Irony and Beauty

The first photo is a very simple photo of a daffodil. Daffodils often represent something not so simple though. Daffodils are often associated with cancer as many charities such as the Canadian cancer society use daffodils as their logo. I took this picture for the ironic sake that the subject and the picture seem very simple, but in actuality the subject, and even the picture represent something incredibly complicated. This photo breaks the rules because I did not use rule of thirds at all, I did not create depth of field, i just pointed, focused and shot.  

  

The second picture dealt with the same ironic ideas as the first one. When you see a bench like the one in the picture you often see people sitting on it, these people are often not simple people, but people siting and thinking deeply. But this bench was empty and simple and represented that ironic picture of nothing. While there were no deep thoughts coming from anything on the bench, I still believe the photo itself represented a deep thought. This picture I literally did nothing but point at the bench and click the shutter, the picture is also a little off center and looks tilted. 

The third photo I wanted to try and get as close to that field of blue flowers as I could and make it look like a never ending sea of blue flowers. I did this by basically putting the camera in the flowers and then taking the actual picture I tried to keep the flowers off of rule of thirds but unfortunately it looks like it is. I thought there was a beauty to those pictures and by showing some of them in focus and the rest out of focus I could show that exclusive beauty best. 

Time Lapse

 All the photo's in this picture where taken using a Nikon D3100. When I was trying to think of a creative subject to use in a Time Lapse photo; I decided on the Rubik’s Cube. At first I thought of all the action time lapse photos I had seen. But I decided I wanted to do something different. The subject in the photo, who is a friend and is constantly solving Rubik’s Cube’s, suggested I do a Rubik’s Cube. I thought that was a great idea as I had never seen a time-lapse photo of a Rubik’s cube.

I first tried to take pictures of just the Rubik’s cube in my subject’s hands, but after putting the pictures into Photoshop, I found that there was no real way to put them all together and have the photo look seamless and natural. I instead decided to re-shoot the whole subject and each time he made a move on the cube take a picture. I then put each picture of my subject into my background. At first you may only see my subject but if you look a little closer you will notice that the cube changes with the subject as well. 

Mixed Lighting

f/5.6,1/200 seconds 

f/5.6, 1/4000 seconds 

f/5.6, 1/4000 seconds 

these pictures where all taken using a Canon EOS REBEL T2i. In the first photo my subject was sitting near a window. The window made a perfect setting for this photo as I was able to use the light entering through the window to light up half of the subject's face and use the darker light inside to give some contrast to the subjects face. 

The second photo was taken outside, where the lighting was a grey and there was freezing rain. I tried to keep that grey factor, while using a light to light up the front of Zack's face. I also turned up the shutter speed so that I could capture the falling rain, for added affect.  

The third photo I took was much like the second one. Except in this one I tried to keep the image a little bit darker, to make it look more eerie. I captured the falling rain in this one as well, but made it less prevalent to make the focus on the subject and not the rain.

Experimental Lighting

10.0 seconds   f/5.3

 8.0 seconds   f/4.5

15.0 seconds   f/3.5

These pictures where all taken using a Nikon D3100. In the first photo I decided to try and light up the background, to show an outline of the subject. This ended up going much better than expected as I was able to  light up the entire subject except for the face. This gives the photo an eerie feeling; this was also the reason for choosing the color red. I achieved this by outlining the subject with a red light. 

In the second picture, I was inspired by star wars and the “blaster” that is used by characters throughout the movie. I decided to set the camera up and get someone to walk across from where I was moving a light while turning the light on and off. This ended up working very well as the position I am in looks like I am moving and the light looks like the type of light that would come from a “blaster.”

In the third photo I wanted to give mark an evil twin who sits above him. Although mark’s twin does not exactly look evil in the photo, nevertheless he still has a twin. I accomplished this by having mark sit in the chair for about half of the exposure while I shone a light at him and then had him move and shone the light at him for the rest of the exposure time. 

Studio Lighting

As I played with the lighting in this assignment, I found that I could make one half of someones face look dark and the other half look light. This made me think of the lighter and darker sides of humanity. I tried to capture those to sides and the very thin line in between them by using lighting. 

The first picture I captured the whole face, showing a light side as well as a dark side but being able to see the whole face at that angle makes it look a little less sinister. In the second photo you can also see the whole face but it looks more sinister because it is darker on one side and the positioning is head-on. The third photo is the most sinister looking though as you only see the eyes. For the first photo I used a shutter speed of 1/4 and an aperture of 8. The second photo I used a shutter speed of 1/15 and an aperture of 4. And the last photo I used a shutter speed of 1/4 and an aperture of 8. They where all shot using a Nikon D3100.