Period 2 - Semester Final

1. My favorite photo from this Lens slideshow is 7, the picture with the acrobat performing at the NightFest light show. Reason why this is my favorite:
1. I like how the balls of colorful light stand out from the black background.
2. The outline of the acrobat juggling against the balls of light makes it very unique.
3. The color and playfulness of the picture is something very appealing to me.
2. I think the best photo from this Lens slideshow is 9, the picture with the red dear seen through the mist. Reasons why I think this is the best:
1. The bushes on the bottom and branches on top seem to frame the image of the red deer.
2. The contrast of colors makes the deer and bird stand out from the surrounding mist.
3. Depth in the picture is seen  through the difference in clarity between the closer and farther objects.
3. I believe that my best work of the year was done in the Masters of Photography project. I think that the best picture in this was the second, which captures an image of snow on a Seattle street in black and white. Reasons why this is my best work/things to improve:
1. Depth in the picture is seen in how you can see far beyond the street, and into the sky.
2. The black and white contrast helps extenuate the trees.
3. The trees form a frame around the cul-de-sac and house.
4. If given more time I would experiment by taking the picture from more unique angles.
5. If given more time I would change the depth of the field.
6. If given more time I would change the contrast of the picture to further bring out the branches of the trees in the distance.
4. My three rules of composition are, rule of thirds, color, and depth.
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Composition Rules Example

This picture portrays the rules of color and depth.

    6.  Mr. Farley's first rule of composition is get close.

    7.  Benefits of working in groups:

               1.  Students get exposure to working on a team.

               2.  Students have to. at times, pick up their own slack, or someone else's.

               3.  Students get to work with people of different personalities.

               4.  Students get exposure to what working on a team is like for our future jobs.

               5.  Teachers have less work to grade when each group turns in one assignment.

    8.   Difficulties of working in groups:

               1.  Students can get overly social.

               2.  Students can easily get off-task.

               3.  Students can get into conflicts.

               4.  Certain students will be unhappy with the project.

               5.  Teachers may have a harder time controlling the class.

    9.  My favorite project produced by another student is the Masters of Photography project by

         Marissa Padilla.

  10.  My photographer was Ansel Adams. Ansel Adams used the zone system in order to work with

         the exposure and contrast of certain photos.

  11.  Dorothea Lange's most famous photo was the Migrant Mother, taken in February or March of

         1936 in Nipomo, California. At the time, Lange was taking pictures for the Resettlement

         Administration.

  12. Life Magazine was first published on November 23, 1936.

  13. Elvis was born on January 8, 1935.

  14. Robert Capa was the co-founder of Magnum Photos in 1947.

album cover recreation

This is a recreation of the album cover of Bruce Springsteen's Darkness on the Edge of Town.

original album cover

Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams (Feb. 20, 1902 - April 22, 1984) was a nature photographer. Majority of his pictures were taking in the western part of the country, and he is most well known for his pictures in Yosemite. What made Adams' pictures stand out was that he used a zone system to work with the exposure and contrast of his final photos. The zone system allowed him to use large cameras and produce high resolution pictures.

I chose this photographer, because I knew that he was most well known for his work at Yosemite. Being a place I have visited many times, I thought it would be interesting to see it from a photographers point of view as well. Often I find that I do not like black and white pictures as much as I do color, but Adams changed that for me. With his work, I saw just how much beauty can be captured with a black and white photo. He has inspired me to hold a different view of colors and depth in photography.

Before

After

I used camera raw to change the saturation of this picture. First, I made it black and white, and then worked with the contrast, the shadows, blacks, and whites. Since this is a picture of snow, I tried to bring out the blacks to make more distinct features.

Before

After

To start off, I cropped this picture so it was focused on the flower. I then rotated it to get an angle where you could see each individual petal of the flower. I then changed the saturation to make the picture black and white. To increase the contrast, I made the white brighter to make the flower stand out, and increased the shadow to outline the petals.

Before

After

The first step in camera raw, was changing the saturation to make it black and white. I then increased the contrast to the max, in order to bring out the difference in the grass and twigs.

Before

After

I first changed the saturation of the picture to make it black and white. I then increased the brightness of the white to make the snow on the ground stand out. I then made the clarity as high as possible in order to bring out each individual branch on the trees.

Before

After

My first step on camera raw, was changing the saturation black and white. I then increased the clarity to outline the tree more accurately.

composition review

Before

After

1. Rule of thirds

2. Color

3. Depth

first portrait

outside gym quad

Used camera raw to bring out different colors

self portrait

"Always be yourself... unless you suck."

shallow depth of field

"To infinity and beyond..."