Winter 3

This week I worked on the third batch of my silhouette Winter Project. Instead of trying to change the variety of the objects I used for my photos, I changed the organization and complexity the objects that I did use. I also experimented with the contrast between the silhouette and the background, and added textures in some cases to give the photos a different feeling or connotation. For next week, I would like to potentially work on improving my editing choices with the texture, the background and their contrast with my silhouettes.

Winter Project 2

This week I worked on draft 2 of my winter project. I tried to use different backgrounds and editing techniques to refine the silhouettes in my photos. I also used the temperature adjustment in picmonkey in order to provide some of the coloring to my photos. Next week I still want to find a wider variety of subjects for my silhouettes since I tend to want to use high isolated structures like trees and poles in my silhouettes.

Winter Project 1 (Silhouettes - The Starn Twins)

For this week we started our winter projects and made a first draft. For my winter I made silhouettes based off of the Starn Twin's examples with trees. I setup my photos such that an object or objects would be in the foreground and a light would be in the background. This would make my objects turn dark and become a silhouette. Next time I would like to add more of a variety of objects to my photos since this draft consists of mostly trees. I would also like to potentially commit to a theme or themes in future drafts. 

Slo-Mo 1

This week we worked on our Slo-Mo Projects, photos taken with the shutter open for a longer period of time than a standard photograph. For this project, I experimented with multiple techniques for shutter speed changes, including light painting, where you change the position of a light in the photo with the shutter open, blurred motion, where you catch the motion of an object or person during a photo, and panning, where you move the camera horizontally or vertically during the photo like you would in a panoramic shot. For my photos on light painting, I would focus on a light in the display on the camera and move the camera around during the photo in such a way that it would create the shape I wanted. I found that editing these photos especially, with increased saturation and decreased shadows, made them pop out well. For panning, I would find some background or object I found interesting, and would shift my camera in different directions to see how it would appear in the actual photograph. For blurred motion, I would find people or objects that were moving and attempt to isolate that motion from the rest of the frame. However, keeping the camera still completely still during the full time the shutter was open proved very difficult, ultimately making the entire photo look blurry. For the next week, I would like to work on this type of slo-mo photograph and work on creating good, crisp photos in this category.

DBL Exposure

This week in photography, we worked on our DBL Exposure projects. For my project, I overlapped two different photos together and faded them such that both images could be seen in the same photograph. My goal was to create a dreamlike feeling in each of my photos, similar to the reflections from last week. To do this I would choose two photos that didn't necessarily work well together and then synthesize them through editing, either by changing the exposure, making the combined photo black and white, or adding borders.

Windows Reflection

This week we worked on our Window Reflection photos. For my photos I focused on using and creating reflections that appeared estranged from reality, like a different world. To do this I took multiple photos from different angles of a reflective surface or set up the reflections beforehand to get the photos that I wanted. Once I did that I edited the photos to enhance their otherworldliness. Some photos have been reflected multiple times and some are already taken within the reflection.