Color to B&W

Uncle Roy

Assignment #5 - Color Portraits

This is my great Uncle Roy who is very dear to me. In this picture I told him to think about when his first biological child was born.

This is someone who I did not know, my roommates cousin, Savannah and her favorite thing to do is shop, and there was no better way to put her, other than her element.  

This is me, definitely NOT being me. A couch potatoe. I never want to become one of these.

This portrait assignment taught me to get to know people more intimately and know their back stories and know exactly who they are. It helped me to step out of my comfort zone and try to picture someone else's world, or being a part of their world.

Assignment #4 - Color Theory

Complimentary

 Complimentary

 Complimentary

 Analogous

 Analogous

 Analogous

Analogous colors are everywhere even when you don't realize it. I learned alot about how to create a scene in which complimentary colors and analogous colors can be. White balance helped alot with this project, but I have to admit it was difficult trying to think of different set ups that could be creative and flow with the colors at the same time. But I learned alot about how to set up colors and how colors can work together.

Assignment #3 - High key/Low key

                                     

high key

high key

low key

 
low key
 
high key (what made the camera happy)

low key (what made the camera happy)
 
Wow. I never thought it would be difficult to get an image perfectly black or perfectly white, and it was. Turns out that if the camera says its happy, it may not be the perfect tone that you want it to be. I learned that there are many ways in which you can represent black and white that I thought of throughout this process. I also learned that even through a pure white image and a pure black image, I can tell a story in my own way.

Assignment #2 - Numbers

                                19

                               21

                              31

                           56

                           63

                          70

                         89

This assignment definitely got me thinking about everything around me and how much I deal with numbers every single day. But also this assignment helped me to practice more with the ISO, aperture, and shutter speed which I definitely needed to practice. I am still learning and hope that I can get better over time because I absolutely loved this. Even though there were a couple of times where I just wanted to stop, and yes I had a dream about numbers and taking pictures of ALL of them, I loved thinking of new ways to represent the numbers and had a blast doing it!!

Assignment #1 - Scavenger Hunt

                                   

I learned that my hands need to be more steady and I really want my pictures of people to come out better. I'm still experimenting with lightroom and trying to understand it, but it helps. Hopefully I can get to the point where I don't have to change much on an image from when I took it. I know that I can get better with practice and I'm determined to be better. I also loved going out and just looking around and seeing the different things I could find because it's opened my mind to a new way of looking at things.

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