Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Thursday, February 12, 2009

2 negatives


this is the picture where i took 2 different negatives and put them together

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

photogram

this photo gram is made of my keys and a flashdrive

Monday, February 9, 2009

weekly questions # 3


Describe what a pinhole camera is and explain how it works. - A pinhole camera is a very simple camera with no lens and a single very small aperture, it is a light-proof box with a small hole in one side. Light from a scene passes through this single point and projects an inverted image on the opposite side of the box.

Write a short biography of Annie Leibovitz and her photography. - Photographer. Born Anna-Lou Leibovitz, on October 2, 1949, in Westbury, Connecticut. when she was 23-years old Leibovitz got a job as chief photographer—a title she would hold for the next 10 years. In 1991, Leibovitz’s collection of over 200 color and black-and-white photographs were exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Later that year, a book was published to accompany the show titled Photographs: Annie Leibovitz 1970-1990. In 1996, Leibovitz was chosen as the official photographer of the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.

Who were some of the famous people she photographed? - Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson, Rolling Stone, John Lennon


Wednesday, February 4, 2009

PhotoCubism


for this assignment i took multiple pictures of the same photograph and then i tried to put them together to form the original figure.

Monday, February 2, 2009

worksheet # 2

What are the three basic elements of a camera? - an optical element (the lens), a chemical element (the film) and a mechanical element (the camera body itself).

What is an SLR camera? - manual single-lens-reflex (SLR) camera.

What is the purpose of a camera's aperture? - The aperture controls the amount of light that reaches a camera sensor.

What does shutter speed on a camera control? - The length of exposure.

To get the right exposure for a picture, what three things must be balanced? - balance film speed, aperture size and shutter speed.

To take pictures outside on a very sunny day, would you use a high or low film speed? Why? -
low film speed because it needs a large amount of available light.

What are the four steps for developing black and white film? - the film is placed in developing agent, then complete the developing process by rinsing the film with stop bath, next place film in the fixing bath and last the film is washed with water to remove all the processing chemicals

What things are needed to make a black and white print? - dark room, enlarger, negative, and chemicals.

For a black and white print, the final image is actually what material? - silver

mirror effect


this is my last photo shop tutorial. i decided to do a mirror effect on a little golden retriever.

Infrared photo


this is my infrared picture. i chose a rain forest because it's always so colorful so I thought it would look pretty cool.