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5, Fan Sophia, Light Painting Reflection
Light painting self-reflection
We have an interesting project during photograph these days—Light painting! I took some picture in this project. My first picture is my name-Sophia. I took it at the night which had lunar eclipse. There is a red moon in the sky, and we just wrote some interesting stuff use flashlight. We also wrote something else but I haven’t post it. The second picture is a blue swan; I took it in my home. It means the story of <<The Ugly Duckling>>. The ugly duckling finally became a graceful white swan, I hope I can become mature and sophisticated just like the ugly duckling. In the third picture, there is a shining bike, we use firework outlined it so it looks shining and beautiful. I like the color pink and I like to ride bicycle and go to traveling. In the final picture, I was playing my Chinese traditional musical instrument—Guzheng. I like the tone of it very much and I usually play it in order to calm.
When we took the first photo, we had three persons to do six letters—SOPHIA. It is very difficult to write to different letter in two hands in the same time, so we have a hard experience. When we took second picture, I just use glow stick to draw that swan and that is very beautiful. In the third picture, I used small fireworks to draw it, but the quality of the fire work is not good, it may just burn for a very short time. We took more than 10 photos and we finally get a good one. We took the last picture in my dorm. The new technology of it is we use the music sigh in our phone to make it float in the air. Jessie use a cardboard to hide the screen and show it, then she changed a place and show it again. Alice use the flashlight to flash me when I sat on the chair, then I just use the colorful glow stick to draw the line. I think we had took a great picture.
Through this project, I learned how to do light painting and it is very interesting. I never think we can do things like this before, I think it is only the artists job. Although we are normal people, we still can do some cool stuffs. Also, I recognized the importance of cooperation because light painting needs a bunch of people to do it together. I think it is really a meaningful project.
5 _Bart _Luo _Light Painting Presentation
Fri, 16, Mar 2018
A Bart’s thoughts
I have made a lot of wonderful pictures during the studying of light painting and got to know more about photography. Light painting is a really hard thing to do well. You need to think out ideas, these ideas must come out from your own brain and they have to be original. You need to observe the environment for taking pictures and change the settings of cameras correctly. Deciding the equipment and the position to put the cameras are also important. After all these things, you will probably need some trustable partners there to help you get the pictures done. You need to organise them painting, posing, or shooting. And you need to have the ability to describe the image in your mind to your partners. Other things are only about patience and trying. As long as you tried, the picture will be close to the image in your mind. Sometimes it even shows up better.
5 Yan, Tony, Light Painting Presentation
Tony Yan
3/15/18
Period 5
Light Painting Reflection
Delicate
I love light painting, and I enjoy the gorgeous pictures that light painting can create, but I feel like I can do a better job if I have more time and put in more effort.
I have a strange mixed feeling towards my work. I love the integral design, and I express the idea as I wanted. However, some of the photos did not turn into the best work as possible. I apologized. I blamed this for myself that I did not put enough effort in them because the scarce time I had. I tried to create a creepy, somber, scary tone. So I choose to shoot them vertically. In that way, the figures in my pictures will become larger, and it will also provide an intense emotion. Basically, the four pictures have the same main theme—change. I always like to show everybody the positive and optimistic side of me. I try to make others happy and I do not want any negative emotion from me influencing others. But I am actually delicate. I am easy to be hurt and easy to be sad and lonely.
The idea for my first image was supposed to create a “ghost” of me. I feel like that I am tired of the world that we are all living in. We are all living under masks. I hate to be a hypocritical person. I want to laugh when I want to laugh. I’d rather stay desolately when I feel sad. I am a very outgoing and friendly and funny person, as they all said, so I have a lot of friends. But I just feel tired about that sometimes you still pretend that you are happy when you actually not. I have many friends that sometimes I will even become less happy than staying alone. I’d rather be a ghost that nobody could see me, so I can do whatever I want. However, the shooting process didn’t really go well. We shot the image in the hallway on the first floor of doom. I used the flashlight on my phone and the green light of the “Exit” sign to be the main light resources. The second image is about me trapping in a cage. This cage represents two things. One thing is the “hypocritical mask” that every person has. I try to break it in order to get free. The other connotation is that before I came to pegasus, I went to a traditional Chinese school, and my imagination was trapped. I can really start developing my interest in this school. So the cage that created by Christmas light waving in front of me represents my circumstance that imprisons my imagination. The third picture has two me inside of it. We used the mirror in order to do that. In the picture, I was holding Christmas lights, and my partner waved purple lights around me. After taking the picture, I used photoshop to make the reflection of me in the mirror contorted which represents that the “mask” of me is fading away. The fourth image is obvious. The dead body on the ground is me. The “old Tony” is dead now. I can finally take off my mask, and I can be free now. I lay down, and my partner used flash to draw the contour around me. We tried to use a laser pointer to write the death time next to me like those in the movies, but I failed. So I could only use photoshop to add the words after.
The biggest challenge is that it has always been hard to shoot a photo that completely matches the one in your mind. Sometimes I tried to use just color lights, but the photos just turned out dark, and nobody can see my face clearly. Sometimes I tried to wave Christmas lights, but it just turned out a mess. And I didn’t really have enough time to do so. For instance, when everything was ready, and we were sure we would take one perfect shot this time. But it was already 9 o’clock and we had to leave. So we had to give up and started packing up. However, sometimes some of those great challenges can make great surprises. The cage in color was created by accident. I tried to create a circle, like of like roulette behind me. But the colorful lights in the photo ultimately turned out look like a prison. So that’s how the idea got into my mind. I had the central idea of the series of the photos, which was awesome!
The most influential thing I have learned from this project is that I can finally figure out who I really am. I might usually appear foolish or funny in front others—because I like it. I enjoy making people laugh, grabbing people’s attention, and being the center. However, I am tired of my “fake laugh”. I tried to be myself. I want freedom and I want to be happy. So the mean thing about this project, in my opinion, is to seek the true feeling towards yourself. Additionally, of course, I have learned many useful skills. I know basic camera settings and light painting resources, and I have also learned how to use those sources and my camera to create delicate pieces. If I have more time, I would like to discover more about the natural light painting resources, such as stars, street lamps, or neon lights on the building.
5_Su_Jason_Light Painting Reflection
Light painting self-reflection
My 4 images are trying to show my personalities and explain some invisible features of me. I created them mostly in my dorm at night, with the help of my roommates. I used red and green lights to do some basic drawings, then I edit my images in Photoshop and changed their hues and saturations in order to create different scenes. The techniques that I used were basically indoor shooting techniques like the control of the amount of light in the room, and one essential point is the position of the camera and the tripod, I always place them carefully.
There are some challenges that I met when I take those images. I found it difficult to use laser pointer to draw in front of the camera because of its invisible light trail. So, I changed to normal lights that I could see the track of light when I drew the pictures. One thing that truly delights me is that the light effect on my toy armor robot went really well, it was like real energy floating out of its helmet.
I learned quite a lot through the practice of light painting, also, the usage of Photoshop. Especially the camera settings. For example, the lens’ size and shutter speed will have effect on the brightness of the picture. We can change the F number according to the brightness around us. Finally, Photoshop is really useful when the image has some kind of flaws, it is a good software that repairs images easily and makes them look great.
Wu Martin 5 Lighting Reflection
Martin Wu
2018/3/14
Period 5
Light Painting Essay
I enjoyed the light-painting so much. Because the picture use light-painting so much. Because the picture that taken was really, It also inspired me how to be creative. For the circle picture i used a application in my phone, it can setting colors . And then i let my buddy to draw a circle in the air. And then the colourful picture appeared. Another one is doing dance action in ground, and the picture show’s diving on the sky. Actually the rest two use the same tactics. I also use Pre- Focus as well.
My challenge is the measure of the time, and think creative way, if i treat seriously they it really happened.
The most important things that i learn, it need to be patience and i know some camera settings. It make me totally more love photographs.
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The things that i also know is the camera’s Aperature and Pre-Focusing, and the difference between Auto- Focusing and Pre- Focusing. The different places use Different ISO. I also learn how to set up the tripod as well. This project will be a unforgettable project ever .
LP Presentation Jimmy_Gao P5
Before I learn photography, I even don’t know what photography really is, all I know is the great photo taker, they use their magic camera to take the photos that we even can not imagine it. I also don’t know there so many kind of lens, actually, when I take the photography class at the first time, I even don’t know what the lens is. I don’t know why that the lens is more expensive then camera itself.
There lots of things I don’t know in the photography world, all I know is just one tiny bit of the whole ice berg. But is fun enough, I mean, be a good model and a good photo taker is funny.( Most of time, I am a model) It’s fun that work in a dark room, and it can motivate our deep dark fantasy. Sometimes we can see nothing, but we can create the great work, everybody is an artist during that time, because of our deep dark fantasy, we can think about lots of funny pictures.
Is kinda sad, because I can not really remember the each buttons’s position and how they work, so mostly, I will be the model. This picture, I imagine I am the super hero called green light, I think is really fun.
This one is me and my teammate, we try to write a vocabulary, who, it’s lots of fun.
5_Xie_Bill_Light Panting Reflection
In the recent weeks I was focusing in a program called Light painting. That program is really impressive because I learned how to create some amazing pictures and how to set up the camera. There are 4 pictures in my binder in order to illustrate my personality. Those pictures are trying to say that I am vivacious sometimes and diffident sometimes. I think those pictures show my characteristic very well. I used the ghosting in my first picture. There are 3 different in that picture, one is praying, second one is dancing, and the lasting one is doing something silly. That idea is really creative for me because it illustrated 3 different characteristics about me in one picture. I used the reflection of mirror in dance classroom, thus there are lots of me in that picture. In additional, I used very strong light and laser point to decorate my picture. The third one was took without any light, and the only technique I used is laser. The picture looks spectacular and that picture is my favorite. The last picture described I was playing Christmas light as a whip. Those pictures are all come from my own inspiration. The technique I prepare are laser, flash light, plastic bag, and some color papers. By the way, I have 2 excellent teammates.
The light painting project seems easy, but there is full of challenge. The first challenge is to set up the camera. Light painting program asks for a totally different settlement of camera. It is hard for me to play with my “Good friend” although I learned it for a whole class. Fortunately, I got it when I tried it over and over again. The second challenge is to use the technique and control them. Final result would be influenced because of a little mistake of the technique. We always took a picture for at least 10 times, and we choose the best picture in them. We felt exhaust before, but we still made some fantastic photos. I am really proud of it.
I learned a lot from light panting program. I finally knew that the camera could create such nice picture. I knew how to set up the camera in different situation. I also knew that hardship to make a prefect picture. Lastly, I really want to learn how to use adobe photoshop to make up my photo if I have enough time. That will be a fantastic trip.
5_Mosqueda_Samantha_lpreflection
Samantha Mosqueda
03-13-18
5th per
Light Painting Self-Reflection
Light Painting
My first image shows me with a soccer ball, and what my image is trying to show is me playing my favorite sport some techniques I used where flashing to make me look like I’m playing soccer, but we used a flash light because someone lost the flash device. My second image shows me having a crown on, and what this means is that I’m my own leader, and don’t listen to anyone else who is rude. How I did this was, I used three people one to be the model, one to draw the crown and one to take the photo, and we used pink flash to create the crown and hearts. The third photo, shows me with a rainbow background. The meaning to this is that Im happy, fun and creative. For my last picture it is my name, and I chose my name because I really admire my name. We stood in the cold, and we got different flash light, and we spelled out different names. We chose to stand out because that night the moon had an eclipse. One of us stood on top of a building and one stood on the bottom to get the right picture.
But, the cons about this project is that we wouldn’t have the right equipment because everyone else would us it, or someone would take the room we would want to use. Also my teammates had other homework to do, so they couldn’t help me as much. The struggle of this project is that you would have to take so many pictures until you go the perfect one and you had to learn technique to get a interesting photo. The success about this was that we had enough people to do certain things, for example to be the model, take the picture or draw. Another good thing is that we had enough time to do this assignment. Also I would learn cool techniques in photo club, and I learned how make a fire and I would use it for my real photos.
I learned many things about light painting, like how to work camera settings which is really great information to learn. I also learned tricks I can do with light in light painting pictures. But if I had more time to do this assignment I would want to know more about settings and more ways to use tools to make a specific type of light form. Overall I liked this assignment, taught me cool things.
Lucy Gao Light painting reflection
Lucy Gao
3/14/2018
P5
Photography
Beauty in the Dark
Lighting painting is a new project for me, because that’s the first time I heard of that. It’s fancy and it’s really a challenge, although we already do the par-are stuff as searching many information, find example pictures and looking for the step. Camera is not unfamiliar for me, I thought it doesn’t work when it’s in the dark because you can shoot at nothing. Before we start this project by ourselves, we practice many times during class. We have try created a person stand on the ground, or same person stand side by side (appear twice) and so on. We got good harvest and we start to instead in light painting, although it’s really takes long time and even need to fail over and over again.
Totally, I have 14 pictures, five of them I taking in the school, others I just take on the rode when I back to my hometown. I ‘m not satisfied with the first five because it’s the beginning of my start, a lots of trouble all coming around, for example, people who hold flashlight are showing in the picture, other light all come into the room when we are shooting, there is nothing can see in the picture…… although pictures are not that crazy beautiful at all, that’s also valuable because these are the steps and process of final, successful, amazing light painting picture. Lighting painting is not only people create image in the dark, it’s also a good way to showing the emotion of yourself. I would like to showing two sides of my self: angel and demon, kind and evil, sad and happy or whatever you choose to shoot. Pictures can express people’s emotion sometimes, you don’t just taking an picture without any emotion or anything you wanna express. For me, be honest, I dislike light painting at the beginning because I fail many times and I really want to give up, but the point is I have no reason choose to give up, at least for my grade (it’s a really high points for my grade), then I trying to taking it follow heart, just follow the heart. On the rode, I saw a beam of week light from a small house, it’s moving with the car, when I taking it and become a beautiful line in the dark. We are not lucky because traffic jam it’s happened, many cars are coming together to create lots of lights in the dark, it should be a perfect light painting picture showing in my camera……Gradually, I thinking out that if you want to taking light painting photo, it’s everywhere at night. In my opinion, excellent photos always from daily life, nature can always create lots of grate pictures as perfect as you want.
Light painting is a art in the dark and it’s kind of way to discover beauty of night form tiny little object around life. I love it now, different with the beginning, I’m enjoy light paining project already. I would like to say light painting can even create another world with only light at night, it’s a sort of art that is beauty at dark and beauty form your heart.
