Final Project

For my final project I decided to make a calendar featuring my twin sons. This is something I have been wanting to for a couple of years. Every week since they were born my wife and I have updated their website (COLEANDPARKER.COM) with pictures and text. So I have a lot of historical pictures to work with. The pictures from the first couple of years are low-resolution (640x480), but now I am up to 5 or 6 Meg pictures.
So I started by making a first pass of the 21 thousand picture files I had accumulated in the last 6 years and separating them by the month in which they were taken. As I seleted these pictures I resized them to 300 dpi for printing and saved them in TIFF format (they were JPEGs). This gave me about 1400 candidate pictures to use in my calendar. Now I had a problem, the calendar pictures would be big at least 8x10 and many of my pictures were too low resolution for that large a format, but I really wanted pictures from their early years. The answer was to make a collage for each month.
Now I could start with a blank 8x10 picture in photoshop and start selecting pictures from the month that I was working on and fitting them on to the final picture. The early pictures were only 1.6 x 2 inches.

All of these pictures are from Parker and Cole's website
PARKERANDCOLE.COM or
COLEANDPARKER.COM

Multi-source picture

For this assignment I wanted to make a picture of my boys someplace they had never been. I choose the grand canyon. I make it the grand canyon of San Francisco. I found some images on google. I took a picture of each of my sons and combined them. I still need to add something scanned, so I used some shelf liner and used it as a base for the boys.

Quality of Light

I tried taking pictures with a variety of lighting combinations. I thought that my camera did a good job of collecting the picture information even though I was shooting in manual mode and bracketing. Here are my contact sheets showing a lot of things I tried. I choose a picture of Parker in the snow with shadows from the trees.
I also picked a picture shot indoors with snow outside through the window.

metering and bracketing

I had a problem with my camera because it only goes from f2.8 to f8. I was surprised at how much was captured when I wasn't using the correct exposure.
The no editing on the camera is the way I normally shoot. I never edit on my camera. I download everything and the throw away 90 percent.

Pictures and Information about my sons

When my twins sons (Cole and Parker) were born in 2001, I started a website of pictures and text about them for their grandparents. Their website is COLEANDPARKER.COM or PARKERANDCOLE.COM.
http://www.parkerandcole.com/

Multimedia 150vv first assignment

Assignment 1: Self-portrait
I took severl pictures of myself using the manual mode on my Cannon Powershot S50. Here are 2 contact sheets and one large picture of me.

My son Cole

My son Cole's face painting. This is a Furby, one of his favorite toys.