Project 4: Taking Photos

• Description 
  1. Do: Take photos.
  2. Learn: More about photography, in general.
  3. End product: Best shots (photos)
• Timeline 
1. First  I am gonna, take pictures,
2. Using the photo studio. Learning more about light.
3. And then I am gonna, have a link showing some of my best shots. 
• Resources

1. Lighting Photography
2. People/Portait Photography

What I did: I took photos while the sun was out and the atmosphere outside was nice.


What I learned: More compositional rules. -- I experimented with the ISO because I was intrigued in motion photographs (ex: cars on a freeway). But I used flowers, when I go to Seattle I'll try it on cars and more objects! 

Project 3: Entering another photo contest

Description

1. Do: Find photos from my Hawaii trips and enter in contest for Hawaii Magazine

2. Learn: While photography just for the sake of photography is a lot of fun sometimes a competition can help you raise the bar as a photographer as you know your image will be seen by a group of judges.

Timeline

1. First I am going to look through my '09-'11 trips to Hawaii

2. Then I am going to narrow it down to at least 2 photos in the Outdoors category.

3. And then I am going to print them and send them in!

Don't need any resources, thinking about it, as of now...

In the meantime....I'll be using class time to research how to take photograph people.

What I did
I ended up looking at my photos from my trips, but don't really think many are very good. -- I still have time if I change my mind. I've been researching how to photography people and the poses for senior portraits. I looked more on certain photographers and noticed how they recommend the same poses for each client.

What I learned
Professional photographers use the same poses for each client.
More about lighting with a studio setup and in the sunlight.

Project 2: Finish up Project 1

• Description 
  1. Do: finish up WA contest
  2. Learn: While photography just for the sake of photography is a lot of fun sometimes a competition can help you raise the bar as a photographer as you know your image will be seen by a group of judges. 
  3. End product: Contest 2012 results
• Communications Standard 
  • Standards Page
• Timeline 
  1. First  I am going to print out rest of my photos.
  2. Then I am going to mat them on a reasonable size board.
  3. And then I am going to put the finalizing touches! 
• Resources 
  1. Website
  2. Website

What I did: Halfway through the week I was wrapping up on the WA State Photo Contest and then I realized, "wow. I finished what do I do now. It made me feel good that I entered in a photo contest and would like to do more of that. -- because I have been really wanting to get my work "out."


I found this contest, Alaska & Horizon Airlines Photo Contest 2012.
First I Googled 'WA state photo contests 2012' then came upon this link. I mean who doesn't read in-flight magazines!? 
...But it's too late. -- Next Year! 


Since I'm hooked on airline magazine contests... 
Hawaii Magazine
And it's still open for entries! 

Project 1: Entering WA photo contest

What I did: Choose photos to enter in the contest. Here you can see what I ended up choosing. . . Photo Contest entries

What I learned: Well, more so of what I am aware of now that I understand these concepts like, compositional rules -- angle, exposure (f-stop), contrast (with colors). 

SPRING BREAK.

Yay! So, it's finally Spring Break.

I'm leaving for Los Angeles tonight! -- Flying into LAX arriving early Tuesday morning. Starting the day off with a quick surf seesh (session) in Malibu. -- brr!

I'm excited to be in the warm sun as to Oly is to be rain all week! Y'know I hear the sun changes your attitude "more happy" compared to the rain where it just makes us Washingtonians more depressed..So, definitely ready for some SUN and WARMTH on my arms... possibly a tan? yes!

I just started reading the first book in Lauren Conrad's series L.A. Candy. It's pretty good so far, it's based in the LA area -- I can relate.

Also, just bought The Hunger Games started to read some of that and it's actually "up my alley!" Can't wait to finish so I can watch the movie.

--Tata, for now!

Exploring Photo Composition Rules

I plan to explore some photographic compositional rules. I will find an example of a rule at Flickr.com and try to copy the images on campus with the class digital camera.  I will publish the example images and my imitations on my Flickr.com account.  I will also write a short explanation about each image at flickr.com.  Through my work I will learn more about:

• F-stop
• Shutter speed
• Exposure
• Compositional Rules
• The Rule of Thirds
• Balance
• Framing
• Use lines
• Avoid Mergers
• Simplicity

But mostly, I am going to enter the Washington State Photo contest entering the most that is possible, with six (6) photos and the CHS photo contest with (2) photos MAX. So, I will be working on choosing photos for the contest that I have taken within this school year.


EXAMPLE:

• Research the rules
• Find and save Creative Commons examples of each rule on Flickr.com
• Take pictures
• Download pictures
• Upload my pictures to Flickr.com
• Upload examples I found
• Write explanations

• http://www.photoaxe.com/composition-in-photography/
  • This site explains many rules with numerous examples of each
• http://asp.photo.free.fr/Composition/photoProgramCompMainClass.shtml
  • Kodak’s examples of major rules with lots of examples
• http://www.picturecorrect.com/photographytips/composition.htm
• More examples and very detailed explanations of rules

My Flash Project

Flash Tutorial: Motion Tweening & Frame Animation  <--- this is the tutorial I followed to create my masterpiece! 

• Tween: Short for "inbetween." Shows that the first image combines into the second image. 

• Key Frame: Defines the start and end points on a strip of film. 

• SWF: Is an Adobe Flash file format used for multimedia.
• FLA: Is a multimedia platform used to add animation and video.
• Stage: Is the main working area in Adobe Flash where you create and manipulate your artwork.
• Timeline: Organizes your content into layers & frames. 
• Layers: Layers containing different parts of a picture that you are layering. 
• Object Drawing: Lets you place objects in front or in back of each other.
• Merge Drawing: Is when shapes overlap, merge or cut into each other.
• Symbol: Object (ex: video).
• Instance: Copy of an object.

What I did: I created a motion tween in Adobe Flash, for the first time! First, I choose a picture of myself. Deleted the background. Then, cut out my mouth. Added a black oval shape in place of it. Choose the start and ending points for the movement of my mouth. Added voice and there it was!

Stage (work area)

What I learned: How to use Adobe Flash and all the other tools, which I already had basic knowledge in from Adobe Photoshop. -- It was a long process, but I made it! :D

Timeline and 3 Layers