Macro Shot

White Balance

White balance is the process of removing unrealistic color casts, so that objects which appear white in person are rendered white in the photo. Proper camera white balance has to take into account the "color temperature" of a light source, which refers to the relative warmth or coolness of white light.
Pre-made settings in a camera allow the photographer to switch to them, when needed without having to manually set the camera.

Action Photos

Stop Action: a form of animation and allows otherwise lifeless objects to move and change. Otherwise known as a motion picture.
This can happen when you take a picture of a penny, slide it a bit (.5 cm) and then take another picture and repeat and then when all the photos are played in a fast slideshow, the penny looks like its moving.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-motion#Techniques

Blurred Action: a photo where the subject is clear, but the background is not, because the subject is moving so fast.
Use the Sports action, and focus on the subject. the background should be blurred.




Panning: Where the subject is clear but background is blurred even if subject is still.
Swing the camera just as picture is taken when focus is on subject.





Blurred action is the best way because the subject is moving fast, even if it's the hardest to do.

Fixed the Photo blunder

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Cloning Demo

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Aperture and DOF

All in Crisp Focus




Low Priority




High Priority




A bigger DOF makes the background stand out.
A smaller DOF makes the forward subjects more in focus.
A small aperture lessens the DOF.
a Large aperture enlarges the DOF.
Closer to the subject makes the subject blurrier and makes the DOF smaller.
Farther from subject makes the subject smaller but more in focus and makes the DOF larger.
Zooming in makes the subject blurrier and DOF smaller.
Zooming out makes the subject smaller and the DOF larger.

Dumb Write on Photo stuff

These are things that I know that I don't have to think about:
Exposure is how much light is exposed to the CCD
Metering is the focus on the subject and has three different modes; spot, center-weighted, and evaluative. Changing the setting on the metering changes the focus on the subject or the thing behind him.
The aperture is the thing that controls the amount of light being let into the camera. Changing the aperture changes the brightness of the photo and the amount of blur.
The shutter is the thing that opens to let in light. When changing the shutter speed, you are changing the quickness that the shutter opens and closes to let light in, then the light has to get through the aperture to the CCD chip which stores the memory of the photo.
When working on the pinhole camera, we created an aperture by putting a hole into the box or can and created a shutter with the flap of black paper. The CCD was replaced with photosensitive paper, which when exposed to light, starts developing, so we had to make sure that when we were not taking pictures, we did not let the film have any light touching it. We had it covered by paper and put it in a can until we needed to take a picture and then we lifted the flap of black paper (our shutter) and let in the light through the hole (our aperture) and let the light hit the photosensitive film.
On digital cameras, the camera automatically sets the aperture, the shutter speed and the DOF, but the user still can change them manually in the settings of the camera. When the user changes settings and screws something up, the camera can reset the settings if it is turned off then back on again. When the photo setting is on auto, the shutter, aperture and DOF are all automatically set and cannot be changed.

Changing HAIR!!!!!!!!

Here is Jake with blue hair! {lulz}

Spirit Week

Spirit Week at La Conner High School was a blast. Students got to dress up according to the day of the week it was. Some days though, are stereotypical, like Nerd Day. Students compete to see how many students in each grade dress up. This year the Seniors won, with Sophomores in close second, then Freshies, then Juniors. We were all rooting for the Sophomores, but Seniors beat them.

Fencing animoto

Exposure

Definition: Exposure is the amount of light collected by the sensor in the camera during a single photo. If the shot is exposed too long the photograph will be washed out. If the shot is exposed too short the photograph will appear too dark.
Aperture: the size of the lens opening that lets light into the camera
Shutter Speed: the amount of time the sensor is exposed to light
Metering: the brains behind how your camera determines the shutter speed and aperture, based on lighting conditions and ISO speed.

References:
http://www.photonhead.com/simcam/shutteraperture.php
http://www.picturecorrect.com/photographytips/ExposureBasics.htm

F-stop:

SETTINGS DISCOVERY

Lightning bolt button is for FLASH!!!
-red eye reduction
-suppressed flash
-forced flash
-auto
The photos are off color with the flash on.

Half-pushed down button: The subject becomes more focused and the background becomes blurrier. It won't take a photo until the button is pushed all the way down.

The flower button is for making a smaller subject in better focus. You can get pretty close to the subject, within a couple of inches. You can get closer to the subject zoomed out.

Zoom Feature: We should make sure it's in pretty good focus unless it's for artistic reasons.

Different Features: They are used for different areas of importance. Ones for running, portraits, auto, iso auto, iso 200, and video.
They are focusing the camera to help for different situations.

Team members:
Phillip H.
Galen M.
Julia T.

My portrait photo

Portrait:





Interview:
Q: What magazine do you like?
A: Game Informer

Q: What is your favorite TV show?
A: Heroes

Q: What is your favorite sport?
A: Airsofting

Q: What do you want to do when you get out of school?
A: Not decided.

Q: Will you go to college?
A: Yes.

Digital Pinhole camera

I think that you could make a pinhole camera. The design would be pretty much the same as a pinhole camera, though you would need a SSD card slot, electronics and wiring. When someone opened the shutter, the light would shine on the CCD chip and the photons would transfer the memory to the SSD chip. There would be problems such as that the box would have to be light-tight, but still be able to insert and remove the SSD chip unless you do not want to know what the photos look like.
The digital pinhole camera would be difficult to make because that the box would need to be light-tight, but have openings to allow the SSD chip to be put in and removed. The electronics would be hard to get into the box and stay attached so that it does not get in the way of the light when the photo is being taken. I do not really see how this could be easy except for the making the box and getting every thing that you need together.

Diagram: http://artpad.art.com/?k82y1j1frdmw

Portrait Photography

Definition: Portrait photography is the capture of the likeness of a person or a small group of people, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The goal is to display the likeness, personality, and the mood of the person. Like other types of portraiture, the focus of the photograph is the person's face (which is usually very close to the camera and is always a close-up), although the entire body and the background may be included in the photo. A portrait can be used in cards (ASB cards, holiday cards etc...) or just as decorations around the house or in wallets.

Types:
close-ups



torso



group




full-body




environmental

Study Subject: Canoe

Caption: This canoe was built by the carving class during 2007. This is a traditional canoe, apart from the finish put onto it to keep it in good condition. It sits in the freshman hall and commons. This was built as a project to keep the carving class happy. The canoe shows what a class can do with its time.



Gestalt: The key principles of Gestalt systems are emergence, reification, multistability, and invariance. Gestalt is a structure, configuration, or pattern of physical, biological, or psychological phenomena so integrated as to constitute a functional unit with properties not derivable by summation of its parts.

Edited Football Photo

The La Conner Braves play an opposing team, Cedar Park, September 12, 2008. Football is a common sport among high school. Number 7 has taken the ball and has two teammates protecting him as a Cedar Park player plans to tackle Number 7. The Braves played a good game at Cedar Park. All of these players played because they like to play football and like the competitiveness.

Retaken Close-up

This is my retaken close-up.
This is Brad's megaminx up close. He can solve one these in about 5 and a half minutes. His record is 5 minutes. This is the pattern he solved on September 23, 2008. The mega minx is an advanced Rubik's cube, which is a 3 by 3 by 3. The solver of the megaminx must get the points on the star as well as the five other spots.

Five photos with captions

Frame within a frame


Who: A Birch tree
What: a birch tree along a cliff
When: September 17, 2008
Where: Behind the Historical Museum, La Conner, WA
Why: the tree was there because wind took the seed and stuck it on the side of the cliff.


Simplicity


Who: a granite rock
What: a granite rock lying amidst other plain rocks
When: September 17, 2008
Where: Behind the Historical Museum, La Conner, WA
Why: The rock was left got there because after the construction of the Museum, the workers spread rocks around to cover up anything.


Leading lines


Who: South Fourth Street
What: South Fourth Street in La Conner
When: September 17, 2008
Where: From South 4th Street, looking down over South 4th Street.
Why: This road was put here to allow people to live up on the hill in La Conner.



Close-up

Who: a flower
What: a fall crocus
When: September 17, 2008
Where: in my yard, La Conner, WA
Why: Angela Hasenbalg planted these to spice up her garden


Rule of thirds


Who: a tree
What: a mimosa tree
When: September 27, 2008
Where: in my yard, La Conner, WA, S 4th Street
Why: Dean Hasenbalg planted this mimosa tree, in hopes that it can survive this far north.

Camera Techniques

Rule of Thirds: The rule of thirds is a principle of composition used for centuries by artists and photographers. Using the rule of thirds places the main subject off center and away from the center of the frame. The rule envisions two horizontal and two vertical lines trisecting an image with four intersecting points.



Frame within a Frame: a special frame sometimes acts as the subject itself.



Leading Lines: lines that lead into the picture not out of and lead the eye towards the subject.



Close up: where the subject is very close to the camera, sometimes having a blurry background.



Simplicity: the technique of simplicity is used to achieve the effect of singling out an item or items from their surrounding.



Mergers: they help stumble the viewer's eye when looking at your photo. They are bad.

Pinhole camera

Phillip Hasenbalg, Travis Smith and Abi Hedlund created a pinhole camera. A pinhole camera is a boxlike device for holding a film or plate-sensitive to light, having an aperture controlled by a shutter, when opened, emits light enabling an object to be focused, usually by means of a lens, on the film or plate, thereby producing a photographic image. They created their camera with black tape, photosensitive film, black paper, two large rubber bands, pencil, straight sewing needle, scissors and a soda can.
They took a photo with the camera by lifting a flap of paper to uncover a hole to allow light onto photosensitive paper, which then put the photo onto the film. The making went great, but the photo was not good.















A camera needs four key components:
a shutter
a light-tight box
a hole
film

They say for other people who want to make a pinhole camera: "Take lots of time to make a pinhole camera. Our pinhole camera did not work. Our pictures did not come out correct. I think that using a box or a bigger can would be better that a small can. We also think that we did not have enough light to take the picture and there was lots of movement around the camera."

What I would most like to learn

I would like to learn how to photoshop and change pictures to make them look cooler or add something in that wasn't in the original photo and make it appear as if it belongs, like a bird flying underwater or a fish flying through the air, but make them appear as if they were supposed to be there. Also how to create different effects in photos.