HDR Photography

Hello. For this project in GT we are doing a little something called HDR photography. First, let's talk about the meaning of "HDR photography." HDR photography is the act of taking several different pictures with different exposure settings to put together into one photo so that you can see everything in the photo. From the sun to the trees. The HDR in HDR photography stands for high-dynamic-range, and that's kind of self explanatory. I myself really like the idea of HDR photography. It's a really cool way to get everything in the picture clearly.

In order to make an HDR image, the first thing that you have to do is find something that you want to take a picture of. When finding something to take a picture of the first thing I recommend you look for is a subject that is almost, or is, completely still. You then have to take seven separate pictures with the exposure changed in each one. The different exposure levels that you use for the pictures are either -3 to +3. Be sure that when you are doing this to make sure that you are not moving the camera, because all of the pictures have to be in the exact same place. When you have all of your pictures together, then you have to get the set of pictures that you think are the best and get them on your computer. You will open Photoshop and go to File > Automate > Merge to HDR. From there you will press "Browse" and select your pictures. Before you press okay you have to make sure that the little box in the corner is checked. Next to the box it should say "Attempt to Automatically Align Source Images." It may take a while to load because program is trying to align all of the pictures as great as possible. When it is done you can edit the picture as you like so it is to your liking. When you are done press okay and you have your masterpiece.

While I was taking the sets of pictures for my two HDR pictures I really had a good feeling about them. It was kind of hard to do the experiment because I kept accidentally moving the camera too much while changing the exposure, but other than that the whole project went really well. I do think that this was a fun school project and it's definitely something that I can do on my free time outside of school. 

Movie Trailer Critique

For this project in G.T. we have done a movie trailer. Our movie was called "The Missing." It was about a girl, Violet, and friends. While walking home together the girls soon find out that they are being followed, and in order for the girls to be safe Violet ends up having to risk her life. The rest of the girls go on a journey looking for their friend. My teammates were Nahele Keale, Jasmine Laplante and Jaesha Mata. Together we went over to Nahele's house and filmed. I acted in the trailer along with my other teammates. Our teacher also gave us a Trailer Plan to complete and we had to out in things like a movie summary, voice acting script, etc.

The requirements were the trailer had to be 1:30-2:30 minutes long, there had to be text layovers, five scenes, voice acting script, dialogue, foley, poster image, and we had to have the audience in mind. Our audience was 1st and 2nd graders. I do not think that we completed all of the requirements. We completed all of them except for the foley and keeping the age of the audience in mind. Other than the foley and audience I think the completed all of the requirements.

For the class critique our teacher, Mr. Sanderl played the Movie Trailer for the whole class and they decided whether or not it was appropriate for the audience, creative and whether or not we included all of the requirements. In my opinion, the results that we got were fair. Considering how much we worked and how much effort we put into doing the trailer, I think that my teammates and I did a good job. It came put out much better than I thought it would.