FINAL- Food Truck Life

 

Food Trucks in Provo have sprouted like crazy the passed year. There are about 40 food trucks in Provo. There are many different food truck roundups during the week. Most people know where the trucks are serving food by following their Instagrams. It is pretty tricky to get a food truck started. The truck itself is expensive and then you have to get certain things built in the truck to make the food and to pass the inspection with the city. You also have to get a lot of permits. There are really classy food trucks these days!

          

  The Mouse Trap truck serves gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches. They are DELICIOUS. They also have dessert sandwiches like bananas and chocolate which is called #BFF. Some of the savory sandwiches have names like The Nicholas Cage. These are the owners that started the truck, Dan and Skylar

 The Grill Sergeant was in the Army and started this food truck with his wife and two daughters. He said "Making a burger is like making art." He is very dedicated to this truck and really good at it. His burgers and fries are delish.

This truck doesn't have a name but he sells the typical street tacos. He runs the food truck with his family of 5. He always wears this cute hat. 

Charlie Boy's sells pulled pork sandwiches and other pork recipes. This little pig that he is leaning on is his smoker. He runs this truck with his granddaughter whom he loves so much. Charlie is a really jolly, cute old man. 

This truck is called Pound It Kebabs and they sell yummy authentic kebabs. The owner is going to BYU and is from France. Him and his wife started it up and now his sister works in the truck. His wife is pregnant and he is busy with school so they are selling the truck in a couple months. 

                                   
The Corndog Commander is my favorite truck. One, because of the huge corndog on the top of the truck and two, because they dip their dogs in a corn bread batter and they are SO GOOD. The two men that started it are brothers and way funny.

                                                   

Pico Norte sells street tacos and they are yummier than a typical street taco. They get there meats and spices from Monterrey, Mexico. A couple of young guys started the food truck and they got inspired by the food in Mexico where they went on their mission. 

Assignment #5

PANO

My great-great grandparents to the left. My great grandparents to the right.

My grandparents home they have had for 50 years. Located in Fountain Valley, CA.

Smoke Stack at the old Startup candy factory in Provo.

Provo Power Plant

6/11/2014

PANO NOTES

Ratio 2.5:1
Should be using it, when you have something unique to say
Find something that demands a panorama
Horizontal pano- shoot the frames vertically
Overlap 20-30% per frame
Make a frame, move it over slightly and do another frame
SHOOT IT WIDE
Make an extra frame at the first and at the end

Step 1: Shoot in Raw, shoot in color, shoot wide, make extra frames
Step 2: Lightroom

5000-5500kelvin is temp of daylight

CommandC = Copy
Command A = Choose all photos
Synchronize settings = makes all photos edited the same
Export them to desktop
CHANGE: Long edge to be 1000 pixels
Post processing = open in photoshop
File-Automate-Photomerge-Add open files
Layer-merge visible
Flatten image
crop
width 2000 pixels
FILE-save for web and devices
quality 80
JPEG
Internet standard RGB

Assignment #4

Black & White Portraits

This is Aaron Boon. He is my neighbor. He has a landscape business and has an awesome beard.

 This is me as my grandma. She is kinda a bad A.

 This is my best friend Claire. We grew up together since we were little girls.

Assignment #3

Assignment #2

 

 

This assignment has taught me that when you are shooting all dark objects that your shutter speed has to be longer to bring more light to the dark objects. If light wasn't brought in by the slower shutter speed, it would be a black image. The white on white image was extremely bright with slow shutter speed. Light reflects off the white color so much more than the dark. With the dark and the white objects being in the same light and the same exact place, the shutter speed still needed to be adjusted so you can get the proper exposure and show the value and texture of the objects.  

Favorite Practice Shots

Notes 5.21.2014

Bracketing- Making a series of exposures that differ slightly, so that you can make sure you get the perfect exposure

For assignment:

Black on Black (low key)
&
White on white (high key)

Zone system: by Ansel Adams and Fred Archer. Zone 5 is 18% grey (middle grey), half black, half white. Zone 10 is pure white. Zone 0 is pure black
Zone 0-5 is low key
Zone 5-10 is high key


-Shoot at exactly middle grey
-Shoot over-exposed (white) +1/3 +2/3 +3/3 all the way to pure white
-Only adjust with shutter speed
-Go back to middle grey and then adjust shutter speed -1/3 -2/3 -3/3 all the way to pure black

Assignment #1

5.18.2014

C composition
L light
U unique
E emotion

Notes 5.14.2014

Histogram represents all the data between black and white. Left is black, right is white

The J key allows us to see the pure whites and blacks

JPG is recognized by anything

STEP 7 is white balance

MEET ON CORNER OF CENTER AND UNI @ 8 am

Class Assignment (A-Z)

 A in a fun toy

 The sh*t is bananas for B

 Cactus..for C...Ouch

 Our Closet Door! For D

 Easter

 F is for fffffffffffffire

 Green Goblet...obviously

 H in sign language

An apple product usually always starts with an I

J for Journal

Exposure {ISO, Shutter Speed, Aperture}

Notes 5.13.2014

Exposure is the amount of controlled light that enters the camera

ISO is the sensitivity of the sensor
Low ISO= High quality
High ISO= shoot photos in very low light, the quality of the photo goes down, the sensitivity is very high

Shutter Speed is our gate speed, the longer the gate is open, the more chickens go out. AKA the longer the seconds for shutter speed, the more light goes in.
8=1/8 of a second
4=1/4 of a second
2= half a second
1"= 1 second
2"= 2 seconds

Aperture is an opening, or a hole
Large=small number
Small= large number

Aperture and shutter speed need to be balanced, one needs to be high while the other is low and vice versa


Lightroom-
Step 1
Adjust your exposure. If you have to change exposure tremendously than your photo is a turd. Good exposure when shooting will help you with post rendering. Anymore than + or - 1 might be polishing

SEE.THINK.FEEL. Learn to trust your instincts

Step 2
Adjust your black. Set your black point.

Step3
Highlights. Do we have any white in the picture

Step4
Adjust Shadows

Step5
Repeat steps 1-4. Re-evaluate

Step6
Repeat step 5

EXPORT-
Save as JPEG file
Quality set at 80
sRGB
Size-long edge- 2,000 pixels
Resolution- 72 pixels per inch
Sharpening-screen and standard
Metadata- Copyright only
NO Watermark
After export- Do nothing


Assignment #1: A-Z
1. Photograph an "A" or a representation of an A
2. Go through the alphabet as far as you can
3. Shoot these in alphabetical order
4. Don't be so literal
5. One frame per letter
6. Bring images tomorrow!

^MANUAL MODE^

Notes 5.12.2014

Lecture 1

Not to be shot for this class:

• ·      Sunsets
• ·      Dew covered rose
• ·        Clouds
• ·      Temples
• ·      Star trails
• ·      Bad food
• ·      Ducks in the pond
• ·      Boyfriend playing guitar
• ·      Railroad tracks
• ·      Selfie
• ·      Feet
• ·      Oil drop on water
• ·      Crappy technique
• ·      Unicorns
• ·      Cats/kittens/all pets
• ·      Kids
• ·      Lone tree on hill
• ·      Old crap- buildings, cars, homestead etc…
• ·      Heart hands
• ·      Picture of people taking pictures
• ·      Tattoos
• ·      Dome ceiling
• ·      Fireworks
• ·      Rainbows

Good Photographs:

• ·      Light
• ·      Composition
• ·      Unique
• ·      Emotion
• ·      Story

Have a reason to push the button

Assignment:
Bring camera!