This project was meant so we could learn a few photo taking techniques. We went on two different field trips and tried to shoot pictures with 8 different techniques. These are some of my favorite photos from each technique that I tried to use. Not all of them are super perfect, or super easy to tell that they are that technique, but I enjoyed shooting and editing them.
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| Rule of Thirds |
This photo resembles the Rule of Thirds technique. I shot this photo first as a vertical photo of my hand, trying to just trying to capture my tattoo and my ring. I ended up turning it horizontally, and adding filters on. My tattoo is on the lowest invisible line of thirds, while my ring is in the middle. It's not super easy to see it is rules of thirds, and maybe isn't my "best" in relation to quality of "rules of thirds", but the notion of the photo with my tattoo and ring makes this photo one of my favorites so far.
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| Frame Within a Frame |
This photo is a Frame Within a Frame. I just took a vertical photo of the door near Director's Park. I noticed everyone else was focused on the theater's old building, and seemed to skip over the ominous door nearby. I really focused on trying to make the door seem more ominous and out of place. I emphasized the red parts in the picture (red lock, red tape, and red warning sign). I made the green darker, and put a lot of clarity and sharpening in it.
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| Close Up |
This is a close up I took of my boyfriend. I added +41 vibrance to make his skin and lips look more vibrant. The original was cute, but the colors were uninteresting (see picture below). I zoomed in, and added more shadows to make his hair look darker and stand out less, so instead his lips/smile and eyes stand out instead.
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| Bird's Eye View |
This is Bird's Eye View, but it could also be diagonals. I chose it as bird's eye because it is almost directly above, looking down on a specific object (the penny). I darkened the greens and blacks in this picture, to take attention away from the edges. The penny was the subject of this photo, so it was taken so the penny was directly in the middle. I like this picture a lot because it is a candid picture. I didn't think about that it would be a bird's eye or potential diagonal because of the way the cement is slanted; I just thought it was weird and interesting that someone left a new penny face up on a ledge at Director's Park. There is no original meaning in this picture, but now that I think about it, it could be interrupted as: Finding a penny face up means good luck, but since pennies are worthless in our inflated economy, people would rather walk past and leave behind a sentimental value of luck, because the material penny is worth close to nothing. I also don't remember if I took this penny with me or not.
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| Bug's Eye View |
This is one of my favorite shots from this project. I had to physically get on the ground, on my back, to take this photo. The green plants were not bushes; they were potted plants. I looked ridiculous trying to get the right image from the new building at Director's Park. The glass of the building was already reflecting off of the clear blue sky, so I just made the blue saturation +100 to make it pop. The green plants were darkened too, and the whole picture was sharpened by 150 and had a clarity of +64 to make it a very crisp and detailed photo.
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| Leading Lines |
I took this "leading lines" photo with one of the class cameras. I was very surprised that even though it was a simple camera, it's focus feature was very easy to use, and the picture I had visioned came out perfectly and exactly how I wanted it to. The main focus in this picture became the two screws on the bench. The lines lead out to something that you cannot actually see, since the focus was so great on the screws, that the rest of the picture is a blur. I darkened the photo a lot, to give it a more surreal look. Like most of my photos, I made the green in the background more saturated and "green" looking (I really enjoy the darker, vibrant shade of green). The photo is very sharp and crisp. The back part of the bench is very blurry, and so is the rest where the lines lead. I think it creates a sort of mystery to the picture, since you don't know what's happening in the background.
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| Diagonals |
I have to be honest, this isn't my favorite picture. I liked my original photo, where I was mostly focusing on the construction site, and empthasizing the orange and reds in it. But then I realized it wasn't really a part of any of the techniques. So instead, I cropped out part of it and focused on the traffic cones. I think this photo could also be "leading lines", but since I took this picture at an angle, "diagonals" works fine. I darkened the oranges and the blacks to make the photo seem more vintage-ish. I didn't sharpen this photo as much as I did others, but I still put the sharpening at 57.
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| Fill in the Frame |
I originally took this photo so the whole flower bunch was showing, but then ended up cropping a bunch of it out. I softened the edges of the flowers, to make it seem more...edible, thick, or sweet (it's a hard feeling/vision to describe). I sharpened it by 112, and actually did not play with the colors, besides the exposure to get rid of the sun that was overexposing and washing out all of the colors of the flower.
