For this photo assignment, I was tasked with taking a photo that captures the natural beauty of an animal. To accomplish this, I went to Ann Arbor and walked around for about an hour and stopping every time I saw a squirrel to give it a couple of nuts. With all the photos I took that day, this one, in my opinion, is the best. When I took this photo, the ISO was set to 400, the aperture was set to 5.6, and the shutter speed was set to 1/80. To make the original photo better, I went into Adobe Photoshop and lowered the brightness while increasing the contrast to really make the colours of the setting around the squirrel pop out as well as to decrease the white wash effect in the original photo. I also cropped it in order to remove distractions from the background and draw the viewer's eye to the main focus, the squirrel. Through this assignment, I learned how to use the aperture setting better. By learning to use the aperture, I was able to create a medium depth of field to capture the squirrel and the foreground, but have the background slightly blurred out. Since it was a bright and sunny day, I didn't really have to adjust the ISO setting for I could keep it low and still have an image with a good exposure. By adjusting the aperture, I was able to shoot may wonderful pictures of the squirrels in Ann Arbor.
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Isabella Cross
10/22/2018 05:38:23 am
I love how you chose to take a picture of an animal in it's natural habitat. At the start, I could not really find where the squirrel was, so next time maybe darken or lighten the squirrel so it stands out. Good job overall!
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luke hoyt
10/22/2018 08:30:57 am
I liked how you edited the original picture to be darker with more contrast and cropped in.
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