Photoshoot with Berklee :)

This week I had to take portraits for Digital Photography. :) I decided to take them of my best friend, Berklee. The photo shoot was SO much fun! I took a ton of photos and I tried to narrow it down to my top 5 favorites, but I honestly couldn't! So here is what I could narrow it down to:



I think this is one of the best from the photo shoot because Berklee just looks happy. As well, I like how she looks very comfortable.



This is one of the best because it's interesting to look at. The angle makes the light shine on her in a different kind of way and I really like the effect.



I really like this photo because it seems like I just caught her playing around. To me it feels as if she was having tons of fun just climbing around in a tree. :)



This photo is one of the best because she is facing to the side and not looking right at the camera which gives it a cool effect.



First of all, I must say I love this photo. I really like that she looks so comfortable laying there. I also like that only Berklee's eyes and the flower are in color, because it draws your eye into the photo. :)



I think this photo is one of the best because when I took the photo Berklee wasn't paying attention to me at all, so she looks very natural.



This photo is definitely my absolute favorite from the entire photo shoot. I just love it! I love that she is just so happy. I had my friend, Nikki, stand behind me and talk to Berklee, which made her laugh. I love the fact that she isn't looking at the camera and that she is laughing, it really shows how happy she was. Every time I look at this photo it makes me smile. :)



I think this photo is one of the best because it is so simple. I like that Berklee isn't smiling with her teeth, but that she is smiling. I think that it gives it the feeling that she is just happy with sitting there.



This photo is one of the best because Berklee is a shadow. I really like this photo in black and white, because the colors can't lead your eye away from Berklee. I also like that she is leaning against the railing in this. I think that it makes her look very relaxed. :)



I like this photo because of the lighting. I really like that there is plenty of light on the right side of her face, but that because the sun was shining on the left side it gives shadows on the right. :)



This photo is one of the best because it looks very natural. Berklee looks like she is just lounging around on the grass. As well, I like the shadows from the trees on the grass. I think it really adds to the photo.

Taking these portraits of Berklee made me realize that portraits can come in many different ways. Also, I found that most of the photos looked the best one I had Berklee just be herself and I didn't ask her to do anything special. :)

Framing, Lines, Patterns, and Texture :)

So we were only supposed to upload eight photos for this assignment (two for each kind of photo), but I could not decide which photos to post...I hope you enjoy my billions of photos. ;)

FRAMING



This is my friend a photo of my dear friend, Berklee. I personally love this photo. I think it looks really cool (especially since I'm a dancer!) This is bviously a good example of framing because the door frames her.



This is a door that I found while my dad drove me around. I think it's a good example of framing, because the door frames the windows.



This is another door that I found, and I think this one is a good example of framing because the arch over the door frames the door.



This is a photo of some scaffolding that I found by my dance studio. This is a good example of framing because the scaffolding frames the wall and shadows. This also, shows Leading Lines because the lines of the wall are leading you towards the scaffolding.



This is a photo that I took of a building that had mirror-like walls on the outside. I think it's a good example of Framing because the breaks in the mirrors frame the sky that is being reflected. I also think that this photo is a good example of Leading Line since it leads your eye up to the top part of the sky where it is not being reflected.

LEADING LINES



This is my friend, Emma. Can I just say I LOVE this photo. I tried editing it many different ways, but I felt like this way showed Leading Lines the best. This is because the lines of the wall lead towards Emma. As well, the thing she is sitting on leads your eye towards her.



This is a photo of my friend, Nikki. Again, I love this photo. I love that it is so simple. The lines of the wall lead right towards Nikki and because she is looking away from the camera it makes your eye keep going.



While my dad was driving me around we came up with the idea of taking photos up the sides of the buildings, and I think that this photo definitely shows Leading Line because the gap leads your eye right to the sky.



I think this photo demonstrates Leading Line because the wall leads you towards the things sticking out, then those lead you up even farther towards the sky.



I really like how in this photo the Leading Line is not as obvious. The rock is bumpy and you can see the texture (Hey! Two in one!), but it still leads your eye up.

PATTERN



This is a photo of a fence, and I think it's a good example of Pattern because the fence is all the same but then the leaf breaks it up.



This is a good example of Pattern because even though the rocks are not all the same, they are still making a kind of pattern.



Again, this is the building with the mirror-like walls on the outside. This photo is a good example of pattern because there are consistent breaks in the mirrors. As well, this is a good example of framing because the siding is framing the sky being reflected.

TEXTURE



This is a photo of a fence. It's a good example of Texture because when you look at it you can really see the detail and you can imagine how it would feel if you were to touch it.



This photo is of my friend, Nikki's, hands. I really like the Texture in this photo because you can see the ridges on the wall and imagine what it feels like. Also, you can see the detail in her hands and her nails, and again you can imagine what they would feel like.

Basically, enjoy ;)

Well, here is a photo that I took at my dad's house a couple weeks ago. So...yeah, I hope you like it. :)





Oh, and thanks to my dahling Rachel for telling me to post this. ;)

Still Life Photographs

Well, I chose to photograph xbox 360 controllers and games because I didn't really have anything interesting to photograph. Other than them, obviously. Anyway! The photos turned out better than I thought they would, so I hope you enjoy. :)



So this photo doesn't really follow the 6 Rules of Composition, but in a way it is simple and balanced. However, other than just a little bit of those it doesn't really follow the rules.




This photo does follow the Rule of Thirds because the main focus is the A, B, and Y buttons on the black controller.




This photo follows the rule of Line. Even though it is not very obvious I have a light shining on the games, which leads your eye towards that part of the photo. As well, this follows the Rule of Thirds.




This photo also follows the of Line. Again, the light is shining on the games which leads your eye towards it. Also, I think this photo demonstrates the rule of Framing because the light kind of frames the games.




This photo follows the Rule of Thirds and the rule of Line. The main focus for this photo is the A, B, and Y buttons on the black controller and it falls onto one of the areas of thirds. The games are a form of a line leading towards the focus on the controller.


Hope you enjoyed the photos! :)

Random fun fact: The black controller is my brother, Hunter's. the white controller is my brother, Duncan's. And the pink controller is mine. ;)

Embedding a photo :)

Here is my embedded photo! I took it a couple weeks ago at my dad's house. Enjoy! :)

Lighting :)

Well for this assignment I was lucky enough to have my cousins around, so took photos of them! :) They are some of the most photogenic kids ever, so I hope you enjoy!




This is my front lighting photo. My cute cousin, Serin, was over on a day when it was pretty cloudy so there isn't too much of a difference in lighting, but this is the best I've got.




Here is my other front lighting photo. I couldn't decide which I liked better, so I figured I'd post both. :) Again, when Sonora was over it was cloudy, so still not much lighting.




This is my side lighting photo. My cousin, Lucy, was such a poser! She had tons of fun taking photos with me and I got lots of cute ones of her. :)




This is my back lighting photo. Again, this is Lucy. :) I totally love this photo! I really like the way her hair is falling. I don't know, I just love it. :)




This is my hard lighting photo. Really it's hard back lighting. :) Once again, cute Lucy! I really like the sun in this photo, I think it makes the photo look a lot more interesting.




This is my soft lighting photo. I absolutely love Sonora's eyes in this! :) She is just so darling! I love it!




This is my dusk lighting photo. My cousin, Joseph, is such a stud. ;)




This is also my dusk lighting photo. I liked both photos a lot, so I just had to post both of them. :) Lucy is such a cutie in this photo!





This is my mid-day/daylight photo. Again, Lucy is just such a cutie so I totally love this photo! :)


Well this week I learned that lighting really does make a big difference on the way your photo ends up. The different directions of lighting and the hardness and softness really play into what my end product will be. I also figured out that I really like side lighting. I love the way it brings light into the photo, but also makes lots of shadows. :)

Action Shots

So here are my action shots! :)



This is my attempt at panning.




I set my camera on continuous and took this photo of my friend, Nikki.




Another one of my attempts at panning. I had a really hard time with the panning because somehow I could never get the background to blur and my subject to be in focus. I always had either both of them in focus or both blurry. Oh well! :)




Although the water is basically in focus in this, I still think it shows the motion of the water dropping.




This photo I took while driving. I think it shows motion because all of the lights are going off to the sides and you can tell that we were moving.




Again, I was driving when I took this.





This photo just like the last two, I took while driving. But for this one the blur is mostly because of my cars movement rather than the other cars movements. The road was bumpy which made me move the camera while taking this photo.





I also took this photo while driving, but for this one we were turning the corner so I got a bigger blur.




I was, once again, turning while taking this.




For this photo I used the street lights for my movement instead of the cars.




I used the street lights again on this one, but the street had a lot less lights which made there only be two long streaks. :)



Well, those are all of my action shots!

I tried panning, but obviously that didn't work out very well. Like I said before, I couldn't get the background to blur at the same time that I got my subject in focus.

I didn't figure out how to adjust shutter speed until I did the photos of the lights and even then it wasn't on my camera. I used my dad's camera for almost all of these photos actually. Anyway I couldn't adjust the shutter speed to help with the blurring and such.

I did use the continuous setting which actually worked really well! :)

I tried to anticipate the motion on the light photos. I set up the camera and then took the photo right when we got to an area that had a lot of cars.

I did hold the shutter button halfway down. :) I actually always do that...

So, I hope you liked my weird action shots!