Raquel+Lopez+-+A+Pallette+of+sorts..

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=Type of Camera used. =

For this assignment I used my digital camera which is a Samsung Digimax L60. It is a 6 Megapixel Camera.

=Why an eyeshadow palette? =

After snapping several pictures of different objects and things, I opted for taking pictures of my 120 eye shadow makeup palette. I went with this because of the vibrant colors and I thought that it would result in some really interesting pictures if I angled the camera in different ways. I also decided on snapping photos of the palette because I have a love of makeup that stems from when I was young and always loved watching my older sister put her makeup on while she got ready for classes. Since then I have been fascinated with makeup.

=Technique. = = =

The techniques that I used for this was to have the camera set to different angles and to use different modes. Some of the modes that I tried out were Portrait, Closeup and Auto.

 I used Auto mode to get the sparkle of some of the eyeshadows as you can see in this picture below:



Some other techniques I used was to take the photos from an angle to make it appear as though I was right next to the palette. I used Closeup mode for many of the pictures because it seemed to pick up very clear details of things that I would not be able to catch using Auto Mode. I tried using Portrait Mode but really did not like how the pictures came out blurred. The pictures below were taken with Closeup mode. I really liked these pictures because some of the details such as eyeshadow on the outside of the circles showed up.

 



I pretty much placed the camera at different angles to get different effects. Some of the things I tried were side view, close ups of certain parts of teh palette. Some of side views I hoped to make it look more like watercolors than eyeshadows.



=Final Thoughts =

I really had fun taking pictures for this assignment because it taught me how to use different angles and it helped me to become a bit more creative. Some frustrations I had while doing this were just in that I had a hard time getting really clear shots like I wanted.