Class Exercise 6: Artistic Concept~

This could have been mine!

We actually got the word jacuzzi. We first thought of jacuzzi as a luxury. Something not everyone can afford. So, I thought of Africans who are normally portrayed as poor. Our initial idea is to put a rich woman into a jacuzzi of diamonds with hungry and poor looking africans staring from outside. But Jing mentioned it is too direct. Provocative statements are not made to be direct. So she suggested us to put a poor african in the jacuzzi instead. Therefore we came out with this statement: This could have been mine! Because diamond company like DeBeers has been getting diamonds from Africa but selling them rich countries. Have we ever thought that these diamonds could have been the African's because they are from their country. Why are we stealing their diamonds and why are they so poor despite having diamonds in their country.

Hopefully this is provocative enough!

Ayway, I must praise Luo Lan for her Photoshop skill!

My first photography job!

My sister's friend invited me to take photos at their son, Samuel's birthday party! I was told to use Samuel's dad(a photographer)'s tamrone lens. I was not very used to it though!

This is Samuel! Cute! The theme is cowboy! The colour of the photos are so pretty. I learnt how to manuel set colour balance from Samuel's dad.

Baby K! indulging herself in the ball pit.

Playing games with daddies and mumies!

I was sitting down. Quite a cute angle!

Many babies squeezing into a ball pit!

He is such a handsome baby.

Lights was turned off during cake cutting. I was unable to change settings asap. So I did think I did a good job with the photos of cake cutting!

Happy Samuel.

Sharing food!

It was very tiring and stressful, to be honest... I didn't take any nice good group photos as I was too shy to call for attention. May I be better next time!

Class Exercise 5: Different positions of lighting

Findings during the class experiment!

We made use of the computer screen to cast different colour on Yingqi's necklace. The effects on the mood are rather different!

The blue gives an emo and eerie feeling.

I felt that red is abit bloody. Like someone just use the necklace to kill some one! Haha.

Positions of lighting:

Lightning is at the left side of the bag. Shadow casted on the right side.

This is shot with lighting in front. As you can see the shadow is casted behind, similar to the above picture. But the bag is whiter (more exposure) when the light is shining directly on it!

I like the effect of this. Lighting is at the back. Shadow casted in front. This give the bag a "superior" feel.

Lighting is on top of the bag. The texture pattern on the bag becomes more visible and shadow is casted around it, like a spot light!

The position of the lighting gives very significant effect to the photo. I find the back lighting very interesting, and I like how the shadow is formed there!

Baby K's Playdate 2

This time round is at Royce @ Liang Court. 4 babies attended!

I accidentally deleted the soft copies of these (unedited ones). ALWAYS BACK-UP.

Babies over loaded.

Would it be nicer if aperture in smaller?

Smiling!

Killing the doll.

He loves the camera!

Took from a higher perspective.

Freeze action. haha.

I guess this is my way of practising camera skills!

Class Exercise 3: Experiment on Background

Small aperture makes the background look further from the subject!

Taken with small aperture:

The clock looks far from the cap.

Taken with bigger aperture:

We realised that the clock seems nearer to it!

I am amazed~!

The beauty of aperture, that is why everyone is seeking from small aperture!

Class Exercise 2: FunnyPanning Shot

This was my panning shot in class. Cute, isn't it? We played cheat cos I was on a chair and she was spinning me!

Baby K's Playdate 1

My sister asked me to go to Baby K's playdate to take pictures! Here is some pictures I took with my D90!

Blur Baby K.

Baby K's friends!

Baby K is so violent!!!!!! Poor baby got punched!

Candid shot!

Kinda like this composition in the photo.

Babies are fun! Sometimes, taking pictures of them make me miss some adorable moments of them. If I can choose, I rather not to take photos of them, but to "admire" their KAWAII acts!

Assignment 4: High and Low Key

Miss Jing said that seeing high key and low key photos of a photographer will tell how good and bad he/she is at photography. This totally made me abit stress about this assignment! Haha, joking. I try to make use of things I can find in my house to create the low key feeling. This is my setup!

Torchlight, black cloth and box cover! I sweated like mad after taking hundreds of shot.

(F5.6 ISO1600 1/200)

I thought liquor is a good subject as the light can pass through the transparent liquid for a pretty effect. So I did a few shots and with some liquor I found at home.

(F5.6 ISO1600 1/200)

This one is a bottle with blue liquid. Perhaps effect will be better if white light is use. So that the label is not so yellowish!

(F6.3 ISO1600 1/40)

I thought a high key is easier than low key. This is my bag, I imagine that I am doing an advertisement for it. I really like product photography. This is one of my fave photo I have taken!

I need more practice on high low key. Product photography, commercial photography are areas I might like to pursue in the future!

Class Exercise 4: est Perspective, Zoom, Close Up and SMILE Photo among my group

BEST PERSPECTIVE:

Okay, this photo is mine. My group only have 3 person and that is why mine is chosen. Haha, This photo can be better, in terms of the perspective bit.

BEST SMILE:

This photo is by yingqi. Every girls like dessert I guess! And many girls like pink. I like how this photo has a shallow depth but in a portrait mode.


BEST CLOSE UP:

By yeening. The colours are beautiful. This photo will be better if it is more focus. Pretty photo in general!

BEST ZOOM SHOT:

It would be better if the center of the flower is more focused. But flower is a good subject for zoom shot. A successful shot will be awesome!

Assignment 3

The assignment this time round include a conceptual task! SMILE! I felt that smile is quite subjective, different things make different people smile! Tough!!!


1. Zoom Shoot: POPEYES! Zoom shoot is not difficult but a nice zoom shot is hard. It is hard to find a meaningful subject which result in a nice zoom shot.


2. SMILE: Chocolates make me happy! I love the lighting in the mart.


2. SMIKLE: Playground is like the place of laughter! ut this picture seems abit emo.


3. Perspective: I wasn't that satisfied with this photo. But I like the reflection on the building.


3. Perspective: I felt that I should have more bears in place. It doesn't give a perspective angle much.


4. Close-up: I do not like the colour of this. But I like how the needles of the catus is being focus.


4. Close-up: Favourite photo of the assignment. I like how the colour goes, and the lurring of the background!

This assignment makes me lose some confidence again!
I think I still hae lots to learn! Wish me Luck!

Assignment 2

By the second assignment,I felt that I've known my d90 better and found myself falling slightly deeper into photography. I didn't want to take photo for the sake of taking them to hand up as homework, so I explored more places and try to take more meaningful pictures.


1. Deep depth of field: For this photo, I did not manipulate the colour. It was taken when the sun was about to set, so natural lighting was perfect. My fellow friends commented that the background should be more meaningful. I felt so too.


2. Motion Blur: My little niece moves super fast. The background was so clear in contrast! But not much action is seen in this picture.


3. Freeze Motion: Freeze motion immediately makes me think of water. I took many photos of the fountain, this was the best. I do like the effects of it, shutter was fast, background is contrasting!


3. Motion Freeze: When I review this photo I took, I actually felt quite emo. The old man seems to be catching the water in hs fist, but he was unable to. Just like his youth, no one can hold on to their youth forever... but yet not everyone is lucky enough to stop working at an old age. How sad!


4. Panning: Panning is definitely not as easy as it seems. I do realise it would e easier if you're far from the subject, I am not sure why is this so. I'm definitely going to take other pannig shots. Panning of a animal is extremely hard I guess!


5. Shallow Depth of Field Clear BG): I thought the theme of this photo is interesting, death and alive, young and old. But my classmates think otherwise, perhaps I did not bring out the essence of it.


6: Shallow Depth of Field (Clear front):
One of my classmate mention that, her understanding of shallow depth of field with clear front should exist with a meaningful background (another subject. I am not sure is it is true.



6. Shallow Depth of Field (Clear front): I shall end of with another Baby K photo!


I am looking forward to other challenges ahead!