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AP-4.0

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ISO-100

This is my favorite picture of all the pictures I have taken all year. It made me happy because it was exposed properly. Also it was a really fun picture to shoot. I had to have help getting the ligthing right, but I really like it. The biggest problem was getting the nail polish bottles to stay in a stack.

ISO-400

AP-2.8

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This was just a lucky chance I stumbled on. In the picture I just wish I could have had the spider web show up better. I know it is a little under exposed, but it is one of my better images of the year. Also the background is brighter than the foreground, which I know is a no-no, but I didn't think about it at the time.

ISO-100

AP-2.8

SS-15

This is my painting with light picture. I am happy about this because I never thought I would be able to understand painting with light. I am happy because it looks really cool. I am also with that little part of the light that is brighter than the rest.

ISO-100

Ap-4.0

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This is one of the pictures I took around school one day. I just happened to stumble upon the tennis ball stuck behind the fence. The very edge of the tennis ball is over exposed, but other than that it is properly exposed.

ISO-100

Ap-4.0

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This is one of my favorite pictures beacuse I was really testing the limits on exposing properly. This one is exposed properly only because I started out underexposed and worked my way up to see how the histogram changed.

ISO-100

Ap-2.8

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This is my little grasshopper friend. I found him sitting there while I was trying to find something to get pictures of. He patiently sat there waiting for me to get the exposure right. When I did ,voila a perfectly exposed grasshopper image.

ISO-400

Ap-1.8

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This was one of the many pictures I took ona rainy day. I took pictures of the raining fallin waiting for the perfect spalsh in the right quadrant of the camera. I know it is under exposed, but when I slowed the shutter speed down it took the dramatic effect of the rain away. I really wish I knew how to expose it properly and still get the effect I wanted.

 

ISO-400

AP-2.8

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This is an okay picture. I cut off the head and tail of the peacockin the background, a no-no. It is also underexposed, but she moved right after I got this shot. I feel like I cut her off at the right point, not like the one in the background. I find I have a habit of not checking the background before taking a picture.

 

ISO-800

AP-2.8

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This was my happy mistake. I didn't know what I had done to get the background like I did. I was so happy when I got the shot. I still am a little lost on how I got the picture to look like this, si I need to go back and examine everything carefully.

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Ap-3.2

ISO-100

I know a random coke can. I am pleased with this picture because this was my first time with a flash. I was just putting random things together to get a picture. This was the outcome. I was happy because it was properly exposed. 

Thursday December 18,2014

 

ISO-100

AP-2.8

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AP-2.8

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ISO-100

AP-2.8

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These are my painting with light photo recreations. I decided to do both of the pictures because I was having a hard time with the flower. I firgured if I did both it might redeem the flower pictures. I really wish I could have had better flashlights to do my project. I had a really big powerful one and a small weaker one. I know I had a lot of time to do this but I had a lot of things going on trying to keep up with everything. The flower picture I was having trouble with because I couldn't get the light like the original picture. I really wish I could get it right. It really upset me when I couldn't get the lighting right. The coke can was easier. It took me a couple of tries to get the spiral right, but I got it in the end. If the light would have been alittle bit stronger it would have been more like the original. I will go back and do this. I know I say that about almost every failed project, but this one I will; when I actually get time.


 

Tuesday December 16, 2014

ISO-100

AP-2.8

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ISO-100

AP-2.8

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ISO-100

AP-2.8

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These were the pictures I tried to take with a flash while I was in Hot Springs. I learned that I am really bad with a flash. Also the pictures I took with a flash all turned out flat. I really needed something to bounce he light off of and not just beam them with it. The lighting was also to bright on it. I also had the flash on the lowest strength on the overexposed pictures. Therefore I know that using the flash outside and in the dark is not something I am good at.

Thursday December 11,2014

ISO-100

AP-3.5

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These are my flash stop motion pictures. It took me awhile to get the settings right to get it to look like this. Even now I wish that the person would be more in focus, but practice makes perfect. I started off with really blurry images. I had my shutter speed to slow and wasn't following the subject completely. I understand how to do it, but actually getting it done is another thing. I want to get out and try this again because I really feel that I can dobetter and I want to do my best. I will do this again when I am at a less stressful time. I want to upload more of my pictures, but my computer is taking forever to upload anymore.

Tuesday December 9,2014

ISO-100

AP-4.5

SS-30

ISO-100

AP-4.5

SS-30

ISO-100

AP-4.5

SS-30

This was my practice for my painting with light photograph. I wasn't using my Rebel, I was using my own camera. I really didn't know what I was doing. I was just putting the light where I thought I needed it. The last one has to be my favorite because it has a softer more subtle light to it, where the first one looks like it has a light coming out of the flower. The middle is okayish, but I don't like it. I have to work on getting softer shadows on the flower. I don't have the leaf yet so that will be just as hard I imagine. The part I am confused about is how to do the background. Do I point the flashlight at the wall or at the floor to get the lighting right.

Thursday December 4,2014

These are my plans to recreate my picture of painting with light. I drew out where the lights and darks of the picture were. I really looked into the picture and found out all the little spots of lighting. I realise now that may be hard, but I will push through the challenge and do this. I really look forward to geting a finished product because I feel like it will turn out well. The back lighting is blue with a dark blue background. The flower is white and a dark green leaf is behind it. Parts of the picture has no light,so I must be careful to not shine the light in that area. Other parts have quite a bit of light, so I will have to make sure I shine the light there good enough.

December 2,2014 Tuesday

 

This is my painting with light image I am going to try and recreate. I know that there are two different lights that I have to worry about. The lighting on the flower is a soft shadow light source. This means that when I use the snoot on my flashlight I will need to find a way to diffuse the light, like a piece of white paper on the end. The background light is just a solid light with a snoot with no diffusion panel. The hardest part I think will be lighting the inside of the flower correctly. Other than that I feel pretty confident that the rest of it will be easy once I really learn how to paint with light.