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Your Name Assignment - Stirling Kim Moss

By: Stirling Kim Moss Your Name Assignment How The Letters of My Name Are Connected To The World Around Us As stated within the assignments outline, the purpose of the project was to be able to spell your name from letters of the alphabet found in the natural world around us. I believe that the underlying goal was to train one’s eye to be creative and discover the hidden geometry of our surroundings in both a micro and macro sense. In order to find things that represent the letters in my name, I tried to look for things out of the ordinary, as well as things that peaked my interest. I had to become curious and conscious of all of my surroundings. I discovered fallen oak leaves on a bed of pine needles and noticed and ‘S’ as I got closer with a macro lens. In order to find a 'T', I looked around the bricks of my house, and found an area with a lot of wear and tear and thought it looked like a credible ‘T’. While walking across my front lawn, I came across a fal

Multiple Exposures Assignment

By: Stirling Kim Moss Let The Big Dog Eat! Camera Settings Shutter Speed: 1/500 second Focal Length: 24 mm F-stop: F-5.6 ISO: 1000 The movie, Happy Gilmore, a comedic golf film, inspired me to produce this multiple exposure photo. Golf is also my favourite sport, and I take part in several tournaments throughout the summer break, I am also a member of the Oakville Trafalgar High School golf team. I wanted the viewer to imagine me running up to the ball and striking it with a mighty blow. In order to accomplish this, I made sure to position myself closer to the camera in each succeeding picture. I also wanted it to seem as though the ball's path was headed straight for the camera's lens, in order to shock the viewer.

Manipulate Your Viewer Assignment

Short Depth of Field Shutter Speed: 1/60 second Focal Length: 105 mm F11 Long Depth of Field Shutter Speed: 1/2000 second Focal Length: 35 mm F4 Vantage Point Shutter Speed: 1/400 second Focal Length: 35 mm F4 Slow Shutter Speed Shutter Speed: 10 seconds Focal Length: 28 mm F22 ISO: 100 Fast Shutter Speed Shutter Speed: 1/640 second Focal Length: 35 mm F4 ISO: 2500