Blog 19: Independent Component 2

LITERAL
(a) Statement saying: “I, Symphony Moreno, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
(b) Jack Bohlka
(c) Provide a digital spreadsheet (aka log of the 30 hours).   Post it next to your mentorship log.
(d) I worked in Photoshop after taking photos using a few different lighting set ups and equipment.
INTERPRETIVE 
Defend your work and explain how the significant parts of your component and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  
There is a link to my online portfolio under the links section of my blog, although I only put up five photos from when I went into the studio, I put a lot of work into some of the photoshop that I did ( especially the pop art).
APPLIED
How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped.

This helped answer my EQ because during the time that I was working I realized that the use of equipment (especially flash to act as a fill light) is important when trying to get a well lit photo. For example at one point I turned off the light that had an umbrella reflector and just used my dominant light(with a softbox) and my backlight, this changed the lighting of the portrait dramatically, because it created shadows on Lupe's face. 

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

Content:

1. I plan on completing my 30 hours by working with the camera more, using a tripod for different things and working with studio lights and reflectors.

2. My evidence will be shown through photos that I take or photos of me working with equipment.

3. This will help me explore my topic more in depth by allowing me to stabilize the camera(tripod), work with added light instead of just natural light, and to shape light to fit my needs for a photo.

4. *log on right hand side of blog*

Blog 14: Independent Component 1

LITERAL

 a) I, Symphony Moreno, affirm that I completed my independent component, which represents 30 hours of work.
 b) Sources: Renee Moreno, Jack Bohlka, Portrait Lighting - Names for different portrait lighting set-ups in photography (article) 
 c) Component 1 log is on the right-hand side of the blog
 d) What I have completed is portraits of my sister, each one has a different lighting style or composition. 

INTERPRETATIVE

 The most significant part of this component was the few lighting styles that I learned and a few techniques I learned when adjusting my camera settings ( manual focus, slow shutter speed, wide aperture, ect.,). All of these things are demonstrated in these photos that I took of my sister:

In this photo, I had my sister turn her head slightly towards the light so that we could create the effect of "short lighting" which is where the short side of the face is lit up.

 I had my sister turn her head towards the light a little bit more to create a "key triangle" this is on the right side of her face under her eye. The lighting style where the key triangle is shown is known as Rembrandt.

 In this final photo I had my sister face me fully while the lighting was farther off to my left so that only half of her face is lit. This is called split lighting.

Before taking any of these photos I had to preset my camera to the conditions of the lighting in the room which was very little, so the settings that I had listed above( slow shutter speed, wide aperture, manual focus, high iso) were used through out. Originally I was going to demonstrate five lighting styles but as I was working out of my home I found that I couldn't fully achieve the other two (broad and butterfly) without them coming out very badly.  Here is just some more evidence that I was in ROP working on all of this:

APPLIED

This helped me with the foundations of my project because I realized that photography isn't just snapping photos; you have to really think about what you're doing when pre-setting the camera or setting up the lighting and the room that you're going to shoot in.

Blog 7: Independent Component 1 Approval

1. Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

 For my 30 hours I plan to continue taking ROP at school, because that actually teaches a lot of fundamentals of photography and photoshop. I also plan to work at my mentor's studio in order to learn lighting techniques such as: broad portrait lighting, short portrait lighting, rembrandt portrait lighting, split portrait lighting, and butterfly portrait lighting.

2. Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

I plan to show 30 hours of evidence through showing my grade in ROP and producing a portfolio consisting of photos of at least two models under each type of lighting that I plan on learning to not only prove that I learned it but also show the effects of different lighting styles on different faces.

3. And explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic more in depth.

This will help me explore my topic more in depth through allowing me to get a hands on experience in the areas of portrait lighting and photo retouching, which are two necessities in portrait photography. 

4. Post a log on the right side of your blog near your mentorship log and call it the independent 1 log.