Hannah- Movement

This week was a challenge, and everything I came up with initially felt kind of boring.  So I relied a lot of filters to make things interesting with several of the photos.  This assignment really stretched me, as I really don't know how to use the camera's settings and don't know what I'm doing.  In the end, I came up with some stuff that I liked and had a lot of fun playing with filters.  All of these were taken by slowing down shutter speed and spinning the camera in one way or another.  Anyway, here goes!

This one was an unexpected success after lots of trial and error.  My right eye ended up perfectly in focus, which I love, but I wish I would make a larger area including both eyes stay in focus.  I like the first filter a lot but I had to add the second one to match my next picture (just to a lesser extent.)

Okay, this one here was a lot of fun.  Originally, my skin turned out looking terribly red and patchy.  I slapped on a Matrix filter to balance out the red, and because I was enjoying this too much I resized it to a widescreen aspect ratio to take the cinematic feel even further.  My face did not turn out looking the best, but I loved the background so much I had to make it work.  I took it by holding out my arm selfie style and spinning on my heel while taking the photo.  I know many have pulled this kind of thing off much better but I like it.  (Full disclosure, I didn't airbrush my skin or anything, but I did touch it up to remove some of the many skin blemishes because this one was so close up.)

I wish I knew a better way to get this effect with more control over what ends up in the center.  I wish I could make it the stop sign, but I like this one the way it is.