Thursday, December 30, 2010
Holiday Treats
I've been receiving weekly newsletters from a photography website that includes assignments. I decided I would try to put some time into accomplishing these assignments, just for the sake of practice. This weeks assignment was to photograph holiday food. Seeing as the holidays are over, I'm a little late, but we had holiday treats, so I got working!
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Placerville Christmas Parade!
Jr and I met Dustin and Megan on Main Street in Placerville to go Christmas tree hunting. When we came back, there was a parade going on. This blocked off our way to get the car, and no matter how much we tried we couldn't find a back route to get it. So we decided to just enjoy the parade. It was great practice!
Out of all the vehicle pictures that I took, this was my favorite. It stood out, and of course the cool license plate helps!
As much as I can do with my little point and shoot camera, the one thing I still cannot do well is photos with any sudden movement. I have such a slow shutter speed that the pictures always come out with blurred appendages. This one turned out well considering. The one thing I wished was different was the position of the girl. She cuts the picture in half. Great expressions though.
I like how their legs created lines into a v shape leading your eyes upwards. Their arms going up help complete that feeling of moving up.
I held my focus on those girls for a couple of seconds waiting for a good shot. One girl said something to the other, and then SNAP! Got the shot! I loved the colors and the flag just made the picture even better.
This is the epitome of why I need a camera with a faster shutter. This could have been a much better photo with such good action, had my darn shutter gone faster.
Taken right before he charged at me! Ack!
I loved this expression!
Who doesn't enjoy a train ride?
Loved the girls face in this one, but as I looked at it more, I wish I had been more aware of her background. The dog is a little distracting. However, I think with better lenses, I could have prevented that with the focus and zoom.
Such a sweet face! The seeing eye dogs.
This one came out so washed out. I think part of it was the fact that I really had to zoom with that one, and my camera doesn't do so well when zoomed at such a distance.
Not only are the subject fun to look at, but I liked how balanced this picture was.
This was one that had so many good focus points that it was hard to make sure that they were all seen and not lost. The rule of thirds was really helpful for this.
Adorable!
Christmas spirit! As soon as she saw me point the camera she was all smiles and waves!
This was another one where the rule of thirds came in handy. This could have been a very distracting picture, but instead the focus was brought straight to her sweet smile.
Four maids o' miking. :)
This one is probably my favorite of them all. Talk about an eflish expression.
All in all this was such a great experience. I really had a lot of freedom to move around and get different angles and generally just play around. It's always helpful to go through and practice and see what went right, and what could have been done better. I must say, this only deepened my desire to buy a real camera!
Out of all the vehicle pictures that I took, this was my favorite. It stood out, and of course the cool license plate helps!
As much as I can do with my little point and shoot camera, the one thing I still cannot do well is photos with any sudden movement. I have such a slow shutter speed that the pictures always come out with blurred appendages. This one turned out well considering. The one thing I wished was different was the position of the girl. She cuts the picture in half. Great expressions though.
I like how their legs created lines into a v shape leading your eyes upwards. Their arms going up help complete that feeling of moving up.
I held my focus on those girls for a couple of seconds waiting for a good shot. One girl said something to the other, and then SNAP! Got the shot! I loved the colors and the flag just made the picture even better.
This is the epitome of why I need a camera with a faster shutter. This could have been a much better photo with such good action, had my darn shutter gone faster.
Taken right before he charged at me! Ack!
I loved this expression!
Who doesn't enjoy a train ride?
Loved the girls face in this one, but as I looked at it more, I wish I had been more aware of her background. The dog is a little distracting. However, I think with better lenses, I could have prevented that with the focus and zoom.
Such a sweet face! The seeing eye dogs.
This one came out so washed out. I think part of it was the fact that I really had to zoom with that one, and my camera doesn't do so well when zoomed at such a distance.
Not only are the subject fun to look at, but I liked how balanced this picture was.
This was one that had so many good focus points that it was hard to make sure that they were all seen and not lost. The rule of thirds was really helpful for this.
Adorable!
Christmas spirit! As soon as she saw me point the camera she was all smiles and waves!
This was another one where the rule of thirds came in handy. This could have been a very distracting picture, but instead the focus was brought straight to her sweet smile.
Four maids o' miking. :)
This one is probably my favorite of them all. Talk about an eflish expression.All in all this was such a great experience. I really had a lot of freedom to move around and get different angles and generally just play around. It's always helpful to go through and practice and see what went right, and what could have been done better. I must say, this only deepened my desire to buy a real camera!
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Lines
In order to improve my photography, I've subscribed to the Digital Photography School, which sends me articles every week and challenges. I would highly suggest this website for beginning photographers such as myself, because you can learn a lot of basics and challenge yourself. As I was going through the website I ran across a compilation of articles about composition. This particular article was about lines in photography. It suggested to look through your photography and look for lines that worked and lines that didn't. So I'm going to do just that! :)
I picked this photo as an example of horizontal lines (with a touch of vertical lines). As I looked at it , I liked the fact that the horizontal line gets interrupted but then continues through the fallen tree branch. As for vertical lines, in the original, the tree was right in the middle, but as I cropped it to make it off center it looked even better.
I noticed I don't take very many pictures with horizontal lines. This one has some good vertical lines with the trees, and an interesting diagonal line going through the middle, and one horizontal line in the bottom third. Generally I don't like very many pictures I take like this, but because of the way the lines are, it gives you more to look at. As far as the rest of the picture though, there's a lot more that could have been changed, such as lighting and other things.
I thought this one was a decent example of vertical lines in a photo. One aspect of vertical photos is giving the feel of growth, which I thought fitting because bamboo always seems so tall to me, so shooting this vertically helped convey that. One thought I had about this photo, however is how might this picture have changed is the bamboo was flush with the edge of the photo. Would it enhance the photo, or detract? Another thought I had was how might it look had I shot it horizontally with the vertical lines?
I chose this one as an example of diagonal lines. However, one thing I noticed as I looked at this picture was the way that the lines lead me. I end up looking at the picture and go from the flowers in the bottom left corner, to the stems at the top left. That's not the focus that I was working towards. I wonder how it might look if I mirror image flipped the photo so that the lines lead from the top left and went down to the right. It seems as if with diagonal lines, your eyes go from left to right.
I like this photo because the multiple diagonal lines give the photo a sense of depth and give you that unruly feeling that weeds generally do. I don't know if it's just me, but this a photo that draws me in like a maze might.
I picked this photo as an example of horizontal lines (with a touch of vertical lines). As I looked at it , I liked the fact that the horizontal line gets interrupted but then continues through the fallen tree branch. As for vertical lines, in the original, the tree was right in the middle, but as I cropped it to make it off center it looked even better.
I noticed I don't take very many pictures with horizontal lines. This one has some good vertical lines with the trees, and an interesting diagonal line going through the middle, and one horizontal line in the bottom third. Generally I don't like very many pictures I take like this, but because of the way the lines are, it gives you more to look at. As far as the rest of the picture though, there's a lot more that could have been changed, such as lighting and other things.
I thought this one was a decent example of vertical lines in a photo. One aspect of vertical photos is giving the feel of growth, which I thought fitting because bamboo always seems so tall to me, so shooting this vertically helped convey that. One thought I had about this photo, however is how might this picture have changed is the bamboo was flush with the edge of the photo. Would it enhance the photo, or detract? Another thought I had was how might it look had I shot it horizontally with the vertical lines?
I chose this one as an example of diagonal lines. However, one thing I noticed as I looked at this picture was the way that the lines lead me. I end up looking at the picture and go from the flowers in the bottom left corner, to the stems at the top left. That's not the focus that I was working towards. I wonder how it might look if I mirror image flipped the photo so that the lines lead from the top left and went down to the right. It seems as if with diagonal lines, your eyes go from left to right.
I like this photo because the multiple diagonal lines give the photo a sense of depth and give you that unruly feeling that weeds generally do. I don't know if it's just me, but this a photo that draws me in like a maze might.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Sly Park Lake
A couple of shots from Sly Park Lake. Good news! Hopefully soon I will be able to upgrade to a big girl camera and start going crazy with my photography!
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Baby E!
So after this one, I realized I need a WAY faster camera if I want to keep doing babies. Baby E is so active and so fun, but my camera was too slow to catch all of it. SO, in the meantime, I'm saving up, and hopefully soon I'll get a real camera! Lol.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Baby B!
One of my amazing friends let me borrow her baby for the day! :) Baby B is a sweet girl with an easy going curious personality. It was SO fun to get to photograph her!
This is probably my favorite of all the ones we took today!
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