Week 6: The Digital Portrait

These are my favorite pictures of the week. My daughter was so kind to let me photograph her and trust that I would capture her best likeness. I took several pictures of her. Most of them I edited to black and white, changed the contrast, tint, and brightness in order to make them look as if they were taken in the 60's.

Week 6: The Digital Portrait

Hey all,

Here are a few of my favorite shots from this week's assignment. This is the first time I have ever shot images like this strictly using natural light and no flash whatsoever. I wanted to go about it as if I was a fashion photographer out shooting a magazine cover, so I called on the amazing "LittleWing" to model for me.

These are what I came up with - strictly with natural light and two Nikons. This was truly fun, and I just may do more of the total natural light shooting as it does look much more real than the over-produced (a perfect description) stuff that we see so often!

Class 6: Digital Portrait

This is my cousin Braden. This was taken on Sunday before church.. He just laid there like he knew what was going on.










This picture was taken this weekend in Chicago. It was very difficult getting a true facial expression because my cousin was having a hard time not smiling in front of the camera. After three shots I finally got one..

Marco

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I wish I had a tripod for the guitar set- I ended up scrapping most of the pictures because of the macro/lighting/not so steady hands. The rest: Theresnoneedtorush Fotothing

Light & Shadow

Week 5: God is in the Details: Altered Scale: Large Images from Tiny Object (s) (The Macro Project)

I had so much fun taking pictures of flowers at a local greenhouse that before I knew it, I had taken over 300 pictures within about 2 hours! Nature is so beautiful and much easier than photographing human beings. Nature doesn't complain about the way it looks in the photograph or the way you took the picture. It has been hard narrowing down the best ones. I've already posted ten on fotothing and I anticipate adding more. Check out the picture of the moth on the flower on my fotothing. It actually let me get that close! Soon I will also post a flower that has an ant on the tip of the flower and you can actually see it. I was mostly pleased with my camera's capability to let me photograph up close. There were many retakes because I would get too close and the photograph would be blurred. I do hope you find these pleasing to view. I sincerely enjoyed photographing them.

The second shot is of a pigeon standing on the beach, if you look close you can see the shadow and also the human foot print in the sand.

Hello everyone these are two shots that I thought would fit this weeks assignment. The first shot is a dandelion that I saw in the park near the water.

God is in the Details: The Macro Project

Hello everybody,

Here are a couple of shots from the macro-photography assignment. I shot another that was intended to look like a crime scene from the television show CSI Miami (complete with brownish warm tone) and another shot of a wood spider that is probably not the best thing for anyone who is arachnaphobic... (Personally, I think the spider was far more afraid of the big creature with the camera looming in on it, however)

I shot these with a Panasonic Lumix. But I really want to now try some stuff with an ancient,

manual focus (and metered) Nikkor 55mm Micro lens and Pk-3 extender! Hopefully I can crank out some shots with that bad-boy!

Assignment 5: Large photos

The first photo is of a rock that was at the bottom of the fountain in Middletown. The second photo is of a flower in front of my house.

Peace Day, September 21... Happy Autumn!

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Shadow and Light

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I liked how everything looked in monochrome, the footprints looked wierd in the photo because they seemed to be positives instead of negative depressions. The rest: theresnoneedtorush fotothing

Week 4: Shadows and Light

I think I'm finally starting to feel more comfortable with photography and editing. These are my favorite pictures of the week so far. I downloaded these and a few more on fotothing. I'm really excited about quite a few of them and will be adding more this week. It's amazing how simple things can make a wonderful photo. These two pictures are views from the inside of a plane and the light streaming from my laundry room. I hope you enjoy these.Thanks for all the comments.

Light and Shadow..

This is a picture of me walking into the lobby at work. The shadow shows texture and coloration because of the gray carpet and sunlight.

Re-submittal of the fountain in Middletown

I took another picture of the fountain, I moved in closer and tweaked the color a little. I tried to take the picture at the same time of day to get the lighting effect.

Light and Shadow..

Here is my second submission of the light and shadow assignment. This picture was taken in downtown Middletown. I thought it was pretty cool the way the light reflected through the trees and through the water.

Shadow on the beach

These are my two photos for this week assignment. I will post my other shots to fotothing later in the week.

Week 4: Light and Shadow

Here are my two submissions for this weeks light and shadow assignment. I will upload more photos on fotothing soon.

Week 3: By the Sea

My favorite place to be is always by the sea. I love to sit back, watch, and listen to the sounds of the ocean. I never gave much notice to the forms in the sand or rock formations. I took so many pictures that its hard to narrow down my favorites. See some of my other favorites on my fotothing page. While you are there, make sure you check out the picture of the "Smiling Rock." I hope you find these pictures interesting.