danhluong1997
Requirement 2
This was my first time trying to do Steel Wool Photography. On my first day trying it, I ran out of steel wool right after I got the hang of it; therefore, I decided to give it another try on the next day and successfully took some great photos in the end.
I chose to a narrow space in order for the sparks to bounce of the walls and created such effect. On the camera setting, after researching lots of sources online, I tried different settings and ended up setting the shutter speed to 25s in order to capture as much sparks as possible. The white balance was set to Daylight to keep the natural color of the fire, and the aperture was f/16.0 since we don't really want any depth of field for this photo, and interestingly, it matches with the "Sunny 16 Rule" that we discussed in class. For ISO, I set it to 100 as I don't want any part of the photo to get overexposed so that it would be a lot harder to fix the color later in Lightroom. The photo satisfies requirement as the main object I chose was the sparks, which are blurry due to the long shutter speed (that created "lines" of sparks instead of dots).
For image processing, I increased "Blacks" to the maximum to bring out details on my jacket, as well as to make the photos more lively. I also did some focus on myself as the part of me in the photo was totally dull before the post-processing phase.
Requirement 2
This was my first time trying to do Steel Wool Photography. On my first day trying it, I ran out of steel wool right after I got the hang of it; therefore, I decided to give it another try on the next day and successfully took some great photos in the end.
I chose to a narrow space in order for the sparks to bounce of the walls and created such effect. On the camera setting, after researching lots of sources online, I tried different settings and ended up setting the shutter speed to 25s in order to capture as much sparks as possible. The white balance was set to Daylight to keep the natural color of the fire, and the aperture was f/16.0 since we don't really want any depth of field for this photo, and interestingly, it matches with the "Sunny 16 Rule" that we discussed in class. For ISO, I set it to 100 as I don't want any part of the photo to get overexposed so that it would be a lot harder to fix the color later in Lightroom. The photo satisfies requirement as the main object I chose was the sparks, which are blurry due to the long shutter speed (that created "lines" of sparks instead of dots).
For image processing, I increased "Blacks" to the maximum to bring out details on my jacket, as well as to make the photos more lively. I also did some focus on myself as the part of me in the photo was totally dull before the post-processing phase.