Response To Sound/Light Project

I found these projects to be very enlightening, especially the light project, but I'll start with the sound project. The biggest thing I learned about sound is how to record it. Using the equipment was particularly good to learn. It was also a good experience to see how sounds can be manipulated and just what sort of effect they can have when juxtaposed with other sounds.

Now to get to the lighting project. I learn a lot about lighting in just one class period. I always use to think of cinematography as seeing an object, lighting it, and then filmming it. I was wrong. I never fully understood depth of field and how f-stops effect that. Contrast and composition have also become more engrained into my mindset. I had already been fairly proficient in using a lightmeter, but using it in the field, with others watching me, and their pictures depending on correct readings, really helped be understand lighting a whole lot better. Even though I don't think my pictures turned out as well as I had hoped, I still was inspired by some of the amazing photos that other student took. The lighting project has really helped me understand my photography better, and inspired me to develop my 'eye' a bit more.