Christmas Time!

This is just one of my favorite christmas ornaments. I love the look of this picture.  

I love this snowman ornament and the black and white look very good together!

I like this one because it has my name on it and my grandmother gave it to me one year!

Fence!!

I like that it doesn't look all wet. It would be better if i could have gotten closer.

Aperture:f 6.5

ISO:160

Shutter Speed:1/30

Focal Length:6.2 mm

I like how simple the picture is, there isn't much going on, but it works for the picture I think. 

Aperture:f 4.0

ISO:160

Shutter Speed:1/30

Focal Length:13.4 mm

This is just one part of an old fence post in the woods behind my grandparent's house.

Aperture: f 2.6

ISO:276

Shutter Speed:1/30

Focal Length:5.9 mm

Portraits

This is the low key portrait that I picked. This has a low light, and the man is the only subject in photograph. 

This would be the background portrait that I decided to put on my blog. The score broad tells us about the game of football that must be important to this individual. 

This is the no background. The only subject is the photo is the lady, but you can still see the background.

Animal Morph

In this photo there is a penguin body with the head of a bald eagle. I cut out the head and pasted it on the penguin, I also had to resize the head so it looked like the actual size of the animal. 

In this picture there is a face of a monkey and the body of a bunny. I again cut out the head and pasted it on the body, but I also erased most of the head so just the face of the monkey was there.

In the photograph there is the body of a Bull Mastiff and the head of the tiger. I again just cut out the head and pasted it onto the body of the dog. Then I had make the tiger head a little bigger so it would fit the body!

Land of Giants!

For an assignment we had to take a normal size person and make them either a giant or make the things around them abnormally large. I made the person small and the head phones very large. I also added shadows to the photo. I think if he wasn't so light this would have look more realistic. 

Open Theme!!

I picked this picture because I like the fact that you wouldn't think that there two things, a old fence post and an old tire would be right by each other, but they were.

Aperture:f 2.8

Focal Length:4.6 mm

Shutter Speed:1/30
ISO:203

I love the fact that in the picture is goes from blurry, to really crisp, then back to blurry. I also like the colors and how crisp they are!

  Aperture:f 3.5

Focal Length:9.2 mm

Shutter Speed:1/48
ISO:160

I like the two different colors its one very bright and white, and the other colors are still light but more of a brown. 

Aperture:f 2.8

Focal Length:4.6 mm

Shutter Speed:1/46

ISO:160

Best of November!

This is most definitely my favorite photo so far this year! I was just outside and took it, and with a little editing it turned out like this.  

This is one of my other favorites. I really like how it is abstract and at first you might not know what it is! I also love all the colors that are in it, and how they pop!

I picked this one for a reason I don't really know. I just like the picture itself. It is a close up to part of a snowshoe that my great uncle made my dad and it is hanging in our house!

I love the sunset so that is why I posted this picture! This was one of the last pictures I took before the sun was gone. I also love the reflections of the sun that are present in this photograph. 

This is my final "Best of November" I like the fact that the water drop and the end of the tree branch are the only two items that are in focus! 

CD Case

Front Cover

Inside Cover

Back Cover

In my photography class we pick a genre of music out of a bowl and had to make up a CD Case for the  style of music we had. I got disco which I was excited to have! It is a style of music with a ton of movement that goes along with it. I thought the best way to represent this type of music is the disco ball along with the bright lights that reflect off the disco ball. I was thankful that a couple people I know had the things I needed to take the pictures of. 

Open Theme 3!

I love the color that is in this picture, all the rusty looking colors. I like how the ice is over the barrel. In the picture I made the colors pop more then when the picture was taken.

Aperture:f 2.8

Shutter Speed:1/30

ISO:160

Focal Length:4.6mm

I love all the texture you see in the picture, from the wood to the leaves and also he barb wire fence. There are also a on of lines and patterns in the photograph. I think it could possibly be better if I had gotten more of the fence post in the picture.

Aperture:f 2.8

Shutter Speed:1/30

ISO:303

Focal Length:5.9mm

In this photograph I really like how focused you are art the twig and frozen water drop, and the background is a blur. This way you aren't focused on the background it's just the subject you see.

Aperture:f 4.0

Shutter Speed:1/30

ISO:208

Focal Length:13.4mm

Professional Photographers

The first photographer I picked was Kurt Ross. I picked him because of how unique his photos look to me. At first they look like they were painting that he painted witch I thought was interesting, and the fact that most of the pictures were taken out side drew me in even more. I can relate to his work because it is mostly outside, nature objects, and that it was I enjoy talking pictures of. I think it is an emotional connection because it is outside and he enjoys that and so do I .

Here are two examples of his work:

    

http://www.kurtross.com/set6.html

The next photographer is John MacLean. I like his pictures because they are more real, not as edited as my other photographer. The reason I picked him is because he has a large variety in his work, form nature to people, or from black and white to food. I can relate to the fact that he does nature and that subject matter, but I don't think I could take pictures of food or buildings. I think I again connect with an emotional because of the outdoors photos that he does. 

Two examples are:

Texture

For an assignment for my photography class we had to find texture. I we looking around my house and found a snowshoe that my great uncle had made my dad and took the picture of only to leather part of the shoe. I do not think that there is any secondary subjects in the picture.

Aperture:f 3.5

Shutter Speed:1/30

ISO:200

Focal Length:10.3

Next I found this piece of rope that we use as molding in the living room in my house. i cropped this picture so that the rope would be the only subject in my picture.

Aperture:f 2.8

Shutter Speed:1/30

ISO:200

Focal Length:4.6

This is the picture of the wall in my house. When my mom was painting our house she use a duster to paint the feathery designs on the wall. There is no secondary subjects.

Aperture:f 2.8

Shutter Speed:1/24

ISO:400

Focal Length:4.6mm

Best of, well so far!

I picked this one for my best of because I love the detail you get from the pine comb. I also like how there are only several green pieces of grass with the pine comb. 

I picked this picture because it is something I love. I also like the fact that it goes from focused to unfocused. I also like how the lines lead you across the volleyball net.

I chose this one because I like how the leaf and the background are identical in color, but the leaf still pops out and is still the subject in the picture,.

I love the sly in this picture and how the sun is almost out of the picture, but still seen. I also like how the trees are colorless. 

I picked this one because of how simple it is. I also like the pattern you see in the picture. 

Re-edited, But Just As Great!

Compared to the first and the second one I straightened the picture, made it a little brighter, covered up some of the scuff marks,and covered up the writing on the volleyball.

The only thing I did to this picture was put it into black and white. I think this picture is great either way.

With this picture I cropped it in a bit of a different way, also made the colors stand out more. 

Lighting

I picked these three pictures because I thought they showed the most contrast in the lighting of different times of the day. All of the subjects are taken by the lake in Hatfield, WI. I think that evening light is the best. I think it is the best because it is the most dramatic of all the lighting, but also it can take away from the more important subjects if there are any. I think that mid-day night is the worst because it has no special effect on the picture. 

Picture 1: Morning

Aperture:f 5.0

Focal Length:11.8mm

ISO:160

Shutter Speed:1/60

Picture 2: Mid-Day

Aperture:f 5.0

Focal Length:4.6mm

ISO:160

Shutter Speed:1/60

Picture 3: Evening

Aperture:f 5.0

Focal Length:120mm

ISO:160

Shutter Speed:1/60

Reflections

For class we had to do a reflection shooting assignment. I like how the trees reflected off the water. I wish there would have been more colors involved in this picture.

Aperture:f 6.3

Shutter Speed:1/60

ISO:160

Focal Length:16.9mm

Again I like the trees reflecting off the water, and this one has more of a verity in colors. Maybe if i could have gotten more of the trees and less of the beach it would have been better.

Aperture:f 5.0

Shutter Speed:1/60

ISO:160

Focal Length:37.7mm

I like how the fallen leaves are apart of the picture and you can also see the reflection of the tree in which they could have fallen from. Again the brown leave are boring so maybe if there was more color.

Aperture:f 3.2

Shutter Speed:1/80

ISO:160

Focal Length:9.41mm

Animal Morph

For an assignment in my photography class we had to take a picture of yourself, and another picture of an animal. I took a picture of a bob cat and a bear that I had in my house and replaced the eyes and mouth on both of the animals. I really liked this assignment because we got to be creative and it was really fun to do!