thanksgiving cellphone assignment

I will take pictures of food.

some pictures of family.

some pictures of friends.

And some nature views.

During thanksgiving break , I would like to take pictures on a variety topics. Nature objects would be one of my topics. After thanksgiving, every plants will be in different looking. I want to capture some fall views before the winter actually arrived. food is another interesting topic. Thanksgiving dinner is a tradition family event. I want to record the unforgettable dinner. Shopping on black friday is the most exciting event among the entire break. Although I am not going to shop a lot, I still want to document some activities I did. The rest of the pictures, I will keep them on random topics. Sometimes the most satisfied pictures are shot on unprepared moments. I am looking forward to that.

Portland photogarphy Studio

Keene Studio
Keene Studio is a family owned business in Portland, Oregon. They have been serving for professional portrait for business, weddings, and families for over 40 years. Keene studion helps  make the most of investment, provide best quality photographs, design, and framing.
Contact Info: 920 SW 13th Ave. Porltand, OR.
Leah@keenestudio.com
http://www.keenestudio.com/

Yuen Lui Studio
Yuen Lui photography studio is an experience studio that provide for wedding, school events, family etc. The studios located in Washington, Oregon and California. They have photographer who are highly trained in lighting and camera techniques to create flattering and up to date image.
Address: 2606 NE Broadway Portland ,Oregon 97232
503-288-9404
http://www.yuenluistudio.com/

Studio 3
Studio 3 is founded in 1974 and becomes the largest indepnedetly-owned commercial photography studio in the Northwest. They offer shooting for advertising, packaging, multimedia, outdoor, asset libraries etc.
Address: 1316 SE 12th Ave, Portland, Oregon.
503.238.1748
http://www.studio3.com/

Lighting

Back light:
Backlight photography consist of doing what almost every digital camera manual will tell you not to do… Placing the light source behind the subject. Using such photography technique will trick the camera light sensor into believing that the light source is strong while in fact the subject being photographed has less light than it’s surrounding.

Fill light :The light that makes the "shadow side" of things visible, called fill light. In photography we define the fill light as one not creating any (as few as possible) visible shadows.

web resource:http://www.dpreview.com/news/0310/03102702foveonx3filllight.asp

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A hair light is usually a small lighting unit placed on a boom so it shines down from above and behind the subject. It is used to lighten the hair (or hat) and shoulders, add detail to the hair, and separate the subject from the background, presenting the illustration.

Resource web: http://www.dofmaster.com/courses/basic/photographycourse-203.html
Key light: the key light is usually placed to one side of the subject's face, between 30 and 60 degrees off center and a bit higher than eye level. The key light is the brightest light in the lighting plan.

Resource web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_photography
color temperature/describe: Color temperature is a characteristic of visible light that has important applications in lighting, photography, video-graphy, publishing, manufacturing, astrophysics, and other fields. The color temperature of a light source is the temperature of an ideal black-body radiator that radiates light of comparable hue to that light source.

http://www.betterphoto.com/article.asp?id=24

Lighting-selfPortrait

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Bresson

1. What kind of photography was Bresson best-known for? What subjects was he interested in?
documentary. He as interested in shooting photography of people while they were in common life. He shot plenty of pictures in this topic. Especially, he portraits objects without interrupting.
2.what did you learn about Photography form watching this documentary? Be specific. Think about how he chose his subjects. what were his technical strengths as a photographer? What made his pictures "special"?
Good pictures show love and story. stories varies with different people. The pictures he enjoyed to take are the ones evoke strong emotion. Those pictures make viewers to ponder the stories behind. I learned that portrait shooting will be improved by leaving free space between object and surrounding. The more emotion the pictures contain, the more viewers will enjoy.
3. Use three words to describe Bresson's photography. Only three. Be unique! Be vivid!
reality. pensive. Emotion.

Video review

We watched the video during class on Friday. It talked about some really neat technique about Photoshop. One of those talked about how to turn the figure into transparent. First, you need to make a new layer out of the original background. You can select the layer levels, correct the level setting. You can select the magic tool the select the figure which you want to alert. You can change the property setting opacity from 100% to 0%. The figure will be invisible.
Another tool we learn is the “sparkle” technique. You need to combine a dark layer and a random texture layer. Then by using guassian blur, you will have an special effect of sparkle. Use level to decay the background color; you will have a sparkle picture. Add this layer to the picture you want to make the effect of, you can transform the sparkle layer any time.

Depth of the Field

By computer editing.

Camera picture

Five favorite places at school

Front office

the gym

cafeteria

student parking lot

softball field

Those places above are familiar with most of the PAA students. We spend majority time at this places when we are not in class. Seeing these pictures, I have a lot of memory coming up to me. I remembered I was getting my schedule at school and running to my classes. Even though I do not have PE class any longer, the PE class was impressive. After all morning classes, I always cannot wait until the lunch time comes. Time goes fast when we are simply eating and chatting with friends. There is a place you have to go twice everyday if you drive. Of course it it the student parking lot. Somehow, the softball field is spectacular. The green grass and sunshine energize students. Those are the places I enjoy at school. Sure there are more area fascinate me,  but I am pretty satisfied about my top five choices so far. 

outside five pictures

The picture has contrary color. The object is in the middle of the picture to attract views' attention. The imagine correction makes the picture better. The picture has more color layers. It used to be just simple yellow of the flower. After the correction, the orange can be seen on the flower.

The rose color is faded. It makes the rose's color layered. The leaves on the background make the rose more attractive for the viewers.

The best part of this picture is the leaves. Although the middle object is not large enough for viewers. But it still attract attentions.

The rose bud is the contrast with the leaves background.

I like the soft color of the rose. It doesn't like the red rose that has a bright color. The background is vague that accentuates the rose's color.

profile picture

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self portrait

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woman portrait

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hands

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Learn about the process of basic imagine correction

The knowledge we learned this week is basically about Photoshop imagine correction. Using the shoes project, we learned several ways can make our picture better.

The first one is to set up the photo size for the shoes. We want the shoes, which is our main object to be placed in the center. Thus, we use the “crop” tool to adjust the photo. To adjust the tonality of the shoes picture, we used the “levels” tool. “level” is a tool to adjust the overall tonality. The second tool we have learned is “Brightness & Contrast” tool. This tool can adjust the brightness in more detail. Through this tool, the picture can be really vivid without being strange. “Hue/Saturation” is another tool for adjust the overall color. The more saturation the picture has, the color would be more accentuated. About the “Channel Mixer”, I personally like it because it can help use to adjust the magnitude of red, blue and green individually. If I can choose my favorite tool this week, “Healing Brush” will rank the first. I really like it can fix the little detail of our photo. Contrast with the other tools, this can be used to fix little part of our picture.

The layer adjustment is the other thing we learned about Photoshop this week. Putting our each correction of picture into separate layers is necessary. In this way, we do not need to worry to start over again if we made any tiny mistakes. That saves a lot of work. When we find out we do not need the correction any longer, we can just drag the layer to the trash icon. If we need to do something further base on the previous correction, we can just duplicate the layer and add more. We acquaintance how to view our correction is a proper way by putting them in certain order. The “Eye Icon” will be able to help use to determine which correction is needed.

All the tools and adjustment about Photoshop are useful. There are certainly more function of them which I do not mention of. I wish I could remember them in a better way.   

Shoes

The DSLR

  The DSLR simply means digital single lens reflection. A DSLR camera is made of the body and lens. The main body is the machine that captures the imagine. The lens is the machine we use to alert the imagine we want. Different lens can make the imagine diverse. The wide angle lens can accentuate the imagine angle. Using a zoom lens will make the photographer be able to zoom in the imagine before exposure. There are several buttons on the shooting model dial, M, A, Tv and P. "PASM" dial, they typically provide as minimum Program, Aperture-priority, Shutter-priority, and full Manual modes.  
The exposure generally refers a single shutter cycle. Usually the exposure will be automatic exposure is the total amount of light allowed to fall on the photographic medium (photographic film or imagine sensor) during the process of taking a photograph. There is a physics equation of exposure, H=Et. H stands luminous exposure. E stands image-plane illuminance. The t stands the time of exposure. 


resource web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_(photography)