JOURNAL | isabellalozano4

Journal 1

My classes seem pretty fun and I enjoy them a lot. Junior has been the only year that it seems like I'm learning in my classes and obtaining good information. I also enjoy all the information that I am learning.

So far my favorite class is probably Stagecraft or Photo II because they kind of allow me to express myself in a way that i can't express in my other classes. I really like those classes because they're fun as well.

Building my website was easy because I already knew what to do from the first year that I had done it. It was also easy because I knew where everything was and and all I had to do was put it in place.

I think the nicest picture i have taken was this one of one my really close friends for my portfolio and I took it when she was in the middle of laughing and she looks really pretty and it was caught in the moment.

I'm really interested in candid photography because I like those in the moment pictures where you can capture a persons true emotion through a picture. I think when you catch a person showing true emotion that's when they look their best.

I might hang out with my friends over labor day or just stay home and relax because this is my first break off. I don't have any specific plans though.

Blur motion is an image that is taken with slowed down shutter speed that focuses on one thing and and makes the rest blurry.

You just need to adjust the shutter speed accordingly and a person moving.

Your subject is going to be a person or really anything that can move and it will be moving quickly to achieve the motion blur.

You adjust the shutter speed to a lower setting in your camera so you can get the picture of your liking.

This is a squirrel that was running and leaping across the grass. It was taken with a low shutter speed as it was jumping.

This is a city and the picture was taken as the cars were moving really quickly which caused the effects of lights.

This is a cat about to get a mouse and the picture was taken as they were both running and the cat is about to capture the mouse.

This is a single car just driving and that's the thing that's focused while everything in the background is blurry.

This is another car that is in focus while all of the other cars and buildings are in motion.

This is a picture of a bus and its the only thing in motion while everything else is in focus.

This picture was taken while the horse was running and the horse is the main thing in focus while the background is in motion.

This duck was skidding across the water and this picture was taken as it was moving. The only slight thing in focus is the bird.

This is a picture of a dog with its head out of the window and the wind blowing in its face. The background is really blurry while the dog is the one mainly in focus.

This is a picture with a bunch of kids on swings and swinging at different times. The only main thing in focus is the swingset.

This picture is someone riding their bike and riding it really fast on the leaves. The leaves and the bike tire are really blurry while the woods aren't as blurry.

This is a picture of a wedding. Most of the picture is really blurry except the actual bride and groom.

This is another car that was driving really fast and someone caught it in motion while the only really focused part is the front of the car.

This is a kid at a playground and he is getting spun around. Most of the background is blurry and only the kid is mainly in focus.

This is someone in a costume riding down the street with his bike. Nothing is really in focus except for the man. Everything else is really blurry.

This is two guys running and they're in focus while everything else is blurry.

This is a chicken that was running and was caught as it was running. The chicken is the only thing that is really in focus.

This is like the other city picture that was taken as the cars were moving while everything else is focused.

This is two dice that were getting rolled and were caught in the motion of that.

This is another man on a motorcycle and he's the only thing that's focused while everything in the back is blurry.

This is a man standing in the subway station and is in focus as the train goes by behind him.

This is someone in a dress dancing and really nothing is too in focus.

This is a teddy bear on something and its getting spun but the teddy bear is still in focus.

This is a horse running and they took the picture as the horse was running.

This is someone on a bike and the background is blurry as he is riding the bike.

Advanced Lighting journal

I think photographers draw with light by lowering the shutter speed and moving a light source around in shapes in order to create a drawing or words.
This technique is called light graffiti. I think it’s called this because you are drawing with light. You are doing the same motions as regular graffiti but with light instead of spray paint.
One person is taking the picture while another person is moving/drawing with the light source.
Color does effect how the viewer views an image because colors can submit certain emotions. Such as how blue can be see as quiet and sad.
Colors do resemble emotions because of the feelings a person feels when they see a certain color. Bright colors can be seen as happy and darker colors can be seen as angry and sad.
I think you add the color by having a colored light available instead of a regular light. You use the colored light as a replacement to the regular light.
I think you can use the exposure triangle with these techniques by adjusting the variables. Like lowering the IOS and shutter.
You can reflect light with another light source such as a flashlight angled on the reflected surface. The light reflects off and onto the subject.
You draw with light by lowering the shutter speed and having another person move some sort of light source into shapes when you take the photo.
The exposure triangle is the components of shutter speed, ISO and aperture. They can be adjusted to get the desired effect of a photograph.
The exposure triangle helped me while shooting by allowing me to take light graffiti photos and determining how much light is getting though.
I do think adding color to the images adds a more dramatic element to it by helping the viewer express and feel more/ certain emotions when looking at the picture.
Color light can be use an interpretation of emotions. Colors can bring up emotions in people.
What I found hard about directing my model to create my vision was the fact of trying to come up with ideas to create.
It wasn’t difficult to work with the strand lights. It was easy to photograph the subject and the lights when someone else illuminated the subject with another light so it wasn’t so dark.
I think you can use CD reflection outside for a photoshoot because the CD just needs another light source to help it reflect off onto the subject.

1st Independent project

1. What did you pick to do your project on? Explain why you chose it. I chose to take pictures of random things and then edit them to look like polaroids.

2. What did you do to get the image? Explain. I just took random pictures.

3. What editing did you have to do to your images? Explain why they needed that kind of editing. I have to edit a polaroid frame around it and change the filter.

4. What did you learn about this kind of photography by shooting it? Explain. I learned more about how to take better pictures.

5. Was there anything you found difficult about creating these images? Explain why. There wasn't anything difficult just the photoshopping.

6. How do you think they came out overall? Could they be better? Why? Explain it. I think i should've spent mote time editing but overall it came out good.

7. What are you thinking about doing for your next independent project? Explain your idea. For my next project I want to take self portraits of photo i pictures that i have of myself.