Assignment 9 - Black and white

I took 10 different photos and converted them from color to black and white. Since I do not have Photo Shop, I used Picasa 3 to do my editing. Although I did not have the editing tools in Photo Shop, I thought some of my pictures turned out very well and overall, I was pleased.

I showed the original photo in color, then the edited in black and white.

Assignme 8 - Macro

Assignment 8 - Macro It was kind of fun picking out what I wanted to take for my macro pictures. I did find it much easier to get macro pictures outside then inside.

I had a hard time getting the correct lighting and the camera to focus inside. Some of the pictures were very blurry. Even so, I still managed to get 30 good macro and super macro pictures.

Assignment 7 Portrait lighting with Artificial lighting

These portraits are of my daughter Susan. They were taken in her home in the city of St. Louis.

Because of the lack of outlets available to me, I was not too happy with my lighting even though I used 3 photo lights. Placement of these lights was limited due to having only one extension cord, making it difficult to get rid of some shadows. I tried to compensate a little by editing in Picasa.

My white balance was incondescent. My f stops were 4.7 - 5.0. ISO ranged between 80 and 699.

Susan was a very co-operative subject, trying to give me different poses which I was pleased with.

I have learned several things, maily, make sure you have plenty of extension cords and watch out, those photo lamps are hot.

Assignment 6 - Architecture

These photos are of Kirkwood United Methodist Church situated on the NW corner of Clay and Adams.

I used various + and - settings of exposure compensation, white balance and various shooting modes. I did not use flash on any of these.

I used exposure compensation to get the lighting effect that I wanted.

This was an interesting assignment and I have learned a lot about taking photos using the various settings on my camera