Monday, December 14, 2009

Cliche photos :)











The first 8 photos are mine. I am very cliche apparently :)
The last two, I have taken before but I found these on google. haha, cliche are fun to take, but i wouldn't do it for real stuff... haha good times :)

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Assignment #7 Re-do Bracketing



Trumpet BEFORE



Trumpet AFTER


Bird Ornament BEFORE



Bird Ornament AFTER



See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil BEFORE

See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil AFTER



Shoes BEFORE



Shoes AFTER

I redid my bracketing assignment, because my previous assignment was okay, but it was just fulfilling the assignment the composition was not interesting at all. So this time I worked on setting up shots that had a little more interest to them. I think my bracketing assignment improved alot this time, and the bracketing was really helpful also. My set up that I thought was the best at the beginning NEVER turned out to be the best one in the end. I could have spent a little more time on this assignment, but in the time that I had i think i did a pretty good job. Fun fun fun!

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Assignment #6 - Portraits

At first I didn't really enjoy this assignment, but then i got into it and looking for different ideas and angles and getting really up close to my people in the pictures for some of them and it was really fun. I spent about an hour with my grandpa, and it was really fun to get to spend that time with him.  I learned a lot about light - its hard to get the right light to show what you want about the person and I also learned that dark pictures turn out blurry and underexposed (duh...) when I tried to do the mirror pictures. My favorite by far is the first one of my grandpa- I love it. It just has so much emotion. Overall I think it was a fairly successful assignment, I enjoyed it.



"I Told Him To Think About Being a Marine"



"Stuck"







"Hello?"









"There you are!"




"Grandpa"




"No"









"Undiscovered"




"Reminiscing"




"Photographer/Photographee"

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Photographer: Joe Rosenthal



Joe Rosenthal was a World War II photographer, who was on Iwo Jima, and got this incredibly famous photograph of the secong flag raising on Iwo Jima.
The photograph is not staged, Joe is an honest man, and very personable. The flag raising was also filmed, and the footage for that can be found online. He was born on October 9th, 1911 in Washington. He had a big interest in photography, and worked for the San Fransisco Examiner as a staff photographer. When World War II broke out he was sent to cover the Pacific War, where he got his most famous images, including the one above.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Assignment #5 On the Belly/Back!







































I LOVED this assignment. I loved just laying on my back or on my belly around the park all by myself feeling like an idiot, sort of hoping that someone would walk by, "are you okay?" haha. It really forced me to see the world from a  new perspective that I wouldn't have noticed before, and it forced me to get really creative to find a good angle or shot to take. I think my most creative shot is probably the leaf in the fence, I was pretty happy about finding this, just as it is shown, I didn't arrange the leaf straight up or anything! One of my favorite shots is the chain, I think its a cool angle, and one that we see every time we go on the swings probably, but never really look twice at. Overall, I really enjoyed this assignment, and I thing I am going to shoot these kind of pictures a lot more often, just for fun :)

Monday, November 2, 2009

Assignment 4.5 - Before and After

Before

After


Before

After

Before

After

Extra Credit - Halloween Assignment- BOO!!

















I love the ghost like shadows, especcially in the third one where there is a ghost creeping up behind her. IN the second picture, I love her posture and the tree showing right through her. Creepy! Basically, I just enjoyed taking pictures of see through people which then equal ghosts. It was a pretty creepy night, my little brother (featured in photo #1) even said he saw a ghost fly over my head. Quote:

"A white thing with a head and a pointy tail just flew over you! It just saw it again!!"

And he never backed down from his tale....