Macro
These are a few of the first photos I started taking for my final, I was just trying to get ideas of what I could do.
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Original
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I soon realized, well crap I did macro for my final last semester. Because of the colors in this photo, it actually sparked my idea to do pictures focusing on color for my final.
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Original
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Color
I had been browsing around on deviant art and I found this picture http://browse.deviantart.com/photography/?qh=§ion=&q=red+lips#/d2e8td4
Red is my favorite color, and I really liked the simplicity of this shot while at the same time the red stood out dramatically.
This was the first photo I took for what I thought would be my "color" project. I basically loved how the red stood out so much in this picture, so I thought I'd take other photos where colors stood out.
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However, I just ended up just spending a lot of time on these photos and didn't get around to any other colors. That and I just honestly got bored with this project as well.
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Silhouettes
http://digital-photography-school.com/5-fun-weekend-photography-projects-part-2
I got the idea for silhouettes off this website. This was someting new to me, I didn't know how to take them until I read about it on that site. I was kind of stumped at first, trying to think of where I could even shoot good silhouettes. I figured I'd go to honeysuckle and give it a shot. I found that as the sun was setting, the water made for a perfect background for silhouette pictures.
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The trick to them is to have a fast shutter speed with a light background and there shouldn't be much light shining on the subject. I'm pretty happy with how these ones turned out.
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I also figured that silhouettes didn't just have to be a person, so I took a few of the trees. I cropped this one because there was just a bunch of empty space above it.
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Self Portrait
http://digital-photography-school.com/self-portrait-photography-tips
On that page, the first photo inspired me to do this project. It's a picture of a man in front of a mirror brushing his teeth, and in the reflection in the mirror, he is tying his tie. I thought it was a pretty sweet concept, so I figured I'd try.
I put my camera on my tripod and set it for self timer with continuous shots.
I chose these two photos as the best out of the bunch.
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Then.. I opened them in photoshop. I used layers and put the photo of me brushing my hair on top of the other. I then used the eraser
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Although this final project wasn't exactly organized in any way, I'm happy with everything I ended up doing. I learned how to take silhouette shots which I'm really stoked about and will definitely be taking more of those. One thing that I learned about myself after this entire class is that I really can't stick to one subject. I'm constantly changing my mind and wanting to do something better and different. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing as far as being a photographer goes, but I think it keeps it exciting, and it works for me.