Photoshop & Photography - The Beginning

With not having much experience with a camera i'm actually quite ashamed with the outcome of my first piece of photography work.

After giving instruction on how to change the camera settings to change:

> Shutter speed
> Aperture
> ISO

We were then asked to go off with the cameras and photograph an image that represents a letter of a name.

C- Car
H- house
L- Lamp
O- Oxo cube
E - Ear

After having a small lesson on photoshop we then edited the pictures to spell out our name - you can tell I wasn't very good and the pictures came out horrendously.

However, this week were in the studio learning about lighting and as a group we were asked to explore different lightings. Using a light meter, we learnt how to adjust the camera settings to match the lighting setting on the light meter. I thought this was so good to know as it really changed our final images, simply by adjusting the lighting and camera settings, you could already have what I would personally call a great photo. 

We were introduced to three different lights, spotlights and LED lights including boxes and reflectors and were encouraged to gain experience with them all.

This lesson was so much fun, finally getting some hands on experience as I haven't been exposed to cameras very much - however being the 'in your face' girl that I am I couldn't wait to jump in front of that camera and pull some faces.