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~photography~
DESCRIPTION:
.light.slow exposure.
INSPIRATION:
Ramona, my brother and I went to Vantage point to watch fireworks and then we started taking photos while drawing with our cellphone lights. By having a slow shutter speed on your camera, you move around a light and the camera captures that movement. Later we drove to my house and continued doing this :)
We had a blast!
~photography~
DESCRIPTION:
.bokeh.hearts.
INSPIRATION:
Bokeh is the art of blurring light & using different cutout shapes to make these kind of images. Today was my first time I tried it out. All I did was get a piece of paper, cut a small heart out of it, and put it on my camera with a hairband. Then went out with my brother on a driving adventure, pulled out my camera and used manual focus to blur + f1.8 and tadaaa. {Ps you need to have a 50mm lens or smaller)
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~photography~
DESCRIPTION:
.water.reflection.
INSPIRATION:
This was alot harder than I thought it would be! The thing I had most trouble with was hiding the paper but getting the reflection of it. The more parallel my camera was with the paper, the more detail on the water but I didn’t want the paper to be in the photo.
Here is how I set it up:
I was browsing websites and found this tutorial:
“Select the eyes with the magnetic lasso and paste them into a new layer. (To select the second eye, just press shift while starting the next selection. You can let go of shift once you have started selecting.) Make sure you have the new layer selected. Go to Filter – Other – High Pass. I stick with the default that comes up (Radius – 20 pixels). After hitting okay, the eyes will look very strange. Now go and change the layer to soft light. The eyes will look really great! (Or, you can watch the video tutorial below to see exactly how to try this method.)” click here to go to the website
Here is the photo I tried it on, I followed those steps but also sharpened the eyes a little.
{if you wait the photo changes from before to after}
Recently a friend of mine got me thinking of the difference between JPEG and RAW photos. I heard about RAW shooting before and heard that most professional photographers shoot in raw but I never tried it because I didn’t have a program to view/edit raw photos in and decited JPEG was good enough for me at the time. As I was reading in a magazine today (during a boring school meeting haha) it listed the benefits of JPEG & RAW. Here they are:
JPEG
~ there’s no time-consuming postshoot processing
~ compact file sizes mean more pictures on your memory card and don’t take up so much hard disk space
~ acceptable output quality if the camera has been properly set up for that particular scene
~ easily read format; files will be accessible on anyone’s computer
RAW
~ maximum control of all aspects of the image, without having to make setting and sizing decisions out in the field
~ an archived RAW file can be revisited over the years as RAW processing software evolves, to get even more out of that basic binary data
~ option to work in 16-bit, opening the possibility of performing extensive post-processing enhancement without degrading the image
~ output is generally better quality when examined
After reading this information I started thinking what I use my camera for and how JPEG or RAW could be a benefit for me. When I do photoshoots I will use RAW from now on and when going on fieldtrips with school, I might shoot in both or jpeg only since I’ll need more memory and I would not be printing these photos.
Hope this information helps :)
p.s. the magazine I was reading where I learned this and much more is ‘Digital Camera’
Its my fav magazine for photography, we ordered it when we were in Romania so it was ALOT cheaper from there.. from here (USA) its $120 for 13 magazines! But it includes ALOT~! (even a photoshop cd tutorial)
http://www.photoradar.com/photography-magazines/digital-camera
As an architecture student there is alot of pressure on us to put together a great portfolio.
At first I have to admit, I was very overwhelmed looking through pages of projects and scrambled through plenty folders to find the files in my computer. The one thing I wish I was told when I first started college is TO SAVE ALL YOUR WORK!!! Including and MOST important is your sketches! I never thought I would need my pencil scribbles and notes in my portfolio and tossed all of them away.
As you transfer from a community college to a university for architecture they want to see your thinking process so they can understand what you know and how you think. They want to see everything from your scribbles & notes to your final product and models.
They also want to see who you are and what other talents you have so do not forget to include those.
Top things to remember – architecture portfolio
1) Keep your drafts/sketches/scribbles
2) Explain your work thoroughly
3) Include other talents
4) Stay organized from the beggining
Top Places you can print your portfolio
1) blurb.com
2) lulu.com
If you have any tips or questions, feel free to leave a comment :)
Here is my portfolio draft:
click here to see it full size
I met Megan in my beach volleyball class one summer and I must say, she’s a funny, lovable person :)
I was excited, honored when she asked me to take her headshots. It must be scary to have someone who never used studio lights before to do her photos haha. THANK YOU for the opportunity Megan :)
I also want to thank Raf G with Mad Light Studio for his help. Mad Light Studio is a light studio that rents out hourly time with their supplies and studio. They have great pricing and help, so check them out!~ If you want your photos taken, I suggest you book a session with Raf G , he’s very fair with prices and he does a great job!
Now for the photos!! I did a 2 hour session, 7 outfit changes, 2 backdrops, and we got 750 usable photos! At first I was a little bit nervous and confused with how the light worked but after about 15 shots I got the perfect exposure, saturation for her and we were off to do our shots.
Here are some of the photos (ps we had so many shots so we branched out of headshots for a little bit):
And when we were done, we had some fun shots :P
<3 you Megan!! You are going to be an amazing actress/comedian :)
*If you want to book a photo session with me, here are the basics
~2 Hours for 160$
~30-40 shots edited
~cd with negatives and ready-to-print edited shots (if headshots, then the edited ones will come with your name on the bottom along with the regular edited)
~as many outfit changes as you want (don’t forget that while you change, the time is still ticking so don’t choose to many outfits)
*If you are interested, email me at creativebalorina@yahoo.com and we can meet up, get some coffee and talk more about it before you decide. :)
The photos will be taken at the studio mentioned above, which is located in Santa Ana, California.
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