Three Edits

Re-Edits

Original

Edited

As you can see I cloned out the shed and parts of the tree in the background. Turning it into a black and white picture was probably in my best interest, since I forgot to adjust the lighting and color before I cloned- the cloned area looked odd. I wish this photo had better focus. It looks a little fuzzy in some spots. I left the dark spot in the corner to add interest.

Original

Edit

I had a better version of this picture, but I sadly saved over it. For this photo, I boosted the magenta color. Before the colors were slightly washed out. I like the extreme colors- blue and purple. I also messed with the levels, made it darker and lighter. I moved the contrast up so the difference between the frost and the outside is better.

Original

Edit

I did some minor adjusting to this picture compared to the cloned one. I cropped it so the focus is in rule of thirds. I brightened the shadows and darkened the highlights, or however that goes. I adjusted the contrast, and was about to make it into a black and white picture. But, I love the stripe of color in the background.

Winter Light

Morning Light 

I can't figure out how to get this paragraph below the photo- I think did something weird...

This is my favorite morning picture. I didn't like it at first, it was very dull and the colors were washed out, but then I darkened it with levels. I love it. I like the colors and the repeated twigs with different shades of brown. It fallows rules of thirds and repeated stuff. 

Shutter Speed 1/125

Aperture f5.6

ISO 400

Mid Day Light

I love this picture. It fallows rule of thirds and I like the colors. The red repeats. I like how there are ice droplets on the end of the branch. I really like the flakes of ice/snow that are on the end also. I like how the brightest part of the photo is on the main subject, so it brings your eye there. This was taken on an overcast day, so I was worried about the blue, but it never showed up. 

Shutter Speed 1/150

Aperture f5.0

ISO 400

Night Light

So, this was one of my better night (late day) photos. I took them at about six o'clock, which I thought was going to be early enough. Nope, since it was an overcast everything turned this dark blue color. All of my pictures turned out horrendously. This one got choppy and gross looking when I made it brighter. So, in the end, it turned out to be  a low key photo.

Shutter Speed 1/30

Aperture f6.3

ISO 800

Professional Photography

Wes C. Skiles

Wes C. Skiles was an amazing underwater photographer who had many advances in underwater photography. He was born in 1958 and past away in 2010. He lived in High Springs, Florida. He used his skills to go on many scientific underwater explorations. He was a cinematographer as well, and was used in National Geographic films like National Geographic Antarctica. While shooting he became the first human to step foot on Iceberg B-15. He was recognized as "Diver of the Year" and awarded an Emmy for his work with PBS "Water Series." His photography is very science based, which I love. I like that he can put his skills to use to make something better known. I think that's something that makes you a good journalistic type of photographer- when you can go to another country like, Erika Larson or Wes C. Skiles, and make their way of life known. In this case, it's the fishes life.

Carsten Peter

Carsten Peter is a national geographic photographer. His photography is nature based but to the extreme. Many of his photographs consist of underwater life, tornadoes and even volcanoes. His photography intrigues me, because it's the kind of photography that really
shocks people. He tries to use new techniques to get the most stunning and breathtaking images. He has repelled down
ice caverns just to get the perfect photograph. He has also won an Emmy Award for his videography. 

Winter Texture

 This is my favorite picture from the shoot. I love the deep colors. The yucky drops of frozen water don't add very much, but the frost does. I like how there are things in the background so that the picture isn't very boring. But, above all I like the colors.

Shutter Speed 1/50

Aperture f6.3

ISO 200

This photo isn't exactly winter texture, but I like it. However, I do hate the house in the background. I wish it showed more of the sunrise, then the house. The repeated pink is my favorite thing in the photograph. I tried this picture from a different angle and it turned out horribly- this one is the best.

Shutter Speed 1/50

Aperture f6.3

ISO 1600

 I like the colors in this picture. I like all the shades of blue, and then the contrasting yellow. I also like how the outside is smooth while the frost is choppy and ridged.
The thing that bothers me about this picture is the patch of frost in the lower right corner. When I tried to crop it out, the picture looked funny- so I just left it.

Shutter Speed 1/50

Aperture f6.3

ISO 800

Textures in Photography

My definition of texture isn't a pattern, but a surface of 3 dimensional shapes, so everything isn't just flat. I think that all of these pictures have that.

Composition in Photography

This is an example of horizontal lines photography.

This is a sort of example of rule of thirds. When captured the picture, I accidently left some of the top off.

These are both examples of curved lines.

This is an example of vertical lines.

This photo is for leading lines.

This photo is for zig-zag lines. 

Cold

This is my favorite picture from the shoot. The others don't really compare. I took a lot of photos of the curly, string things, but only two of the lonely dead corn. And I like the two the best. This one has better focus than the other picture. I wish the grass, or whatever, in the center at the bottom was gone. When I tried to photoshop it out, the colors got all jumbled and weird. I like how you can see the snow falling in the background.

Shutter Speed 1/125

Aperture f5.0

ISO 100

This is a curly thing. They are from our raspberry bush, and the only thing that I found interesting at the time of the shoot. I don't like very many of the photos of the curly things, because they are boring and cluttered. 

Shutter Speed 1/125

Aperture f5.0

ISO 100

I like this photo, because of the snow on the top of the leaf. I tried to crop it all different ways, but it ended up just looking funny. Over all, I didn't have a very good shoot, and it shows :(

Shutter Speed 1/125

Aperture f5.0

ISO 100

Favorites from Around the Web: 2012

I like this picture because I've tried to take star trails and I know how difficult it is. You have to have the aperture just right. I also like the sunrise or sunset in the corner. The satellite things add to the starry affect.
-Jim Goldstein

I like this picture, because of the different textures. The rock is very hard and gritted while the lake/river is smooth. 

-Chris Moore

 I like this picture, because it was actually taken at night with a five minute shutter speed. I like the difference between the soft sky and thorny oak.

-Chris Moore

 I like this picture, because of the storm in the corner, I had to search the picture to find it.

-Craig Ferguson

 I like this picture, because it looks like we would find it here but really it is from Scotland.

-Richard Murphy

 I love this picture, the colors are amazing. I like how the sky and the green contrast, but the lines of the mountain are very soft.

-Alex Filatov

 I like the colors and  the soft water. I also like the moon up in the corner. -Alex Filatov

I like this picture, because of the symmetry. I like the harsh black and white, too. -Michael Toye

  I love the colors in this  picture too. I've never seen a picture like this and that is why I like it.

-Robin Black Photography

Open Theme #1

My mom bought a bouquet, and I haven't touched my camera in ages. What better way to start warming up... 

This picture is one of the more unique ones of the shoot. I like it because of the foreground and background out of focus. I don't love any of these pictures, but I'm not sure how I would change them. This one I wish the little petals above the main flower where out of focus. It does have repeating lines and the green in the center is repeated all over.

Shutter Speed 1/160

Aperture f5.6

ISO 800

I like this picture because of  color. All of the flowers were dyed yellow, blue, purple. This picture isn't very interesting, but I still like it. All of these photos were captured with my long lens. I like them all more, because I'm just starting to use it. Composition wise, it's not great. It doesn't really fallow rule of thirds, but there are repeating colors. 

Shutter Speed 1/160

Aperture f5.6

ISO 800

This is probably one of my favorites from the shoot. I cropped it really tight to the flower (before you could see the orange flower). This might sound odd, but I like the softness of the photo. It's a very calm, pale blue and yellow, picture. I left the orange in to spice it up a bit, so that the whole picture wasn't blue and yellow.  I like the lines of the petals, too.

Shutter Speed 1/100

Aperture f5.6

ISO 800

First Post

These pictures are from way back summer. I entered one of them in the Marshfield fair and got a 4th, which was pretty exciting considering there were at least one hundred others in the same category. I'm not sure if I took them in time for the Clark County fair, but anyways. Here is my sample post :)