Photography Essay

                                             I really do love my family, and this was a time where I wanted to show. It was just a fun little hot-dog and s'mores activity that my family did, which we haven't done at all since my younger brothers are allergic to so many foods.
  The reason why I took the photos that I did was because I wanted to get different viewpoints. It was hard to do it though; siblings wouldn't stay still, the fire was very hot and I didn't want to damage the camera lens, and I didn't have a good enough camera to get the shots that I wanted. Oh well, at least I have a camera though. :)

Portraits

          I really did have a lot of fun doing these, but they were hard! Out of all of the photographs I took, these five were the best because LaRee, my older sister, looked relaxed and comfortable.
I know that these are probably not the best, but it's my first time doing this and I learned a lot of things. One thing I learned was that I will have to do a lot more portraits to be able to find my own style and to have a better eye for backgrounds. Another thing I learned was that my camera wasn't really made for portraits. It doesn't blur out anything, which made me have to look for simple, or creative, backgrounds. I'm sure that if I do this more often, I'll have a better eye for this and maybe will take even better pictures in the future when I have a better camera. :)

Still Life Photography

Here are my 5 still life photographs. I was trying to aim for a dragon researcher's desk, him/her having the treasures of a dragon strewn across their desk, having their notes, and of course studying a dragon skull. The lighting I used was from a desk light coming from the side and I tried to capture the feeling of studying late at night. I mostly used the lines in these photographs trying to lead they eye across the page. I know that I was able to do so in some pics, but in others, not so much. I tried to avoid mergers as best as I could and I did try to use the rule of thirds but I had a lot of little things so balance and simplicity were kinda hard to achieve. I didn't really try to use framing, since I did have a lot of objects that I wanted to put into these photos.
Please tell me how I did, what I could've done differently, and how I can try to become better at being a photographer!

David Hockney

Here's my David Hockney picture.
I know that it doesn't seem like much, but I did use a lot of pictures....they're just underneath one another and poking out on different areas.
My camera is a point and shoot camera, so this was kind of a hard assignment to get good photos. I chose a field and a road for my subject because the sun was shining brightly and all of the colors seem to come together. Ever since I've started taking this class, I've seen beauty in a lot more things!

ipod edit

I had a lot of fun with this. Yes, this is my sister if that's what you're wondering. I might do some more of these. If you know any other cool tutorials, please let me know! I'd like to try different things! :)

Black and White

Okay, here are some black and white photos. They do take some creativity, and I know that they aren't the best, but I think they're interesting. :)




Now, these photos actually challenged me. I couldn't even think of anything to do black and white with, and I'm sure that some of these photos would look better with color. The only one which I think the black and white enhances, is the clock one. I really like that one! :)

Settings are Quite Helpful

Landscape:
The reason why I thought that this was the best setting for this particular photo, was because I wanted to show a small section of the baseball park as well as the mountains behind. I think that it worked out quite well.



Backlight:
I know from this picture, that it didn't quite work. Probably since the light source was more above than behind. Oh well, it did make kind of a good picture though. :)


Close up:
I chose to do it on this young pine tree because of how the needles were. I don't know about you, but pine trees are very beautiful in my opinion, and it just seemed to fit the bill.


Text:
I used this setting with a music book. Yes, it is not actual words, but this setting let me take advantage and get more details on the paper.


Sports:
Yes, by this time my creative juices had run out. So, I took a picture of the quickly rotating ceiling fan. I do find the sports mode very helpful since I like to take pictures of younger siblings who won't stay still!