Vignette, Faking Depth of Feild & Color Emphasis

In this assignment we learned how to create a vignette on our photos. A vignette is a photo whose edges fade into the surrounding paper. it creates a shadow around the sides to show emphasis to the center the photo. For my images i used a picture of rings which creates empasis on the rings and blurs out the edges of the table cloth. i also use a photo of hannah and when i added the vignette it makes people look and focus on her face and not the surrounding scenery.
The second type of emphasis we learned was faking our depth of feild with the gausian blur. is allowed us to keep one object in focus while we made the back ground blurry causing it to look far away.
The last type of emphasis we learned was making a photo black and white but keeping one part of the image in color. it makes you focus on that object and makes it the focal point of the photo.
Here are 3 images up above for examples of each type of emphasis.

Lighting

For this assignment we learned about the lighting techniques. There are many different types: Frontal, side, 3/4ths, and back. There are also direct lighting and diffused. in my photos i incorporated most of these techniques with MJ and studio light, also with hannah and kiley with natural light. These photos show many different lighting types and the difference between studio lighting and natural lighting. i had dificulties trying to reflect and diffuse natural light where as with studio light it was easier. I also had to change my white balance to tungsten so my photos wouldnt come out with an orangish tint. so many different techniques were used in my photos which reflected my hard work. In class we also learned how to blur the skin because in most magazines and photos of people the photographers blur the skin to make it look clear and neat. so I have an image of hannah after i blurred the photo. My theme was incorporated with my natural light photos because it deals with humanity and the basics of life. since hannah and kiley are my friends it shows friendship as a subtheme of my actually theme. i enjoyed this assignment and how it got me to use different lighting types and angles.
To view all my photos on snapfish click here.