These are a few photos that I took the other day. I didn't really have anywhere to put them though, so I figured I'd post them up here.
This is a sunset photo I took a few days ago and I just love the clouds. Everyday is a completely new scene giving me countless opportunities to get more sunset shots. I love sunset shots!
My last assignment for Digital Photography was macro and I had a lot of fun with it. It did take some time to get the macro figured out on the camera, but once I did, they came out pretty well. I took pictures of some flowers outside of school and I got a few shots of the wheat fields out behind my backyard. I also took a few photos of a belt buckle that my friend, Maureen, gave to me a few years ago and it remains very important to me.
Here are my two favorite shots from this assignment:
For my assignment this week, I explored the world of light painting. By setting a very long shutter speed on the camera (up to 30 seconds on the one I used), the camera will capture the pictures that you can create with light. It is much harder than it looks and while I did get a few good shots, I think there is much to improve on and I will definitely continue to work with the effects of light painting. I think I'll give macro a shot next!
Here is the best shot I got for light painting:
Our focus this week was on both 'window portraits' and more professional portraits taken in the studio. We also continued to learn about Gimp and the many tools it has for editing and manipulating the photos we took.
The photo on the right was taken by a window using the natural light from that and a white bounce paper on the other side to reflect the light onto the other side of the subject's face.
The photo on the left was taken in a studio with professional-type lights. The one behind is called the hair light and there is also one on either side of the subject.
This was a great assignment as we learned more about taking a great photo and editing it to make it look even better.
This past week, I took photos of my mom and my two younger brothers for this week's portrait assignment. I think they all came out quite well and the sunset was wonderful in quite a few of them.
Here is my best shot...
For this assignment, we took a good picture of the school and added other pictures using Gimp to change the context of the photo. Though it was somewhat of a silly assignment, it taught us to use layers, resizing, perspective, and other tools in Gimp.
I focused on motion this week and used the family Border Collie, Gwyn, as my subject. It worked out quite well because she is absolutely crazy about the tennis ball! It was difficult to have the background blurred and Gwyn completely in focus mainly because she was moving so fast.
This is the photo that best represented the motion in the background...
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