Category: Portraits

Album Link: https://photos.app.goo.gl/4TsTOlDKp1ws2vo83

This project challenged us to make a picture with practically no background involved in the picture.  I had to take lights and attach them to seats and put them at a background so that the background was so white it was clear. What didn’t work id that when you had to little light the background wouldn’t turn out white.  Also with the curves you had to make lots of changes to him to make it look like that. It was challenging but fun at the same time.

Here is a picture of me by Carter Taggert

This week in class I had to take pictures, and edit them to create an infinite white background. I edited my pictures on Adobe Photoshop. While taking my pictures, I had to adjust the ISO and shutter speed to take a picture that I was satisfied with. I also had to make sure the camera was on manual settings. A challenge during this project was making sure there were no shadows in the photograph. Everything else about the project was easy to learn, and understand. Here are three of my favorite pictures, that I took and edited…

Click the link below to see more pictures I took and edited…

https://photos.app.goo.gl/zZs7rB3YCzqg9fJ02

This is my favorite picture of myself. I edited the picture on Adobe Photoshop. My friend, Samantha Records, took this picture of me.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/a8KKsgt0z0uGrJRH2

The link above is to see all other photos I took and edited during this project.

This is my favorite photo that I took and edited during our White Background Photos Project. We had to take photos on a white background, make it infinite background, and then edit them. I preferably, made my photos black and white, so it made a dramatic affect of the background and person. It was challenging to make the photos not have a shadow and make the lighting right. We messed with the F-stop, ISO, and shutter speed to make the photo have no background. I learned a lot about the camera and thought this was a very cool project to do.

This is my favorite photo that I took and edited. Some difficulty’s with this part of the project was trying to light up their face and the back round so there was no shadow’s. Also a difficulty was to make the right angle that let the light hit their skin just right. But the people that I took the photographs of made it easy because they knew just the right pose to make to make the picture look good.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/pQzcyf0L89XvYwBm2

For this project the goal was to create a professional grade portrait with a traditional camera.  I isolated the subject of my photo and edited the shutter speed to prevent the picture from being flooded with light. It was difficult to not include a shadow in my picture. However, once taken, removing the light was easy.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/OtbpKvNl41pu3il52

Our goal for this project was to take pictures with an infinite background, using three camera settings. This ensured that the background would be black, yet enough light would be captured by the camera lens to see the person. These manual camera modes we adjusted were ISO, Shutter Speed, and F-Stop. I edited these photos on Adobe Photoshop, applying curves to brighten, darken, or emphasize certain tones within the picture. Using these editing tools worked very well. However, uploading the images to Google Photos was difficult because it wouldn’t work unless it was saved under a JPEG file. In addition, it was challenging to find just the right angle and lighting in order to create this darkened effect.

This is a picture of me taken by Connie.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/cBw2ipumBlCDvnz72

In order to get the pictures to look like the ones I put below I had to mess with the ISO and Shutter Speed. As I was editing the photos I was having a lot of trouble with Shutter Speed because I had no idea how fast it could take a picture. Lastly, I believe that the ISO worked perfectly with my pictures because I knew what I was supposed to do with the picture. Go to:https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipOabstgL37I90BhaUFDI2el_bLX4JKrM-XT2AHw

When taking the photos messing with the shutter speed was very easy and interesting to use because the lighting change was cool. When changing the lamp lighting putting to the side made the photos turn out bright but putting directly strait worked well.

My favorite picture:

 

 

favorite picture someone took of me:

 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/bgrVDZ6E3FbN8p2p2

In order to complete this project we used the camera and played with the shutter speed, ISO, and F-stop to create an effect on the picture.  When we took the picture we stood in front of a black background and used a light to show our pose.  Some things that worked during the project was putting the light near the camera and cropping it out later.  Some things that didn’t work was when the light created a shadow that showed on the wall is messed up the picture.  Here is a link to the album of the pictures I took: https://photos.app.goo.gl/mnXjMUYHCGiDWRBn1 .  Here is a picture I made using the techniques above:Here is a picture of me taken by Jack Parmach:

https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipM0YUG32G_1Ho4icbrjV7BctKZDO53alnlQo9ns

 

In order to produce the magnificent linked photographs above,  I used many camera settings.  These pictures are much darker than your average image.   To create this darkened effect I employed a very fast shutter speed.  In other words, the light being emitted from the background and my subjects has very little time to reach the lens.  This is why the backgrounds are almost completely black and the faces look more like silhouettes.  ISO settings in these images are very low.  The images are not sensitive to light which is made clear by their darkness.  All of these settings were manipulated manually and required a photographer’s expertise.  These images were edited using Adobe Photoshop.

During this project it was easy to edit the photos and add the link of their album into my website.   However it was very difficult to upload these images to Google Photos from Adobe Photoshop.  I became confused with the JPEGs and the folders; as well as, where to locate my work.  Overall this project challenged me and produced professional images I am proud to share.