Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Magazine inspiration

National Geographic is the magazine cover that inspired mine and Maggie's magazine idea. Our cover story will be Wildlife in Captivity and we will be showing multiple photos of animals in their cages at the Oregon Zoo.

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Depth of Field: My three best photos

 In this photo, I adjusted the aperture to the lowest number my camera would allow which is F3.5. This photo intrigued me because it shows someone taking a picture of a subject where it's clear, and then shows the subject behind the camera blurred. I thought this was a creative way of portraying depth of field, and thought it was one of my best outcomes from this project.

 This photo was also taken with a low aperture and a low exposure. The reason for the low exposure is because I wanted the yellow to pop more, with the tree's dark branches complementing it the background. I like this photo because it's an example of shallow depth of field which makes you focus on one point in the picture, in this case it would be the flower.

This photo is probably my favorite out of the three. I love the colors of the purple, white, and yellow in the flower, with the green and brown in the background. This photo I think exemplifies a shallow depth of field perfectly because the flower is so clear in the foreground and then towards the edges of the photo the leaves and other flowers start to blur. Shallow depth of field were my favorite kinds of pictures in this assignment.