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!