Black Portraits

For this assignment, we had to take pictures with a camera using manual mode, so we could learn how to be in control of the camera. For editing our pictures, we used photoshop, but we were only allowed to use a limited amount of editing tools, so we couldn’t rely on editing. The biggest challenge of this assignment was making sure the lighting was good. The room was dark, since we turned off all the lights to be able to get the best pictures we could, we used lights and we had to position them perfectly so the camera could pick up the light, and so there was no glare on the background. The easiest part of this assignment was editing the pictures because we weren’t allowed to do much editing.

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Black Portraits

Black portraits are much harder then white portraits because of the lighting. When taking black portraits we had a light that we used so you could see the person in front of the background. we were not aloud to have shadows so lighting was hard. When editing it was easy to make the picture brighter. What worked for taking black portraits was having the person stand a little in front of the background. The light diagonal to the person.

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Portraits

For this assignment we had to take pictures on a white and black background. The most challenging part about the project is on the black walls we had to get the right amount of lighting so you could see the person. In addition the white was also challenging because we had to make sure there were no shadow’s. The easiest part of this project was editing the photo’s because we got to edit them how we wanted too. Link to my photo’s

White Portraits

While taking these photos, I had to edit the settings. I also had to play around with manual lighting. When the ISO was really low, the photos didn’t turn out. However, when I increased the ISO, the pictures looked a lot better.

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White Background

For this project, we needed to use a white back drop to make it look like there was not a background. We took a a camera and put the ISO on high and we played around with the shutter speed. We put it at a lower number to let less light in. We had to experiment a little with the lighting, but everything turned out okay. What worked was putting the light behind the person so the light was dispersed. What did not work was when the ISO was really low and it did not capture any light.

Here is a picture of me!
Here is a picture I took of my friend!

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Black Portrait

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This project included students taking a picture of other students with a black backdrop. Stuff that worked was using the lamp because it would add light to the face so it wouldn’t just be dark the whole picture. Using the lamp with color instead of the led light would make the picture look weird.

A picture of a person in my group is below

Name is Juan Correa

Black Background Photo project

For this project we had to take a picture of a person against a black background. The goal of this project was to make the background look infinite. the setting of the camera was a low sensitivity. It was difficult to find a good angel make the background look infinite.

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Portraits; White Background

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For the white background pictures we had to set the camera to where it was more sensitive to the light. Since we made it more sensitive to the light it made it look like the white background wasn’t there. We also held a small light pointing behind us so that there were no shadows. Something challenging in this project was if we were to close to the background you would be able to see shadows, and made it a lot harder to get rid of them.

Black background portraits

For this project my group and I took pictures in front of a black background. what worked was getting the best angel to take it from. what didn’t work was finding the best lighting for the picture.

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Portraits

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In this project we had to take portraits of other and ourselves. It was lots of fun to see the end result. Some challenges I had was the camera settings and lighting we had to find a perfect lighting and camera settings so we could get a perfect picture. We had to play with the iso camera settings and shutter speed. Some things that were easily was taking the pictures after we got all the settings. Overall the portraits we took to make it look like we had an infinite background was a fun learning assignment.