mini movie

Dan Waldron 

12/4/18 

            I found this project quite difficult and without its challenges, I first started out making a battle scene with plastic green army men and then didn’t like the idea and switched to loading an old revolver, however, it was a two-second-long video and I decided I would have to redo the project. I then decided to use green army men coming out of my closet and then one by one have each army man come out of the bucket then as a unit move off screen and then one by one come back on screen and back into the bucket and then have the bucket slowly go back into my closet and have the door close. I at this point I only had 270 frames shot and was out of ideas on how to make my video longer, so I decided to add myself smiling and putting a thumbs up then having a drink out of my Guinness glass ending the film. I shot the whole thing with a shutter speed of 2500 and a f stop of 11, with the iso at 25600, for lighting I used my flash and a desk lamp in the background and slowly changed to just the floor lamp. 

Capturing light at tuttle creek

Capturing light at Tuttle creek. 

            I drove out to Tuttle creek around 7:00pm last night and photographed the lake and tower at the dam. Braving winds and frostbite I set my camera up on a tripod and set my shutter speed to 2.5 and my aperture  to F22 along with my ISO at 100. It took me a while to get the image I wanted but I achieved getting the lake to look like glass and show the rays of light coming off of the tower. In post production I made the image a little brighter.

The seven deadly sins

Photo 1

Greed

Photo 2

Sloth

Photo 3

Wrath

Photo 4

Envy

Photo 5

Lust

Photo 6

Pride

Photo 7

Gluttony

            This assignment was quite interesting and posed some challenges. I decided to use my pet snake Rodger as my subject for this assignment. I shot all of these photos with the same settings being my shutter speed at 1/1250, an F stop of 4 and an ISO of 25600.  I thought it would be interesting to use a snake as my subject instead of using a human. For the first photo, I decided having Rodger on top of my roommates rent money represented greed well and It surprisingly only took one shot. For my second photo, I put Rodger in my bed with the sheets tucked into bed looking lazy and comfortable. To represent wrath, I set Rodger up with one of my pocket knives and tried to make him look as menacing as possible however he moved a lot and it made it difficult. To represent envy, I tried to get Rodger to appear to be yearning for the outdoors by looking outside a window, this is mainly because he’s an indoor pet. For lust I tried to put Rodger with a fancy looking watch and to make it look like he was yearning for it, however he was starting to get cold by this point and started moving a lot. For pride I put Rodger back in his tank and wanted him to look like he was prideful of his tank. To represent gluttony I fed Rodger and he was very happy to eat, however he is a constrictor and was moving a lot so I got the best photos I could.  

Portrait photos of Raymond towner

Portraits of Raymond Towner

Photo 1, Raymond in his natural habitat

Photo 2, Raymond with his beloved Layout boat

Photo 3, Gritty close up of Raymond.

            For this assignment I took several portraits of my good friend and Roommate Raymond Towner. For the first photo the light in the room was kind of lacking so I set my cameras shutter speed to 1250 and my aperture to F4 and my ISO at 25600. For the rest of the pictures I shot in the same settings of 1250 with an ISO of 100 and f4. Raymond is graduating this fall and is graduating with an Agriculture business degree. An interesting fact about Raymond is he is an avid Duck hunter and spends his winters in Kansas lakes and marshes, he recently sucked me into the hobby and has shown me how expensive but fun it is.

Manipulating motion

Photo 1

Fed ex truck

Photo 2

Random truck

            For this assignment, I stood outside my front door waiting for any moving car to drive by and it took me forever. For photo one I had my aperture set at 1/40 and my F-stop at 5.6 with my ISO set at 100. I just barley snapped the picture of the truck and as able to keep the Alpha Xi Delta sorority house. For the second photo, I stood outside by my roommate’s truck and again waited forever for another car to pass by my house. For this picture, I kept the settings the same as photo one but I started by having the truck not in focus and quickly brought it into focus as it came past my house achieving the truck being in focus with the Alpha Xi Delta house not in focus.