Final Project

I took this picture this summer while getting ready for my friends( pictured) wedding. She's not usually a real girly girl so it was great to see her all made up! This is one of my favorite pictures out of all of the ones I took of her. I knew what I wanted the picture to look like but it took a few tries to get the picture the way I wanted it. Still, the picture is not perfect but this one came out the best.

OOPS

Lets try this again. For some reason the pictures didn't post where they should have!

I used the same photo to hit on both of the new skills learned for this week. I love this picture except for all the stuff that was around them. I was so excited to learn how easy it is to make things disappear with photo shop. Now I know why so many people edit their pictures with this program and now I realize how easy it is for anyone, including the media, to make the "perfect" picture.

I had a lot of fun with the filters! I did so many!!! These are two of my favorites

The fisrt two pictures posted backwards. The top photo is the one I changed. Both pictures this week I played around with the saturation, contrast and the hue. I tried a couple other things but couldn't get them to work right. I think I am going to try photoshop for next week. I have heard it is an easier program to use. The bottom picture was taken almost 10 years ago with my 35mm camera so I was super excited to be able to adjust the color to make it look loke new!!

WOW~ What a time I had with this. I am so not cut out to work with computers. I finally figured out how to do this but I still don't know how to do some things. I really wanted to make my son and his snowman smaller but COULD NOT for the life of me figure it out, so I decided before I ruin the whole thing I would post what I got and play with it a little more after. This program is really neat but holy cow do I need to spend some more time with it.

Landscape

Perspective

This week I did a little research on different compositions related to photography. One interesting article that I found explains Perspective. The site describes 8 different perspectives related to photography. I found all of them very interesting and I could write forever if I was to explain them all. The web address is http://photoinf.com?General?NAVY/Perspective.htm The site also shows pictures to explain each one. One quote that I found in the site was "When you know the principles of perspective and skillfully apply them, the photographs you produce show a good rendition of the subject's form and shape, and the viewer is given the sensation of volume, space, depth and distance." If any of you have a free minute to check out this site it goes into great detail to explain this all very well.

 

 

This plant sits in a big bay window at my parents house. The top picture was taken late at night, the second was mid-morning and the last was on a rainy afternoon. I tried to get the same angle of the flower each time and I used the same settings on my camera with all three. The two pictures that worked the best were the top one and the bottom one. I had an idea in my head about when I would take the three pictures and I really thought that the daylight one would come out the best. The night time picture and the rainy day picture really show the color of the flower where the daylight one shows the red of the flower but not the yellow inside it. If I had to pick a favorite it would be the rainy day one on the bottom!

Color Schemes~

I'm not really sure if I did this right but here's what I got. The leaves would be an example of complementary colors. If you wanted to focus on one area of one leaf you could use it as an example of analogous color scheme, but to look at the whole picture you can see the red and green which are opposite each other on the color wheel. The second picture is the one I am using for an example of an analogous color scheme. This is a picture I took of a tropical bird and I zoomed in on it's feathers to show the colors. It's a little blurry due to cropping and trying to zoom in but I think you can see enough to understand what I am trying to show.

DEER CAMP

These are just some random things that I found outside around my families deer camp. Fall is by far my MOST favorite time of the year and I LOVE to take pictures of all the different textures and colors. I found so many neat things to take pictures of but I only got to half of them due to the fact that I dicovered I had a visitor...A SNAKE!!! Good thing I was the only one around because I screamed like a little girl and I don't think my feet hit the ground until I got in my jeep!!! Well, I think I got some pretty good pictures considering!!

My son and I spend a lot of time at the local rec department and since the water is now too cold to swim in, our time there is spent "hunting" for frogs. There is one little stream there that seems to be the "hot spot" for all the frogs so that is usually the first place we check. The stream is surrounded by all these really cool tall trees! There is a bench beneath them and I LOVE to sit or lay on it and stare off into the sky! Out of all of the pictures I took the one looking up while under the trees is my FAVORITE! I was hoping to give you all an idea of how cool it is to lay under the trees!