portraits and lighting

in photography we are learning how to take portraits. the place where you really want to focus on in the face is the eyes. you want them to sparkle, so it looks like they are alive, instead of just looking like dark pools. also, we learned that you should use the rule of thirds (divide the frame into 3 horizontally and vertically, place subjects on the intersections) because that is where the eye naturally travels when looking at a photo.

another thing to consider while taking a portrait is the lighting. where the light is coming from while change how your photograph looks. and when you edit your photos you can change your exposure in case your picture isn't bright enough/too bright.




 

back lighting





side lighting





side lighting



back lighting (randomly switched models, and blog spot flipped the photo sideways -_-")



front lighting (Rosa looks uncomfortable...)







front lighting

side lighting



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claymation

we are making some claymation videos, which is taking a bunch of pictures of clay people/ things, each one a little differently positioned, and when you put it all togehter in the end, it looks like they are moving. its pretty awesome.

Rosa and I worked together on ours. it features me (Alyssa), Rosa M., and Alyda S. Alyda is a fish (she likes fish) and we feed her chocolate (she likes chocolate) (i know chocolate is harmful to dogs... is it harmful to fish too? oh well..). and yeah, thats pretty much it, actually. here is a few pictures of our claymation characters.



the family (me, alyda, rosa)

 so, we watched a little of Wallace and Gromit in class. Wallace And Gromit is a claymation video about a guy and his best friend (the dog).  and they do all these weird stuff together. its kinda like in our video. for some reason we are feeding chocolate to fish.
some very popular claymation artist include Nick Park (Wallace and Gromit), Will Vinton (Will Vinton's Claymation Christmas Celebration), and Art Clokey (Gumby). The art of claymation has been dated back to 1897, when plasticine was invented.

Flip Books

In photography class we are making flip books. Flip books are a bunch of pictures that show movement when you flip the pages. the first thing you do is to draw the beginning picture and the ending picture first. Then draw the pictures in between, each one a little different. Then, we put it all together, and it looks like a little movie. Then, i took pictures of each one, put them into windows movie maker, and made a movie out of it. But blog spot is being stupid and it won't let me upload it, so i might put it on Facebook. maybe. ok :)

1st drawing of my flipbook

last drawing of my flipbook

Edward Muybridge was the first photographer to show motion with photographs. he took 26 photos of a horse running, and each camera was set off by a trip wire that the horse activated while running. he made flip books with a bunch of different animals using that technique, with elephants, cats, etc. Edward Muybridge also made the zeotrope, a device that will show motion by having a bunch of pictures on it that are all a little different, and it spun and it looked like the people in the pictures were moving.