Digital Photography and Editing
This section of my porfolio is a reflection of our work for the past semester in our high school photography class. As you scroll through all of the projects throughout our time in this class, you can see our photography improves not just in quality, from an iPhone to a DSLR to a mirrorless and even a drone. But also our settings, composition, and overall understanding of the camera and capturing a scene improve dramatically, from our 11 tips to all of the sports, events, and portrait work we do now.
11 tips
Kodaks 11 tips for photo composition
- Use flash outdoors
- Know your flashes range
- Watch the light
- Be the picture director
- Get down on their level
- Lock the focus
- Move in close
- Vertical picture
- Move subject from the middle
- Use a plain background
- Leading lines
Advanced photos
Using shutter speed, aperture and ISO
Shutter speed: How fast or slow the shutter opens and closes—how long the sensor is open to light and capturing an image
- Faster shutter speed (higher number) action is more still, picture is darker
- Slower shutter speed (lower number) action is more blurry, picture is brighter
Aperture: The opening in a lens through which light passes to enter the camera.
- Large aperture (bigger number) more depth is in focus
- Small aperture (smaller number) less depth is in focus
ISO: A setting that can brighten or darken a photo that has already been taken
- High ISO (bigger number) brighter image
- Low ISO (small number) darker image
ISO doesnt create grain; it only amplifies what is already there, ISO is also not your sensors sensitivity; it is a post-capture process that occurs and is not considered part of your exposure, even though some say it is
Candy / Simple Subject
Black and White
Old Photo Restoration
Panarama
