The best photo I have taken is called " A New Discovery". I love this photo because to me it isn't only technically sound, as it uses the rule of thirds and has good contrast between the background and the subjects but it also tells a story. It has a cheerful tone to it because of its bright warm colors and brightly lit foreground and background. but it is also somewhat eerie because of the large red almost alien object that is in the background. The way the models are positioned creates a sense of curiosity and fear of the unknown. If I were able to retake this photo I would change the lighting so the right side wasn't as bright as it is. I might also have made this photo more of a series and tell a whole story rather than just a portion of it.
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Pinhole
Camera Obscura, Latin for dark room, is the process of an image being projected inverted and upside down unto a screen, on one side of a box, from light coming into a hole on the other side of the box. It was the first step into the large pool of photography and was created by renaissance painters who used it to paint portraits and then overtime adapted to take photos by adding light sensitive paper and different lenses to create what we now know as photography. Pinhole cameras use this same process and to get the image, which is an inverted upside down negative on light sensitive pape, to be a positive image on a computer we first scan the Image than flip it horizontally and vertically and then we invert the colors of the image so that the product is what the picture should actually look like. Now because the aperture is so small on this camera, it being a literal pinhole, the shutter speed had to be quite long, about a week, ( when the usual shutter speed is less than a second), in order to let enough light in to create an image. A piece of electrical tape acted as the shutter blocking out the light of the sun before and after the shot by covering the pinhole which acted as the aperture. The focal length of the camera we used was very short, about the size of the Altoid tin body, this made it so that the image was very "zoomed out" and small changes in the distance from the focal point created drastic differences in the final product. Which suprised me because I was expecting a change in size but not as drastic as it was. When I set up my camera on the flagpole in front of the school pointed at the street ahead, I didn't realize the buildings would be too small to see due to the distance. Because I didn't factor this my picture came out looking more like a desert than a bustling street, creating an eerie and mysterious tone.
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Pinhole 2
for my second pinhole which was out of school I decided to change it up a little and instead of putting the camera in a stationary spot like most would I decided to put the pinhole camera on the back of my rear view mirror facing the windshield. I used a tiny hula figure bobble head as a focal point. allowing it to remain more sharp than the background due to its limited movement compared with the background. i ended up leaving the camera on my car for about two weeks, I wish I had left I longer, not realizing that the location of the camera and the bad weather that was going on that week would greatly reduce the amount of light let in. overall I'm glad that i put the pinhole where i did because the movement of the sun as a result in the car travelling created a pretty cool effect if it were further explored. however if i were to change on thing about the image i would have made it closer to the focal point because when i put up the camera i still didn't really understand exactly how wide the focal length was and how much that would affect the image. from my first pinhole to my second I made similar mistakes in misjudging the actual effect the tiny focal length would have and subsequently my two images seem small and almost barren. However I do like the idea of a steady focal point and a moving background that we see in the second picture where as the first was meant to be more of a landscape. However the creases and tears in the first image give it more character and make it feel more like its an antique. staying more true to the origins of this photography style while the second image is almost too modern looking and doesn't really fit with the technique used to take the photo. Overall Id say this image could be closer to its focal point with a larger exposure allowing for the image to be a little brighter and better developed