Working with Long Exposure

My project is working with long exposures. In my shots, I try to use manipulate the camera's settings to create trails of light that wouldn't normally be observed in a short exposure photo. The photos so far use vehicles for their speed in creating motion through the picture. I also usually shoot on the same level as the cars. Only in one of the photos do I find a different vantage point to shoot photos.

Experimentation

This week, the class was encouraged to use various filters and editing tools in Adobe Photoshop and PicMonkey. I used may filters in Photoshop and experimented with individual filters as well as combining filters. Each photo is captioned with its filter.

"For Mother Russia" When seeing this photo with the Poster Edges filter, we thought it reminded us of an old Russian Propaganda...

Photocopy

Chrome

Glowing Edges

Photocopy and Neon Glow

Stamp

When hearing of how others in my class had experimented with adding hair to certain photos, well, I thought I'd go all out...

Credits to Joe for being such a good sport when editing pictures of him- You're not doing it wrong.

Design Shots

This week we used PicMonkey to make interesting designs out of already existing photos we had taken.

Motion Photos 2

This week, we took another look at motion by using fast shutter speeds to capture individual moments. This was a fun exercise where we tried to capture levitation. I have to say thanks to Joe and Zach for being such helpful subjects.

Photos With Motion

This week I spent a lot of time making motion blurs.  There was a lot of  pushing forward, back pulling, panning, swinging, and shaking the camera. The ending result was many pictures with certain blurred aspects. This wasn't too hard since I was used to longer exposures (because of the light painting), but a little harder since I had to shoot in the daylight and master the slight delay of the cameras.

Silhouettes

This week, the class was tasked to take pictures of silhouettes. We did this by changing the exposure compensation settings to blacken out the object we are trying to silhouette. Although this was somewhat challenging at first, it did become much easier. By the end of the week, it was much easier to find places where silhouettes could be shot and altered using photoshop.

Light Painting Final Edit

These are the best of the various light painting photos I have taken. Over the course of the series, the "tracing" method turned out to be the most successful. These photos were taken by moving a flashlight or headlamp along the subject with the light on. It created the effect of illuminating the subject in addition to creating trails of light similar to a neon sign. Not only were they easy enough to understand (and less obscure than some of my other photos), these photos were interesting to look at as well as creative. If I had more time, I would try to work other colored lights into the pictures. I wonder if they would be too distracting or compliment the photo quite nicely.

November 22, 2013

November 22, 2013

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December 10, 2013

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November 22, 2013