Alphabet Photography

DAY 5

Sir Rey discussed our prelim exam, which is the Letter photography and also an online exam.

After this, he let us out of the room to practice our creativity in finding letters from the alphabet. In this exercise, I really need to think outside the box!

It is indeed fun, and exciting at the same time. Because as much as possible I want to capture alphabet that is extremely unique. 

And this is the finished product:

    This is a collaborative effort of me and my mom. I take the photo while she holds the subject. It was a really nice bonding for both of us. Our favorite is the letter 'O', wanna know why? HAHA! it is the tail of our baby coco (our dog), isn't cute? :) I had a hard time layouting my photos, because the alphabet is consisting of 26 letter. And the layout format I used only have 25 insertion of photos. Look at what at did with letters 'X' and 'Y', hahaha! may it resembles that I hate math, (x and y) that's why they look the ugliest in my alphabet photography. HAHA! Well, I hope Sir Rey would give me good grades with this, *cross-fingers*

Lighting Patterns

DAY 4

Who new that there are different kinds of lighting in photography? My whole life I thought that as long as the model looks pretty, and looks very fair the lighting is good to go. haha! well, my photography class really helped me understand these things, now let me also share it with you.

DIFFERENT LIGHTING PATTERNS FOR PORTRAIT:

1) Split Lighting 

The subject has a strong light on one side that creates a shadow on the other side.
This type of lighting is used to make the subject look  little bit thinner. And this shows more drama.

2) Butterfly Lighting

This is also called Paramount, because "Paramount Pictures" always use this kind of lighting. And also often called as Glamour, because it is also common for beauty shots, and this lighting pattern is believe to give more beauty to the subject. The shadow creates a butterfly effect below the nose.

3) Rembrandt Lighting

The name is derived form Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, one of the greatest painter of all time. Because he is the first one to use this kind of lighting, wherein a triangular shape will appear in either side of your cheeks.

4) Loop Lighting

It is almost the same with Rembrandt the only difference is that the triangular shape's lines don't meet in the nose and cheeks. 

For my deliverable next week, I have this photo of my sister. tadaaaa!

She's my awesomely beautiful sister! c:  shot this at 11 in the evening, no light is coming from the room. I only use two BlackBerry cellphones here, one is in front of her, and the other is in her back to create rays, and also the bokeh effect. She's facing side-ward to maker her look thinner.

Light Painting

DAY 3

We explained our piece of work in front of the class (The photo I showed you last week; the flower_ It felt GREAT because Sir Rey actually commended my work, he said that the photo is sharp, it's in the rule-of-thirds, he also said "Very Good" the only comment is that my photo is over-exposed. It's okay, because I know my photos still have a lot of rooms for improvement, at least I'll take all the comments positively and I'll strive to have better photographs. 

I need not explain the exposure triangle because I believed that I've already discussed it during DAY 1 

I think I am getting better at this... somehow... I hope... hehe :c Just like the usual, Sir Rey told us to go out and practice all our learning in photography. And here goes my best shot of the day:

f/4.5     1/1000sec.     ISO 100

• Aperture is 4.5 - so that it would have a blurred background and in this case also the foreground.

• Shutter Speed is 1000 sec - well, it is not a moving subject. but I made the shutter speed fast because the setting is too bright.

• ISO is 100 - To balance the light of the area. 

Q: Why do I have to keep the shutter speed fast instead of just adjusting the ISO?

A: Simple. Because I want to maintain the sharpness of my photo.

LIGHT PAINTING

- The drawing of light

- It requires very slow shutter speed

I did this on DAY 1 of our photography class. As you can see, I did the light painting, I had my model (a classmate) the star the she drew is visible. But still, some parts of the photo, and also the subject (my classmate) is blurred and I did not like that. :c

f/4    5sec.   ISO-400    NO FLASH

Earlier, Sir Rey showed us some of the techniques on how to do light painting. And as for our assignment we need to produce a light painting of our own, and here's mine:

f/20     10sec.     ISO-800      WITH FLASH

Look! now I can even capture myself while doing the light painting. I just put my camera on a table to keep it steady, and timed it for 2 sec. and then presto! With just a little bit or artistry and agility to draw you too can be a painter of your own style! :) 

1 of 10,000th Photo Completed

DAY 2

I am glad I survived the 2nd day of my photography class. Well, somehow I can understand all the technical topics and terms my professor is teaching us. :)

Proper things to do when shooting with a camera:
(I never knew that there are rules like this)

• Always wear your camera strap (or wrap it around your arm) to ensure safety, free from falling.

• Instead of bending down to shoot at a right angle what you can do is to crouch, to prevent back pain after long period of time. 

• Do not stand straight. Always keep your legs and feet apart to maintain balance, and be free from stumbling on the ground.

•  Hold you breath when taking a shot, to keep the camera steady and refrain from having blurred photos. 

• Your camera doesn't do all the work. YOU HAVE TO TELL YOUR CAMERA WHAT TO DO! 

      Sir Rey told us that great photographers are great not because of their high-end cameras, but because of their skills to use such complicated cameras. He told us not to believe people saying that, you have produced good photos because you have a good camera, NO! It is not true! Good photos always depend on the photographer himself, the camera is just the secondary. 

         For the first time, we applied what he thought us on Day 1, the exposure triangle. We roamed the campus to look of a great subject. And so I found mine, a very cute flower. Well yes, I had a hard time shooting it because most of the flowers beside it are already withered. So what I did, I tried to find a good angle of the shot, where I can cover all those unpleasant flowers beside it. And presto! I had my 1 of 10,000th Photo. (still based on Henri-Cartier Bresson) And say what?! It is on the rule-of-thirds. :D 

    

       Yes, this is my photo, I edited it at Photoshop. #NoFilters I did not edit the color or anything, I just added my name on it and the settings I used for the photo. 

So here it is,  1 of my 10,000th Photo