Friday, November 22, 2019

Reflection (Motion)

1. The best shot I got was the first shot, which was slow shutter. I loved how I changed the color and I really like how it's shaped like a fan.
2. My weakest shot was honestly both of my fast shutter pieces. They're like copies of each other and there's not much uniqueness with them, so I don't like them at all.
3. My weakest shots can be improved if I added more unique content to it so that they can be more different from each other.
4. I used Photoshop to edit. I used levels, hue & saturation, and color balance.
5. I was able to meet the objectives by taking shots that resemble stop motion and shots that look more blurry and add more to the shots.
6. What was easy was editing my slow shutter shots because the more vibrant I made them, the more the blurry lights pop out to me. 
7. What was hard was getting the shots for slow shutter. I don't really understand how to handle professional cameras, so I tried searching for a good enough app on my phone, which was its own challenge.
8. If I could do this assignment again, I would find more things to take pictures of outside of school to have more variety to my project.
9. I would rate this project a 4 mainly because there isn't enough variety and it was 100% a struggle for me to get shots of both slow and fast shutter outside of school without help.

Motion Project


Slow Shutter




Fast Shutter

 








Monday, November 4, 2019

Reflection (Depth of Field)

1. The best shot is my first shot. The way that it focuses only on the part of the sink makes it stand out, unlike the stuff in the background.
2. My weakest shot is my last one. I didn't understand high depth that much, so I kind of rushed my last to get my project in.
3. My weakest shot can be improved by taking more time on it and putting a little more focus on the chair and shelf in the background.
4. I used Photoshop to edit my photos. The tools I used were Levels, Hue & Saturation, and Color Balance.
5. I was able to meet the objective by taking two shots that focused on an object in the front while blurring out the background objects and the complete opposite with the last two shots.
6. What was easy was doing low depth because it was clear on what I had to do, since I only had to focus on one object.
7. What was difficult was getting a clear understanding on the differences of low depth and high depth. I kind of didn't know what I was doing with high depth, so I always and to look up references to get a clear idea.
8. If I could do this assignment again, I would try to ask the teacher more questions instead of thinking I knew what I was doing (which is clearly not true without help).
9. I would rate my performance a 7 because my low depth, in my opinion, is pretty decent. The only thing dragging down the number is my high depth, which I feel like is the worst part of my performance.

Depth of Field

Low Depth


High Depth




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