Composition Challenge

Last day we had a composition challenge. We had to take pictures using the 5 rules of composition. We could only take them inside the high school because outside was freezing. This is a good way to learn the 5 rules. These are my 5 pictures:

1. Leading lines

2. Rule of 3rds

3. Patterns

4. Frames

5. Fill the frame

BIG PROJECT - Working on Ansel Adams

In the second quarter we have to work on our Big Project. The Big Project consists in taking pictures as a famous photographer that we have chosen and knowing everything about his life, which style he used to take pictures, his photography career and some of his biography.
We have approximately 1 month to work on this, and we have already started.

Each week we have to write about our process in this project, and post 3 images that we have taken as our photographer.

I chose Ansel Adams. I think that he is just an amazing photographer and all his images are great. Ansel Adams took pictures both in black and white and in color. I chose in color because I especially like taking pictures of landscapes with their natural color.
These are my first 3 photographs as Ansel Adams' style.

Natural Light Portraiture - Post-assignment

We are done with the Natural Light assignment of this week. I tried to use the natural light of the day but I couldn't get really good pictures so I used more the light of the lamps. 

Still, I liked this assignment because I think that people can express a lot in a simple picture.

The most difficult part of this assignment was trying to get the best light. Sometimes I couldn't get enough light and it was kind of dark and sometimes I got that much light that the pictures were too bright. But I tried to manage my camera the best way I could and these are the pictures that I got.

These are my 3 best pictures. My favorite one is the one of my dog. I really like it because it is so natural and it looks like he is thinking in his own things. I like it also because the light is reflected on his body and his skin seems shiny and perfect.

Natural Light Portraiture - Pre-assignment

Our assignment for this week is Natural Light Portraiture. This is  a new challenge for us because this is our first assignment of taking pictures of people and it is new and inexperienced. But this is good too because we have the opportunity to learn how to do portraits of people.

For this assignment we should use the natural light of the day or another source of light, like a lamp. The person that we want to take a picture of should stand next to a window to get better the light on his body, face of whatever we want to photograph of.

Especially for natural light portraiture we have to know how to manage the ISO, up or down to get the the correct amount of light in our picture.

This is a new and fun assignment, so let's do it the best way we can.

Near and far - post-assignment

We are done with this assignment. This wasn't one of my favorite assignment because I didn't know which landscapes take pictures at and we just had a few days to do it. It was kind of stressful. However, I tried to do my best taking those pictures and editing them.

It was also kind of difficult because i wasn't sure if I was shooting correctly and if the back if the photo was blurry or not.

But anyway, these are the three pictures that I chose for this assignment. My favorite one is the first one, the one with the ocean and the rocks. I like it better in color though.

Near and far - pre-assignment

For this week, our assignment is called "near and far". We have to try to take pictures as Ansel Adams; landscapes or something like that. 

As this famous and amazing artist, we have to try to get everything focused on the picture. For that, we will use the aperture priority in our camera. The aperture has to be in the second higher number, thus, the aperture hole will be the smallest and we will get everything focused. 

To get everything focused, we will always focus in the object that is located on the middle of our landscape. Otherwise, if we focus on the object that we have closer, the farther one will be blurry. On the contrary, focusing the infinite or the horizon, the closer object will not be focused and clear.

Landscape images are my favorite, I like taking photos of landscapes, so I think that I will enjoy doing this assignment.

 

Rules of Composition

1. Rule of 3rds
2. Leading lines
3. Patterns
4. Frames
5. Fill the frame