Portraits

These are unedited shots. Thanks for a fun shoot guys!

Rembrandt Lighting 

Glamor Lighting

Outdoor 3-point Lighting 

Editing Josh's Take

It was strange editing someone else's photos. I think it made me realize that there are so many different ways of perceiving a photograph. There were things that I would change that could very easily change the feelings of the overall photograph. When you edit your own photos you go into them knowing what you want to correct, and what feelings you want to keep in the image, but when it is someone else's photo you don't have that insight to their intentions. I hope that I was able to maintain Josh's vision while I edited his pictures. 

Joshua Kaneversky

Color correction, lowered temperature, cropped to make tighter on face, changed to black and white to put emphasis on facial structure 

Joshua Kaneversky

changed to black and white, softened focus, lowered color temperature

Joshua Kaneversky 

color correction, brightened slightly, enhanced highlight and shadow

Joshua Kaneversky 

color correction, enhanced highlight and shadow, brightened

Joshua Kaneversky 

Retouched to remove light spot, changed to black and white, sharpened image, increased highlight

Joshua Kaneversky 

color correction, brightened slightly, increased highlight and shadow, sharpened 

 Joshua Kaneversky 

changed to black and white, lowered color temperature, increased highlight and shadow, slight focal editing to draw viewers to Hannah's eyes

Portrait of Me

 Nicole Winona

Kellie Busse 

Shooting Wide

For one of my other classes I have an assignment to get out of my comfort zone and experience things that I am not use to experiencing. One thing I decided to do for this class was not use my car for a week. Growing up my parents always took me to school. When I was older I got a car and drove myself, so I have never really spent much time using public transportation. I thought I would document this experience through my 18mm lens for my shooting wide assignment.

This assignment was actually kind of difficult for me because I constantly found myself wanting to pull in tighter on my shots. I had to get used to walking up very close to my subjects. Despite trying to physical adjust my proximity to get the shots I wanted I still felt like a lot of my shots could have been framed better or made more interesting by using a tighter lens.

 ISO 200 1/200 f/9.0

ISO 200 1/60 f/5.6

 ISO 200 1/60 f/5.0

ISO 200 1/125 f/5.6

 ISO 200 1/125 f/7.1

  ISO 200 1/250 f/10

 ISO 100 1/10  f/18

 ISO 200 1/200 f/8

  ISO 200 1/200 f/7.1

ISO 200 1/60 f/4.0

 ISO 200 1/60 f/4.0

ISO 200 1/200 f/7.1

Shooting Tight on a Nature Walk

I really liked working on this assignment because with a tighter pull on the camera I noticed a lot of rich texture detail, which I found very interesting. I think ultimately as a journalist we have to be really careful with the shots we choose to use because as I went through the assignment I took a lot of images that are misleading to someone who can only see the image through the limits of the frame. I think we can get into a very tricky ethical dilemma by taking away the contextual information of an image through zooming. That being said I think that shooting tight can add so much drama, emotion, and even truth to an image and a story if it is used properly.

Here are some of my favorite shots from my shooting tight take. I was shooting with 55mm lens, I know that is not very tight, but it is the tightest lens I have so I did my best to make it work. 

 Overall shot of path: 1/250 f/8 ISO 200

 Medium shot on bridge: 1/200 f/5.6 ISO 200

Close up of bridge plank: 1/160 f/9 ISO 200

 Plant life portrait: 1/250 f/10 ISO 100

 Interaction between the path and its walkers: 1/250 f/10 ISO 200

1/200 f/10 ISO 200

Sequence of a bug crawling: 1/250 f/11 ISO 200

1/80 f/6.3 ISO 100

Wall at the end: 1/160 f/8 ISO 100

The end of the path: 1/200 f/8 ISO 200

Bracketing

This assignment really helped me gain a better understanding for the effect f-stops have on lighting in a image. It was very interesting to see how much difference can be made by manipulating a few settings. The first set of images I took I had my camera on AV mode, so I was only manipulating the f-stops.

  ISO 800 f/4.0 1/50

  IS0 800 f/5.6 1/15

ISO 800 f/8 1/8

ISO 800 f/11 1/10

ISO 800 f/16 1/5

The next set of images was taken on fully manual mode. I kept the shutter speed as a constant to see how the image would be changed by the changing f-stop without the shutter speed compensating for the difference in light. Obviously some of these images turned out very underexposed. 

 ISO 800 f/4.0 1/80

 ISO 800 f/5.6 1/80

 ISO 800 f/8 1/80

 ISO 800 f/11 1/80

ISO 800 f/16 1/80