Author: Piper Figallo

Panning Reflection -Piper Figallo

Practicing on moving cars helped me understand how panning photography works. After many failed pictures where everything in the photo was blurry, I was able to learn how to get a clear subject with the motion streaks showing the movement and speed of the subject. I like this concept in photography because you get to […]

Masters Project

For this project, I chose the photographer Daido Moriyama as my inspiration. Something I tried to capture was the isolated and eerie feeling that this artist’s pictures portray. I think that putting a monochrome filter on all of these photos helps create a similar feeling for the photographer because it focuses on the subject rather […]

Shutter Work: Piper Figallo

Reflection: Something I was able to do pretty easily was adjust the ISO based on the lighting of the room or outside. I learned that for lighter settings you do a lower ISO number like 200 and for a darker setting you do a higher number like 3000. A challenge I had was that when […]

Aperture Work: Piper Figallo

What I learned in this assignment was how to adjust my aperture to focus on a subject. With a lower f-number, I saw that it isolates the subject and makes the subject clear and the background more blurry. A challenge I had was when the f-number was too low the exposure on the picture would […]

Aperture Reflection

What I learned in this assignment was how to adjust my aperture to focus on a subject. With a lower f-number, I saw that it isolates the subject and makes the subject clear and the background more blurry. A challenge I had was when the f-number was too low the exposure on the picture would […]

Shutter Priority

Reflection: Something I was able to do pretty easily was adjust the ISO based on the lighting of the room or outside. I learned that for lighter settings you do a lower ISO number like 200 and for a darker setting you do a higher number like 3000. A challenge I had was that when […]