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Projector Brought Into the Forest Turns Nature Into a Glowing Wonderland

I picked this photo because of the dark simplicity that is shown. I also liked this photo because of the emphasis that is put on the glowing part of the tree; I also very much enjoy how the sun seems be rising, like early morning, which a time anyone hardly photographs. Which in honesty is so beautiful, and so in touch with nature.  
Some rules of photography included are the rule of thirds and bit of framing with the other trees.
The photo taken was actually originally video taken by photographer Tarek Mawad and animator Friedrich van Schoor, who worked together to get multiple aspects of the forest and nature being lighten up. 
In their video they have many plants and even bugs and animals glowing, it's a rather peaceful video of nature. Both artists spent around six weeks to illuminate these subjects with a powerful projector made it seem like the subjects were glowing. And this was made by just a computer, a projector and a DSLR on a slider. 
I learned that in photography you don't even have to edit your photos to get very cool illuminate subjects, it can be done by hand and projecting the animation on your subject while taking your photo.


6 Types of Photos Every Photographer Should Know How to Make

What on I saw on this website was about changing the perspective and exposure of an image you take to get something different for the image. All of these types of ways to photos all have to do effects that you can make to change your image. I also many different examples of each of these new types of images to take such as long exposure landscape, digital infrared, double exposure portraits, forced perspective, and fake tilt and shift photos. 
I learned how to make a fake tilt and shift photo because an actual tilt-shift lenses is quite expensive (which is what was used to make the image above). But by using some photoshop and some perspective changes you can create something similar.
This relates to photography because the article takes about different new ways to make interesting and unique photography images.


10 Photography Resolutions for the New Year

On this website, I saw many different ways to stay organized as a photographer. I also saw many different types of photographs that would be vey neat to try out. Many of the photos were unique and had very distinct features and were creative as possible.
I learned to be more confident when it comes to photography, such as daring to use multiple elements in an image and also by nit being afraid of using photoshop to get creative images. I also learned that it's always best to photograph what you know, such loved ones, friends and family.
This website relates to photography by letting photographers to take leaps and experiment with their photography. That sometimes being confident and assertive can get you the best pictures yet.

What makes a killer timelapse, with Joe Capra | TED Blog
In this time-lapse video, of Rio de Janeiro, I got to see the multiple beauties of the city all moving at high speed. There were multiple shots of far away scenery as well as close-up objects. Also got to see the city go from day to night and back.
The creator of this video was Joe Capra, a time-lapse video photography, from Scienefanastic, shows multiple shots of the beautiful city of Rio, including Copacabana Beach, waterfall, and ships on the city's harbor.
Carpa has already made a similar time-lapse video of Iceland which got him a gig to go to Rio and take the video shown on the website. It took a lot of planning to get each 5-10 second shots present in the video, such as plans of what sceneries were to be taken, the pace that the lapse would go at, and what type of shot would be taken such as: "would the shot move around the waterfall or stay in place?"
Something that  learned was about all the planning it takes to get a good shot because of course time-lapse is fascinating but its better when well thought out. When the shots are better when the camera isn't moving, theres clear change in the environment, etc. I also learned about how much time is dedicated to a time-lapse video because a 10 second shot would have to be taken over a period of a few hours when slow, steady changes are being taken to speed up.


How to Make Cinemagraphs — Still Photos that Move Like Movies! | Photojojo

(Image Not Mine) 

What I learned from this website was how to make a GIF from a photograph. But the thing about a this sleek and sophisticated GIF is that instead of the whole image moving it's just a certain area, such as the eyes from the photo above.
This could be possibly used in this class late on if there is an individual project that requires to be creative with what you take. this technique of photography may not be what this class is looking for but can most certainly be of use for personally reasons.
This very much helped with my knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, the version being used was the CS4 version.