Assignment #5 Get on your belly

In this assignment I took alot of photos in my back yard. This is one the pictures that I was trying to get a high point of view from the trees in the background. It did not work out as good as I wanted. I like the focus and quality of the picture but I did not get the high point of view I wanted. I also think this photo could use a bit more contrast in the leaves but I still enjoy the picture.



This picture was difficult to get. I had to get on my back on top of a table as well as adjust my tripod to get directly under the fan. I turned off all of the lights except this fan to get the picture. I wanted a long exposure of the fan going in circles but this turned out to be more difficult that it sounded. After trying several long exposures of 15, 13, 10, 8, and 6 seconds the fan would not show up as well as I wanted to. I like how bright the light is in contrast with the dark ceiling. This picture leaves the viewer a little bit confused which is something I like about it. In other words it is a mysterious picture.



I really like this picture. I wish I would have used this for the critique instead of my close up moss picture. I lifted leaves up so that you could see under the brush. It gives the picture a mysterious feeling that there is more than meets the eye. I increased the contrast a tiny bit but had to stop because it became to dark underneath the leaves. This is one of my favorite pictures of this assignment.



The pine tree in the back of this picture is our Christmas tree. We will eventually use it as fire wood but it served as a good subject for this picture. I bracketed this picture in color because I was taking pictures of birds before hand. I deleted them all and shot them again in black and white. I then remembered that I could have just switched them to grayscale on my computer. I like how the crack in the ground filled with leaves looks like a pathway leading up to the pine tree. This is also one of my favorites for this assignment.



This is my favorite picture of this assignment. It was hard to take because my chocolate lab would not stay still. I also shot this picture in color but did not delete it because I remembered that I could switch it to grayscale on the computer. I really like how full the image is. I did not show any more of the dog other than what was necessary. This images really is the definition of getting low. You can tell that the perspective is as low as it can be.



In this picture I tried to get all of the detail on the rock and moss. I achieved that but I am still not satisfied with the point of view of the image. I wish I could have taken this image much more vertically than a mix between horizontal and vertical. The photo is also very "empty" their is no subject making the image interesting.



Before I took this image I was cleaning up in my neighbors backyard. That is where I got the idea the leaves. This picture is very simple but it does give and interesting perspective. The leaves continue to build up until they are out of the picture. This gives you a vertical perspective even though the picture was not framed vertically.



I love the detail of this picture. The detail you get from the moss surrounding the rock is awesome but this picture was taken straight ahead and does not give much perspective at all. It was the second picture I took for this assignment and it was interesting to see how my perspectives changed as the assignment continued.

Overall I was disappointed with how this assignment turned out. I did not fulfill the assignment the way I wanted to. I shot alot of pictures with a horizontal perspective but hardly any with a vertical perspective. If I shot this assignment again I would try to get my images to have a clear and obvious perspective. My printing and focus went well but I was lacking the creativity that is necessary to be a good photographer. That is what I need to work on in assignments to come.

Assignment #4- Highkey/Lowkey take 2

I got the idea for this image from a very very cold lacrosse game two years ago. We were playing Riverton and it was freezing. Snow was all over the place. I remember trying so hard not to fall on the cold hard ground because all of my heat would have been taken away. I did end up falling and that is where the lacrosse head in the snow comes from. I really enjoy this picture other than the corner that was burnable. You can see the border but hardly, other than that this is one of my favorite high key shots.



I was in Hawaii with my family and my dad gave me a coconut to split open. I thought it would be very simple and easy but it turned out to be a much larger challenge. After at least an hour I finally split open the coconut and was frustrated when I found out that I disliked coconut milk. I remember going home and easily splitting open macadamia nut chocolates. That is where I got the Idea for the chocolates split open inside of the coconut. This image was very dull when I first printed it. I ended up printing it four more times before I found the one I really liked.



This picture came from a very simple experience. This was simply how shinguards were displayed at a soccer store called team gear. I recreated the scene and bracketed them very dark because I like that you can hardly see the difference between the shin guards and the background. I also like how the symbols are arranged on the shinguards. The adidas symbols are arranged next to each other but flipped around. For how simple it is I like this picture alot.



My family always fights over who gets the last piece of something. I saw this black butter plate and though I would use an oreo to represent our family grabbing the last one. After shooting my other coconut shot I thought that I could use one of those chocolates to represent the situation. When I printed the picture it was very dull. The inside of the chocolate was not contrasting enough with the black plate. After making the chocolate lighter the picture looked much much better.

Shooting this assignment again made me take more creative pictures than my last assignment. I did not like the way it turned out and new I could do better. During spring break I found myself looking for things to shoot wherever I went. Being in Hawaii helped me remember my coconut experiences and gave me one of my images. Overall I am much more satisfied with the way assignment 4 turned out than assignment 3.