Blow Out and Panning

I created the blow out effect with and ISO of 50 and a shutter speed of 1/15. It was extremely difficult to get the shot because often times all that would come out would be a white blank photo. I honestly do not believe this is the best way simply because it takes more practice and more time to get it right, if I had my choice I would choose to blow out pictures on photo shop every time. Panning is when you are trying to capture a solid image of your subject with the backround still moving and what seems to be a ghost following the subject. It overall may be a little blurry, but will still clearly be able to see your subject. I honestly believe I did not do such a good, job but it is a difficult technique to master. My ISO was at 50 with an aperture of F8 and a shutter speed of 1/30. I could have done a better job if I had a better understanding of how to do the panning, because sadly I was confused. What made panning difficult was that I could not seem to get my subject in focus with a blurry backround which upset me an awful lot.

Shutter Speed

The shutter speed is how long the light gets to come in. You can control the shutter speed when in shutter mode and it allows you to show movement and let more light in all depending on how long the shutter is open. For the longer it is open the longer light will come into the picture. In the room with the pictures above, all lights were off. We had to use a flash light, and little items which had light to attempt brightening the picture. The camera was set to a 15 second shutter so that light would be obtained for up to 15 seconds. We changed the ISO to try different lighting's, we had a high ISO in the top picture and a lower ISO in the bottom one. This experience was extremely difficult, but funny - considering how so many pictures came out in a strange way. Someone would probably choose shutter speed over ISO or aperture because with shutter speed depending on how long it is open, people can move around or anything can move around creating a whole new image that may surprise the photographer. Such as the light movement in the second photo, we used 3 different lights to move around very quickly and created circles and a heart. My favorite picture is the last one because it came out the brightest and most clear.

Aperture

Aperture is like the cameras eye, when you change the aperture the light coming into the picture changes as if the eye is dilating. The aperture size of the butterfly is large because the background begins to blur out and has a small f-stop number probably something like F2 or F3. The photo of the landscape has a smaller aperture because you can see the entire area. Its f-stop may be a F20 or F22 considering how everything is seen clearly in the picture. For those who may be a bit confused, the f-stop is the focal length divided by th diameter of the pupil.

ISO

FLASH
ISO 50

ISO 400

ISO 5000

The ISO is the film speed and the film speed is how fast the light comes in to the picture. The pictures that flash was not used came out gritty, but softer. The top picture is an average photo using flash, but the one under is a change in ISO to 50, then 400, then 5000, the higher the number the brighter and more blurry the picture becomes. At times changing the ISO would be better then using flash so that the true colors of the image are not drowned out. In the flash photo you hardly notice the Christmas lights, but in each other photo you can see the color of the Christmas lights and the subject, instead of having to choose one or the other. When using a fast ISO you must be careful with how blurry and gritty the picture may become.

Flash

The pros for flash is that it adds light and helps eliminate blur, but the cons are it may disturb the subject and creates ugly lighting situations such as hot spots and red eye. A good time to use flash is in the middle of the day when your subject may be in the shadow with a bright background. Flash is not a good idea when you are trying to capture the true colors of the subject. In this picture the lighting surrounding the subject gives it a sense of beauty that flash may have destroyed. With the flash off in this picture you can see the details in the sky, the water and on the green on the walls.

Metering

A light meter measures the light which you camera is focusing on and makes everything around your focus adjust to the lighting of your focus. In the top picture I focused on my partners skin and in the bottom photo i focused on the computer screen. They are different because the focuses are different. Spot metering can help you in the future when it is dark, but you do not want to use flash.

Surrealism: "Behind the Scene of Desire Dream"

According to research different symbols may mean different things to different people in their dreams all depending on what has or will occur in the person’s life. The surreal image above was altered from a dream, yet the main symbols in the image are kept from the original dream itself. The image such as the mirror, the dog, the scorpion and the couple in the thought bubble are all things taken from different dreams being combined into one surreal image. For the mirror the interpretation from the web would most likely mean pondering thoughts about one’s inner self, and in a similarity in this picture the girl drawing with a carrot (random object) on the mirror is creating an image of what she desires to see in her reflection. The dog normally symbolizes playfulness and a carefree person, but with what is occurring in the surreal piece the dog serves as a protector and a dependable creature which is always there no matter what. (I love animals!!) The meaning of the scorpion in dreams normally represents a situation in one’s life which may have been painful and although pain is displayed in this picture, the scorpion is actually set as a defender and represents how the person is fighting off certain things in her life. (I’m a Scorpio!!) The couple in the thought bubble is actually the sister of the girl in the picture and her boyfriend; the dreaming of other people such as this shows the envy the person has for the love between the two. Overall the persons dream which has been turned into a surreal image is surrounded by bright things, but if one pays attention to the darker things in the image they may understand that the meaning is more than what they see.