I Promise I Remember

It has been ages since I have posted. I have been caught up in all the joys of college like homework and never-ending papers. Here lately I haven't had a lot of chances to go out and get some amazing pictures, but I have been able to get some simple pictures. 

I'll have to add the settings later, but most of these were photo projects for a beginner level photographer class in college where I was pushed to think basic and not complex. I didn't have a gear closet full of wonderful goodies to help me anymore and had to use some ingenuity to get some of these photographs. I will say I don't recommend standing in the middle of the street or getting up close and personal with a fire.

I'm Alive

I know that I haven't posted in a really long time, but I have my own camera now so I can start uploading again. I haven't decided a schedule to upload yet, but I will start posting again.

Website

I have a website that has some of my photography on it and if you wanna check it out click the link. Morris Photography Thanks.

Thursday May 12, 2016

Motion photography can be two different things. One where you stop motion with no motion blur in the background, or two, you have a motion blur in the background from where you followed a moving object. Nascar is a good representation of that because they are always moving. You can follow the moving object at a constant speed and get the motion blur in the background like the first one, with a slow shutter speed. Two, you can set a fast shutter speed and get completely stop motion like the second one.

Thursday May 5, 2016

Fashion photography is much like makeup photography. You want the lighting to make the model look eloquent and beautiful. You want the emphasis to be on your product t and make it look stunning. There's really not a lot to say about fashion photography other than I wouldn't want to do it.

Tuesday May 10, 2016

These are time lapse pictures. There are two different types of time lapse per say. One you can take multiple pictures during the action and then select certain ones and layer them in photoshop. Then you can have the paining with light technique and letting the shutter stay open for a long period of time. I have done the leaving the shutter opened and painted with light. It is difficult, but isn't that difficult for me. I haven't tried taking several stills and then layering them. It doesn't sound like it would be that difficult, but layering the images ma be where it difficult. It doesn't acquire any flashes with painting with light unless you have something that you want exposed, but doesn't have any light on it. The layering may have extra lighting but doesn't have to if you don't need it.

Tuesday May 17, 2016

These are macro pictures. To do macro photography you need a macro lens and a tripod for sure. When I was looking at macro photography I saw a lot of insects. I think that getting micro of insects would be very hard because bugs scare easily and it's a long waiting process. To shoot macro you to use additional lighting to get everything exposed properly. You can do the overdone water drop or you could do the water drops on something that have something in the drop. The lighting on micro needs to usually have an umbrella so it isn't so harsh. Macro is an interesting form of photography that requires its own skill level. 

Tuesday May 3, 2016

I am looking at beauty photography. Beauty photography uses either son lighting or heavenly like lighting.  The photographer is trying to make the model look as beautiful as possible.  The soft lighting hides the models flaws on her skin better.  The heavenly lighting gives a soft light on the face from the bright background. Beauty photography is focused on the face usually to advertise makeup or a hair product. The lighting uses an umbrella to reflect the light and make it softer. A need for this is a good makeup artist and hairstylist. The lighting wants to look natural and not like it came from a flash. 

Thursday April 28, 2016

Continuing my looking at different types of photography. The first thing I know about wedding photography is you need off camera flash. If you only have a flash on the camera or no flash at all, you are doing it wrong. The thing about wedding photography is telling the story and catching the detail. When you are getting pictures before the wedding, like of the dress or the bride, you want to try and catch the detail and gorgeousness of the dress. You want to try and make everything look as pretty as possible.When you are shooting the ceremony itself, you want to tell the story. You want to make sure you try and capture everything. When shooting before the wedding, you can use natural lighting of that go the window to backlight something. I don't really like the second picture because the lighting is so bright, because there is no umbrella on the flashes.

Tuesday April 26, 2016

When we went to ATPI I went to a class about astrophotography. The class was kind of boring, but I did learn some things. There are two different ways to shoot astrophotography. You can sit it on a tripod and let the revolution of the Earth give you the blur of the stars, like the first one. Or you can get an expensive hi tech tripod that moves to keep from having motion blur like the second one. I got to see one of the lenses used for astrophotography and it was weird. It doesn't look like a giant lens like I would expect but it's short and glasses I think. The thing I learned about astrophotography is you have to find a place where you aren't going to get a lot of interference from city lights or smog. You have to get somewhere far away from people. It can take about sixty minutes to get a picture. You have to give the camera time to cool and everything, so you can't take back to back pictures. For this, you need to know your stars and everything, so you actually have something to get a picture of other than just a bunch of random stars. You can make something to keep from getting star blur other than getting a fancy tripod; you can make our own little contraption that the teacher told us we could make, but you have to move it like every five seconds. It just takes a lot of patience and knowing a lot of information.