Black and White

Its interesting to see things in a different color. Especially when there is none. I love to feel how the mood changes in the image just by taking away the color. And getting to put some old pictures that I've taken in this format is an experience too. I've been a few places with my new camera but am still wanting to go further. With my skill and with my camera.

Macro: up close and personal

Starting out I was a little lost. I wasn't sure my camera had the capabilities to achieve the assignment. However after searching through the settings I was able to find a close up setting witch allowed me to focus a lot closer than that of the manual settings. I found that macro shooting is fun in the way that the pictures are sometimes hard to tell what it is even though the picture is crisp. Bugs look a lot cooler up close too.

Portraits

Well I had big plans to set up a portrait studio in my basement but with all the hustle and bustle of helping my parents move I wasn't able to use my sister as my model like I originally planned, nor did I get to set up any props or grab any of the lights I wanted. So... I grabbed my father after we finished dinner and had a few drinks, and was able to get the available lights that we had, or should I say lamps, and sat him down in a rocker and got creative. It went smoothly for the most part but wasn't able to move them around as much as I'd liked, but the florescent bulbs that were in it added to the white walls and made it look pretty warm, but harsh in the right effect. So I hope you like.

Assignment 6 Architectural Photos

So... I thought we were to take pictures of our natural surroundings like at our homes or whatever we were near. Apparently everyone else traveled around to take theirs. Oh well. I still accomplished the assignment. I found that I am not completely comfortable with my tripod and am still getting use to being looked at funny. It seems that if you don't have a huge camera with a huge lens people don't take you seriously or don't think your "professional". Whatever. My camera still takes nice photos so.... I just ran outside one morning with the sun just waking up and found some good shadows. I hope I get a good grade!