Assignment #8-reshoot

Last time I shot this assignment I did not take many vertical pictures. All of my pictures were horizontal and I don't think I fulfilled the purpose of this assignment. I did not get the point of views that I wanted. This is the first set of bracketed images that I shot for this assignment. The picture gives the viewer a vertical point of view instead of the average get on your belly shot.



This picture also shows a vertical point of view. I put the rake over the camera to get the feeling of being trapped. The rake looks like prison bars keeping you from the trees. Overall the picture accomplishes what I wanted and that was to get a vertical as well as horizontal point of view.



This was the picture of my dog take 2. On the previous on your belly assignment I shot my dogs paws and it turned out to be a really good picture. I wanted to do the same thing but get my dogs head in it this time. The picture focused on my dogs neck because I got so close but I think it turned out well. I wish I had not cropped his head so much.



There is a weird tree in my front yard. It has a bunch of small strings hanging off of the branches. I got right under it to get a vertical point of view. The strings did not show up very prominently but I think the picture turned out well.



I think this should be one of the shots for my high key assignment. Reshooting get on your belly made me see things I could have done for my other assignments. In my last get on your belly assignment I had a similar picture of a fan but I had the fan moving so in this won I left the fan still. I tried to improve some of the pictures I took during the 1st get on your belly.



If I were to name this picture it would be "The last thing the leaf see's" This picture did not get as vertical as my others but I still included it. I enjoy the way the grass is coming through the rake. I know, this picture is darker that I would like it but I shot it on a cloudy day and I did not want to make it look fake.



This one is one of my favorites for this assignment. I took this shot underneath a sofa in my living room. My idea was to take a picture like the one Na shot of the library shelves. As I was doing that I noticed this shot. I had to clean up some things in the background before I took the picture. I was worried that I had to much of the floor in this shot but I think it was a good balance.



This is also one of my favorites for this assignment. These candal holders are hanging off of my wall and the light is also. This picture gets very vertical and I think the very black cases go well with the white light and ceiling. My only frustration with this shot was that I had to edit out a black spot from another candal thing. I was able to get it out of the picture but I could have noticed the thing while I was shooting.



I like the angle that this picture was shot at. The side walk I am on is slanted which bugged me at first but when I looked at the shot in light room in grew on me. Part of me wanted a long exposure but it was still to light outside even with the clouds. The blurred car still turned out well.



This picture was hard to judge how much blacks I could put in. The sky was blown out if I increased the exposure a little bit so I did not raise the exposure to much. My goal was to add enough blacks so that the contrast was good but also so that you could still see detail on the leaves. This is a very simple picture but I like how much sky there is corresponding to how many leaves there are. I also think that having only one type of tree in the picture looks better than if I jumbled it all up.

In this assignment I learned how to get vertical as well as horizontal. I was trying to think of the Simpsons as I shot this. I wanted to get different angles instead of your typical on your belly shot. I am not the most artistic person and photo is very difficult for me but it has made me see and think about things that I never did before. And even though Im not shooting I can see certain situations that would make good pictures.

Assignment #7-Numbers

I had a multiplication picture already but I did two things differently in this one. I added tooth pics as the multiplication symbol instead of the middle of the table. I also did not use symbols in the other picture. In this picture the fruit loops form the literal numbers 8 and 9. In the other shot I used the quantity of something to show 2 x 3.



This is the column that my mail box is on. I love the old look of the numbers. The nails as well as the metal look old and rusty adding to the quality of the picture. I did not add all of both numbers to make the picture look better but I am starting to wish that I had shot all of the number to get the whole picture. The shadows that came from adding blacks look really good creeping around the numbers.



You can look at this picture in two ways. One ways is that the space around the crums literally is a zero. The second way is that their is NONE left. The cookie or circular object was eaten and there is zero of it left. I choose this one over another similar picture where the crumbs just mad it look like there was nothing left. I chose this one because it gives you the two ways of representing zero.



I like how the back of this car is some what dirty. It gets the viewer to notice the focus and look farther into the picture. It was hard to focus without having the c in the picture but the c only adds to the quality of the picture in my opinion. I also used the spot remover tool in this image and it worked so well I can hardly tell where I took it away. Try to find the edited spot I dare you.

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This picture was hard to edit after I took it. I wanted more blacks in the picture but the stone would not change with the vine so the vine became very very dark very very quick. Taking the picture was frustrating because my dog would keep stepping in front of the tripod and ruining the ten. I finally composed it and I think it turned out well.



This picture was a fun one. Just as I was finishing dinner I saw the oil separate from the vinegar. I mixed around the remnants of my plate added some more vinegar and then spelled 70 with the oil. After adding some blacks I think that this image turned out great. The oil on top of the vinegar looks really good. I only wish that it was easier to tell that the number is a 70.



This picture is very well focused. The reason I like it so much is because of the detail you get from the mud. It is like sand, it has a ton of tiny pebbles that make up the mud. If you zoom in you can see the water going through it. The second reason I like it is the water filling up the 2. It has a tiny reflection in it that makes the overall picture look good. I added more blacks to this image which overall did not change the picture other than inside the number.



This is one of my favorites from this assignment. All of the snow was melting forming a puddle in my backyard. I got food coloring and did and abstract 14. It turned out really we. The food coloring started as little dots but they come together to make the 14. It was hard for me to judge how much black to put into this picture. It was extremely flat when I took it. I think that the picture could use more black but if I added any more black the picture was not natural. If I added any more I would have been tinkering with it to much.



I like this picture because you can obviously tell that they are pennies and a nickel. If that was not clear the picture would not work. The focus is good and I think after I added some black the picture is so much better. Before it was very flat and know the blacks go well with the coins. If you look at the picture diagonally the black in the bottom left corner move into light in the top right corner. It shifts from blacks to whites and that adds a special zing to the picture.



I was not sure about this picture at first. I took it and liked the focus/composure but I was not sure if it was clear enough. It ended up one of my best pictures of this assignment. The crease where two tables come together served as a good multiplication symbol. It was funny/hard to shoot this picture because my nephew wanted the candy that I was using in my picture.

This assignment was very very frustrating at first. I hated it and was having a hard time coming up with ideas. After shooting ten pictures in one hour and a half I decided just to quit for the night. After Mr. Slade told me to keep it simple the assignment was so much easier. I shot all of my good ideas and then just filled in the other numbers I had not shot yet. In the end this assignment turned out to be my favorite.

Assignment #6 - Portraits

This is my nephew Gavin. He is the same nephew that wiped his hands all over my lens. I took alot of pictures of him and this was my favorite. I told him to pretend to be asleep and he had a hard time not laughing. That is why he has a little smirk on his face. I had a hard time choosing between this pic and another one of him eating a donut. I choose this one because it says more about my nephew as a joking, teasing, funny kid.



This is my sister Kaile. She is crazy fast at typing and to show it I tried to blur her hands. It did not work perfectly but I like the way I framed the picture. It looks better from above than it would from the side. From the side there were things in the background that take away your attention from my sister. From above there is nothing else to focus on other than my sister, her note book, and the key pad. This picture was hard to take because I had to stand on the edge of my kitchen counter to get the aerial shot. My feet kept popping into the picture and when I moved them I almost fell off the counter.



This is my brother eating my moms split pea soup. I used the white wall behind him for many of my pictures. It is perfect because it is by the biggest window in my house. I like his expression. It is not totally candid because I told him to stop what he was doing and freeze.



This picture is totally candid. I was taking pictures of my sister and I started a fake argument. Her pets always die as soon as she gets them. I bought her a pet turtle for christmas one year and it died soon after. I started talking to her about how it was her fault and started to take pictures. If you flip through the pictures you can tell that she was talking or arguing. This picture is her "Ready to Defend Myself" picture. When we tease her this is the face she gets.



This picture came before I started the argument. My sister always reads. She will not put a book down if she gets into it. I always tease her about her books wether they are about dragons, whitches, or some other mythical creature. I put the book down to show her readiness to defend herself.



This photo is candid and I really like it. I started asking my brother questions about what he brought home from his trip to California. He went into and explanation and I was able to get the shot. I really like that he is blurry in this picture. And his expression could tell one hundred stories. This one is just an explanation.



This is Kaile again reading her "amazon" kindle thing. Her expression looks like she is pondering or thinking about something complex. It was hard to keep the windows out of this picture. If I would have taken the picture a bit higher I would have alot of light causing a distracting background. This picture turned out well in the end.



This is probably my favorite for this assignment. I love how blurry it is especially her hands. Even though she is not in focus the picture tells alot about her. I had my camera on a tripod for this picture and it was hard to keep the legs out of the picture. The picture tells me that my mom does alot for my family as expressed by the laundry.



The hardest part of this assignment was shooting myself. However I think that the portraits of myself turned out really well. I had my dad hold a towel behind me to try and get a good background. I never listen to music by myself. I never really have and so I found huge headphones. I send about 5 texts messages in 1 week and the messages are usually to my mom or dad about where to pick me up. Thats why I showed myself texting. We did not end up taking the picture from the front but the computer had face book on it. I do not have a face book account and I think people get to obsessed with it.



This picture rivals the one of my mom. My sister has always loved art (and photo) but she never took any classes because she wanted to shoot and draw what she wanted instead of an assignment. I really like how close I got and the focus is very very good. The pencil adds to the picture and gets the viewer thinking about the photo.

This assignment was the most difficult. Portraits are not easy especially if you procrastinate taking them to get a feel for the assignment. I think I did very well in the end and I can say that I worked harder on this assignment than any of my others. I am not the best photographer but I am improving and I believe that I am a much better one now than at the start of the year.