Fill flash is a photography technique that is used to flash a supplement with the existing light in a scene.  Fill flash is called like that cause it fills in the shadows or dark areas in a scene. You would use fill flash when you need to get the perfect exposure on the subject and background. For example when your subject is backlit, to lighten shadows and add detail to darker areas without overexposing highlights, add catchlights to your subject’s eyes, and etc.

Mrs. Thomas used to be earth science teacher in my second year of high school. She is the cheer captain coach for our school. Mrs. Thomas has awesome taste in music as well. Something interesting about her is, she likes to wear classy outfits.

The reason why I like Mrs. Thomas is because she is an outgoing person with a positive attitude towards anything. As a cheer coach and teacher takes a big toll on her and is quite the challenge. What I also like about her is she can balance her life which inspires me too.

I am very thankful for Mrs. Thomas, she has her downs and up’s but she has taught me some skillful learning things. Her spirit is very bright and she know how to get along with other people/students easily.

Based on the photo the women seems somewhat suprised or is looking at something. She has her face tilted and  to the side trying to get that jawline. Based on the lighting, the women can look scared or . There is contrast and low exposure, therefore it looks like a dark theme. The lighting is face her face only to the right making the photo low exposure.

1-When would you use external flash? Youd would use external flash when you are taking a photo in low light conditions.

2-Do you need to meter the light if you use flash?  You need to meter the light in some terms. Whichever aperture you want to shoot.

3-What does flash synchronization mean? Flash synchronizing is the firing of a photographic flash with the opening of the shutter admitting light to photographic film or electronic image sense.

4-What does ETTL mean? ETTL stands for evaluative through the lens and I as type of auto flash exposure system used by a cannon.

5-What will happen when you shoot faster than the camera sync speed? If you shoot fast than the camera sync speed it will cause dark bands of underexposure areas in the image.

6-Why do photographers bounce the flash and use a diffuser? Photographers bounce the flash and use a diffuser to soften the photograph

7– What is a slave? A slave is a mode that instructs a flash unit to monitor incoming light, and fire it when it sense the light produced by another flash unit firing.

8-What should you do if your image comes out too dark or too light? If your image comes out dark or too light you should adjust the exposure and use the histogram.

1. Setting the exposure using the histogram: It shows you the black to gray to white tones of your picture in a vertical range. The technology recognizes the tonal levels of areas within the image, according to the number of pixels for each black, gray or white tone.
2.  RAW: Shooting in Raw format gives you access to the full capabilities of your camera. Not all the information that should be present.
3. Selecting focusing points manually: When using a camera, the option for selecting the autofocus points for you, but it is not correctly true. Learning AF points manually will benefit you, improving accuracy and reduce chances of missing important shots.
4. Learning AF modes: Its autofocus mode, the one shot mode that will stop refocusing once its locked onto the subject. It also detects movement in the frame.
5. Aperture priority: It helps the camera have a variety of exposures depending on the aperture value you set it in. Gives you complete control over aperture means control over depth of field.
6. Shutter priority: It works almost like the aperture prioity. It gives you complete control over shutter speed while making all the other settings automatic Alling according to the selected value.
7. Control Motion Blur: It comes from the shutter speed. When its too slow for holding the camera in your hands.
8. Manual White Balance: Camera counters dominant hue with its opposite color temperature. All in digital cameras have few white balance.
9. Drives Modes: In drive shot there is several of modes such as: single shot, continuous low and continuous high. Allows you to shoot one frame at a time.
10. ISO: Depends on the lighting conditions. It lower values and art great when there is plenty of light to work with.
11.  Auto ISO: Helps you when you are shooting hand held. It increases and decreases the value of the order to allow you to shoot with shutter speed fast enough for hand held operations.
12.  Exposure compensation: A scale that will tell your camera to increase or decrease exposure.
13. Manual exposure:  Manual control is controlling every little setting on your camera. Thats how you can finally say you’re a real photographer.

HDR photography is when you capture several images of the same scene but with different exposure settings to cover the entire tonal range.  Ways to successfully capture HDR.

1. Adjust your camera settings. Place your camera on a tripod and manually set the aperture to your desired level.
2. Take photos using bracketing. Exposure bracketing involves taking a photo at each exposure value (EV) available on your camera, which are represented as stops.
3. Edit the photos.

Office assistant- photography agency (Los Angeles, CA): I do not meet qualifications for this position. Skills I need for this job is great communication, self-motivated, work independently, creative, and passion.  I would want to have this job because the benefits are getting paid during time off. Starting pay is not provided. It is undetermined if i would be able to support myself if I worked because the pay is not provided.

Freelance Photographer for events (West Hollywood, CA): I do not meet the qualifications for this job. Skills I need for this job is communication skills, and knowledge of photography. I would want to have this job because of its pay. The  starting of this pay is $80 dollars an hour. I would be able to support myself with this job. Some expenses i would have living alone and working at this job is paying rent monthly, paying my electric, and all the basic necessities.

Studio Photographer and videographer (Los Angeles, CA) I do not meet the qualifications for this job. Skill I need for this job is having experience in videography. I would want to have this job because its benefit in getting paid time off. Starting pay is $18-24 an hour. I would not be able to support myself with this job. I would need to pay for rent monthly and all my gas’s, electricity, and water. With the amount of money given I won’t be able to support myself in this economy.

My actual career goals for the future is becoming a Doctor and start an online business.

This photography is a landscape of nature and still life. You can see somewhat a building behind. There is tall trees around the photograph. This photograph of myself shows a lot of contrast and vibrance. Its in one point perspective. There is shape and form in the photograph. The colors used here are strong and vibrant. There is smooth and rough texture shown. This photograph is expressing a personal preference in landscapes.  This photograph is trying to imply the beauty of nature and how if we don’t take actions now of  climate change and global warming nature will soon be destroyed. Overall, I think this photograph is beautiful in its many ways. Its trying to communicate the human vs nature theme.