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.

Thursday April 21, 2016

At one time I thought a bout going into pet photography. I decided it probably wouldn't be best for me cause I don't have the patience to try and get a pet to sit still in a spot long enough for me to get the lighting and everything set perfectly. I feel that if you had a well behaved animal than it would be very possible. I tried it once with my dog and it was okay, but I didn't have any lighting or anything, they were very basic pictures. When doing pet photography you have to make sure the animal is in a setting and situation they are comfortable in. If not all the pictures are going to turn out looking like crap because the animal is uncomfortable. 

Wildlife photography is kind of like pet photography other than you have one time to be able to get the right picture. You can't just keep resetting everything and retrying it. You have to get it right before hand. I know I don't have the patience for that. I couldn't sit in extreme conditions and hope that animals that have been following the same pattern choose the follow the same pattern the time you are out there. It's not something I want to do.

Tuesday April 19, 2016

ISO-400

SS-1/500

ISO-400

SS-1/250

ISO-400

SS-1/400

ISO-400

SS-1/200

I don't remember if I ever put any of these pictures on my blog. These are the pictures I took with a lensbaby. I'm not sure I like the lense all that much. It's something that would have to grow on me. I don't like not having control over the aperture. It made it kind of harder to expose it properly. The thing I don't like is how all the photos look flat. We used the pop up flash like the teacher said and it gave it a little bit of depth, but not a whole lot. It's just a weird little lens that would take a lot of getting used to.

Thursday April 14, 2016

I've decided to take some blogs and explore different types of photography. I was looking at food photography and weird little kinds like that. You have all types of photography, like wedding and bugs and sports. When I went to ATPIWC I sat and listened to the speaker of sports action photography. She has shot for several different sports. I wouldn't mind shooting sports, as long as it isn't the mainstream sports like football and basketball and baseball. Shooting weddings wouldn't be to bad, but I feel that my skills at catching stories in pictures aren't good enough for that yet. Bug photography would need a macro and a lot of patience. I'm not sure I have the patience for that too much. The same thing with just basic wildlife photography. It would be fun, but I'm not sure I could sit there and wait for awhile. For sports, something crazy like figure skating and racing would be something I would be interested in shooting.Food photography would be okay, but I feel like I would get really agitated with that very quickly. I just have to find the kind of photography that I am good at and am happy doing.

Tuesday April 12, 2016

Looking at recipes I have seen a lot of food photography. I feel like it would be rather interesting to try this. I see having problems with getting the lighting on the food. Cause like the one listed below the lighting is on the left but the food is reflecting the light. I just feel like getting the lighting to hit the food right and not make it look horrible would be difficult. I feel like it would be rather interesting to try and do this. From what I've seen most of the lighting is soft, because harsh lighting makes the food look horrible. There is also a lot of contrast between the food and the background. The food is lit, but the background kind of fades away. The background and foreground are decorated by ingredients that go with the recipe. The hardest part will be getting the food to look decent, cause I can't cook anything that looks decent and I don't know anyone that can make something look good. 

Thursday April 7, 2016

I have to find everything I need, to work on all those advertising pictures I want to take. I need to sit down and make a list and actually figure out the lighting. I don't have any pictures to stick on my blog right now cause I haven't been assigned to anything and I've been trying to keep my grades up in all my classes.  I know for some of my pictures, I need a spark plug, an apple, some earphones, and some coffee beans. I really don't know where the money for this will come from, but I will find a way to get everything. It will probably be later this year, possibly not this school year, before it gets done though. I kind of felt bad the other day when I realized how many more times I will be shooting for this program. I can honestly say I will miss the program, but not many of the people.

It makes me kind of sad to realize that this is the end of my high school photography. Here are some of my pictures throughout the years.

My first pep-rally picture sophomore year.

My first headshot sophomore year.

Finally, my epic failure at the creeper project

 

Tuesday April 5, 2016

ISO-800

AP-4.5

SS-1/250

These are the pictures of power lifting. I was kind of taken off guard cause when I walked into class and my teacher told me to go get pictures. I was kind of confused on what exactly they wanted, and they told me to just get them working out. 

The first time  tried to get the pictures, I didn't take a flash or anything, and they didn't turn out all that well. Then when I went back to class to see what I needed to do to make them better. I was told to get a pig tail to put the flash on and shoot from a lower angle. The problem with using flash with people with glasses is the glare. In some of the pictures I took he had to take his glasses off cause I couldn't avoid the glare. I would say this is the best of all the pictures I took. Of course, my teacher is probably going to tell me that there are some more that are better.  I really hat et coloring of the picture because the background looks really not white balanced, but when you white balance it, it makes the person and everything blue. I tried to find a common ground where the person was't so yellowy and the background isn't so yellow. 

Thursday March 31, 2016

This is really random, but  was looking back at everything and I saw the progression of my photography skills. In the beginning, I had the person up against the brick wall. I like the natural lighting of the picture, but other than that nothing about the first picture is horrid. The second one has has better lighting, but I hate the lighting of the main hallway. 

I have experimented with different places around the school to get head shots.  The math and science building is pretty good for head shots, but the lighting for the background is annoying. Other than that there really are no other places to take decent head shots.