- Location
- Seattle
- Name
- Andrew
I'm looking to wrap up a two-year degree after a lot of time away from college in the work world (like, a lot of time, a decade). Partly because of the way the world has been the last couple years, feeling cooped up and without much of a plan until we can ride out the remainder of the pandemic, this seemed like a nice way to have something measurable to do with my time. Part of this means challenging as many classes as I can for credit (AKA "testing out" or "credit for prior learning"), utilizing, you know, all the life skills and knowledge I've gained since being a "college-aged" person. I saw that the community college where I'm enrolled has Digital Photography classes, and messaged the instructor to see about challenging them. He was amenable, and gave me a list of photographs to create over a three-week period (the timeframe I set for myself). I turned them in yesterday, so, fingers crossed that they meet with the instructor's approval. Anyway, I wanted to share them here.
Project 1 (for the first class) is a Still Life. Required were: natural light, a white background, and three objects: a manmade item, a natural item, and an item of personal significance. Here's what I came up with:
Next up, A Food photo. Requirements were natural light and A mode. All of the things I came up with were a bit meh, but I went with this one.
Next, a set of three landscape photos, one at native aspect ratio, one at 1:1 and one at 16:9. Aperture priority.
Next up was a B&W portrait, shot using natural light and A mode, with shallow depth of field.
The next was an action photo, showing someone in motion using shutter priority. I took a few different opportunities to go down to the waterfront, where people spend a lot of time crabbing:
The sixth and last for this first class was an abstract photo. This one proved a little hard, not least of the reason being that the three week period I shot these was very rainy and stormy, and with shortening daylight hours I didn't have much time after work. Eventually I found this texture, which I've shot before. Cross-process mode since I was allowed a bit more leeway with editing style on this one, I think the colors are a large part of why this one "works" for me:
Next up will be the second class. This first one was all JPEGs, the second was all RAW, edited in LR. The Olympus EM5II and Ricoh GRIIIx served me well for all of these.
Project 1 (for the first class) is a Still Life. Required were: natural light, a white background, and three objects: a manmade item, a natural item, and an item of personal significance. Here's what I came up with:
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Next up, A Food photo. Requirements were natural light and A mode. All of the things I came up with were a bit meh, but I went with this one.
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Next, a set of three landscape photos, one at native aspect ratio, one at 1:1 and one at 16:9. Aperture priority.
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Next up was a B&W portrait, shot using natural light and A mode, with shallow depth of field.
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The next was an action photo, showing someone in motion using shutter priority. I took a few different opportunities to go down to the waterfront, where people spend a lot of time crabbing:
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The sixth and last for this first class was an abstract photo. This one proved a little hard, not least of the reason being that the three week period I shot these was very rainy and stormy, and with shortening daylight hours I didn't have much time after work. Eventually I found this texture, which I've shot before. Cross-process mode since I was allowed a bit more leeway with editing style on this one, I think the colors are a large part of why this one "works" for me:
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Next up will be the second class. This first one was all JPEGs, the second was all RAW, edited in LR. The Olympus EM5II and Ricoh GRIIIx served me well for all of these.