Panorama

I pass by the site of this construction every week and I never really notice it. To me, it was just there, it was something I passed by. I never really paid attention to it until I really got up close to it. I was looking for a cool panorama to shoot and I passed by the crane and the color and the height really got my attention. The one by it, which was black actually didn't catch my eye because it blended in and was normal. I loved it so I shot it and I was hoping it would turn out well, turns out it's one of my best panos. I love how the bottom of it is disproportionate because it adds to the photo, it's one little weird thing that you just have to notice. I would always go to the same old places to shoot, the park, my house, other people's houses, etc. and I really wanted to find new places, places that were hidden to me before. I wanted to find places that I had never shot before and I succeeded. I've realized through this that sometimes, the coolest photos are never in the places you expect them to be. They're in the most normal places boring places, but the photos turn out awesome because it's not something everyone shoots. People would usually be like, what is cool about this place? It's just a crane and there's nothing that cool about it, but there is. This photo is one of those. Before I found this crane, I was feeling frustrated that I couldn't find something good enough to shoot and when I saw this, the frustration didn't go away that fast, but there was a happiness in me. I think the crane shows my emotions from then, it's a red and it's successful and a great photo but the hard metal texture of the crane and its strength shows the little bit of frustration left in me at the time. I think the reason it's good is mainly because I was shooting how I felt and it somehow just came to me naturally rather than me trying to search everywhere for something that didn't fit.

Final Project

This is more of my final project, apparently the last post wasn't the last of it. The first one is of a business building and there was a walkway between that building and another and the white in the photo is that walkway. I thought it would look so cool if I intersected the building and the walkway and the contrast of the colors is so great that it makes it the focus. I love the simplicity of the 3 colors and it's unique but it's so simple. The second one is of, I think, a restaurant, but I don't really remember what it is because I can't really tell what it is. I love how it's abstract even though you know it's a part of a building, you can't tell what part it is. I love how the yellow stands out against the blue and the purple. The shape and intersection of lines is also really interesting. The third one is of Bajio's. The side of the restaurant had these cool lines so I really wanted to take it. I love the shadows on one side and how it's light on the other side. The contrast is cool and I also love the sharp corners, the shape of it is awesome. It's simple, yet different.

Final Project

These are my last photos from my final project. The first one is of the movie theater near my house and I loved the rectangular shape of the building with the rounded edge of the lower roof. It was a big contrast but it was totally cool. The color is similar too but it's still different enough to show the contrasts between shape. The second one is of the same movie theatre and I loved the layers of the signs and the lines and color of it. It's so unique and I love the layers how it creating different shapes and designs. I've wanted to shoot this sign for a year and I finally did it. Haha. I love the contrast between the red letters and the yellow back. The third one is of a business place and I loved the zigzag pattern of the building on top because usually buildings aren't zigzag, they're flat or rectangular. It's a simple shape but it's so unique, I love it. I love how the zigzags aren't all the same too, like when one of the places it caving in the layer below it is jagging out, so it makes it not too symmetrical. The fourth one is of another business building. There was a straight line going up and so I just stood close to the base of the building and looked up to take it. My first shot of it was too close and you couldn't see any details so I backed up a little and it was a lot better. I really like the symmetry and the intersecting lines. Sometimes symmetry is boring, but because of the cool lines and different colors, it's interesting. I like the gold on either side and it doesn't coincide with the other colors or take away the attention, it adds to the building.

Final Project

These are two more of my photos from my final project. The first one is from a part of the city hall of Salt Lake City and I originally had it not zoomed in as much but Mr. Slade told me to crop it and it looks way better. The detail is seen better and the uniqueness is seen better without all the stuff around it. I love the simplicity and color of it. It's just two colors and not too many colors. The one on the right is of the capital building and I love the angles and the shapes it takes, how it slants and then suddenly there's a dome. I also like the style of the architecture. I love how ancient it looks even though it's not. I love the shape and style!

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Final Project

These are some of the photos from my final project. I wanted to show a different view of buildings and architecture. I wanted to show the part of the building that was unique and different. The first one is of the Salt Lake Library with another metal structure by it. I thought it was really cool how the slanted edge of the library differs with the roundish shape of the structure by it, how the structure dips down. I love the shape of it. It's a simple combination but it's so much. The second one is of the library also but it's another view of it. I saw that little window sticking out and usually windows aren't that shape so I thought it was simple and unique. I didn't want the photo to be all that color so I added some sky into it to make the shape interesting. I like how the side of it slants down instead of being straight. The window isn't symmetrical and I really like that because it's not perfect but it's unique. The third one is of the Salt Lake City city hall and it's the bottom side of one of the sides. I love how the it's round closer to me and how the building slants out in the back. I love the differing shapes. I also really like the texture of the rock and how cool it can be when you sharpen it up. If it was just plain it wouldn't have been as cool and unique. I like the reflection in the window because it would have made the picture more plain without it. The green at the bottom adds to the photo also because it creates a contrast between the green and the yellowy color of the stone.

This is a photo I found on google images and I think it's really cool but I don't know who took it. I love the feel of it that it goes on forever because you can't see the end of it and it gets thinner and thinner. I love the lines on the side and top and bottom because it makes the photo more unique and less plain. People shoot stuff like this all the time but I think it's very unique because of the lines and the light is beautiful. I love how the light comes down and is very natural and subtle but it totally adds to the photo.

I don't know who this panorama is by either but I love the color of the sky and the orange on the horizon. I love how it looks like the sky will go on forever and it feels like the sky is right above your head low. The orange color really stands out amongst all that black and purple and blue. It creates a reflection of orange and it's beautiful. The rocks in the front of the image also add to make the image more unique rather than just another sky and horizon image.

I don't know who shot this panorama but I think the perspective is really cool. It makes it look like each side is leaning in but still straight. It's a different view than if you just shot it straight down and I love the one leading line down the middle leading to the small tall thing in the far center.

This is a photo by Henri Cartier Bresson and it's cool and creepy at the same time. I love the swirling stairs. The geometric shape of it is wonderful. It's so simple, yet so strong and complex at the same time. I love how all the heads are all squished together and it gets squishier and closer as it gets higher up. If the heads aren't there then it wouldn't be as cool because it would just be like any other spiral shape that photographers take, not as cool as this. He put a unique spin on it.

What Makes a Good Photo?

To make a good photo I think emotion is really important. If you feel one way but you try to shoot another emotion then the photo will turn out bad because it's not what you really want/feel. It's more fake and it's not sincere. Every image should have an emotion when the viewer looks at it because then it's a meaningful image having some importance to it showing the photographer's feelings. Another thing that's important is the composition. If it's bad composition then the photo won't be as strong and won't have as much feeling in it. If it's a good composition, most of the time, it automatically has emotion and feeling in it. When I shoot a good image, I have this feeling in me that the image is going to be strong. I think composition is more important than emotion because composition is basically one of the big factors that makes or breaks an image. A third thing that's very important is color. If the white balance is off then the whole image looks weird and it doesn't look as clean cut and good. I learned that lesson when I didn't really care about white balance and I was always like oh that looks close enough, but it wasn't. It turned out ugly and I couldn't print some images to turn in because of this. Color is what sharpens the image and it's what enriches the image. A vibrant red can cause lots of emotion and make the image strong while a bad red doesn't show anything. It shows bad white balance and bad color.

Assignment #4- Panoramas

This is my other panorama. I finally got it to go on the blog. I don't like this one as much as my Wells Fargo building one and the construction one I shot. I like the view of this though because everything's supposed to be horizontal across but I changed it to this view because I think it's a lot cooler.

Assignment 4- Panorama 3

This is my 3rd panorama. I really like this one because of the shapes and the whole thing how it goes up. I wasn't originally going to take photos of this but I decided to do it because I saw it and I was like this is awesome. I really like the red of the color because it stands out against the sky and the black construction behind it. This is really cool and I love panoramas.

Assignment 4- Panorama 2

I don't like this panorama as much as my first one of Liberty Park. I decided to crop off a lot of the blue sky at the top because I thought there was way too much. I like the other one better because it seems more beautiful and more likable and this one is more angled and up. I like horizontal panoramas better I guess. This one is of the Wells Fargo building downtown and I took it the same day as the Liberty Park one. This one I like the shapes on the building, the rectangles of the window and and angled structure, but that's all I like of it.

Assignment 4 Panorama 1

This is my first panorama and it's of the pond in Liberty Park. I shot it on Sunday and the weather was so nice. I loved it there. I love how blue the sky was and the shadows of the trees. The entire panorama just makes me feel so spring and summer. I love the color of the green green grass and the blue color of the pond thing. I also like how black the trees are. It creates more contrast in the photo. I love this photo.

Assignment 3 Not Printed

This is my assignment 3 not printed. I really like the fading one. I think it was a close up of one of the panels on my window while it had shadows and light. I really like it though because it's very abstract. There's not much to it and it's very simple, but it's cool because you can't tell what it is. It's just the color that's cool. The stairs one I think is cool because it's a different perspective of stairs. It's not how you'd usually look at them. It's just corners of it and usually you'd look at them straight up or from the front or something regular. It's more different this way.

Panorama

Export as TIFF. Must go into Photoshop to do panorama. Work on images individually in lightroom. Go to file and then automate and then photo merge. Choose auto, perspective or cylindrical for layout. Click on browse go to images and then choose one. It will automatically find all images. Hit ok. Can add another layer and fill with black and add a border. To make the lines straight first put guides in to show you what is straight. The ruler is Ctrl-r or Alt-r. They work horizontally or vertically. Go to ctrl quote shows the grid. Select all the pixels by going to select all in select. Then go to edit and go down to transform and then distort. Click and grab anchors to change into whatever shape I want. Play with it and figure it out.

Assignment 2 Not Printed

These two photos are from my rhyming that I didn't print. I wanted to put up another fan one because it's showing the other side of the fans. I like how the white pops out agains the tan/brown and the white and flowers really stand out. I also really like the fake orchids. I love the color pink and I love how it's zoomed in and not the entire flower pot. I like how I cut off a little bit off the orchids and how it's just 2 orchids.

Assignment 3-Time/6 Hours

This is my assignment #3-the 6 hours one. I don't like this assignment as much as the assignment 2. I really like the crack in the sidewalk but it's supposed to be vertical, and I forgot to rotate it. I really like the texture of it and the sharpness. The design is very simple so I like it a lot. I also like the darkness of the crack itself. It differenciates from the whiteness of the sidewalk. The number one I took from our car and I like the reflection from the numbers. I also like the dirty spots and stuff that are on the numbers. I also really like the reflection of the light on the numbers. It gives it a little bit of uniqueness.

Assignment 2 Rhyming

This is my rhyming assignment, and I really like the fan photo. I really like the composition and shape for it. It's a beautiful shape and the colors are all different. I love how the center of the fans isn't exactly in the center of the photo. It's more unpredictable that way. My 2nd favorite is probably the lamp one. I took it at night and the light shown on my bedroom wall. It was very pretty. It's something very simple but it's weird because I've never noticed it before. The simplicity of it really caught my eye. I also love how it's a warm dark color. It makes me feel very cozy and warm. The next favorite is the railing one. I love the leading line that goes from bottom to hot. I never noticed it before when I passed it a lot everyday, but somehow I just saw it. I love how it's sharp and straight. It goes all the way up and it just leads your eye to the top, but it doesn't take it off the photo. It kind of circles your eye around to the painting and back down the stairs. It's a circle. The rose is very pretty. I've always wanted to take a color picture of it so I finally did it. The background was hard to recover though because the highlights were so bad. I really like the color of it and how the background matches the rose, very classical.

This is a photo by Ansel Adams and I love the shadows on the sand of the desert. It's beautiful. It's so unrealistic because of how beautiful it is. I love the dramatic fade of color from black darkness all the way to lighter. It's beautiful. I love the shape of the sand and it's so simple, but the shape of it completely changes the photo. It's so much more interesting because of the curves of the sand.

I really like this photo by Dong Hong Oai. I love the sand blowing up. It's like an art of itself and I love the color. It really stands out against the rest of the background. I also really like the position of the person how the balance is slanted. I love how the color of the two baskets and of her pants stand out against the white blowing sand. It's a gorgeous photo. It seems very dreamlike because of the misty quality of the sand.

Printing

Color Management mangaged by lightroom. Profile managed by other and find profile on list, choose the one that's Louis Daguerre for my printer. Click print sharpening and put it on standard. Media type is glossy. Print Resolution on 360. Print to printer.

This is an image by Louis Daguerre and I think it's beautiful. The light coming in from the window is so beautiful and it just enhances the entire feel of the building. It's the perfect lighting, not too much and not too little. I also like the glowy feel of the entire place even though it's a little gloomy. I love the details of the ceiling and the pillars. The art and the carvings are so beautiful. I also like how the people are in it also because it makes it look less like just a tourist photo. It makes it look like a real image. That little detail adds color to the image because the building itself is very plain colored and the clothing is red and white and black rather than gray and brown and dark red.

I really like this image by Paul Strand because it's so simple with just a couple of good details. I like the blackness of the trees because it sticks out against the brown of the lake? The mist at the back also adds to the picture. It's a cool detail and it just makes the trees pop more because everything else around it is brown. I also really like the shadows cast in front of the trees because it makes the photo more mysteriousness and gloomy. I really like the color of the sky how it fades from brown to gray. It's very beautiful like that kind of misty beautiful with that mystery in it.

This is an image by Yang Yan Kang and I think it's awesome because of the mist and the swirls on the ground. I also like how ancient and long ago this cart in the middle looks. It looks like I was brought into a long ago world. The misty mountains makes a sort of mysterious feel. It's kind of scary and how the lady is dressed in black adds to the mystery and cool senses.

This is a photo of Paul Strand. I really like this because I can't tell what it is. It's abstract to me. It looks like a car but I'm not sure. I really like how it's black and white and the shadows and light are also very cool. I really like how the light hits and how it creates fading shades of gray on the car and darker shadows. The bottom of it kind of looks like a window with lines on it, but when you look at it whole then it's not a window anymore.

Fixed Bracketing

This image was kinda hard to fix because when the candle looked good then the windows would be way too bright. I had to choose a darker image to work with so that the highlights would be better and the candle would look better as well. After fixing the blacks, highlights, and candle, it looked way better. I'm really happy I cropped out the side of it because it had the side of a chair in it which was very distracting, so I cropped it.

Assignment 1 Bracketing

This is really weird because it made the dark one darker than it was and the light one lighter than it really was so....I don't like these brackets as much as the flower ones but that one didn't have any light ones because it was a different way to do it.

I shot this photo for the bracketing assignment and I really like the brightness of the flowers. How they're yellow is really pretty and I also like the light hitting on the vase. I just wanted to get through the assignment so I just chose an object close to the window for natural light and shot it. Haha. I shot this in the morning at about 11 so yeah.

Exporting

Choose where it's going, usually assignment folder. Then for template choose custom name and if it's print then do flower_print and if it's web then do flower_web. For the web the format is jpeg. The quality is 80. The internet's color space is sRGB.If you're printing then use proPhoto RGB. Click resize to fit and click long edge. Choose ten inches. The resolution is 72 pixels per inch. For the web only, click in output sharpening and put it to standard.For post processing for the internet it says do nothing.

every single one of my photos is always cut off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! uggh!!!!!!!!!!

I really like this image by Shomei Tomatsu. I love how her black hair pops against the white and light gray of the pillowcase and covers. Her face is also very pretty and the shadows are awesome in the photo. The shadows on her arm and collarbone create a depth of her own body and skin. I love how she doesn't have much of a facial expression and it makes it even more beautiful because the whole thing is simple. I just absolutely love the shadows!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a photo by Henri Cartier Bresson and I love it because of the blue that pops out on the bottom of the image. I also like the simplicity of the image how everything is all white. It's so modern and white and beautiful. The three black chairs are also very popping because it's the opposite of white and the blue kind of disappears on the wall by the time it gets to the chairs. The blue shadows cast behind the chairs are also very pretty because it reminds me of a peacock and rainbow even though there's not all the colors. The spectrum of the colors is so pretty. I love how the floor is blue because it's so unexpected. Usually floors are white or beige or black or carpet.

Does anyone know how in the world to get the histogram on the camera to come out?

This is a photo by Irving Penn for Loreal. I love the colors spreading out from the lips like flowers and it really contrasts from the pale skin. The pale skin is kind of scary though because it reminds me of one of those really pale creatures in horror movies or those floating ones. The color is popping and really beautiful though. I just don't like how the photo starts at her nostrils though, that's not very attractive.

I love this photo by Man Ray. The water drops are so characterizing. They're so 3D and real. It's so strategically placed. The eyelashes really match the drops too because at the end of the eyelashes are small points/dots and that matches the water drops because both are round. I love the water. It goes with the entire eye. The paleness of the skin is also makes the eyelashes stand out more because they're really black.

Uggh.....! Every single photo I put is cut off!

This photo is by Patrick Demarchelier and I think it's a fashion photo but I still like it. I like the strong makeup on the model because it's very powerful and it's like she can stare you down. It's so sharp and dark. If I think the other side, she is very dark and evil. Like one of those mean. girls that walk out on the street in NYC wearing this sweatshirt and her posse. I love the contrasty feel of her sweatshirt and her makeup. The sweatshirt is soft and light while her makeup is the opposite.

I like this photo by Patrick Demarchelier because of its unbalanced proportions. The rose is huge but somehow it doesn't take all the attention. I still notice the woman that's under the rose. I think this is because the rose leads to the woman. She is its stem and normally, flowers have stems but since this one doesn't we naturally search for one. I love how the woman's face is half covered. It makes it more beautiful and more mysterious. The shadows on her body are also very good. It's dramatic and hits very sharply. Half of her is light and the other is dark. I also love the shadows on the rose because it enhances the 3D feel of the rose. It makes it feel more silky and more lively and existing.

I really like this photo by Annie Leibovitz. This background is so simple and that's why I really like it. I really like the shadows on the floor made by her position and the awesome lighting techinques. I like the position and jumping that she is doing. This pose is so powerful. It shows that she can dominate anything but is still feminine based on the dress that she's wearing. I love how the dress is powerful also because it whips around her with lots of energy while she herself is executing this jump. The lighting overall is so good, how it hits only half of her and fades into black. I feel like I can see the entire photo really detailed because the background is so simple. It really brings out the woman.

I love this photo by Irving Penn and the expression and light on her face, neck, and shoulders is so amazing. Her facial expression shows pride and beauty. I love how her neck has the shadows and how the bones on her shoulders have shadows on them. I love the second background to the left. It adds a little bit of uniqueness to the photo rather than the perfect background. I love the position her body is in, how it's bent and show off the blackness of the fishtail dress better. This photo just captures so much glamour and classiness. The entire image just surprises me and just makes me think WOW. The lady reminds me of the designer Carolina Herrera and she is so talented and seems like she never gives up. This lady had the exact expression that Carolina had on a magazine. I love this photo.

Balenciaga Dress

I love this photo of the Balenciaga dress by Irving Penn. It's gorgeous! I love the expression on the face of the model and how her face is veiled. It makes her face a little more mysterious and she seems more controlling. She's seems sharp and the type of woman that could go out by herself in the 1900s without a chaperone. Someone brave. The dress itself is beautiful. The ruffles and the shadow on them is gorgeous. The light of the ruffles is really good. I like how it goes from the light to dark and gray. The tones are really cool. I also really like the wing things on the side. They're very creative and add to the photo rather than if they weren't there.