Macro Experience

The assignment that I have completed today was the macro photo assignment, which would be my second photo assignment. In the macro assignment I used aperture and took pictures closer to objects than usual. All of my pictures were taken over the course of the weekend, and on friday I took pictures outside, because the weather was fairly poor the rest of the weekend. What I did to finish the assignment on the days that the weather was too poor to take pictures outside was taking pictures of miscellaneous objects around my house. I took pictures of many things, from household decorations to fruits, from my dad's guitar to an alligator head that was in my attic. I enjoyed this part of the assignment, because the environment was so easy to control, and I could get ideal conditions for my pictures whenever I wanted to, as opposed to taking them outside, where the weather could change in a matter of minutes. My goal for the assignment was to at least get fifteen pictures that I would consider "grade worthy", and I wanted about half of these from outside, and the other half from indoors. This goal was most certainly achieved, although I did better getting the pictures from inside than I did outside. Some problems that I had faced during this assignment were the application of aperture, lighting, and getting photos at the right times of day, especially when taking them outside. Aperture was difficult to adjust, because I had situations where I saw almost no change with the aperture being raised or lowered. Lighting was not as difficult, but it did cause problems when I was outside. My best photo was difficult to choose, but I loved the pepper that I had taken a picture of from my kitchen counter. At first it had lots of digital noise, and its colors were bland, but I knew that a levels adjustment would make it much more vibrant and colorful. After adjusting the pepper, I realized the value of using photoshop, and I will try to apply it to all of my photos.

My Best Photo: "Vibrant Pepper" Aperture: 2.6 Shutter Speed: 1/40 ISO: 200

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