Sunday, May 11, 2008

Self Portraits




Self Portraits


My idea was to get good pictures by making poses that you wouldn’t regularly see. I wanted to capture any kind of emotion. My ideas did change because of the things in the background around me. The picture I thought that was most creative was my texture picture. The rocks and the dirt made it creative. The thing that was difficult was finding the right type of texture that I could establish in the picture. The creativity plays out really good because if there were no rocks or plants around me it would look like a regular picture of me just sitting down.

I personally thought my composition was good because I placed every thing where it should be and the pictures turned out great. Some pictures were set up specifically like my Light picture I was really focusing the light on my face. There were no happy accidents but it would have been good to have one. I really thought about my face to make the picture stronger. My arms were the one thing that I thought weakened the picture because I didn’t know how to make them work with my posing. I would say my Light picture has the best composition because its has good lighting on my face, things weren’t in the background, and I had a good black and white look to it. My Rule of thirds picture would be the picture I would change the composition on, I would try to put myself closer to the corner of the wall.

I don’t think none of them were too bright to dark, burry or pixilated so my craftsmanship was good. I actually used the shutter speed in dark places so I could get more light in the picture. My lack of understanding some things did alter my pictures but I saw what I needed to work on and I did. My strengths are lighting, composition, and creativity. My weakness is using my body to take the kind of picture that I wanted.

My opinion of my pictures is that I did good, and was impressed with them. I did well at lighting which I really liked. If I had to do this assignment again I would change the background and make it more exciting. My favorite shot was the light picture, because I looked really good. My least favorite was my rule of thirds, because the background was plain. My final thoughts would be that I had fun on the last two projects even though they were tough and difficult, plus now I know ho to use photoshop a lot better.


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