Lightning!

ISO: 1600  f/18.0  shutter speed: 20 seconds 

ISO: 1600  f/18.0  shutter speed: 20 seconds 

ISO: 1600  f/18.0  shutter speed: 20 seconds

I took these pictures two nights ago during the storm.  I've always wanted to get a picture of lightning so I finally decided to go try. The timing was the hardest part. It would have been helpful to have a meteorologist with me to tell me when and where it was going to lightning. It took me a little while to adjust my settings, because at first I started with a lot lower ISO and when the lightning strike wasnt showing up really well I figured that my ISO needed to be higher so you could see the strike and I just changed my aperture to get a better exposure. I had fun taking these pictures, and had to go inside inside because I was being eaten alive by mosquitos and I had a bunch of homework left to do :/ but next time it storms, I want to go try again and hopefully get some better ones.

Trinity Church

ISO: 100  f/3.5  shutter speed: 1/160 

ISO: 1600  f/2.8  shutter speed: 1/50 

ISO: 1600  f/2.8  shutter speed: 1/40

We went down to the 9/11 memorial one day while in New York and right after that we went over to this church and cemetery. The first picture was at the cemetery and I did my aperture at 3.5 because I wanted to have a shallow depth of field but not quite what 2.8 gives. I liked how this turned out since you can see flowers in the foreground blurry and the graves in the background blurry. The last two pictures were in the church. I had to have a high ISO and wide aperture since it was so dark in there and I also used a kind of slow shutter speed. The church was really pretty inside.

NYC!!!

ISO: 400  f/4.0  shutter speed: 1/640 

ISO: 400  f/2.8  shutter speed:1/5000 

ISO: 800  f/2.8  shutter speed: 1/25

I took these pictures in New York City! The first one was the first day we were there as we were about to go into Central Park. I like the way the street sign is with the stop light and everything. The second one was the memorial of John Lenon and I changed it to black and white and brought the contrast up a little along with the blacks. The last picture was of this old typewriter in Anthropology. I cropped this picture and also turned it to black and white. I liked how it turned out which probably has to do partly with the fact that I like the look of old typewriters.

Art Classes

ISO: 800  f/4.0  shutter speed: 1/80 

ISO: 800  f/4.0  shutter speed: 1/60 

ISO: 800  f/4.0  shutter speed: 1/100 

ISO: 800  f/4.0  shutter speed: 1/80

I'M SO TIRED OF BORING YEARBOOK ASSIGNMENTS! I feel like a lot of the pictures in the book are going to look so similar because I'm always getting similar assignments and they're never creative or allow us to use what we know how to do and really show off our skills. But, the book will be finished Friday, so close! so excited!  for this assignment I was told to get pictures of people in art classes painting or something but not drawing or ceramics. There wasn't much exciting going on, and these are kinda blah pictures but that's what they wanted so that's what I got. I'm so ready for Spring Break and then after spring break being able to learn more things and explore and be more creative.

Twisty Turny

ISO: 400  f/2.8  shutter speed: 1/10 

ISO: 400  f/2.8  shutter speed: 1/10

The other day in class, Smith was showing us how to do whatever you call this. We were very intrigued by it and wanted to learn to do it too. Turns out, it's not too extremely hard. You just have to have your subject be in the center and standing still and you have to turn the camera while taking the picture to get this effect. I thought it was really cool because it's like a photoshop/lightroom/some random editing effect that possible to do before processing. I love Hailey's face in the second picture, it fits the whole world turning image thing. Smith was showing us how he had used this for weddings before and it looked really cool, and I want to try it out on something else sometime.

Baseball!

ISO: 2000  f/2.8  shutter speed: 1/125 

ISO: 2000  f/2.8  shutter speed: 1/200 

ISO: 2000  f/2.8  shutter speed:1/200 

ISO: 2000  f/2.8  shutter speed:1/200

I got to shoot baseball the other day and these are some of the pics I got. They wouldn't let us use a flash :( so it made it very difficult and I had to bring up the exposure on all these some in lightroom because of that. I also had to color correct all these pictures. While shooting, I started out with my ISO at like 1200 and had to keep bumping it up eventually to 2000 which is where I kept it. I normally wouldn't put it that high, but since I couldn't use a flash that was like my only option. I took a lot of pictures that night and only kept like 30, but I was pretty pleased with the ones that I did keep. The others, though, they were NOT good and I was deleting them as fast as I could. This was my first time to shoot baseball and it was pretty fun and I would do it again :)

Orbs!

ISO: 1000  f/16.0  shutter speed: 75seconds 

ISO: 800  f/16.0  shutter speed: 150 seconds 

ISO: 800  f/16.0  shutter speed: 151 seconds

I took the first picture several weeks ago with Haley and Hailey. We went out and worked on orbs, but because of curfew didn't have time to finish. I wish the bottom right of the picture wasn't so dark, and the same with my other pictures. I'm going to try and do them again this weekend. For the last 2 pictures I had my little brother holding the shutter for me. One was on my driveway and the other I was on top of our mailbox. I like how you can see our gate on the driveway in the picture but I wish it was brighter, it's way too dark! I've gone out and tried to do orbs several times, but I've always run into some sort of problem. I was really glad my brother was willing to hold the shutter button for me so I could get these done.