To photograph the moon:
1. Use a tripod! A flat surface will only allow you to shoot straight, and shooting the moon means that you'll be shooting up and constantly re-adjusting the tripod as the moon moves throughout the night. 2. Use a shutter release cord, remote or the camera's self timer if you don't have one, so that you don't move the camera when pressing the shutter release during a long exposure. 3. Use a zoom lens and zoom in as much as you can to the moon. It's okay if it's not a super fancy lens, this was shot using a 15 year old $100 lens. Focus in on the craters and details on the moon. 4. ISO 1250- 1600, so that you can use as fast a shutter speed as you can without losing detail-the longer the shutter speed, the more chances you have the camera will shake even slightly in the wind, resulting in an out of focus photograph. 5. Aperture priority of f/5.6 since you are not worried about capturing any details other then the moon. 6. Bracket your exposure, meaning over expose and underexpose the photograph from what the camera is telling you. Generally the camera will overexpose the moon, so you'll get nothing but a white blob in the sky. Use the exposure compensation button (the +/- button below the shutter release) and change the exposure to -0.5, then -1.0, then -1.5 and so on, until you start seeing detail in the moon. You may go as far as -5.0 exposure compensation to get what you need. 7. Take a fair amount of photos and keep refocusing as the night progresses. The photographs may look focused on the camera's display, but you won't really see if they're completely in focus until you upload them onto your computer screen.
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Balance This picture is of a puddle near the patch. The sun and sky balance with the ground and dirt. The way the sun illuminates off the ground makes the picture tie together. Proportion This picture is of Cindy near a tree in the softball fields. Her size is compared with the tree which shows proportion. The height of the tree and the large area makes it look very large compared to Cindy. Rhythm Rhythm is seen in this picture in the leaves of the tree. The leaves repeat and look like they are all the same size and placement. It almost looks like the leaves are blowing or moving in the wind. Emphasis This picture is of a water fountain near the blacktop. I chose this picture for emphasis because I think that the water fountain really pops out from the wall. The trash makes it pop out. Harmony This picture is near the cafeteria. I love this picture because it has so many pretty green plants in it. Thats why it is harmony because the green in the picture is continuous throughout and the idea of green nature flows through the whole picture. Variety This picture is of the basketball hoop backboard and some crows eating junk food. I love this photo because it is so random. The randomness of the photo is what makes it the principle of variety. The crows eating the junk food is just a strange idea in a high school setting. Unity This picture of unity is of chopped wood. The colors and the wood in the background tie the picture together. The sharpness in the wood and the chopped sections show bits of variety which make the picture unity and not harmony.
LINE This is a picture of the ramps in one of the buildings at school. Simon is standing at the end of the ramp. The handrails are the element of line. They lead the eye to Simon at the end of the ramp. The simplicity of the photograph allows the line to lead the eye. COLOR This picture was taken underneath a basketball hoop in the gym. I tried to get the light right in the center of the hoop. The color green is very dominant in this photo due to the lighting of the gym. The green light's color ties the photo together and makes it seem almost mystifying. SHAPE This photo was taken as i stood on a bench overlooking the table top part of it. The hole was so perfect and manmade that I thought it would be a good photo for shape. The focus of the picture and the blur of the ground underneath the hole give it a nice touch. The detail around the hole is very captivating. FORM The form of this picture is seen in the width of the entry way, the depth of the trees seen in the background, and the height of the trees closer to the entry way. The space of the entry way allows for the form seen in the photo. The framing helps to show the depth and background of the picture. TEXTURE This picture is also taken at the patch of a wooden beam. The intricacy of the spider web allows the viewer to imagine what it would be like to touch it. EW. The texture shows how soft and silky spider webs are, but also the sharpness of the lines shows to be wary of spiders. SPACE This photo was taken at the patch of some wooden beams. Space is seen at the top of the photo. The sky is wide and clear which contrasts how closed in the wooden beams are. This contrast allows the viewer to appreciate the space at the top of the picture. VALUE This picture is of a tree in one of the courtyards of the buildings. The color green and the intensity throughout the picture is the element of value. The color throughout allows the viewer to see how intense and rich the color green is in this photo.
Elements of Art
Lines in this picture are showing the edges of the buildings, defining how tall they are and defining the many other buildings in the frame. The lines are straight and lead the eye up to the top of the frame. This makes the viewer wonder how tall the buildings are and how far they continue to rise.
Sandy Skoglund includes a pastel pink coloring in her frame. The toilet and tub are lighter than the curtain, but since they are analogous colors they compliment each other. The picture is tied together with the color pink being the dominant focus of the picture; the focus of the picture is the curtain and the legs that are shown coming out behind them. The darker pop of pink helps draw the eye to this part of the photo.
Moholy-Nagy
Kevin Jorgen
Ben Von Wong Elegance
Annie Leibovits Life Study Proportion: is the variance in size and ratio to subjects in the frame. It is the relationship of the different sizing. Diane Arbus Lady Bartender at Home with a Souvenir Dog
Robert Capa. Children playing in the snow.
Steve McCurry Camino Italy
Joel Meyerowitz. Land, Provincetown, 1976 Variety: differences in a picture by contrasting, opposing, changing, or adding diversity to add a special interest or individualism. William Wegman
Mary Ellen Mark
These pictures were taken in the shutter speed priority setting. We tried balancing the light in the picture with the shutter speed. Sometimes the pictures were too dark so we changed the shutter speed to a slower shutter speed. I learned how the shutter speed affects how much light gets into the camera. I also learned how the camera can take multiple photos in shutter speed priority very quickly. I learned how the water can be captured but certain circumstances can change how the picture comes out. Shutter speed could be used to capture nature. It can capture beautiful cenes that may only be present for a short time.
Respect
The photo I submitted to the Red Ribbon week photo challenge is of my partner Simon. The red hand and chains represent the way that drugs can take a hold on someone’s life. The rest of Simon’s arm is not red, because it symbolizes the part of him that can still take control of his life. Drugs are small but have a large influence on the lives of their abusers. In this picture, drugs hold part of our lives, bodies, and minds, but ultimately we have the power to control what we are doing. I know that many people do struggle with drugs but my picture shows that there is always a part of someone that can recover and break out of their addiction. The chain isn’t the only part that is red because drugs can take a hold on you. They aren’t just an effect. They do take a firm grip on your life, but it becomes a part of your life if you are addicted. There is always a away out and there is always a way to become free of drugs. These light painting photos were taken with a slow shutter speed of 8 seconds. I set up our tripod and put the camera into manual mode. fromm here i changed the settings to be Shutter Speed 8 Seconds, Aperture f/5.6, ISO 100. This made it so the camera could capture the light movement. The room was completely dark, and I had to manually focus on my subject. Glowsticks and the app called MyLightPaint were used to create the light painting pictures. Sometimes it was hard to make sure that the whole light painting was in the frame. Light painting showed me that stability is very important when taking pictures with a slower shutter speed. It also showed me that light painting is the same idea as taking pictures of traffic or a busy lit up city. I also learned how the camera takes a picture and takes in light. It would be cool to write my name more clear.
To change the camera to Shutter Speed priority on the top I turned the dial to S. This makes sure that the camera can be set to a specific shutter speed to capture movement or to capture a picture like it is frozen in time. When the shutter speed is very fast like the 1/1000th of a second, the image is very crisp and clean. When the image is taken at a slower Shutter speed, The image has more motion, like in the picture taken with a shutter speed of 1/3 second. You would want to use a faster shutter speed when you are taking photos of sports events, and a slower shutter speed when you want to take pictures of motion and lights.
NOTES Shutter Speed 101
Daguerrotypes The inventor of daguerrotypes is a man named Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre and he released the daguerrotype process in 1839. A silver coated copper plate is buffed to make it look like a mirror. The plate then becomes sensitized to light by using iodine and bromine. The plate is put into a camera obscura box where the image is chemically put onto the plate by light. The image is then brought out by evaporating mercury, which will attach to the image and develop it further. The image is then fixed on the plate using thiosulphate of soda. On August 19th, 1839, the daguerreotype process was shown to the world at a Paris meeting. A daguerrotype is a process of making a photograph from these steps. Cyanotypes
John Herschel invented the process of the cyanotype in 1842. Potassium ferricyanide and ferric ammonium citrate are used to develop the image. The two chemicals are mixed with equal parts. I created two cyanotypes in class. The process was simple. First, we went to station one to pick up a watercolor paper. The watercolor paper had chemicals on it already. After making sure the paper was dry, I set up negatives, letters, and plants on my paper. The next thing i did was take it outside for six minutes. The parts where the sun touched the chemicals became a darker greenish blue color. I took my cyanotype inside and took it to develop it further using water and hydrogen peroxide. The hydrogen peroxide turned the places where the sun developed the chemicals a darker blue. The image was very vivid now. I let it dry and my cyanotype was complete! Skellie was the most lively skeleton to ever have been dead. She had orange hair, and the spirit of adventure ran through her bones. When the poison devil escaped, Skellie was framed for letting the horrible pest out of its prison, Skellie was then led to prison in the worst place possible, Vista CA. Walter, Skellie's BFFL, was so sad when he couldn't hangout with his friend. He began to think of ways that he could get Skellie out of her sentence. Walter missed Skellie too much to let her bones splinter away in her prison cell. Walter remembered that Skellie's boyfriend, Phantom Corpse, was bad to the bone, so he decided to ask him for help. Phantom Corpse agrees to help Walter free Skellie. They decide to find her prison cell and break her out. They leave to find her location. Skellie sees her best friend and boyfriend sneaking around the prison. She calls out to them and they find her cell. Skellie is no skin and all bone so she says that she can fit underneath the prison door if Phantom Corpse and Walter lift the gate a little bit. They lift the gate and Skellie escapes her cell. Skellie, Walter, and Phantom Corpse begin walking home when Skellie sees the poison devil on the path to the way home. Joint lock over took Walter and Skellie as they were petrified looking at the poison devil. The Phantom Corpse, however, was prepared to save the day. With his chains, the Phantom Corpse captures the poison devil. The three paranormal friends made it home safely with their newly tamed pet. Walter, Phantom Corpse, and Skellie flee the U.S. to avoid complications with the law. They cross the border and decide to live in Rosarito, Mexico. The poison devil was never a problem again. It was a happily ever after life.
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