HDR Photography

HDR photography is a way to make images of amazing things, way more amazing and saturated in color. You basically take about 7 different picture at different exposure settings and then merge them together in Photoshop. This will make the dark part of the images as well as the bright parts average out and clarify just like our eyes do to make thing very clear. After you merge them you can add and personalize with your own customizations, you can make the image very saturated and vibrant, make the shadows lighter or even make an outer glow. HDR photography is mostly used for amazing landscapes. The thing I like about HDR photography is that it makes the images way more breath taking and outstandingly deep in color and clarity. The only thing I "dislike" is the fact that the images don't look real.

The first thing you do is take 7 pictures in different exposures ranging from darkest to brightest of the same shot. Then you upload those images to your files on your computer and open up Photoshop to upload. After you get in to Photoshop you have to go to File > Automate > Merge to HDR then a small window will pop up. Then click on the button that says "Browse," and then your finder will pop up and you have to choose your 7 pictures that you took earlier and choose "Open,". After that there is a button that says "Attempt Automate HDR," click on it and then it will start  making the HDR. After it is done there are customizations on the right hand side which you adjust to make your own image that you like but make sure you don't choose anything that says mono or monochrome because if you do it will make everything black and white or one color. After your done customizing you save your file and your done with your HDR image!

One of my landscapes were on the field at my school and the mountains in the background as well as the blue sky with some clouds. The thought process behind that fact that the it's the beautiful part of anything that you got o look at. In my picture there was just a bland field with patches of grass but if you looked higher there was a shade of mountains and artistic clouds covering the blue sky. Then there was one of a harbor which the original picture would have been gloomy but when I turned into a HDR it was way better but to make it even better I added WAY more vibrance and saturation therefore my message was no matter how gloomy there is still many colors everywhere. There is actually another one where I made my friend (Kalani) look like he is in a dream world.

Movie Trailer Critique

P3T7 Cat-astrophe in Litterville from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

The movie trailer assignment was about creating a trailer intended for a first grade audience and we can make it on a existing movie or you're own made up movie and make a trailer. Me, Michael, Tyler, and Kaz's trailer was called Catman: CATastrophe In Litterville. The characters were Catman and Professor H2O (Villain). The story takes place in Catlandia specifically Litterville and Professor H2O is planning to flood the town from underwater. Are voice script had a little bit of comedy in the middle and in the voice.

Some of the requirement were the 5 scenes, 1:30m long, Dialogue, Movie poster, Audience, Foley and Effects. For the 5 scenes it was no problem because we had about 7 scenes so that wasn't much of a big problem. 1:30 minutes long requirement was probably the hardest requirement because we had 1:15 and we had nothing else to film, so we filled in the space with our movie poster, text layovers and dialogue. Dialogue was a requirement I kind of ignored until the end when we had to put it in to meet the requirement of the time. The movie poster was included to meet the timing requirement too, effects were added in as transitions. Our audience matched perfectly for 1st graders because of childish fantasy that was in it.

Our critique results were average and the part where we were graded for audience was all fours. I honestly think we deserved more because we had all the requirement and even more and it made sense. I think we should of at least got second place because our shots were funny the music  and audio and general was perfect. Are voiceovers also matched the b-roll perfectly and were focused. I think we should of gotten a better grade on our project over all.