Shutter Speed

With shutter speed your basically controlling the time length in which it takes the camera to capture the photo. If you slow it down , light and other objects can be caught at its best while in motion and create interesting photos. When capturing a city and you want to capture moving objects shutter speed should be turned down and be the first alteration made, because it makes capturing light in motion more interesting. Creating the following photos was cool because I was learning something new and it was almost as if we were creating our photo. My favorite picture was the 2nd one, where I am standing by a group partner and outlining him with the light from the cell phone, and it creates this allusion or aura around him.

Aperture

Aperture basically involves the zoom effects, in which by lens, and how much it can capture within the photo. The top picture utilized larger aperture than the bottom. It consisted of a lower number or bigger hole, which blurs the background and captures the emphasis in the photo. Where as the bottom picture utilized a larger number and smaller hole which caught the overall background and emphasized on the chess pieces as a whole instead of one specific one like the top photo

ISO

As seen in the following selection of pictures, the lighting of the lights, held by Miss Cook are continuously changing in definition and contrast. The ISO is another camera tool utilized that uses the natural lighting in the environment but it emphasis more so on the definition of the light to avoid using flash that would eliminate the actual lighting, such as the christmas lights in my pictures.

Flash

The pros of utilizing the flash tool on a camera is that it can add light to dark places or subjects, it freezes time and eliminates blur. However, the cons of utilizung this tool is that if your subject is a animal or child the effect may disturb your subject and photo, the lighting situations create unattractive compositions as far as definition of the object and its visual details and if taken of a person it can create red eyes and distracting reflections such as glares. People often think that flash is best used in the dark and not when taking a daytime picture, when it is actually the exact opposite. Flash is best used in the daytime to avoid and eliminate unnecessary shadows upon your subject from the sun. Flash is best avoided at night or in the dark so natural lighting or lights within the photo can be better exposed and the definition of the picture isn't ruined, since it eliminates rich colors of the photo which may be what your relying on.

In the following photo the lighting of the city is what is captured and if flash were used to take this picture the lights would not be evident. The buildings wouldn't have such great definition of colors and reflections of the sky and surrounding scenery. However, as displayed the cars at the bottom are blurred because of the lack of flash, but it contricutes to the scene of the picture. The cars being blurry don't ruin the picture but that is the example of what can happen when not utilizing flash and attempting to capture a moving object.

Metering

Light metering basically, helps create lighting in dark spaces, utilizing the natural or surrounding composition of lighting within the environment. As seen in the following pictures one is darker than the other. Because each picture was taken differently but with the same camera tool. The lighter one utilized the skin of my partner Erica and the darker utilized the focus of the computer screen. Spot metering in the future can help me when needing to take a picture and trying to avoid unattractive composition with flash within a photo, I know I can simply utilize the metering method.

Surrealism: "The Other Side"

1) Interpret the dream

Based on this piece, one can see that this individual has been dreaming a series of dreams that have been reflecting her life. The top of the piece signifies pure enlightenment and improvement, in which it is the diamond the finding of one’s, complete self. The tree means new growth and accomplishments; the elevators propose a moving up in status or wealth, the eyes of the photo reflect enlightenment. But in contradiction there is a wall surrounding all these symbolic objects which reflect limits and boundaries. But even more interesting is there are stairs that lead to all this in which they symbolize progression and a higher level of understanding. The whole bottom of the picture reflects the top which represents the true self, so with the whole bottom half progresses to be black and white as it continues down the photo. Black and white within a dream proposes depression and an imbalance. And beneath the stairs are space which indicates “spacing out” and a need to regain focus.

The following individual is very bright and enlightening on the exterior but either feels they aren’t doing their best or they appear to be enlightening and actually aren’t doing their best. They have a lot of chaotic thoughts that distract their focus and they are trying if not completely gaining their way back to the top. It is taking a while and sometimes they feel like they are still lingering at the bottom and still sell their self short, however this person basically needs to stop focusing on being their worst critic and try being their best overall.

Surreal Practice Tutorials

In order to make the following photos appear realistic, we had to distort the ground of the desert so it could appear as if we were looking at it from a angle and actually there in the picture. We also had to give the light post a distinct shadow and cut off some of the bottom so it looked more placed in the ground. We also had to create a special paint brush that made our clouds seem more real and doing so we also had to make sure we changed up the size and type of cloud we used with each time we used the brush. With the eyr we had to make sure we used the proper blending options and opacity that would make the wall appear realistically within the wall. We had to blend the gradient and color in the eye so that color seemed also as if a realistic color. We also dodged and burned the plant so it would cast shadows within itself from the lighting with in the picture, a shadow for the butterfly was also necessary to make sure the butterfly was provided with the proper realistic setting.

Blending the eye color with the eye itself then again with the wall will help me more with making my surreal picture appear real. As far as creating environments as we did in this tutorial will better me with this project as well.