Journal #11- S +T

S- Seat

Aperture: f / 5.0

Shutter Speed: 1/640

ISO: 100

This is a picture of one of the seats in the courtyard. I used a low aperture to get just the seat in focus, and a fast shutter speed because it was very bright outside. The low ISO was to reduce any possible noise in the picture. I really like how sharp the chair is, and I also think the shadows caused by the sun are kind of cool.

 T- Tree

Aperture: f / 5.6

Shutter Speed: 1/640

ISO: 100

This image is of a tree branch in the courtyard. I thought the flowers blossoming in the branches were very pretty and would be a good subject to photograph. I used a low aperture so just the flowers would be focused, and a high shutter speed because of the large amount of light present from the sun. The low ISO reduces noise. I really like the vibrant colors in this picture, and how in focus the flowers are compared to the background. 

Journal #10 (Q + R)

R- Race

Aperture: f / 4.5

Shutter Speed: 1/250

ISO: 100

This was a picture I took during my magazine cover shooting.  I didn't use this photo for my cover because I didn't really like how I was looking down on my model, but I thought it would be good for a race journal. The low aperture is so just my model is in focus, the higher shutter speed is to  freeze any movement, and the low ISO is to reduce any noise in the shot. I really like the intense expression on my model's face in this picture.

Q- Quarter 

Aperture: f / 5.6

Shutter Speed: 1/200

ISO: 100

I took these pictures in my house. I originally was going to take a plain picture of the quarter just laying on the table, but then I decided that it would be cool to spin it and see if I could freeze the action of it. I used a low aperture and high shutter speed to freeze the action, and I used a flash too. The low ISO is to reduce noise. The only thing I would change about this photo would be to take it somewhere with a nicer background and surface, maybe in the studio.

Journal #9 (O +P)

O-Orange

f / 5.6

1/125

ISO 100

I took this picture while my mom and I were in New York recently. We were talking about how cool we thought the orange fire hydrants were, and I thought they could be perfect for my journal. I used a low aperture to blur out the background, and a higher shutter speed to avoid any potential blur from me moving. The ISO is low to avoid noise.  

P- Pebbles

f / 5.6

1/200

ISO 100

I took this picture in a dirt parking lot near Lake Ontario during my New York trip. I thought that all the different pebbles on the ground were interesting and would make a really great subject to photograph. I used a lower aperture to get the pebbles in the foreground more in focus than the ones in the background, and a medium shutter speed to make sure the photo wasn't blurred at all. The lower ISO was to reduce noise in the shot. If I could change something about this picture, I would get at a different vantage point to the pebbles, maybe closer to the ground.

Journal #8 (M + N)

M- Mad

Aperture: f / 8.0

Shutter Speed: 1/200

ISO: 200

I took this picture of my friend Gabby while we were practicing with different types of lighting for my inside shoots. I told her to try and make a mad or intense expression, and this is what she first did. Her face ended up changing to a more intense expression by the end of out shoot, but I still think this picture shows a good mad or upset expression. I used a lower shutter speed and aperture so the photo would be underexposed without the flashes I used on the right side of the model. 

N- Nature

f / 5.6

1/125

ISO 800

This picture was taken in my backyard. The grass everywhere was all basically dead, except for this one sort of green clump which I thought would be good to photograph for a nature photo. I used  a lower aperture so the one grass clump would be mostly in focus, and a medium shutter speed to make sure there wasn't any blur from me accidentally moving the camera. My ISO is very high because it was pretty dark outside when I took this picture.

Magazine Shoots

Cover

I decided to make my cover be from Sports Illustrated, because I really love to play sports and I thought it would allow for some really fun athlete photographing. My cover actually didn't turn out at all how I had originally planned, but I really like the final product. I was originally going to use hard lights on either side of the model, but the flash kit wasn't workng, so I ended up just using natural light. I really like how the lighting ended up coming out, and the intensity in my models face is exactly how I was imagining my picture, so I'm really happy with that too. Once I took the picture, I edited the lighting to make the exposure of the model better, and I took the color out of everything except for her and the track. In photoshop, I used many different text layers fort all the text on the cover. Getting the word "Illustrated" behind my model was the most difficult part, but I'm really happy with how it all ended up coming out! I referenced a photographer named Walter Looss, who does a lot of both studio athlete photography and on location photography for Sports Illustrated magazine. His website- http://walteriooss.com

Advertisement

My advertisement is for a company that sells lots of track and field equiptment, M-F Athletic. I took this in the studio with two lights on either side of the relay baton. The hardest part about lighting this photo was to get it bright enough that you could read the writing on the baton, but not have it so bright that there was a big glare on the metal. I did the most work on this picture in photoshop. First I brightened it so the baton itself was very clear and stood out more. Then, because the lettering on the baton I used was very faded, I had to go along every word and paint black back in to make it look new. There were also many scratches on the baton, so I used the spot healing brush and clone stamp tool to get rid of those. Overall I'm pretty pleased with how this ad photo came out!

Inside Shoots

To take this photo, I used one hard light on the right side of Gabby. I really wanted to create a hard shadow on the left half of her face. The shadow isn't quite as prominint as I had hoped for, but I still like how it came out. I fixed the lighting a little bit in bridge, so the right side of the models face was lit better, and in photoshop, I fixed her hair because there was one big strand sticking out on the right of the picture, and I also fixed some blemishes on the model's skin. I really like how symmetrical this shot came out, and I like the meoodel's expression.

To light this portrait, I had two lights on either side of my model, and then another light behind her illuminating her hair. After I took it, I brightened up the picture just a tiny bit, to make sure the model's face was well lit. In photshop, I whitened the model's teeth, fixed a little bit of the frizz in her hair, and took away some blemishes on her face. I really like how this portrait came out, and my practice with studio lighting helped me a lot to take this shot.

Article:

Carpenter Leads Colonel Girls to First MVL Victory, Continues Basketball Career in College

On Friday, February 10th, the Brattleboro Union High School Colonel girls basketball team played their first Maple Valley League game in Manchester Vermont, against the Burr and Burton Bulldogs. They pulled off a 54-41 victory over the hosts, and Brattleboro senior Gabby Carpenter led the way for the Colonel girls. With 17 points, 7 rebounds, 2 assists, and 2 steals, she was a huge contributor to a great start of the MVL tournament for her and her teammates. The Lady Colonels would go on to have a 4 and 2 record in the tournament.

Carpenter had an outstanding season with the Colonels. Being a five year varsity player, she grew to be a key to the Colonels success, and did an outstanding job captaining her team throughout the season. The 5’11” center was a top scorer in many games during the winter season, and she recently was chosen to be a member of the Vermont Senior Allstars game, and participated in that game on March 25th. Soon she will be continuing her basketball career at Castleton College in Castleton, Vermont.

The Castleton Spartans head coach Tim Barrett has made Carpenter his latest recruit,  and she has officially committed to attend in the fall. Barrett was present at numerous Colonels matches during the season, and made the decision fairly early on that he wanted to include Carpenter as the newest member to his college team. Her skill and effort will inevitably help the Castleton Spartans in their 2017-2018 season.

Sports Illustrated March 2017

Danielle Wood

Photoshop Practice

Black and White with Color

Abstract

To create this black and white with color photo, in Bridge I took out all of the color using the adjustment brush, and then used it again to paint back in the color that I wanted. I decided to paint in these bright red leaves, because I really liked the color of them and I thought the vibrant red would pop against the background. I only painted the leaves that were closest to the camera back in, because I tried doing the ones in back too but I didn't like the way it came out. Overall I'm happy with this black and white with color. 

Free Choice

To bring back this bird's orange beak against the black and white background, I used the adjustment brush to take away all the saturation, and then paint back in the beak. I chose the beak to color in because I originally thought of having the whole bird in color, but I thought that would be too big of a subject to be colored. I really like how the orange beak came out.

Landscape/Nature

I again used the adjustment brush to desaturate this entire photo and then paint the saturation back in to the flower and stem. I like how well the coloring back in went, but I wish I had picked a picture of a more colorful flower. The white still looks nice, but a different color would have been a better contest against the black and white background.

Portrait

Lastly, I used the adjustment brush to take color out and put in back in to this picture of my friend. I decided to make her dress colored, because it was a very pretty blue, and I thought that making her entire body colored would have been too much. I discovered while converting this that the sun and shadows made a weird yellow colored section on her dress, which I don't like, but other than that I like how this picture came out. 

Black and White Conversion

Abstract

To create this black and white conversion, I first used the histogram in Bridge to make sure my photos were evenly exposed, and then converted them to grayscale images. With this particular image, I added a lot of lights into it to make the details of the bark really stand out. I really am happy with how this photo looks as a black and white.

Free Choice

I used the histogram and grayscale converter in Bridge to create this black and white image. I really like how this picture came out, and I think it looks good as a black and white. I also added lights to this photo to make it brighter, and I think the lights and the darks contrast each other nicely.

Landscape/Nature

This is a picture from my trip to Florida last year, and I thought it would be a good image to convert to a black and white. I didn't have to do very much with the histogram for this image, because it was already pretty evenly exposed. I used the grayscale converter to make this black and white, and I really like how it ended up coming out, especially the dark shadows on the light ground.

Portrait

This portrait of my friend Gabby was converted to a black and white by using the histogram and grayscale converter in Bridge. I brightened the image to highlight her face and the lighting around her hair, and then I converted to a grayscale image. I'm really happy with how this came out as a black and white image.

Split Toning

Abstract

For this split tone, I believe I used a greenish and pink/red color. I used the split toning tool to turn this photo into this nice combination of the two colors. I think this picture works really well as a duo tone image, and I'm happy with how it came out. 

Free Choice

For this image, I used the split toning tool in bridge, and used a lot of pink/red along with a tiny bit of blue/green. My goal with this image was to make it a pink color because it is of a heart, and I think I did a nice job accomplishing that. I wish this picture was sharper, but I'm still pretty happy with how it turned out.

Landscape/Nature

Using the split tones in Bridge, I used a pinkish color and a yellowish color to get this duo tone leaves picture. I really like the color that this picture ended up being, and I think that its tone works really well with the image. I like how this image came out a lot.

Portrait

Lastly, I used the split toning tool in Bridge to adjust this picture of Gabby. I believe I used a purple color and an orange color to create this duo tone. I think that those two colors work well together, especially in this image, and I am happy with how it turned out.

Practice Shots

Full Body Shot

This full body shot was taken with two lights on either side of Mikayla. There was ambient light coming from the large windows on her right, which is some of what casts such a long shadow of her on the ground. This photo was a little dark, so I brightened it up in Bridge. I wish I could've made the background darker and had more light on the model, but I still like the way the lighting turned out in this picture.

 Expressing Different Emotions

This picture of Gabby was taken in the studio while I was practicing and experimenting with lighting before we started our magazine shoot. She was making funny faces for the camera and I thought that was a perfect opportunity for a shot expressing different emotions. For the lighting of this picture, I had a light flashing to Gabby's right, trying to create a dramatic shadow on half of her face. I wish the background had been darker but other than that I like the lighting of this photo.

 Gel Lighting

This picture was taken outside, and I used a light to the right/front of Jazmin. There was a green gel over the light. The background was a fairly white wall, so I was able to get a pretty good amount of green light from the gel onto the background as well as the model. I also worked a bit with trying to get as much green on the subject as possible, because it was so bright outside, but I really like how this picture ended up coming out.

Dramatic Lighting Ambient

This was taken outside with one flash to Jazmin's left. The light coming from the flash is very hard and directly on the model's turned face, which is what makes it so dramatic. I really like how bright this picture turned out, I just wish I could've taken the picture again with the same lighting set up, but a different background.

 Dramatic Lighting Inside

This picture was taken with a hard flash on the right side of Gabby. I used this picture for my dramatic lighting photo, because I think the shadows on the left side of her face are very dramatic. I really like how the lighting for this photo came out, and this shot helped me in deciding the type of lighting to use for one of my inside shoots, which I took later during this with this same model.

More Dramatic Lighting

I took this picture while trying to set up the lights for one of my inside shoots. I think this photo has very dramatic lighting, because even though the model is lit fairly evenly, the light behind her illuminating her hair gives a dramatic feel to the image. I really like how this photo came out, and I also am glad I figured out how to take a good inside shot by really learning how to use the hair light.