Photoshop!!!

my sister with half of her that didn't
end up in the picture


With a little help from photoshop
my sister is complete!!!

Homecoming Week!!!

During homecoming week each class gets to "host" their own assembly.
The freshman and sophomore assembly was a great win for the junior class. We dominated their assembly and beat all the other classes in the game we had to play.


Sam directing Carly around the maze

Sierra waiting for them to try and step over her

Sam and Carly planning how to step over Sierra

And they made it!

after this part of the game our class easily made their way through the rest of the maze and ended up winning!

Depth of Field (information)

The depth field of a specific lens is the range of acceptable focus in front of and behind the primary focus setting. It is a function not only of the specific lens used but also of the distance from the lens to the primary focal plane, and of the chosen aperture. Larger apertures will narrow the depth of field; smaller apertures will increase it.


You can't understand Depth of Field until you understand COF (Circle of Confusion). The human eye has a finite ability to see fine detail. This is generally accepted as being 1' (minute) of arc. Translating this to the practical world, this means that at a normal reading distance the smallest object that a person with perfect eyesight, under ideal conditions can see is 1/16mm in size. If you place two dots smaller than this next to each other they will appear to be just one dot.

Suppose the lens focuses on the yellow dot as shown in the figure below. This subject generates a yellow dot on the image plane. Once focused, all subjects that have the same subject-lens distance as that of the yellow dot will appear sharp. Now, consider a white dot that is behind the yellow dot (i.e., with larger subject-lens distance). Since it is out of focus, it will not produce a sharp white dot image. Instead, its image is formed somewhere in front of the image plane. On the image plane, the image of this white dot is a circle as shown below. This circle is usually referred to as a circle of confusion. As the subject-lens distance increases, the size of this circle increases. The same holds true for a subject in front of the yellow dot (e.g., the green dot in the following figure). Since these circles of confusion are actually out of focus images of subjects, if we can reduce the size of circle of confusion, we can increase the sharpness of the resulting image. But, how?

It turns out to be very simple. Since circles of confusion are formed by light rays passing through the lens tube, the size of a circle of confusion is proportional to the amount of light that can pass through the lens tube. This means smaller (resp., larger) circles of confusion will be formed if less (resp., more) light can pass through. Restricting how much light can pass through the lens is the function of the diaphragm in the lens tube that sets the aperture values. Therefore, a smaller aperture means a smaller diaphragm opening, which, in turn, means allowing less light to strike the film/CCD plane. Thus, we have smaller circles of confusion and, as a result, a sharper image!

My exposure pictures

This white blob is a picture of an over exposed tv and computers.



This is of the same scene but it was under exposed thats why its dark.



The final product as close to normal as it is going to get!

Exposure

In photography, exposure is the total amount of light allowed to fall on the photographic medium during the process of taking a photograph .
Exposure is measured in lux seconds , and can be computed from exposure value (EV) and scene luminance.
The "correct" exposure for a photograph is determined by the sensitivity of the medium used. For photographic film, sensitivity is referred to as film speed and is measured on a scale published by the International Organization of Standardization (ISO). Faster film requires less exposure and has a higher ISO rating. Exposure is a combination of the length of time and the level of illumination received by the photosensitive material.
Exposure time is controlled in a camera by shutter speed and the illumination level by the lens aperture.

A photograph with an exposure time of 25 seconds

A photograph of a night-time sky with an exposure time of 8 seconds

A two second exposure of a fire poi ball dance

The shutter and aperture control how dark or light your pictures will come out and how focused they are.

To mess with the shutter and aperture your camera needs to have a manual setting


Sample shutter settings:
15" to 1/1600

Sample aperture settings
F2.7 to F8.0

What is a "Stop"?
A stop is making your aperture or shutter brighter.
examples: moving from f5.6 to f8 is:
ONE STOP darker and
moving from f4 to f2.8 is:
ONE STOP brighter




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_(photography)

My pics

Some pictures I took of the sunset from my house.




A few pics from the McLean spaghetti feed !!!

What's at the End of the Road

this was taken I was walking home
down my 1/2 a mile driveway

What's at the end of the road?
The world will never know

Katrina Dartnell

Katrina is a local photographer that I have learned a lot from. Katrina has helped me with my photos. I have all so had her take pictures of me for her new cameras and backdrops. Kat, Kecia, Danni(Kats sister) Emma F. and Jenna have also modeled for when she helped out Godmothers Closet for a bridal shoot. She is a graduate of the Art Institute of Seattle, a member of Professional Photographers of Washington, and she has 17 years of experience.

What I know so far

I know that camera's have to be completely black on the inside to work. They also have to have a shutter,film, lens, aperture, and a light tight box. The simplest camera I think is the pinhole camera.

Pinhole Camera's

The purpose of this project was to learn how to build a basic camera without spending a ton of money to get one. We learned you can make a camera out of just about anything like a Pringles can. The purpose of the post it to tell anyone interested in photography and in pinhole cameras can make one with out buying a camera.

A pinhole camera works by letting light through the little hole on one end of the camera when the light hits the photo paper it causes the silver on the paper to stick together and when you develop the paper in chemicals the silver that was exposed to light stays and you get your picture.

Materials needed
camera body like a Pringles can
tons and tons of foil
black spray paint, markers ...
photo paper
tack
tape( if foil won't stay together)

Instructions for making camera
1. Find the materials you need
2. light tight your camera body using the foil and tape
wrap foil around can until you can't see the color of the can
3. poke a hole in the bottom of the Pringles can using the tack
4. cup your hand around the top of the can to see if the only light coming through the can is at the end with the hole in it
5. light tight the lid of your camera using the markers or spray paint
6. place camera in dark room or black bag and place photo paper inside the camera near the lid
(keep camera level so the paper stays up right)


Don't cut camera body even if the directions say to!!!


1 camera body , some light proof material, and a pin sized hole!


Ta-Da its done!!!
(nice pose Kecia!)

Directions for using camera
When you use your pinhole camera make sure you don't have any light leaking into the camera.
Then take the camera and load a piece of photo paper into your camera in a dark room or a black bag. When your done loading the paper put the lid back on and take your camera out of the bag or the dark room and make sure your shutter is closed so no light gets in.
Now go find something to take a picture of. What we just found out is that one minute is not nearly long enough when you open the shutter so you might what to do it for at least 20 min. is what our teacher found out to get a picture you can see.



The picture on the left is what we got with
a 1min. exposure and on the right is a 20 min. exposure

If my group could do this project over knowing what we do now I don't think that cutting the camera body in two pieces would happen again. This time we would also find a better way to light proof the lid other than using sharpie or white board markers.
But other than those couple of thing I think it went well!!!

What I want to learn in Digital Studio

In this class I hope to learn how to take better pictures. I am pretty good at photo shop but hope to learn more. I want to learn which settings to use for different types of pictures like b&w, fast action,... And I hope to learn more in general on cameras. I also want to learn how to take a picture and make it look like a water color painting or another type of mediums.