Aperture

Aperture is the opening of a photographic lens that determines how much light will go in to take a picture. Aperture is measure in f-stops and decimals. The smaller the number the bigger the lens in the camera which means more light comes in. If the number is big that means the lens whole is smaller and lets less light in the picture. In the first, top picture the lens is small, and you can tell by the picture because not much light is in it just the usual for a picture. The second, bottom picture was taken with a bigger lens and you can tell by the light hitting the flower.

ISO

ISO 5000

ISO 800

ISO 400

ISO 50

Flash

ISO helps you take a good picture with light when you are in the dark. The more ISO used the more light in your picture and the less ISO the less light and darker picture. I used flash first before using ISO in my picture and the difference is that when I used flash the Christmas lights light was not really noticeable but you did have more light. With the ISO on the Christmas lights was able to be seen better and they actually looked like they were on and you also had light on the person. The second picture I used ISO 50, which is less light that goes in your picture. In the third picture I put the ISO to 400 so now there is more light and the person in the picture does not come out dark. In the fourth picture the ISO is now in 800 so now the person and the Christmas lights are more clearly seen. Last but not least, in the final picture I put the ISO to 5000 and now everything is seen way better. My picture came out blurry but if you take a good picture it will look nice because of the ISO.

Flash

There are pros and cons for using flash in a dark picture. The pro is that you will be able to see whatever you are taking a picture of in the dark and in the day time it takes the shadows away. The con is that if you use flash the brightness will look blurry and not pretty in the dark and in the daytime it will look too bright and disappear some things from the picture you are trying to take. Flash is a good idea, in the dark, when you want to take a picture of something that is close and no light in the background. It is also a good idea, in the day time, when you don’t want shadow in your picture. The picture I chose is better with flash off because the lighting in the pumpkin looks nice. If the flash was on, the light in the pumpkin will look too bright and kind of blurry.

Metering

A light meter helps you focus on the main thing you want focused and by doing that you need to get close to the subject and then scoot back to normal and take the picture. On the first picture the focus was on the computer screen. I got close to the computer screen so the screen could be seen well instead of just bright light. On the bottom picture the focus was on the person so no w the person is the emphasis and not the computer screen. You are now able to see the person but not the computer screen. Metering can help you in the future if, for example, you are in a dark place and you want a certain object to be your emphasis.

Surrealism: :"Entering Death"

Critique: In this picture there is a supersized girl bending down opening a very tiny, small door. Inside that little door there is a desert landscape with skeletons standing on the desert. The background for this image is a brick wall and through that brick wall you can see an ocean. On the top left corner of the brick wall there is a window and inside that window you can see and ocean with skeletons in the ocean. Blood is also coming out of the window. The emphasis for this picture is the big girl standing in the middle of the whole picture. It stands out because of the big, supersized girl. The compositional trick that is used is rule of thirds because of where the window is placed, on the top left corner. I think the artists’ interpretation for this surrealism is that skeleton can symbolize many things although people might think it symbolizes death or such thing. For the artist, it might mean the problems in life. My overall view of this picture is that the artist did a good job on the objects used. On the other hand, the artist needs to work more on interpreting what she is trying to express. Maybe use more objects or something like that.

Surreal Practice Tutorials

In the Desert Tutorial we did many different things to make it look realistic. First we distorted the dirt from the bottom corners to make it look far away not like a wall. Then we added a blue background but we had to add a gradient with three different colors to make it look realistic. Then we added a lamp post but to make it look real we added a shadow that looks a little faded at the end. We also blended it a little with the dirt. By creating this tutorial it will help me with my surreal project because I learned new things that I might want to add to my project.

Art Show: "Rule of Thirds"

Rule of Thirds

This is my Rule of Thirds artwork. My goal was to place the emphasis in a corner using the grid that cameras usually have. The rock is the emphasis, with a blurry far away background. I like it because I was just taking random rule of third pictures and this one was my first and perfect one. The rock is right where it’s supposed to be, on a corner and in the middle of the fence shadow. It was a well taken picture.