Week 14 Slideshow-"My Fabulous Friends" (final)

For my final project, I wanted to show all of the animal friends that I have had throughout my life, from childhood to now. I tried to accomplish this by showing myself in some pictures getting older and older. I tried to show the animals that had great impact on my life, but also I tried to keep in mind that this was a photography assignment. I was looking for certain aspects in the photographs or at least ones that I could manipulate. At first, I thought, oh this will not be hard. I cannot say it was actually hard, but I wanted to be thorough and then I became obsessed with wanting to get it just right. I'm hoping the captions will not take away from the slideshow. I kept adding a little bit more information to them as I continued to check the rubric. The hardest part of this whole assignment was really making the GIMP tools work for me. I would have this idea in my head as to what I wanted the pictures to look like, and then...it would not seem to come out right. I did a lot of adjusting and readjusting. This was a very gratifying assignment, as I looked back and remembered some very special moments with my fabulous friends.

Thanks,
Trina

Week #13-portraits

In this top photo, I took a picture of my oldest son looking out the window.  He has a very deep and thoughtful expression on his face, which is true to him nature. I did ask permission first, and he was very cooperative.  He was not aware of exactly when I was going to take the picture.  I chose this one because he is slightly out of focus.  Because he is slightly blurry, the trees in the background stick out more.  The part I liked best with the focus on the background is in between the trees you can see the orange in the sky beyond the trees.  Take a close look to see if you can catch the beautiful color in the sky; it's there.

 Here is a close up of one of my favorite people, my boyfriend.  In this photograph I gave him lots of room to look at something ahead of him.  I did ask his permission too, and he was more than willing.  At first, he was walking as I was photographing.  I thought that would be great because I could get some movement in my picture, but my camera was too slow in capturing the image.  I would snap a great shot when he was moving, and then look at the image, and I missed him completely.  So, I told him to stand still.  He is 6'5", so I decided to stand up on a rock to at least get even with his eye level.  Finally I got this shot, and liked it.  It does show that he he those "eagle eyes" and that is true.  I'm glad this picture picked that up.

This is my youngest son, and he is quite different from my oldest, and you can see that.  I, again, asked for permission first.  He agreed and he got so excited he put on quite a show for me.  I tried many different angles with him coming down my stairway.  I even turned my camera so that the stairway was diagonal in the background, but none of those came out with any satisfaction.  Finally, I remembered in the tutorial that maybe framing a face would be effective.  He's not in jail, but instead, stuck his face through the staircase railing.  I quick took this picture before he went goofy on me again.  This was a lot of fun--especially shooting this last one!  I did not manipulate any of these portraits either.