ON ASSIGNMENT - USING THE FLASH

BELIEVE ME, THERE WAS NOTHING "DELIBERATE" OR "CREATIVE" GOING ON THANKSGIVING DAY. THERE WERE OVER 40 PEOPLE OVER HALF OF THEM UNDER 10 YEARS OLD. IF THERE WAS AN OPEN SEAT, YOU SAT IN IT AND THOUGHT TWICE ABOUT GETTING UP AND GIVING UP YOUR CHAIR. I TOOK LOTS OF PICTURES. NONE OF THEM WERE CREATED OR ARRANGED. WE JUST HAD A WONDERUL TIME WITH FAMILY, FRIENDS, FOOD, FUN, FROLIC AND A BIG HELPING OF FAITH.

Maria-asymetrical balance

focal length 55 mm
f/8.0
ISO 200
exposure 2.0s
white balance auto
I have rarely ever shot in black and white so I thought I would give it a try. I was trying to use the curving shape of the handle to create balance in the picture. I used natural light, but I think the picture is a little over exposed on the right hand side. I ran out of time or I would have tried more exposure settings.

The first day i drove by this and thought about taking a picture there was a lot more spray coming off the cars, that's what caught my eye. I still like the scene though, there's lots of movement and I like the balance and patternn even though the objects aren't a mirror image or a regular pattern.
50mm
iso 2000
1/200
F9
cloudy wb

Principles of design-Lines, Repitition, Pattern

This first image is my "out of the box" image. I was trying to look at things differently than how I usually do. The circular pattern caught my attention. I notice that my eyes shoot down to the bottom left corner when I look at it, but I still sort of like it anyway.

f/5.6

1/50

ISO 200

29 mm

Auto WB

Here's my more "traditional" image. I like the lines of the dock (both vertical and horizontal) and the horizon. I am just experimenting with converting to B&W, so I want to figure out how to get the light and dark values right, which I don't feel I quite achieved the way I wanted to in this photo.

f/2.8

1/400

ISO 200

105 mm

Auto WB

Stephanie- principles of design- movement

Movement is implied by the position of thier feet. The light at the top of the image shows the curve of the path where they are going.
I only wish I had included a little more of their shadows on the path behind them.

Aperture mode
f/5.0
1/250
Exp Comp -1/3
800 ISO
55.0mm
Shade WB

Bill - Repetition/Pattern

REPETITION/PATTERN

This photo is to show repetition/pattern. I was in Vegas all last week and could only get out at night to shoot. I didn't take my SLR with me so this photo was taken with my point and shoot camera. This photo gives me a feeling of movement. This photo was very cropped to get rid of Donny and Marie.

Shutter Speed: 1/60 f/stop: 4.3 ISO: 800 W/B: Auto

PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN: Proportion/scale, repetition/pattern

Late Saturday afternoon, on my way down to the beach to see what might be interesting to shoot, the piliated woodpecker was pointed out to me. I changed lenses and must have spent over an hour trying to get a good shot of him. At an ISO of 1600 and a shutter speed of 1/40 I wasn't expecting much. With darkness quickly coming on, it made shooting the pier with long exposures giving the water a silky appearance. The photo was "cooled" down a little to give a more eerie feeling.

Canon 40D: f/16, 30 sec., ISO 100, WB Cloudy, 38 mm

Visual Response - Proportion/Scale & Repetition/paterns - Lyell

Shot was intended to show relationship of size to add to the illusion of 3D but each time I reframed the shot I was able to add additional horizontal lines. How many do you see?



Shutter Speed: 1/50, f/stop: F10, ISO: 100, W/B: Auto

"Principles of Design"

Using a photo from last weekend's trip to Lake Quinault.

f/stop f/14,shutter speed 1/4 sec,ISO 200,WB Cloudy

ELEMENTS OF DESIGN - LINES

I had so much fun going all over town taking pictures of interesting elements of design that I took over 100 shots. Then I couldn't decide which ones to share with you on the Blog so I decided to post 2 of them
I took both of them with my Canon 40D AWB Saturday was a very cloudy day
The Meta Data on the color & lines one is F 5.0 1/200 AWB ISO 800
The white fence one is F5.0 1/2000 ISO 800 AWB