Final Photos

Home made diffuser

http://super.nova.org/DPR//DIY01/
Here is a home made diffuser that I have made. It is very cheap and works very well, and is a great alternative to more expensive ones!

Gazette Photographers

Gazette Digital Scrapbook

I do not know how many people in class know about this site. It is run by the Billings Gazette Photographers and I find it interesting to read what they do. They do a very good job describing what they were thinking and the entire process of their shots. I feel this is fun to look at because it shows a local perspective on photography and what Billings has to offer in photography.

Barn

While at my fathers this easter, there is plenty good areas to do moonlight photography. This particular shot was not done under moonlight though, which in turn made it a little harder to compose. I needed to use my 50mm 1.8 manual lens and open it wide up to 1.8. I turned the ISO to 800, which is the acceptable limit for my D80. I had an idea of doing something fun with this barn at night, but when I saw that the lights from Billings were seen behind it, I had to make this shot. Its not perfect, and maybe not quite as sharp up close, but it was fun to take. I had to paint in a darker exposure on the barn to get all the detail out and I edited a few more things to make the light more dramatic. I hope you like.

Easter

I created this as an HDR image using 13 shots. I wanted try this as an experiment, instead of the normal 3 bracketed shots. I was also using a 50 mm 1.8 lens that was completely manual, so using that, along with and ISO 100, I was able to create a narrow depth of field that I thought would be interesting. I started the first shot at a shutter speed of 1/4000 and the last shot was at 1/250. After creating this as an HDR image, I applied a filter called diffuse glow, which gave the image a lot of the look it had. I also upped the vibrance a little.

I shot this instead of something such as a cross or such for what I think easter is, because this shows easter as a commercialized holiday. The eggs almost seem to me like christmas lights, which to me also shows a lot of the commercialization of holidays.

Lost America

While we are on the subject of night photography, I happened to come across this site.

LOST AMERICA.

This site is all done with the moon as the lightsource and gels to help luminate the settings. I think it is an interesting way of doing this type of photography and opens a new direction to what can be done!

Mac Decal

http://flash.popphoto.com/blog/2010/03/camera-mode-dial-decals-spruce-up-your-macbook-pro.html

Mammoth Hot Springs HDR

Spelunking!

This past weekend, I spent time in the Tongue River Cave! This was a very fun trip to go on, as I have never done it before. The cave is located in Dayton, WY about a half hour from sheridan. It was very hard to photography because it was so dusty and dark. These photos are by no means great, but they show what this awesome feature is!

Semester at Sea

Semester@Sea

I am planning on going on a study abroad called semester at sea next spring. During this time I will be traveling to 11 countries. There will be many opportunities on this trip to take great photos, and this site can give a good picture of this experience. I was wanting a taste of what type of photos have been taken from the trip and these were very well done.

Presentation photos

Digital Zone System

Ansel Adams created a technique back in the 40s that was called the zone system. This system was made for black and white imagery, and was used to get the perfect exposure and tones that you wanted. Once digital photography came into play, this technique was rendered fairly useless, but by using this system it is easier to find a nice composure.

http://www.outdoorphotographer.com/how-to/shooting/the-digital-zone-system.html?start=1

Great Photography

http://www.topphotographers.net/

So not much to blog about today, but I found this website which was very interesting. It features many great photographers websites. I find it interesting to look through work like this, because it might give inspiration. There is so much diversity in photography, that one person even photographs in Xray!!!! I just feel that you can never learn to much, and being able to learn means that you need to study other work to see what works and what doesnt. This site really shows what can be done and how its done by certain people. Hopefully you will think this is as interesting as I did!

MY FIGHT IS

The first two photos are of my friend Kenny, modeling for MYFIGHT tshirts. These are both the same location, but they portray a different feeling in both of them. The black and white almost strikes you as anger. I like this, because it shows emotion towards what the shirts mean. The second is more somber. The lighting was good on this fence so I wanted to accentuate that. I boosted the contrast and vibrance levels on the lower image. He was also sitting on a towel, and I needed to edit that out because it was such a distraction. I actually did try to use a little bit of a fill flash here, but with very low power. It didnt have much effect, which is ok, because the shadows help give it a mood.

This next photo is of Kenny wearing another MYFIGHT t-shirt. I liked the breath in the photo, but when I took this, the background was just a little to blurry. I thought I had an ok aperature set, but this was not the case. I went into photoshop, selected everything around kenny and used a gaussian blur to less depth of field.

This next photo is of Caden. I was going for these all to be MYFIGHT advertisements, but this almost works for aeropostale better. I tried using this wall with the blue sky to make it interesting. I edited out red railing in the upper part of the photo and edited boards off the wall. The colors compliment well, but I dont know if the blue is distracting, and have not made up my mind.

This last photo is also for MYFIGHT. I thought ths fence was interesting. I didnt edit much other that contrast, but if I was to do this again, I would probably not let the bar go through the head like it is :(