ART455A Outside Model

All of my previous assignments for ART455A have been indoors, so for this assignment, I am allowed to shoot outdoors. The point of this assignment is to see how we are able to control the light outdoors, and it is much harder because of the bright sun (or lack of sun), so there are two photos we must have. One is more of a portrait, and the other is an advertisement. We have to be able to advertise our cell phone by also using the photo that I have taken earlier this semester, which I hate, but oh well. It might be cool. *shrug* Once again, thanks to Tricia for being my model. I lucked out that she wore yellow and green since the background was about the same colors, so it basically complemented each other. I definitely learned that I really should look at magazine cut outs more because I really have a hard time directing what people should pose. *sigh*

And here’s the camera technical talk. I went onto the internet to search how to take better portrait photos because I have always loved the whole blurry background, focused subject portraits. I think it really brings the person out in a photo, and I just like how it looks altogether. I learned that it was the Aperture, so I shot these in Aperture priority. I used the smallest aperture because it makes the background blurry whereas the largest aperture makes the background less blurry. I also used the Exposure Compensation setting on my camera because without it, it would’ve been too dark. At first I shot her when the sun was on her, and it really made everything “glow” too much. So I used the EC -0.7. I feel like I should’ve used -0.3 since the lighting does seem a little cold, but I still like how they looked. Constructive criticisms, please.