This assignment was more challenging than the first as trying to figure out what would work for the three different types of shots took me some time to ponder over. I finally decided on the three pictures above. The first is of a bowl in diffuse light, the second is of a bottle of my favorite hot sauce in artificial light and the third is of the outdoor patio area at my apartment complex. After taking several shots of these three different settings, these ones were the ones that turned out the best in my opinion.
The first one was probably the toughest to figure out. Diffuse light and navigating between what is diffuse, what is not diffuse and what is both diffuse and direct was challenging at the start. Professor Hart pointed out to me on another photo I sent to him that my shot was both diffuse and direct as the side of the building I shot was in open shade making it diffuse, but also had some direct light in the image. I decided to go a different route and ended up with the image of the bowl instead.
The second image was the easiest in my opinion as artificial light can be generated from a simple flick of a light switch. The image is of my favorite hot sauce which is piri-piri sauce. I brought back a couple bottles of this from Portugal when I went with my family there this past Summer. This image also required the least amount of fiddling around with the camera’s settings compared to the rest.
The final image required me to adjust the camera’s settings the most as it was outside in direct light. The sun was shining bright and there was not a cloud in the sky at the time I took the image. For assignments in the future, I think I might experiment with taking the shot at another time of day. Preferably earlier or later on in the day. This would allow the sun light to come from an angle instead of from almost directly overhead.
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