Megan Haaven's photography adventures in Santorini : May 2013

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Greek Myth: Artemis

For my Greek Myth, I decided to recreate Artemis. For one of her Myths, her and Apollo embark on adventure to go kill the children of the Queen of Thebes, Niobe as she bragged about having 14 children(7 girls and 7 boys) to Leto since she only had 2 children (1 girl and 1 boy). For my pictures, I choose to describe and depict the action of finding and killing the children with the help of Artemis's twin brother Apollo. In the end, they turn the children into stone.

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Green/Blue Sky/Night photography

Shutter Speed: 1/1000

Aperture: 3.4

ISO: 80

Shutter Speed: 1/60

Aperture: 4.5

ISO: 320

Shutter Speed: 1/200

Aperture: 3.4

ISO: 500

Shutter Speed: 1/6

Aperture: 4.0

ISO: 2500

Shutter Speed: 1/8

Aperture: 3.4

ISO: 2000

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Side lighting/Front lighting/ Back lighting assignment

Side lighting

Shutter Speed: 1/80

Aperture: 5.0

ISO: 1000

Side lighting

Shutter Speed: 1/80

Aperture: 5.0

ISO: 1000

Shutter Speed: 1/500

Aperture: 3.4

ISO: 100

Shutter Speed: 1/500

Aperture: 3.4

ISO: 80

Shutter Speed: 1/320

Aperture: 3.4

ISO: 320

Option 1: For my reading notes this week, I decided to focus on my images describing side, back and front lighting. I found the most trouble to be with the back lighting. It was really hard not to get a lot of shadows on the person’s face. It took me a little while to understand the whole metering thing but I finally grasped the concept with a little practice. I am still not a pro at it but at least I am getting better at it. For my side lighting pictures, I stood at a 45-degree angle so that half of the person’s face was shadowed and I metered off the face too. For a front lighting shot, I metered off the face and before shooting the picture right in front of the person with the lighting on my back. For backlighting, I first metered off the person’s face before taking a picture with the light facing me with it on the person’s back that I am shooting. I like the way that back lighting looks when you get it right so I just need some more experience with it to completely master it.

Monday, May 27, 2013

Dog Shelter

Shutter Speed: 1/500

Aperture: 3.4

ISO: 100

Shutter Speed: 1/250

Aperture: 3.4

ISO: 125

Shutter Speed: 1/400
Aperture: 3.4
ISO: 100

Shutter Speed: 1/500

Aperture: 3.4

ISO: 80

Shutter Speed: 1/200

Aperture: 4.5

ISO: 80

Sunday, May 26, 2013

The Beautiful Kristi's portraits

Shutter Speed: 1/200
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 80

Shutter Speed: 1/250
Aperture: 3.4
ISO: 100

Shutter Speed: 1/640
Aperture: 5.0
ISO: 200

Shutter Speed: 1/500
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 200

Shutter Speed: 1/400
Aperture: 3.4
ISO: 400

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Decisive Moments

"Living in a make believe world"

Shutter Speed: 1/1000

Aperture: 5.0

ISO: 200

"Getting air"

Shutter Speed: 1/1000

Aperture: 8.0

ISO: 200

"Business ordering new sponges"

Shutter Speed: 1/80

Aperture: 5.6

ISO: 250

"Walking down memory lane"

Shutter Speed: 1/60

Aperture: 4.5

ISO: 400

"Complete focus"

Shutter Speed: 1/320

Aperture: 5.6

ISO: 640

"Late for her tea party"

Shutter Speed: 1/125

Aperture: 5.6

ISO: 250

"Business ordering new sponges"

Shutter Speed: 1/80

Aperture: 5.6

ISO: 250

"Can I have a new watch dad?"

Shutter Speed: 1/100

Aperture: 8.0

ISO: 250

"Listening to words of wisdom"

Shutter Speed: 1/60

Aperture: 4.5

ISO: 400

Portrait Assignment

Shutter Speed: 640

Aperture: 3.4

ISO: 100

Option 3: When learning about today’s assignment of taking portraits, I was extremely nervous and wondering how I was going to do this since I have no experience what so ever with taking portraits. But, actually while doing the assignment, I didn’t find it as difficult as I thought it would be. I actually enjoyed doing this assignment. I was always nervous to go up to someone new and start a conversation with him or her, but there was never an issue with taking anyone’s pictures. This photo is my favorite because I loved the way she is smiling and laughing. She was pointing out her house right before I took this picture and she didn’t speak any English so I’m pretty sure she was laughing at me trying to figure out what she was saying and then her trying to figure out what I was saying. I really like the color of the wall behind her and the alley and I had enough sunlight that I was able to use a low ISO of 100. I obviously wanted her face to be the focal point of the picture so I made sure that I had a low aperture of 3.4 so I was able to get good focus on her face. I also used a little faster shutter speed of 1/640 so i was able to capture her when she was laughing or smiling. When I first approached her, I asked if she spoke English and she shook her head no and then I asked her what he name was but I can’t remember what it was. She further went on to point to her house and then we both were laughing at not being able to understand each other and then I asked her if I could take her picture and she agreed to it.