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Isaiah Magallanes Photo II Period 4
Hand Colored Black and Whites:
Cyanotype:
Sepia:
Image Overlay:
Backlit Image:
Collage​:
Cracked Face:
Questions:
1. The hardest altered portrait that was the hardest to create for me was the cracked face one. It was the hardest to create for me because of all the steps I had to follow. I had to follow everything the guy did in the video step by step which was probably why it was so hard for me. There was also a lot of layers I had to make which had confused me a lot.
2. The easiest altered portrait was the hand colored black & white one. This one was the easiest probably because of how little steps I needed to take. This one is very simple but I like it because the picture can be anything in black & white and I can add any type of color I would want to it.
3. I think what "Altered Portraits" mean to viewers is that the images are altered in design to them. For example it can mean like someone just thinks of it like an edit. To a photographer "Altered Portraits" probably means to do a lot of steps and processes. For them to do these things they would have to take hours out of their time to put in so much work into the portrait or image.
4. Out of the 7 Altered Portraits the one I will likely create again would probably be the overlay images. I would choose this one because I like the style of it. I also think it looks cool and I think the step process is easy to do.
5. The historical significants for Sepia Altered Portraits is that it's able to make it look like its from the past. This is significant if you would want those old timey kind of photos and you can use it for other things for different creative purposes.
6. It's important to learn how to alter portraits because without doing your pictures would just be bland or boring. It's all about creativity when it comes to taking pictures or for photography in general.
7. Not all portraits should be altered in my opinion. I say this because some photos look good just plain and without editing to make the image look more natural than anything else.
8. By altering a portrait, it allows you to show your creative side. By doing so you can put your imagination into your photo in order to make it "your" photo. But then again it really depends on how you alter your photo because with some photo's your gonna wanna keep things kinda realistic.
Blur Motion Before Questions:
1. Blur motion is a photo taken while the model is moving or when the photographer is moving.
2. All you need is someone to be moving in a photo. Meaning that you need someone to be moving in order for this to work.
3. My subject will be a person. They will be doing different types of movements. For example I'd be having them run, moving slowly, walking, etc.
4. You'd have to adjust your shutter speed to make it more longer.
5. You are seeing different examples of blur motion shots. each one is moving in different types of ways. It's either the subject is moving or lights in the image are moving.
Blur Motion:
Blur Motion After Questions:
1. Blur motion is when you move and the camera catches the motion. It also makes the subject very blurry.
2. I created the blur motion with the camera by slowing down the shutter speed.
3. I just changed the difference in brightness in photoshop.
4. What was difficult was that sometimes when the subject would move to fast there would barely a figure in the image.
5. What was easy is the movement for the pictures. It was easy because you have to move slow or fast according to the person who's taking the photo.
Forced Perspective:
Forced Perspective After Questions:
1. My images are of forced perspective. Forced Perspective is a way of tricking the camera.
2. These images use forced perspective because each of them have to deal with a great deal of distance and measurements.
3. I created these images by having to measure based on my eye-sight. I had to determine whether my model had to be at a certain point in order to capture the shot.
4. What was hard about creating these images for forced perspective was that I had to measure everything out just by looking through the camera. If I got the measurements wrong then I would have to do it all over again until I got it right.
5. Line of sight, depth of field, and distance affected these images because you would have to get things exactly right in order to get the image you want. It makes it even harder to do this because things tend to get very frustrating.
Independent Project 1: Black & White Nature Project:
Original
Edited
Independent after questions:
1. For my project I picked Black & White nature. I chose this because I wanted to try to do something with Black & White filter/ edit.
2. I went to different places to get my images. For some I took around my neighborhood, and some at the mountains.
3. For some of my images I didn't really have to edit my pictures because I had a B&W setting on my camera. But the ones I did edit, I changed the brightness and burned and dodged the other images. I thought they needed that type of editing because I wanted to add some type of edit but didn't exactly know what.
4. I learned that with this type of photography is that it requires patience. I think it does because you would want to wait for the perfect picture to happen.
5. What I found difficult shooting these was the cold. What I mean by this is that I went to the mountains to take pictures and it was snowing. So yeah, you can imagine how cold it was up there.
6. They came out pretty good. I do think they could be better though because I wasn't taking my time taking them and I was shaking for most of them I shot.
7. I'm not really sure what I would want to do for my next project. I will get back to you on that.
Independent Project 2 Before Questions Project:
1. The type of photography I picked was headshots.
2. I'm going to shoot the images for this project by having my sister and brother model for me.
3. I'm gonna have to take these shots during the day because I want natural lighting from the sun.
4. I'm going to shoot these images either in my backyard or inside of my house.
5. I wanted to try doing this type of photography again because I know who I'm taking the images of and can have them doing different things.
Independent Project After Questions Project 2:
1. I picked portrait/ headshots for my project. I chose this project because I wanted to try it on my brother and sister to see how it would come out.
2. I had to get my brother and sister to do different types of facial expressions and have them at different locations.
3. I had to to do some patch-healing for my editing. I used that type of editing because I was pretty sure they didn't want any of their pimple and stuff to be shown.
4. I learned that shooting this kind of photography takes some time in order to get the perfect photo that I would want.
5. There wasn't really anything I found difficult about creating these images.
6. I think they did come out pretty good. But I do think they could've been better.
7. For my next project I'm thinking about doing a type of sky photography.
Independent Project 3 - Before Questions:
1. I decided to do sky photography for my project.
2. I'm going to try to shoot these in the day and basically when the sky has a different color to it.
3. I'll have to take these pictures at a certain time of the day.
4. I'll be shooting these images outside of my house and other places when the time is right.
5. I wanted to try doing this type of this photography because I really love the colors the sky changes to.
Project 3 After Questions:
1. I picked sky photography as my project because I love how the sky can have so much different emotions and colors in them.
2. I had to wait a certain amount of time and wait till the sky was how I wanted to take the picture.
3.The kind of editing I had to do to my images was to change the vibrance or change the color entirely.
4. What I learned about doing this type of photography is that it takes patience.
5. I didn't really find anything that difficult about doing this project.
6. I think they came out pretty good. I do think I could've done better.
7. I'm not really sure what I want to do for my next project.
Independent 4 Before Questions:
1. What I picked for my 4th project is Macro. Macro is taking a picture super close of your subject.
2. I'm going to shoot these images by taking my time to set things up for when I shoot.
3. I'm going to need a lot of models and objects to shoot.
4. I will be shooting these images in and outside of my house during the day.
5. I wanted to try this type of photography again because I felt like I can do it way better than last time.
Independent Project 4 After Questions:
1. For my project I chose Macro. I chose macro because the first time I did this type I didn't really think I did that good. So I decided to try and do them way better than before.
2. I got the images by getting random objects round my house and giving them different poses and positions for them.
3. For some of the images they were simple edits. While others I did a whole different thing for. Some I gave them a light up type of edit and for another I gave it a portal edit. I did these specially because of who the characters are.
4. I learned that there can be a variety of different ways to shoot this type of photography.
5. What I found difficult about creating these images was that for some of my shots I had to get really low on the ground.
6. I think they came out better than how I wanted them. It honestly surprised me with how good some of the editing came out in the end.
7. I'm not really sure what I want to do for my next project.
Independent Project 5 Before Questions:
1. I'm going to be doing headshots with lights for my next project.
2. I already have them shot from when we were last in the black box.
3. I don't read need anything for these images.
4. They will be shot from the black box.
5. Since I already have the images from when we were last shooting I just thought that I should do something with these instead of leaving them in my folder.
Independent Project 5 After Questions:
1. The project I was headshots with colored lights.
2. What I did to get these images was that I took these in the black box with different colored lightbulbs.
3. The editing I had to do for these images was increasing the brightness and changing the photo filter / color.
4. I learned that you can use multiple colors at once while shooting these images.
5. I did not find anything difficult but creating these images because to me they were very simple.
6. I think they came out alright. I do think they could definitely be better.
7. What I'm thinking about doing for my next project is Still Life Photography.
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