Lately in “Maker” class, I’ve bien busy. Doing WHAT you may ask? Well, I’ve been learning about photography. In this post, I’m going to showcase some photos I took and explain how I took them.
In this first photo, I learned how to use focus, and “the rule of thirds”. The rule of thirds is a way of taking photos, where you position the main aspect of the scene on one of the lines on the grid. You can turn this on in settings. Its called the rule of thirds because when you turn the grid on, it splits the screen into thirds. When you follow this rule, your photos become more eye-catching, and appealing. When taking this photo, I made the flowers pop out, by focusing on it, and blurring the background. In order to get nice colours, I changed the brightness, and tweaked the tint and vibrance.
The idea around this photo is to convey feel of mystery. To do this, I made the whole scene dark, and hid the face of the person. The story is that a kid finds a mysterious light in there bedroom. I think this photo shows that story pretty well. To make the mood even more convincing, I changed the light filters using an app called “Snapseed”
Here, is a silhouette of my friend. To do this, I took his photo while in a dark room, then turned down the brightness of the photo to make him completely black. After that, I used “markup” to cover the background in white.
After taking all these photos, I’ve learned a lot about photography. I find taking photos fun, and I really enjoyed learning about it. Now, armed with my new skills, I can make ALL my photos eye-catching!