Final Photography Project: Sense of Place

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. 

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

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.

ISO: 200
SS: 1/30
f/5.6

ISO: 100
SS: 1/25
f/5.6

ISO: 100
SS: 1/60
f/5.6

ISO: 100
SS: 1/100
f/5.6

Day 10: The Dog Shelter

"Can I Cuddle with You?"

 ISO: 1600
SS: 1/320
f/9

"Check Out My Freckles"

ISO: 1600
SS: 1/250
f/9

"Oh Yah, That's the Spot"

 ISO: 1600
SS: 1/3200
f/9

"Don't Make Me Stick My Tongue Out at You"

ISO: 1600
SS: 1/3200
f/9

"Can I Go in the Water?"

ISO: 1600
SS: 1/3200
f/9

Day 9: Spencer

ISO: 200
SS: 1/800
f/5.6

ISO: 200
SS: 1/640
f/5.3

ISO: 200
SS: 1/800
f/5

ISO: 200
SS: 1/640
f/5

ISO: 200
SS: 1/500
f/6.3

Week 2 Major Assignment: The Decisive Moment

Let Them Come

ISO: 100
SS: 1/250
f/14

Adventure is Out There

ISO: 200
SS: 1/125
f/22

Helping Hands

ISO: 200
SS: 1/50
f/7.1

Busy Bee

ISO: 100
SS: 1/320
f/14

Sister Time Equals Play Time

ISO: 200
SS: 1/20
f/9

Innocence

ISO: 200
SS: 1/15
f/5.6

Big Sister and Babysitter 

ISO: 200
SS: 1/20
f/5.6

The Tourists 

ISO: 200
SS: 1/320
f/14

Day 8: Portraiture

Reflection: Today was one of the hardest photography classes to date..... It forced me to approach people in hopes that they would let me in to their world. In America, no problem. In Greece, there were a few more fears. However, I was so glad to have the opportunity to meet these wonder people. I was able to make them feel special and it made my day a little bit more challenging, but in a great way!

ISO: 200
SS: 1/200
f/5.6

ISO: 100
SS: 1/320
f/5.6

ISO: 100
SS: 1/125
f/5.3

ISO: 100
SS: 1/60
f/5

ISO: 100
SS: 1/160
f/5.3

Day 7: Street Photography

ISO: 200
SS: 1/60
f/22

ISO: 200
SS: 1/60
f/22

ISO: 200
SS: 1/60
f/22

ISO: 200
SS: 1/160
f/22

ISO: 200
SS: 1/15
f/14

Tour to Taste: Going Beyond the Glass and into the Barrel at The Santo's Winery

ISO: 400

SS: 1/500

f/10

ISO: 400
SS: 1/30
f/6.3

ISO: 400
SS: 1/50
f/9

ISO: 400
SS: 1/20
f/9
Reading Notes (Option 1):
     I chose to capture this series of pictures for the Wine Spectator online magazine because it seemed to best capture the viewer's primary desires in the magazine. The magazine is directly mostly toward high powered, men in their forties who make approximately $150,000-200,000 a year. After researching the online magazine demographics, I decided to capture the entire production from start to finish. I went to the winery looking to shoot barrels of wine and the production behind the process; thinking this would appeal to the more masculine demographic of the magazine. But it was a challenge to capture enough of the production process, and still let my images capture the entire picture of the winery. So, I chose to reconstruct my plan after arriving at the distillery. I had to consider how a connoisseur of wine might think. Connoisseurs of wine typically love tours of authentic wineries and tasting session, in combination, in order to broaden their pallets and learn about new wines; so that became my new photographic vision. This would allow them to strengthen their intellectual and sensory wine knowledge.
     For this picture specifically, I had to have a high enough shutter speed (to decrease the light that passes through the lens) in order to decrease the glare on the metallic drum that separates the wine from the sediment. Balancing the amount of light entering the room from the door with the light bouncing off the drum was easier with a higher shutter speed, as well. Controlling the reflecting light off the drum was the hardest part of exposing this picture. A higher shutter speed also allowed me to capture my picture quickly enough, before any individuals walked in to the reflection. The reflection was the primary subject of my image, because it helped to capture the row of wine barrels while showing off the filtration process of the winery. So having a high enough shutter speed was essential.

ISO: 400
SS: 1/160
f/6.3

"Beyond the Glass & Into the Barrel: Behind the Scenes at Santo Wine"

Week 1 Major Assignment: Framing & Perspective

ISO: 100
SS: 1/125
f/10

ISO: 100
SS: 1/400
f/3.5

ISO: 100
SS: 1/25
f/14

ISO: 200
SS: 1/800
f/6.3

ISO: 200
SS: 1/400
f/9

ISO: 200
SS: 1/1250
f/3.8

ISO: 200
SS: 1/1600
f/5

ISO: 200
SS: 1/125
f/22