Final

1. I have learned how to manipulate the settings together in order to take a good photo. The exposure projects really helped me learn how to do the settings together. This was most important because it helped me know what settings to use in different situations.
2. I wish we had spent more time on light painting. I know we had the six weeks to do but I wish we did stuff in class about it to learn different techniques and how to make different shapes with the light. I really enjoyed this and i thought it was super cool to do and i just wish we learned hot to do different stuff.
3. I would really like to learn how to work with sharpening and noise reduction. They are both very important things to learn how to do. It would really enhance my photos if I knew how to use it better.
4. I really like the amount of projects we do because it opens us up to a bunch of new things and I really like being able to do different stuff. The blogs are long but its good information and I learn alot from reading the stuff off the photography websites you send us to.
5. I really enjoyed light painting because it is something I have never tried before and I think I really created something cool. Playing with different colored lights and the amount of light was really cool and I hope next time I do this I will get different lights to play around with. Im interested in seeing everyone else's light painting and learning how they did it.
6. I think landscape was the most difficult for me because I waited too late to shoot it and I had to do it on a really cloudy day and it didn't come out the way I wanted them to come out. Its my fault that I waited that long but I don't think the pictures came out bad they just weren't what I wanted them to look like.
7. I think I'm most excited about the macro photography. I think it is just really cool to work with stuff up close and you can see all the details. I haven't worked with a macro lens yet so I think it would be really cool to spend time on that. I would like to shoot a lot of different stuff with macro not just flowers.
8. Sports photography is my favor thing to do so far and I know that I'm in yearbook and thats probably why I like it but I would really like to learn how to take better sports photos. I want to focus on action and reaction and I already know the basics so I would like to go deeper into the topic. Learning new techniques and I really want to perfect panning.
9. My goals are to continue to shoot and get better especially with sports. I want to work on getting other sports that are harder to cover and find way to cover them better. I don't really do anything else so I think photography is the only thing I want to do right now. I would love to learn more about photography colleges because I haven't looked into any colleges yet.
10. I don't think we need to go over equipment.
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12. The semester went great and I'm really excited to learn more things. I think it would be a good idea to have the students kinda tell us about how they do their shoots because I look on their blogs and see cool things but I'm curious about how they made the shot. Im really interested in seeing how there create their shots.

event shoot 2- NJHS induction ceremony

free shoot

Pet Portrait

Portrait lighting in a studio setting - the beginning

Fill light- to reduce the contrast in the photo and make it look like what you see with your eyes. to use light to fill in the darker areas. 
Main light-primary light, this creates shape, form and contrast. 

Hair light- it is used to enhance the texture of hair, and it separates the hair from the background, 
Background light- this is used to illuminate the background and helps separate the person from the background. 
Shadowless lighting- when you add enough light to have no shadows on the subject. 
Butterfly- a flattering and artistic way to light the face. The way you angle the lighting to fall on your face. It creates a butterfly like shape under the nose. 
Loop- when that light source is above the object and creates a loop shaped shadow by the nose. 
Split- the light makes one side illuminated and one in the shadows. 
Rembrandt- more dramatic and creates a mood and a darker feel to the image. It has a triangle of light on the cheek. 
Grey Card- flat grey card that is from a flat reflectance spectrum
Hard light versus soft light- hard light is a small direct source of light with harsh highlights and dark shadows. Soft light is a diffused and indirect light source with soft shadows and subtle highlights. 
Strength - shutter speed and aperture's appropriate to portraits-
3:1 lighting ratio- occurs when the light discrepancy between 2 lights is one and a half stops.
Inverse square law of light (remember photography)- an object that is twice the distance from a source of light will receive only a quarter of the light. 

Tips
#1 Position Subject Sideways
#2 Chin Down#3 Shoot from Above#4 Wall Posing#5 Relaxed Hands

Photos

PC © 2014 Stephanie Newbold Seniors

Event shoot- exploring the woods

rule of thirds

ISO- 1600
SS- 80
Fstop- 9.0

viewpoint

ISO- 1600
SS- 320
Fstop- 13.0

movement

ISO- 1600
SS- 8
Fstop- 911.0

depth of field 

ISO- 1600
SS- 250
Fstop- 5.0

my choice

ISO- 200
SS- 640
Fstop- 5.0

ISO- 3200
SS- 80
Fstop- 6.3

ISO- 1600
SS- 125
Fstop- 13.0