For our next assignment we went on a field trip. I took a ton of photos and I loved most but I narrowed it down. I saw a bird but my camera refused to work with me. I think I got some good shots. I was heading back to the bus and sat by the stream. I went to get up and saw a huge spider. I got a good shot. I really liked the flowers and they turned out quite well.

This is probably my favorite. I love the contrast in this photo. I also love the details.

When I took this photo I didn't want to get to close because it was a huge spider.

I love the detail.

Love the shadow.

Shadow

For our next assignment we took pictures that represented light and shadows. I focused on shadows. I like how my final pictures turned out. It was gloomy outside and there wasn't much light to get a shadow. I decided to take some in my house.

Stitched knee

My mom fell about a month ago and had surgery. They put a plate and screw in. The stitches totaled 20 and I took a picture of them. I like them because they kind of look like barbwire. All I changed in this photo was the colors. The original color was not helping the picture so I tweaked it.

Spring

For the next assignment I took photos to represent spring. When I think of spring, I think of flowers and  the blossoming of plants. I lowered the saturation to make the color pop out. I think that it worked out well.

Lilly

We had flowers on our table. I loved the details in them and took a few different angles. I have a program on my own laptop to edit the photos. I just started working with it but I think my first creation turned out quite well.

Detail

The next assignment was detail. I comprehended the assignment as looking for little things that caught my attention, using depth of field(accidentally) helped to focus on what I was trying to capture. I took a lot of close up photos with depth of field. I had a few that had a subject that shouldn't be present. I think these photos are a better example of depth of field than my actual depth of field post. I guess when I don't purposely do something it turns out better than when I do try.

I took this photo on my grandma's porch. After winter the paint started to chip away. I thought that it looked cool. Also, I like how it shows how much things have changed. We paint wood even though it has a beautiful color to it naturally. My mom, grandma, and me were outside. They were smoking and I was just out there to get away from the boys. My grandpa and brother were complaining about everything so we were outside a lot. It was early and I liked the shadows so I went and grabbed my camera, sat on the porch and looked for something that caught my eye. I had the camera on the  "flower setting."

I chose this photo because I like how the seed is coming through the wood. Nature is more powerful than a man made porch. I love how the colors of the plant contrast but still it is beautiful. I was laying on my back, on the porch, and I turned my head to the side. I saw this green thing sticking out between the wood. I walked over there and realized that it was a plant. I turned my camera on and took a few different shot. It was already on "flower setting" because I have a dial.

I like the depth of field in this photo. We had just taken out the chairs and this one had plastic fastener still on one of the legs. I had just got done taking photos of the little seedling and I went to grab one of the chairs. I had to lock the legs and I saw the plastic fastener. I saw it as a great opportunity to take a good depth of field photo. It shows the details of the fastener.

I love how the detail of the wood is still powerful through the paint. The depth of field helps a lot to focus on just the detail in the wood. You can see the shadow of the porch and the details of the wood. It was part of the railing. I had actually just taken a photo for the alphabet assignment and saw this. I just took a few shots. I didn't think they turned out good but it ended up to be one of my favorite photos.

This is one of the few that had a wide detail. I love the branches, how they overlap, and how the leaves are just sprouting. The sun was just starting to go down, I was wondering around the back yard, I laid down on the grass under a tree and saw the branches. I just thought I would take a few photos of it.

Album

Every one in my class was assigned a type of music. We had to create a album cover, back, and inside. The music I got was soul. Which was kind of ironic because I already had a lot of pictures that represent soul. Some photos were taken about a year ago, when I had a girls weekend and the others are from this winter.

Front cover

Inside cover

Back cover

Animal Morf

I took a few different shots of my cat and then a few shots of me in the same lighting. I brought in al the photos on my card and imported them to the imac computer. I picked one of each that had similar lighting and looks. I copied my eyes and mouth to my cat photo and slowly started to erase all of the skin and put them in place. Then, I made my mouth smaller and the shape of the cats original mouth. I don't like how the mouth looks but I couldn't get it to cooperate with me. My cat loves the camera so she posses for it which made it a whole lot easier for me because she is looking directly straight.

Different Lighting

Winter Nature

This weekend our photography class had to take photos of winter nature. I decided to walk around my grandmas house because there was a lot of interesting aspects. There were a lot of rocks and ice had melted the day before and then froze early that morning. I thought it was a good abstract photo.

Shutter: 1/500
Aperture: f/3.2
Max Aperture: f/3.2
Focal Length: 23.1mm
Exposure Index: 80
Flash: off
ISO Speed: 80

Shutter: 1/500
Aperture: f/3.2
Max Aperture: f/3.2
Focal Length: 23.1mm
Exposure Index: 80/0
Flash: off
ISO Speed: 80

Shutter: 1/500

Aperture: f/2.8

Max Aperture: f/2.8

Focal Length: 6.3mm

Exposure Index: 80

Flash: off

ISO Speed: 80

Shutter: 1/750

Aperture: f/4.5

Max Aperture: f/3.0

Focal Length: 8.5mm

Exposure Index: 80.0

Flash: off

ISO Speed: 80

This is my introductory photo. I took this photograph and edited them a little bit with photoshop and iphoto during photography class. I chose this photo because of the flower. It is a symbol of life. The photo represents beauty and love.

All I did to this photo was blur the background a little and crop some of it.  I love how it is starting to blossom and the powerful feeling it has. I think having more of the flower and not as much stem would have helped a lot, now that I am observing it. I took this photo because I really liked how it stands there. The shutter speed was 1/350, the aperture was 3.6, and the ISO speed was 140.

I took this photo of my cat, Neko. I call her my baby because every morning when I get up to got to school she is right by me all morning and I am always petting her because otherwise she will meow at me, hoping I wont leave.

She sits so beautifully and peacefully. She knows when I need someone to care or when I am down. She always comforts me. If I am sad she comes by me and cuddles me and gives me an air kiss, its so cute when she does, and it always makes me feel better. I always have her to love and she always loves me back.