Assignment #5 - Re-shoot

This is the original one:


This is the re-shoot before photoshopping:


This is the re-shoot picture:


This assignment was a little difficult for me. At the beginning, I can't think of anything pictures that are both my favorite and worth reshooting. Then, I started looking over my first too assignment and find the photo of the piano. It was one of the pictures from the bracketing assignment. Although it has the best exposure, there are still places that either too bright or too dark. I thought that was all because of the light from the door, so I waited till the night. However, when I used my own home light, the difference between light area and dark area were still huge. After my analysis, I thought of two reasons: 1.the piano was made of white and black keys 2.since the surface was too smooth, it could reflect everything in the room and all that did was distracting. So, I brought the camera really close to the piano and eliminated the reflecting part by only leting the keys in my picture. And that turned out pretty good. Then I started working on the distance to the focus and the depth of the field. After some adjustment, I was able to bring the focus to the center part of the photo. And after all those, I finally got my re-shoot picture.

Photoshopping steps:
1.level
2.curve

Assignment #4 - Portraiture

First, I have to say I enjoyed shooting this assignment really much. Last term, portraiture was one of the assignment I disliked most because the people I was going to take pictures on didn't want to cooperate. But this time, everybody was willing to help me out and I was able to set up the light for some of my pictures so that they would look better. Since I was using a digital camera, I could take as many pictures as I want and there is always one that looks pretty good. The most annoying problem I had was sharpness. Since I didn't have a tripod with me this time and people always moved, it was really hard for me to get a sharp image. I didn't have a chance to shoot a silhouette and I will do that in my next assignment.

ASSIGNMENT #3 - High-key / Low-key

This assignment was GREAT!!!From this assignment, I, once again, have learnt a lot about the importance of bracketing. And finally I could tell if the exposure was good or not by seeing the histogram. Yet, I had hard time finding the dark backgrounds and that really slowed me down. For the high key images, I've learnt to control the light myself rather than finding good lights and then use it. Generally speaking, the result turned out pretty well and I hope I will do better next time!

practice-assignment-1

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burning and dodging

This one is the original one:



After burning and dodging:

with feather of without feather

This one is the one with feather



This is the one without feather