Photo #7: Equine Life

Assignment: For this photo assignment, I decided to do Equine Life, to show what my life is like. I captured my favorite horses, what goes into riding, and my favorite barn cat! This assignment was so much fun, considering it gave me an excuse to visit the barn on a Sunday afternoon.

Best Pic:

Bonnie :)

Slideshow:




1: Cry Baby
2. Red
3. Madison and Willow
4. Madison and Willow
5. Madison and Willow
6. Samuel
7. Halters
8. Bridles
9. Saddles
10. Cookie

Photoshop Assignment #5: Dictionary

Assignment: In this assignment, we were asked to take 3 words from the dictionary, and make photoshop edits out of them. I chose the words ocean, inspire, and sing, because those 3 words are a big part of my life. Here's the finished products:

 Right to Left: Dawn Brancheau and Kayla, Jenny Mairot and Kayla, Bethany Hamilton

Right to Left: Adam Gontier (Three Days Grace) Amy Lee (Evanescence) 

Photoshop Assignment #4: Open Tutorial

Assignment: In this assignment, we were asked to look for photoshop tutorials online, so that we could make our own version of the outcome. Mine was a tutorial on how to make an underwater apartment, with a girl in it and lots of textures and stuff like that. I took the basic idea, and deviated from it a lot. I made an "Orca Room," with two orcas in it. The room to me looks more like a tank than a fairytale underwater room. If you look up images of orcas swimming underwater, the water colors and textures look very similar. I like the outcome very much.

Orcas: Kayla (bottom, female) and Trua (top, male)

Photo Assignment 6: People

Assignment: In this assignment I used some photos I took of my friend Mona at our barn with her lesson horse Willow. Willow was a joy to shoot with because she's so patient and pretty much doesn't move. Mona had a lot of fun with this shoot, and so did I.

Photoshop Assignment #3: Deep Blue Saline

Assignment: In this assignment we were required to change the context of our school, Saline High School. The night before we were assigned this project, I had watched a movie called "Deep Blue Sea" with my best friend, which gave me the idea for "Deep Blue Saline." I brought this to life using my favorite animal in my favorite part of campus. I absolutely love the pond in front of the school, so I decided to incorporate my favorite animal, killer whales, in the photo. I also used a sea lion, because I got to hug one and spend time with one back in November, so I have a soft spot for them. Here's the final product:

Whales:
Top left corner: Kiska
Bottom left corner: Unknown (wild transient)
Middle: Both of these photos are of Shouka
Bottom right corner: Female Sea Lion, SeaWorld Florida

Barn Shoot #1

This photo shoot was NOT assigned for school, but I may use some of these photos in later assignments. I recently bought a camera and wanted to shoot some pics (and have some taken of me) at the barn. Here are my 4 favorites:

Madison and me :)

Willow :)

Madison (I took this while riding her)

Photo #5: Animals

Assignment: This weekend I had no idea what photo assignment I would do. My dad and I got out my model horse barn (that is obviously still in the making) and we decided to put my dog in it. Well sadly he fits in one of the stalls, so therefore he's practically the size of a model horse. Well we decided to get him used to it by bribing him with treats (aka cereal, we're too cheap for big name treats). I grabbed my camera and decided to get a few shots of him, and I found some of them were pretty good, so I decided to turn them in for this assignment. In this, I learned the difficulty of shooting animals, they move a lot more than you realize. I used my new point and shoot camera (Fujifilm Finepix) that I got this weekend for this assignment.

Favorite Pic:

Shutter: 1/13





Toby: Toby is a 5 year old male Bichon Frise. He absolutely LOVES food, which is the only reason he cooperated for the photo shoot.

Photo Assignment #4: B&W

Assignement: In this assignment, I decided to do black and white photography. I did not shoot the pictures in black and white, but converted them to this once on photoshop.com. My favorite photograph is of a C, which of course stands for the first letter of my name, Christin. I found this on my desk and though I could get a few interesting shots of it. I narrowed it down to two pictures, and had a hard time choosing between the two. Both are shown in my album.

ISO: 80 Shutter Speed: 1/60 Aperture: 2.6

Demo #2: Portraits

Assignment: In this assignment we were required to take two different portraits. In one, we used the 3 Point Set Up technique (shown in the picture on the right). In the second, we took a "Window" portrait, using only light from the windows in our school (shown on the left).

What I learned: I learned some very useful elements of taking portraits, such as correct lighting, which will definitely be useful to me. Also, I discovered an element in Photoshop that my teacher was not aware of while editing the pictures, and I will definitely use this.

Photo #3: Macro

In this photo assignment, I decided to do macro. I picked this because of one particular photo I knew I could take for this, and it's my favorite photo from the set. It's one with the quote, "Whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life." It's on a bracelet that I often wear, and I absolutely love it.

Main Photo:

Slideshow: 

Demo #1: Motion Blur

Assignment: In this photo demonstration our teacher asked us to take pictures of him using a photography technique called "panning," which creates motion blur in the picture.

What I Learned: During this demonstration I learned how to create motion blur in a picture. Motion blur helps single out the subject in a picture, especially when it's moving. This is great to use for something moving horizontally across your picture. 

Photo Assignment #2

Assignment Summary: In this assignment we were required to take 50 pictures and select the top 10 to turn in. I chose "food" as my photo subject, I will admit I was starving when I chose this. I used 8 different subjects in the category of food. I used cheerios, apples, kiwis, oranges, chips, lemonade, raspberries, and a few others. Below is the photo I believe is my best.

Photo Info: 
Aperture - 4.0
Shutter Speed - 1/10
ISO: 200

Rest of shoot, above included.

 Assignment: In this assignment we were required to edit a picture taken by a former student. We edited reflections, background, and familiarized ourselves with levels.

What I learned: I learned some basic elements in photo retouching that I will definitely use in the future.

Before and After shown here.

Photo Assignment #1: Still Life

Assignment Summary: In this assignment, I had originally planned on taking real-life versions of my photos, of the horses at my barn, but due to weather I decided to take pictures of the next best thing, model horses. These horses looking amazingly real, and taking photos of them is a really fun experience. You get the feel of a real life animal, but without the pain of capturing the moment in action. Thanks to my batteries dying, I was only able to get 8 pictures, but am proud of them none the less. My favorite of these is shown below, in the model horse, "Secretariat."

Aperture: 6  Shutter: 1/100 ISO: 80

This is the rest of my photos with the one shown above included. 

Photoshop Assignment #1 "Pop Art"

Assignment Summary: In this assignment, we learned to use a particularly interesting part of Adobe Photoshop CS5. We made our own pop art assignments, using a picture of ourselves. We were guided through the process with an online guide, and in the end, it resulted in this photo.

What I learned: In this photo assignment I learned one basic but interesting part of photo shop. I learned how to color the images, which will definitely come in handy, since I own this program and have just started to use it. This was a very helpful assignment to me.

Shooting Assignment #1 Inspiration

In the first shooting assignment I have decided to focus on Animals. In this I hope to better capture the personality of animals, using different angles and focus.

Here are some of the photographers and their photos that inspired me:

Andrew (last name was not provided)



Miguel (Last name also not provided)



Doug Wheeler



Tory Kallman