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!