Set in the Street

For this assignment, we had to brainstorm ideas of emotions we could express in pictures using the kitchen table set, set up in our school. The kitchen table set was made out of a yellow background, a hanging light, and a table with table cloth and chairs. The photographers used for this assignment are Justin Bettman and Carrie Mae Weems. Justin Bettman is a fashion editorial and Carrie Mae Weems is an artists who uses texts, fabrics, audio, and digital images in her work. To edit my work, I used Photoshop. In Photoshop, I used the elliptical marquee tool to make an oval on my picture. Then, I went to select, modify to find the feather tool, to make the marquee inside the picture. After that, I went to select, inverse, so the marquee can be at the top of the photo. Then, I messed with the curves of the photo so that the top of the photo can look darker. If I had to choose a place to tell my families story it would probably be on an airplane. When we go on vacations or trips we are always together. On airplane rides, each of us does a different thing in our family that convey our personalities. To see the rest of my photos click here, here.

Catch the Action

For this project, we had to take photos of people/objects in motion. When taking my pictures, I made sure the live settings was on my camera. This helped me capture my photo because I could edit my photos to exact movement I wanted to use. I also took a lot of pictures in order to capture the movement of certain people/objects. My suggestions for taking action photos are to take them from different angles so you can get different effects, and to take numerous pictures of each person’s or objects movement in order to catch the right shot. If I could photograph a certain sport, it would probably be either tennis or ping pong. I really want to capture the balls movement as it hits the racket or paddle. Click her to see the rest of my photos, here.