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1) I shot this photo horizontally to capture the majority of the pill bottle as well as maintain room for the leading line the pills form to the bottle of brandy in the background. My camera is positioned low, only a few inches from the bottle of pills to keep that the dominant object in the photo. I lined up my frame to match up with the bottle of brandy in the background.
2) The subject is the pill bottle. The contrast is the shallow depth of field created from the sharp, in focus bottle of pills to the decreasingly in focus pills as well as the out of focus bottle of brandy in the background which is only about 10-12 inches behind the bottle of pills. I also created contrast in color with the white pills and white background against the different hues of blue in the fabric. The blue also complements the orange from the pill bottle and the caramel color of the brandy.
3) Incandescent lighting is used to illuminate this photo. I created soft light by using a white sheet as a filter between the fixture and objects in the photo which is evident from the soft shadows. This also creates some warm tones in the orange from the container as well as the caramel color in the brandy bottle.
4) Getting the red and yellow sticker's words in focus was a challenge. This was due to the short focal length. I shot in aperture priority mode and I set my F-stop as low as it could go which was 3.4 to create the shallow depth of field. I set my white balance to tungsten mode; I usually determine this right away by looking in my viewfinder and seeing which mode gives me the truest white or black value. I let my camera take care of the ISO which was 400. My camera also took care of my shutter speed which was set to .4 seconds.
5) The poem I chose was:
The Staircase by Jessica Tietz:
My head was spinning
Here is where I woke
Completely in shock
Did this really just happen?
Jenna by my side
I think “wow must have been a good night.”
I cannot recall a thing
When she wakes she says “what the fuck happened…
Picture for the scrap book?”
That’s a definite yes!
I decided to shoot this even though I just had an alcohol related photo for last week’s assignment. When I read through the poems, this one inspired me the most. My interpretation of this photo was that of getting belligerently black out drunk. This can happen when you mix pain killers and booze.
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1) I shot this photo horizontally to capture the majority of the pill bottle as well as maintain room for the leading line the pills form to the bottle of brandy in the background. My camera is positioned low, only a few inches from the bottle of pills to keep that the dominant object in the photo. I lined up my frame to match up with the bottle of brandy in the background.
2) The subject is the pill bottle. The contrast is the shallow depth of field created from the sharp, in focus bottle of pills to the decreasingly in focus pills as well as the out of focus bottle of brandy in the background which is only about 10-12 inches behind the bottle of pills. I also created contrast in color with the white pills and white background against the different hues of blue in the fabric. The blue also complements the orange from the pill bottle and the caramel color of the brandy.
3) Incandescent lighting is used to illuminate this photo. I created soft light by using a white sheet as a filter between the fixture and objects in the photo which is evident from the soft shadows. This also creates some warm tones in the orange from the container as well as the caramel color in the brandy bottle.
4) Getting the red and yellow sticker's words in focus was a challenge. This was due to the short focal length. I shot in aperture priority mode and I set my F-stop as low as it could go which was 3.4 to create the shallow depth of field. I set my white balance to tungsten mode; I usually determine this right away by looking in my viewfinder and seeing which mode gives me the truest white or black value. I let my camera take care of the ISO which was 400. My camera also took care of my shutter speed which was set to .4 seconds.
5) The poem I chose was:
The Staircase by Jessica Tietz:
My head was spinning
Here is where I woke
Completely in shock
Did this really just happen?
Jenna by my side
I think “wow must have been a good night.”
I cannot recall a thing
When she wakes she says “what the fuck happened…
Picture for the scrap book?”
That’s a definite yes!
I decided to shoot this even though I just had an alcohol related photo for last week’s assignment. When I read through the poems, this one inspired me the most. My interpretation of this photo was that of getting belligerently black out drunk. This can happen when you mix pain killers and booze.