Moon PhotographyTo photograph the moon:
1. Use a tripod! A flat surface will only allow you to shoot straight, and shooting the moon means that you'll be shooting up and constantly re-adjusting the tripod as the moon moves throughout the night. 2. Use a shutter release cord, remote or the camera's self timer if you don't have one, so that you don't move the camera when pressing the shutter release during a long exposure. 3. Use a zoom lens and zoom in as much as you can to the moon. It's okay if it's not a super fancy lens, this was shot using a 15 year old $100 lens. Focus in on the craters and details on the moon. 4. ISO 1250- 1600, so that you can use as fast a shutter speed as you can without losing detail-the longer the shutter speed, the more chances you have the camera will shake even slightly in the wind, resulting in an out of focus photograph. 5. Aperture priority of f/5.6 since you are not worried about capturing any details other then the moon. 6. Bracket your exposure, meaning over expose and underexpose the photograph from what the camera is telling you. Generally the camera will overexpose the moon, so you'll get nothing but a white blob in the sky. Use the exposure compensation button (the +/- button below the shutter release) and change the exposure to -0.5, then -1.0, then -1.5 and so on, until you start seeing detail in the moon. You may go as far as -5.0 exposure compensation to get what you need. 7. Take a fair amount of photos and keep refocusing as the night progresses. The photographs may look focused on the camera's display, but you won't really see if they're completely in focus until you upload them onto your computer screen.
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Light PaintingThis is the light painting project, unfortunately there wasn't a lot of room and the corner we had some light coming in making these pictures not the best. Some did come out how we liked, we adjusted with brighter lights and a different shutter speed and those came out better. All in all the project was a lot of fun to do.
RespectThis is my respect yourself submission. This represents you respecting your body and staying in shape, the silhouette represents that anyone can do this by respecting their bodies and doing things to maintain a healthy life style. The track represents being on the right track, drug free, exercise, and many other things. The track can represent a loop you keep going around and it can be an unhealthy loop that involves drugs, or a healthy lifestyle loop. The school represents getting an education having a busy schedule and still finding the time to be healthy. This picture can represent and be interpreted in many ways depending how you want it to mean to you.
In the pictures you see above I had the camera settings on fast shutter speed of 1/1000 of a second. The pictures aperture was on f/5.6 and i love how the pictures came out in the end. The following pictures I did not have any trouble taking and I took many to make sure I got the perfect picture I could get.
Shutter speed“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still” -Dorothea Lange
Cyanotype
The inventor of the cyanotype is Sir John Herschel. The cyanotype was introduced in 1842. Cyanotypes are created wit potassium ferricyanide and Ferric ammonium citrate. Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. Engineers used the process well into the 20th century as a simple and low-cost process to produce copies of drawings, referred to as blue prints. DaguerrotypeThe Daguerrotype was invented by Louis Daguerre and was first introduced in 1839. The Daguerrotype is a picture taken used by iodine-sensitized silver plate and mercury vapor. It was the most used method when it came to taking pictures. It was wildly popular for over 20 years.
The Dog and the owlA lonely owl sitting upon a tree, just pondering life. The owl wants a new friend because he's been alone to feast on field mice. The owl thinks about making a new mice friend. Then he realized that mice are food not friends. The lonely owl spots a dog in the distance far enough where the dog doesn't see him. The owl jumps down to the grass to become friends with the dog. The owl is skeptical because he doesn't know how the dog will react. he sits waiting to see if the dog will approach in a friendly fashion. The dog spotted the owl and chases him barking relentlessly. The dog chases him and the owl spots an old abandoned wear house. The owl runs into there with the dog right on his feathers. The owl was able to manage to fit through the broken wood and slip in the wear house. The dog follows him into the wear house and got his head stuck! the owl fled no where to be seen. The dog is left starving and whimpering for help but no one is near. The dog figures he will die so he prepares himself for the worst. He realizes his life as a stray is hard and this death may be fortunate. The dog has passed but into a better place. All dogs go to heaven, and he went to never starve again. The stray dog with his newly found wings flies into heavens gates. The owl is to never be seen again. As for the dog he is eating squirrels and all the food he wants. All dogs go to heaven.
These three pictures were taken at different apertures and shutter speeds. When changing the aperture the shutter speed automatically adjusts to the aperture. The lower the aperture f/# then the more focus on one specific subject and the blurrier everything else is. The higher the aperture f/# the wider the focus is and other subjects can be in focus as well. The shutter speed fractions get smaller when the f/# gets bigger and visa versa. I noticed this in the picture especially the f/1.8 it is more noticeable that the focus is all the way on the middle box to the right.
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AuthorMy name is Jacob Tatenco and I've always have had a vivid imagination. I got into photography to try my hand in it and as a small hobby. Archives
May 2017
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