- Natural light: Sunny
- Composition: Cropping
- Editing: Tint, Whites, Blacks Adjusted
- Composition: Rule of thirds, Framing, Cropping
- Narrow Depth of Field
- Artificial Light: Bathroom light
- Editing: Contrast and Tint Adjustments
- Composition: Framing, Cropping
- Frozen Movement
- Natural Light: Partly Cloudy
- Editing: Contrast, Tint, Shadow, White, Color and Hue Adjustments
- Composition: Rule of Thirds, Narrow Depth of field, Cropping
- Natural Light: Sunny, Back/Side light
- Editing: Tint, Temp
- Composition: Cropping, Rule of thirds
- Frozen Movement
- Editing: Exposure, Contrast
- Narrow Depth of Field
- Composition: Rule of Thirds, Cropping
- Natural Light: Sunny via Window, Side Light
- Editing: Exposure, Temp, Tint, Shadow, Blacks, Whites
- Composition: Rule of thirds, Cropping
- Editing: Exposure, Temp, Tint, Shadow, White, and Contrast
- Composition: Cropping
- Natural light: Sunny back light
- Editing: Whites, Blacks, Temp and Contrast
- Composition: Cropping, Rule of Thirds
- Natural Light: Sunny
- Edits: Temp, Tint, Vibrance, Saturation
- Frozen Movement
- Composition: Cropping, Rule of Thirds
- Narrow Depth of Field
- Editing: Temp, Tint, Vibrance, Saturation, Exposure
Reflection:
I will start with my greatest challenges while making this final. I captured a tremendous number of photographs which gave me a lot to choose from. This was great at first, but it became a bit of my nemesis when trying to put together only the best ten. I would pick one, start some cropping, editing, thinking of a title, and then dis-regard it completely and start on a different photograph. This indecision created delay and over-analysis. I believe I have mentioned before that over-analysis is a problem for me. Even now as I write my reflection, I consider other photographs or second guessing my edits. But all this extra work and “challenge” was the catalyst to my success! All the different ways of editing, comparing photographs to one another, and the sheer volume of photographs I captured helped me see what worked, and what did not. Speaking of errors, I am sure I made mistakes, but that’s fine as long as the next photographs I take are better than the previous.
I feel my greatest success was the Salt Life photograph I presented where I captured the spray of the ocean. Makes one feel a bit powerful to “freeze” time (in my opinion). I have grown so much this quarter it is difficult to pinpoint my greatest successes. But, I feel way more comfortable taking photographs and I have become more fluid in making adjustments on my small camera phone. I have gained a better understanding of the basics. For example, cropping out distracting elements and fixing the horizon line, but even better is learning to take the initial photograph with the correct angle that does not need excessive cropping/adjusting. If only my cats would listen! But in all seriousness, I now have a method to my madness and have an order in which I edit a photograph where I try to make sure everything is compositionally correct before making edits such as tint, temp, blacks, etc.
The first photograph, Wave Check is an edit of a prior photograph in which I added a pinch of green and I think it came out well. I also made adjustments to Cat Life (Mia in the sink.) Salt Life I really like, as the clarity I achieved from my camera phone even surprised me. Listo (ready in English), of Mia on the fridge I also edited. Play Time of the boy jumping off the bridge could use some work and the same goes for Rising Tide, but all in all, I feel good about what I submitted. We shall see when the grades come. Getting both of my cats to chill on the terrace was probably the biggest success, but I surmise this was through my dedication and the massive number of cat photographs I captured. Thank you for viewing my final.