ALTERNATIVE LIGHTING

this week in my photo class we had an assignment about alternative lighting. We had to use 2 different sources of light. At first, I wasn't too excited about this project. I thought that it was limiting our creativity by putting that limitation on there. BUT, I am glad I did it and stuck it through! It put me out of my comfort zone, and made me try new techniques. Now I am excited about lighting, and think it makes a photograph look so much better! Anyways... here is what I came up with. You can click the image to view a larger version.

BANANORAMA

Bananorama-panorama! I have been working on panoramas lately... and this is the best one that came out. I really struggled with this assignment because you take multiple images (this one is 32 images) to develop your panorama. It is tough because as you are taking photos, it is hard to see what the final compilation of photos will look like together. Because of this it is hard to tell what the composition will end up looking like. The method that I took was to just take wayyyyy too many photos, to make sure I got all of the information I could possibly need, then I crop it later in photoshop.

I took this panorama in Bryan/College Station at a coffee shop called Revolution. It has this really cool mural that mimics a Van Gogh painting. The colors are off again... it doesn't look as washed out when printed or not compressed. Here it is, let me know what ya think: