ISO-flim speed

ISO is the film speed. Film speed refers to how fast or slow the camera reacts to the light given. In other words, how sensitive the film or pixels in the camera are to light. Back in the day, when we bought film, we would choose the film speed for the whole roll. We would buy ISO 100, 200 or 400 speed film. Now days with digital cameras we can change the ISO with every picture if we desire.
As a class we experimented with ISO. We started off by taking a picture of our partner in a dark room, lit up with Christmas lights, with the flash on. We then turned the flash off, and with our camera on P mode (Program mode:The camera chooses the appropriate aperture and shutter speed) we took pictures at different intervals up the ISO scale.

Lighting Metering

For this assignment the first picture we took we had to meter the computer screen, then take a picture of your partner. For the next picture we metered the color or our partners skin, then took the picture. The contrasting turnouts were because the camera was measuring different lightings. The metering was a lot better in the second picture because Candace's skin color measured the lighting for the whole picture.

Personal Metaphor

My piece was a picture of half me and half myself as ribbon. I also had ribbon surrounding myself. My idea was an original idea thought up by me. I had no help from any person or friend. I choose the simile of “soft as a ribbon” because this is the way that I feel I am most. I am a very soft spoken person and sometimes don’t even talk or give my opinion at all. I was trying to express me and the ribbon alone with no other distractions. Ribbons are very soft and simple and I wanted to portray myself that way. I wanted to convey a soft or calm mood from my piece.
The composition of my work was very easy to comprehend. I had a picture of the upper half of my body and the lower half ribbon and also a few strand of ribbon around me. The picture was also close up so it wasn’t hard to figure out that I was the emphasis. My picture was balanced also because it was close up and I was in the center. The piece was balanced because there wasn’t a whole lot to it; it was just me and ribbon. The picture was unified again because it was myself and ribbon alone.
This definitely wasn’t my best work that I have done in this class. I feel like I could have done a better job on blending myself to the ribbon. Some of the strands of ribbon looked unreal and some looked real. Overall I think I did well on the project. My idea reflects my feeling towards myself and was original. I actually turned myself into an object or ribbon. The difficult part was making the ribbon look real even though I had actually gone out and took pictures of the ribbon myself. If I could change anything about my project I would take more time to make each individual ribbon look more real.