5 tips for drawing on portraits:

1. use a grid to help with accuracy
2. pay attention to facial features
3. break down different sections of the face so it’s easier to put everything together
4. make multiple layers of each part of the face so that if you make a mistake, you can erase your mistake without erasing all your work
5. label your layers when drawing so you don’t accidentally delete the wrong one or draw on the wrong one.

To get this image I first put my camera on a tripod as to keep it still to not mess up the image then I put the shutter speed to 30 seconds at F 11 and put 200 ISO. I also had an external handheld flash that I had someone else hold so that they could press the button for it to go off while I waited for the camera to go off. While the flashes went off at different times, I had my subject move her head in different positions to be able to achieve the multiple images of her.

I want people to feel happy when they see my picture and know it’s okay to not let anyone dim your light.

1. wide angles can give an expansive view of a scene.
2. Lenses that can be used for landscape photography are 14 mm f/2.8, a 16-35 mm f/2.8, and a 24mm f/1.4.
3. wide angles are useful for when shooting tight areas like small rooms or caves.
4. Telephoto lenses help get you closer to a subject without actually being close to them.
5. Telephoto lenses are like shooting through binoculars.
6. Telephoto lenses compress distance making everything appear closer.
7. Telephoto lenses are usually used for sports, nature, and wildlife photography.
8. If you’re shooting sports pictures, then a telephoto zoom of 70-200 mm f/2.8 is a good choice.
9. Standard zooms cover moderate to wide focal length down to a medium telephoto.
10. Standard zooms start at 24mm to 35mm then zoom to 70mm or 105mm.
11. Less expensive lenses tend to have more variable apertures.
12. Expensive lenses have more fixed apertures.
13. wide-angle lenses will help shoot scenes with more prominent foreground objects.
14. The more popular telephoto lenses tend to be 70-300mm or 70-200mm.
15. Telephoto zooms let you step back from a subject when needed.
16. A common mistake made by new photographers is not using wide angles correctly.
17. Wide-angle lenses can drastically change (for the better) your photography.

Fill flash is a technique used by photographers when they’re taking a photo outside where they use camera flash to lighten any shadows that are on the subject from the Sun or any other outdoor light not hitting the subject. Photographers uses it to fill out any shadows hence it being called “fill flash”. Photographers usually use it when taking pictures during sunny days as the shadows are usually harsher so they can illuminate the subject. You’d need a perfect exposure on a subject as to make sure your image doesn’t come out too bright because of the outdoor light.

I think his work really embodies the art of abstract because even though it’s images of random object put together, it still makes sense and doesn’t look random. I’m also a fan of monochromatic photography so I really like his pictures. He takes monochromatic abstract photos and they’re all up-close to show the texture and detail in the objects he takes images of.

I had Ms. Pulido back in sophomore year and she’s my favorite teacher because she was always nice and not strict like my other teachers. She always let me go into her class during her prep period when she was there and sometimes let me leave my stuff there when I couldn’t carry it around. And she was one of the only teachers I had that I could always go to for help whether it was school related or personal. She also never judged me or made me feel dumb like other teachers did. She was the one teacher I could go to for help without feeling embarrassed.

1. We use flash when it’s too dark and we want to make nice soft light.
2. No, we don’t need to
3. When we sync the flash to the camera, hot shoe
4. Through the lens metering
5. Half the frame of the camera would be dark
6. To get softer light instead of using direct light
7. Something that’s on the flash that syncs into other ones, so they all go off together
8. Make the aperture bigger if the picture is too dark and make the aperture smaller if the picture is too bright