Santorini Captured through a Lens

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Final Photography Project: Sense of Place

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Week 3 Major Assignment: Greek Mythology

Hera: Her Anger with Zeus over Hercules

Hera is known as the goddess of women and marriage and is represented by the peacock. She was tricked by Zeus in to having sexual relations and out of grief and shame, was forced to marry him. Zeus was known to have lots of mistresses throughout their marriage; and Hera always got extremely jealous and was filled with rage over his affairs. However, she usually managed to get her revenge on both Zeus and his illegitimate children. This is true in the story of Hercules; in which Zeus has a child with a mortal woman. Hera sends monsters to destroy Hercules and his family; and later got her revenge on Zeus. She drugged Zeus' drink, causing him to fall in to a deep sleep.

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Day 12: Green, Blue, and Night

Green Meter
ISO: 100
SS: 1/25
f/13

Blue Meter
ISO: 100
SS: 1/50
f/36

Dusk
ISO: 3200
SS: 1/8
f/5.6

Sunset
ISO: 1600
SS: 1/250
f/29

Night
ISO: 3200
SS: 1/20
f/7.1

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Day 11: Lighting

ISO: 200

SS: 1/400

f/5.6

Reading Notes (Option 1)

There are three primary forms of lighting your subject. The first is the most common and the easiest to work with, called frontlighting. In my last two images I have used the frontlight technique in order to fully illuminate my subjects' face evenly. On the day in which I shot these images, it was more of an overcast frontlight which diffused the light to create a more even light source to bathe the subject in. In this case, I was required to lower my shutter speed a tiny bit because there was a slight greyness to the lighting, and I wanted to allow more light in to the lens. The next type of lighting is backlighting, seen in my third image, and served to be more challenging. The light source comes from behind the subject and shines directly in to the photographer’s lens. One type of backlight can be to create a silhouette. However, I chose to avoid the silhouette because exposure of a silhouette can be challenging. I did still struggled to correctly expose my subject when I first began to use this technique. I first had to correctly meter for the subject's face in order to accomplish proper exposure. Although the background became overexposed, I still managed to depict the proper flesh tones of my subjects face. The third lighting technique I utilized today was sidelight. This is when the light hitting the subjects comes from their side, illuminating only a portion of their body. This helps to create dimensionality that the other techniques sometimes miss. Although this can be a challenge, I found it to be the easiest and most fun to try and create. My first two images embody the side lighting technique. The first one I shot during the morning hour and the second one was shot when the subject was near a window. Both served to create the sidelight effect.