higher quality level yield less compression artifacts but require more storage.