week eight.

 

yummm.... white chocolate popcorn. :) 

 

white chocolate covered pretzels. :) :)

This is the last meeting before Christmas break. I asked Dan how to take fast pictures again, because everytime I try to take fast pictures it doesn't really work, so I wanted to ask Dan again to make sure how to do it. He told me that it depends on the lens you have and how much light it can let in. He told me to bump up the ISO to get a faster shutter speed with the lens that I have. 

Our next topic was photoshop. I'm really interested in learning about it because you can do so much with it. It's amazing! :) In photoshop, there are these things called "actions". These actions run programs that tell photoshop to do certain things with the picture to make it look different. You can make the picture look ancient, really bright, or even newspaper-like, there are also things like defog. These actions that Dan has are part of a program made up by Kevin Kubota who made the actions more accessible to people. If someone doesn't have this program, they can write programs to get the inteded effect. 

Just to make sure I don't forget anything, we did a focusing recap. He reminded me to use the focus area button on the camera, so the things I want to be in focus are in focus, and the things I don't want in focus aren't. 

There is this photographer named Zack Arias. He's a GREAT photographer that uses only one light to take his pictures. We visited his blog. There was a shootout that he and some other people had. We looked at all the pictures and I picked the one I liked and he did also. Zack Arias made this video called Transformation that was all about his photography life and how he felt throughout the year with his photography. He makes some deep stuff. I absolutely loved it!!

Lastly, Dan gave me a new video from Zack Arias called "One Light". I'm going to watch it over break.