Self-Promotional Video

Zoe Wal 3/18/08
1. The self-promo video helped Trent get his name out there for consideration. Having this homemade video influencing employers, it helped him land a job with little effort after production!
2.The employer said that with a video he got a sense of creativity and attitude, which you cannot do on paper alone. Trent's video stood out, which landed him an interview.
3.As I said, a video portrays a sense of attitude and creativity. On paper it seems like facts alone, no personality.

4.I liked how in these video resumes they incorporated some individuality (Stanley's hats and Ben's Piano playing).
5.I didn't like the length, I'd say both were a little too long to keep an employer's attention.
6.The first video had fine quality, but I must say the second video was not meeting acceptable quality. The pictures were all really blurry.
7.I would make sure the pictures I use are clear, I would make my video a little shorter, as well as incorporate a few more bullets of information. Reading is more clear than hearing it really quick.

8.I liked the first video most
9.The first video has music, clear pictures, and nice effects. I liked how she used herself in the video too.
10.The disliked the second video the most.
11.It was too loud and flashy. It was not personal at all there weren't any photography of the artist or their work!?

12.For my video I hope to use upbeat music but not crazy. A calm happy. I'd like to use bullets for facts about me and to show my calm professional side as well as my fun side. :)

My Edited Photo (With Corrected White Balance)

The first image was the original photo with a temperature that's cooler (blue tint).
The second image is my edited version of the photograph.
I used the white brick wall behind the subjects as my white point.

White Balance & Color Temperature

White balance is the process of removing unrealistic color out of pictures. It's used so that subjects that appear white in person come out white in your photo as well. It's so the photo looks as close to as how your eye would portray it, more realistic and not flushed. Proper camera white balance has to determine the "color temperature" of the light source, which also refers to the warmth or lack there of, of white light.


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All Info and Photos from: http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/white-balance.htm

Color Temperature
Color temperature is a description of the vairiety of the spectrum of light given off by the subject/environment in the photo.
Different light sources give off a different temperature
ie:
Candle light gives off 1000-2000 K
Flash gives off 5000-5500 K
Shade gives off 9000-10000 K

You can change the outlook of your photo by changing the white balance in your camera's menu (usually has flourescent, cloudy, indoor, sunny, etc...)
Temperature can be changed on your cameras menu as well.

Environmental Portraits

Environmental Portraits: Portraits taken of people in an environment in which they live in or which tell something about them.

E.P.s are good because they give you an idea about the subject of which the photo is based upon and make the picture more interesting and complex, without over powering the subject.

Here are two examples of Environmental Portraits:



Some other types of portraits are: Upper-body shots & Close-up shots
Upper-body shots are based from the waist up and box around the shoulders and elbows, they are commonly used for small-medium groups of people and indiviual portraits.
Close-up shots are from the chest up focusing on the face. They are for individual photography or up to a group of 3 people with a wider range shot.

Three rules of thumb for taking portraits are:
-Make sure the subject is the first thing you notice, nothing should take your attention off of them
-Keep the picture simple
-Individualize the picture to make the subject feel comfortable and personal

Depth o' Field

Using a flower, Victoria's Secret dog, The Simpsons figurines, and an African Elephant; the depth of field was experimented with using the flower (close-up) setting and automatic without flash. The End result was a good example of depth of field: first is with all in focus, then focused close with deep blurry, and deep in focus and close blurry!

Depth of Field

Depth of field is: the distance between the closest and furthest objects that appear in sharp focus in a photograph. Depth of field ("DOF") can be consiered perfect in many different ways, it all depends on what the photographer's aiming for . It is all a matter of personal preference when you're trying to determine the DOF to enhance a photograph! A few factors have a direct effect with the depth of field, they are: 1) the aperture, 2) the focal length of the lens you use, 3) the image size (has to do with distance). Just remember, the bigger the lens opening (aperture), the narrower depth of field. The smaller the aperture, the deeper the depth of field. The shorter the lens focal length, the deeper the "dof". And finally, the greater the shooting distance, the deeper the depth of field.

Lights! Camera! Action!

The first photograph is depicting a blurred action shot, purposely set with a slower shutter speed so the motion is shown. The next is of Jessica Hanstad running outside, she is in focus as she is moving because my camera followed her movement: Panning. Notice how she is in focus but the surrounding ground and background are blurred. Finally is an example of stopped action. The car appears to be still but could also be moving, just taken with a fast shutter speed? Can you tell if it's moving?