I’ve been wanting to try these pictures for awhile, but finally made myself do so today 🙂
Amazing what water, oil, colored scarves, & food coloring can produce! These were taken with my camera NOT produced in Photoshop.
I originally tried to take them using a tripod, but had issues with focusing/distance so I just handheld the camera. I did these without a macro lens, I just used my 18-55 mm lens. [Read more…]
For this assignment I was to use leading lines to draw attention to my subject. I know that railroad tracks have been used over and over BUT I wanted to use them and put a little twist on it 😉
Truthfully was scrapping the bottom of the barrel trying to come up with ideas for leading lines around where I live, the railroad tracks are literally across the street and behind our house, yes it does make [Read more…]
Last night the supermoon was here and I thought for awhile that I would miss it like the lunar eclipse due to visibility but I did get to see it after all! I wish I’d been out when it was rising but I only got pictures of it in the night sky.
Photographing the supermoon was a bit easier than a ‘normal’ moon as I felt like I didn’t have to zoom as much and it was bright and well lit.
My kids LOVE doing arts & crafts, especially Bea! I’ve always been of the mind to expose them to many different things and let them explore being creative, which is all great, but it does create quite a few messes ;p
Yesterday I decided to take Bea & Bubby to Michaels to pick out some things to work on this week during Spring break. Yes, we have enough supplies to make arts and crafts for years 😉 but I figured something new would be fun too!
So we got several items and sure enough they had to dabble with each and everyone in a single day, LOL! And this morning I woke up to a freshly painted project by Bea. While I’m enjoying spring break and the break from the ‘normal routine’ I’m also reminded how much ‘cleaning up’ is to be done over the break, LOL!
Here’s a few of the projects they’ve been experimenting with:
This was a fun assignment! I was to used framing to focus attention on my subject.
Truthfully I was stumped about this for awhile, then I happened to be out taking a picture for another assingment and happend to be in the right place at the rigth time for the idea to pop in my brain 🙂
Here is what I used:
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| Bea & her balloon |
One of my biggest desires in taking this photography course is that I will be able to offer newborn photography services sometime in the future. So far I’ve had 2 sessions to practice, the first was a HUGE learning curve and the second went a bit better…I feel like I’m making slow, yet steady progress 🙂
My friend lent me her 50mm lens this past week for my 2nd newborn shoot and I LOVED it! I’ll [Read more…]
This morning I woke to the news of an 8.9 earthquake in Japan that has caused a major tsunami that has devastating effects on the country. This is so near to my heart because we lived in Japan for 3 years and we loved it! Thankfully the US bases and personnel have been accounted for and all our friends are safe and sound. Praying for Japan as there is going to be a major time of rebuilding for the hard hit areas.
As I hear of this giant 30 ft wave sweeping through farmlands and taking out homes I can recall the beauty of the scencic countryside with it’s rich, black soil and lushious crops. Here are some photos:
For this assignment I had to use a great depth of field to create a feeling of distance. I really struggled with what subject to use for this assignment, and finally decided upon using the museum items that is literally across from my backyard.
While probably not super ‘exciting’ I felt confident that it would be ‘unique’ from the normal stuff my instructor gets 🙂
This assignment I was to use the shutter speed to express a sense of motion or speed, either by blurring or freezing, or somewhere in between.
I ended up choosing a ‘frozen’ shot and this time got a unique subject, a juggler from Frontier days! The funny part was when he kept messing up and dropping them he would apologize to me, I mean I wasn’t expecting him to be perfect or anything, LOL, so [Read more…]
As many of you know I’m currently taking a Photography course (and starting a Photoshop one soon, I have the materials now, I just need to start it!) so I thought I’d do some posts about my assignments and such. Of course I had to wait and make sure that I actually passed the assignments before considering blogging about it, LOL!
The one problem I had when trying to figure out what idea to use for [Read more…]