Macro photo

White Balance

These are three different pictures showing the different color balances. The first is the original, which was too dark. If you move the temp. slider to the right on photoshop, it corrects the higher color temperature of light. For the second one, There was a lower color temperature of light, so the slider can be moved to the left to correct it. The last photo is the finished product, after both changes were made and it was corrected.

• Describe everything you can about white balance and color temperature
• White balance is when you remove unrealistic color casts on photographs, so that people or things who appear white in real life appear the same color in the photo. The color casts are usually some shade of blue, orange, or green. Color temperature is the color spectrum radiated from a "blackbody." "red hot" is one temperature, while "white hot" is a higher one. When you balance the red, blue, and green channels, the whites and grays of the photo look neutral.
  

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• To correct white balance, you can set your camera to auto white balance before a picture is taken, or work with it later in photoshop. Thsi works ok wiuth flash indoors and outdoors. You can also use Shade white balance, Tungsten, Cloudy, Daylight, and Flash.
• In photoshop, you can use the coor balance tool to correct global color casts. you can adjust specific ranges like shadows, midtones, and highlights. You can also use levels to correct white balance, and address specific color values to different channels. You can also adjust colors of the picture by using the hue/saturation for color control, and decided what hue and how saturated you would like your photo to be.
  

Stopped Action Photo

Rubin shakes his head violently while listening to some of his favorite death metal bands while in school.

Blog Entry

Stopped action photography is when a picture is taken of something in motion, an action shot. You can take one of these pictures when a subject is moving after changing your camera to use the sports or fast shutter speed mode.

Tip:Make sure there is enough light, otherwise if the shutter speed is too fast or the hole is too small, there won't be enough light to get through for a clear picture.



Blurred action photography is when an action-photo is taken and the subject that is moving is blurred when taken with a somewhat slow shutter speed. This isn't usually desired and can be

Tip: If you set up another light concentrating exactly on the point of the picture you're about to take, it looks even better. You also might have to practice to get the right speed and to coincide the action with the pushing of the camera button.






Panned action photo is when you take a picture of a moving subject, and it is focused rather than blurred. To do this, you move your camera with the subject to get the shot of it clearly.

Tip: try to go the same speed as the subject you're taking , or be a little in front of it.

(pictures will be coming from our group.)

Photoshop depth technique

I changed this picture in photoshop. First i selected the front 9 ball, then pressed select inverse so the everything but the ball was selected. I then went on to use the gaussian blur, at 19 pixels. It blurred everything but the front ball.

Barack and I

My new husband and I in front of our lovely abode.

Remove someone from the picture

Picture with a blurred background

A LC student patiently awaits help from a teacher on a windy winter's eve.

Aperture- Araina and ashley

This photo is focusing on all of the objects.



This photo has the focus on the last object.
This photo has the focus on the first object.

Brain Dump

Exposure, metering, aperture, and shutter.

I am going to write three hundred words about exposure, metering, aperture, and shutter. While making the pinhole camera we learned about these, especially exposure. If we left the pinhole camera exposed to light for too long, the picture wouldnt be clear enough, but too light. If we didnt leave it exposed for long enough, then you couldn't tell what the picture was that was being taken. Also, if there was too much or not enough light it had the same effects.
Shutter speed can be changed to make the picture lighter and darker, and to make it a brighter picture the shutter is slower because then it's longer. There are a few different types of metering, like spot metering, center weighted metering and multi-zone metering. Spot metering lights up the subject that you center your camera on, making it clearer. Multi-zone metering takes different lightings from different points of the picture and puts them all together to use a certain lighting for the picture as a whole. center weighted metering is when the camera reads the light in the center of the picture and determines the aperture and shutter speed to get the best exposure for the entire photo. The aperture is a bigger number when it's a smaller hole for shutters because the size of your lense is divided by the diameter of the whole. The bigger the hole the more light is allowed into contact with the ccd, and the smaller the hole the less light the ccd gets. Exposure, timing, lighting, aperture, and shutter are all different ways one can use to make a clearer or not so clear picture. They all work together and can be changed with settings on most cameras, or can be automatically decided by your camera.

Julie's new hair

Black and White Photoshop

I cropped this picture, and then used the desaturate button to make it black and white.

Four Exposure Pictures

Multi-point, camera centered on subject
There wasn't enough light in the middle to show Julie's face, because the camera used the light in the background.

• Center weight, camera centered on subject
• There was enough light to light up Julie's face, but the picture was still overexposed from all of the light blurring around her head from the window.
  

Spot, camera centered on subject
This one is a little better than the last, and you can see Julie clearly, but the background is still pretty bright.



Spot, camera centered to side of subject (on bright sky)
Since the camera was centered on the side of Julie, it made the window the subject and made julie dark again, even though it's the same setting.

• Post all to your blog and explain
• What mode you were on
• Why the exposure came out how it did.

homecoming week

Homecoming Week at LaConner High is a real sight. Starting off the week on Monday, was "Nerd Day." Althought most students came dressed as nerds with plenty of school spirit, Julie chose not to participate. Tuesday brought it many great costumes, such as dinosaur outfits and 80's apparel for "Era Day." The week continued to be a success, and on Friday night the long-awaited homecoming football game against Orcas took place. There were many excited fans who attended the game, including friends Keefer and Jared, and Kasey and Cecily. The next night, excited from the big win for the Braves the night before, LaConner students attended the Homecoming Dance at Maple Hall. The night entailed dressing up with friends, taking pictures for families, going out to nice dinners, and dancing the night away. Homecoming Week was a success!

Exposure and Controlling Exposure

Exposure and Controlling Exposure

• Some exposure related terms to help with the search
• CCD Sensor/Exposure
• A CCD sensor is a charge-coupled device sensor. It proved to be more than a computer memory chip, so it was developed for other uses like signal processing. It is more sensitive to light and is more advanced for imaging sensors.
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• Overexposed
• This means there is too much light.
  
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• Underexposed
• This is when there is not enough light and you can't clearly see what is going on in the picture.
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• Shutter
• A shutter allows light to pass through the camera for a certain period of time. This is used for a light sensitive sensor which captures the permanent picture or scene.
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• Aperture
• Aperture is a hole or an opening through which light is admitted. It determines the cone angle of rays coming through to the image plane. These rays can also pass through a lens, resulting in higher sharpness and focus. It is an opening where light can come through, and is adjustable inside of your camera lens. It can be adjusted to let in only the amount of light you want to let in in.
  

• Lighting (in terms of photography)
• Photographs are recorded light. We can control the light in photographs by chosing the light the picture is taken in, or by turning lights on or off, chosing the shade or direct sunlight, etc. A camera's light meter takes into account the different settings of the camera and tells what sort of exposure the combo plus the light will create on the film/sensor.
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• F-stop
• On a camera, there are things called f-numbers. These can be adjusted in steps called f-stops. Each stop has a corresponding f-number and decreases by half of the light intensity from the last stop.
  

• Bracketing (in terms of photography)
• Bracketing is the technique of taking more than one pictue of the same subject, using different camera settings for each. It is useful when trying to find the best shot. Many cameras also have autobracketing.
  
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• ISO (in terms of photography)
• The measure of how sensitive film is to light. Cameras which dont use film still have the same system that rates the sensitivity, and some cameras will adjust depending on lighting conditions
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• Metering:
• Metering is when the camera takes a light level reading from the environment of the picture, and selects the best combo of aperture and shutter speed. These can also be changed manually according to what the photographer wants, and there are multiple types of metering which can be set, such as overall metering, spot metering, and center weighted metering.
  

Spot metering- when the photographer is wants to get exactly what they are looking for this is used. IT is ideal is the subject has a long tonal rand and if the background is brighter than the foreground, or if something is too bright or too dark.

Center-weighted Metering- This is when the metering is weighted at the center of the picture and then averages for the rest of the picture.

Multi-Zone Metering- this is also called matrix, evaluative, honeycomb, segment metering, or esp. This is usually the default metering choice on most cameras. The camera will measure the light intensity on several points and combine the results to find the best setting for the picture.

• References:

http://hubpages.com/hub/ccd-sensors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf_shutter
http://www.lowel.com/edu/glossary/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-number
http://www.answers.com/topic/bracketing
http://www.ephotozine.com/article/Beginners-Guide-to-Photography---Metering
http://www.all-things-photography.com/centre-weighted-metering.html

Slideshow

Tyler D

Interview of Tyler D.
• How would you describe yourself in three words?
I would describe myself as a nature lover. I am short and funny.
• What do you want to be when you "grow up"?
I would like to be an astronaut or an activist.
• What's your favorite magazine?
My favorite magazine is Transworld, and Green Peace.
• If the magazine were to publish a cover story on you, what would the first sentence of the lead be?
Tyler D, an Italian activist, loves to hug trees in his spare time.
• What would the cover photo look like? What feeling would it convey?
I would be standing in front of a beautiful green plant, and there would be an aura of serenity and calmness.
• If the photographer said you could choose any prop or background (with no budget limitations), what would you choose?
A field of herbs and spices.




Tyler D., a sophomore at La Conner High, poses throughout his school during an intense day of learning.



Important Points

The most important skill of portrait photography is capturing the true personality of the subject, and make them more comfortable and real in front of the lense. Close ups are photos that are framed around the face, and are most commonly capturing an expression, or a glamour shot. Upper body and midrange photos are used for one or multiple subjects. They can be used to mark an special occasion very well. Environmental photos show the subject in their normal habitat, like a student in a school. To capture the essence of your subject you can interview them if you don't know them.

digital pinhole camera

A digital pinhole camera seems really difficult. It would probably have a battery and a shutter thing powered by the battery to keep the light out, and a timer for when to open it for the paper to be exposed to the light. It would probably be in something metal rather than a box, too.

It would probably be really hard to make a digital pinhole camera because everything has to be so precise and the photo paper is ruined really easy. It would probably be easier to make just a normal digital camera, because maybe dust or something could get into the hole, whereas with a regular digital photo there is a lens. And maybe there could be a box that automatically closed around the paper after used to keep it from getting light when it was removed.

portrait

This is an upper body shot. It shows the upper body and face of the subject.

This is an example of three quarter-length stance. The subject is standing, and you can see three quarters of their body.

This is an environmental shot. Environmental shots show the main subject doing something they really do in real life, like a picture of a pianist playing the piano.

This is an example of a head and shoulder shot. You can see both the face and shoulders of the subject very clearly, and nothing else.

A portrait is a usually flattering picture of a person or a group of people posing. A good portrait can showtheir personality, or their character, and is a collaboration between the photographer and the subject.

There are different types of portrait photos, such as the head and shoulder shot, the three quarter length stance, upper body shots, and environmental shots.

buns

• Although Henrietta and Jaques had only known each other for a few hours, there on the very top of the eiffel tower a wonderful bond began to form between the two of them.

football

Football player Matt B. runs with the football after stealthily snatching it up from the opposing team at last Friday's game.