Sample Sky Post

For this one, I took a picture from the web and changed the sky. This is just an example of what mine will look like when I actually take the pictures of the sky.

Patterns!

For this assignment, I chose do take pictures of things inside. My nature photos aren't actually outside, but I still took pictures of plants that are inside the house.

These first pictures are of the stained glass behind the cross at church. I thought that this would be the perfect example of patterns, as stained glass is all about patterns.

I really like the way that this picture turned out. I think that the cross pulled out the colors of the stained glass and made the picture work well. 

I decided to take a similar picture and turn it black and white. This has more than one pattern in it; the stained glass as well as the bricks behind the alter in the church. 

These next photos are all of indoor plants that we have in our house. I shot a bunch of them and then chose some of the best ones to edit. 

I really like the way that this one turned out-the veins in the leaf really stick out because they are naturally pink. Also, the focus in this picture is in the very middle of the leaf. This pattern was cool because there are larger veins and then smaller veins in this one leaf. 

I thought that this was a fun picture, too, because the only really focused part is on the bottom of the leaf. This photo was much larger, so I cropped it to make it focus on just that one part of the leaf. The pattern here is the veins in the leaf, and the patterns repeat on the other leaf in the photograph.

New Old Pictures!

These pictures were pictures that I have already posted on my blog, but I re-edited them.

This is a picture of my dog Kookie. I left the tag on her collar colored, but turned the rest of the picture to black and white.  

For this picture, there wasn't much that I needed to change. I cropped it a bit, and also changed it to black and white, even though we can't really tell because the piano is already black and white. 

This is one of my favorite pictures that I have taken; I really like the shape that the ice formed and where the picture is focused.  In Photoshop, I cropped the photo so that the subject is in the top half of the picture, following the rule of thirds. I also turned this one to black and white to add some "pop" to the ice. 

Winter Light

For this assignment, I shot some photos of winter light. Two of the photos are from the early afternoon, and the other one is from the morning.

The first photo was taken around 11:00 AM. I really like the lighting quality of this photo, especially the sky. I also like how the photo is focused just on the small trees and the one large tree in the picture.

This photo was taken pretty early in the morning, around 8:00. This shows how dark and gloomy it can be and then gets very light out during the later morning hours.

This final photograph was taken at the same time as the first photo. I really liked these two pictures because they both bring out the sky.

From these pictures, we can see how the time of the day changes the lighting in different photographs.

Depth of Field

Narrow Depth of Field

Below I have found a few examples of narrow depth of field. This is focusing on one small area of the photo with the rest of it blurred out. 

Wide Depth of Field

 These next pictures are examples of a wide depth of field, where there could be many different subjects, but aren't really blurred out like narrow depth of field. 

Professional Photographers

For this assignment, I chose two photographers that I had never heard of before. The first photographer is Michael Kenna. Kenna takes tons of photos, mainly black and white landscapes. Michael Kenna has various picture books and has also won 6 different awards for his professional photos. I chose Michael Kenna for this report because I, too, enjoy taking fun pictures of landscapes. The most unique thing that I found from Kenna's website was that he take pictures all over the world. I chose two of my favorites from his many picture albums.

Safdar Jang

This photo caught my attention because of all of the tiny details in it. The building itself is beautiful, with all of the pillars, windows, and intricate designs. I personally love the reflection of the building in the water. We can also see maybe some fog coming off of the very still and calm water. 

East 40th Street, New York City, USA

I really enjoyed this photo as well because of its many details. I love the look of New York City at night; the city never sleeps! As stated before, I like taking pictures of landscapes, and I thought that this was the perfect landscape to showoff for Michael Kenna. 

For my next photographer, I chose Kevin Irby. Irby shoots cool pictures and then turns them into cooler pictures by putting 2 together. The two photos that I chose for this photographer are some that I thought were the most interesting of his. 

           

Is Your Boss Spying on You?

I found this picture to be kind of funny. I picked it because I thought it was put together nicely with the boss standing on the wall ad the worker sitting at her desk thinking she's being spied on. 

I really like this photo because it is so simple. I think that the red wall against the gentleman's suit makes the guy stick out more. Overall, I just really liked the simplicity that Kevin Irby used in this photo. 

Winter Texture

When I thought of winter texture I thought of snow. But then I got thinking, I could find a cool area of ice, and icicle, or anything else that has to do with winter, not just snow. I shot about 20 photos of winter texture and I thought that these three were some of the best ones that showed lots of texture.

Icicles on the Garbage

I shot this photo because I wanted to take a picture other than snow. I thought that this was kind of interesting that it was hanging on the garbage dumpster, so I took a picture! 

Hole in the Ice

This picture that I took is my favorite ones of the winter texture photo shoot. It shows curvy, smooth and jagged textures in this one photograph. I took a picture of this because it was in such a unique shape!

Mountains of Snow

This picture is also unique, because it shows pointy textures of the snow. I thought it was cool that the snow was in this formation from the wind, so I took some pictures of it.