Light 1: Outside
Light 2: Inside
Focus 1: Foreground
Focus 2: Background
Composition 1: Thirds
Composition 2: Lead Room
This photography activity was a good challenge for me. I have never really picked up a camera with the intent to shoot professional quality photographs. I liked having tutorials and learning about how to produce images to use in my designs. For my outside shot I metered the sky to be sure it didn’t get blown out. The weather was overcast, so I found that using the edits in Photoshop helped provide the contrast between the snow and sky. I used natural light inside of my dining room to capture the map with the Eiffel Tower – I had fun with this one! The options through using selective color really helped me get the vibrant and bright colors I was looking for.
At first, I was extremely intimidated to do the foreground and background photographs, but quickly realized it wasn’t as difficult as it seemed. I found my brother-in-law, who knows a lot about photography and he helped me understand how to use my camera to get the results I needed. I think that the foreground picture turned out very interesting and I would like to continue playing around with this new way of focusing. In the Composition category I settled on a photograph of the playground in my backyard which lent itself naturally to the rule of thirds. Finally, for my lead room shot I took a picture of my daughter facing into the frame and placing her eyes and the Book or Mormon on the grid line.