Outdoor Child Assignment

Ended up using Cady since some of my other shoots aren't until later in the month. She's cute though so using her is always a win win situation!

More Night Photography

Okay, I have a bunch of assignments to tell you about!  First up is star points...This one is really kind of boring cause I haven't been able to take anything better with all the clouds in the sky here in Vegas...but you get the idea.  You want the stars to be points so you can only leave the shutter open long enough to get the stars and not the movement of the earth along with it. 

Next is Star Trails...these are very cool.  The longer you leave your shutter open the longer the trails will be as the earth moves! 
The above picture was a 40 minute exposure.
Also a 40 minute exposure.

 
This was just under an hour.  The tight circle is around the north star. 

We lit up the trees for a few seconds in this shot (40 minute exposure).  The really bright "star" is actually a planet (Venus I think). 

This exposure was 2 hours long.  All the star shots were taken up at my parent's cabin outside of Paragonah, UT.  Had to get away from Vegas so the city lights didn't block out the stars.  Wendhy and Ashleigh came with and we had a blast for two nights staying up into the wee hours to get some nice shots!  

Next up is painting with light.  We did these at the Neon Bone Yard here in Vegas (it was a class field trip).  It was awesome.  Since Wendhy, Ashleigh, and I worked as a team we were able to use several colored gels at the same time to get some neat effects.  The exposures on these were about 40 seconds long. 

Basically you walk through your fame with a flashlight and light up the sections you want to appear a certain color.  The one above I did on my own (it is the old Sahara sign...there was some awesome stuff in the Bone yard).  You can see where I was walking because of the random light flashes from my flash light...because I was moving the whole time I don't appear in the photo.  Not enough light on me at any given time!

 
The old Sliver Slipper and it's sign.  Wendhy and Ashleigh lit up the shoe with regular flash lights and I had a red gel on my flash light and lit up the sign behind it. 

 
The Duck was sweet.  I was doing yellow, Wendhy was doing orange, and Ashleigh did the blue.  
This is one of my favorites!  Wendhy was the brave one behind the skull lighting up the mouth, I was doing red on the letters and Ashleigh was lighting up the bottom of the letters with orange.  So you have an idea of how big this things is, the letters are about 6 feet tall. 

Next up is my student choice assignment.  I was going to do Fireworks, but the other night we had lightening and I actually caught some!   Because the city lights are so bright I could only do 5 second exposures.  I stood out on the sidewalk with my sister, Whitney, and just kept pressing the shutter release button every five seconds for about an hour, only stopping to move the camera angle a bit here and there.  This is what I got!

 

These first ones are exactly how they looked in the camera...very orange from all the city light bouncing off the clouds!  

I edited the ones below to look more like it does to the natural eye...

So that is all I have for now!  Stay tuned for some Cityscapes and flood lit buildings, along with some indirect urban light!  

Infrared Photography

This assignment was really cool! My good friend Wendhy was kind enough to share her Nikon with me so that we could both complete the project. The basic idea is to imitate Infrared Film results in which anything green in a photograph will look white and anything blue will appear dark. It looks amazing and you can have a camera converted to do Infrared (there is a hefty fee of course).

Now most camera's are designed to not let in any Infrared light at all so you would have to use a camera that had been converted to achieve this. However, Nikon's design allows for a narrow spectrum of Infrared to be detected if you use an Infrared filter on the lens. The Infrared filter is a DARK red filter. Wendhy found and purchased one and off we went to Floyd Lamb Park to give it a go. You can't see through the filter at all and so we would have to focus the camera, then put the filter on, set the camera to bulb and, just like with night photography, have a long exposure (you need a tripod for this cause there is no human way to hold a camera steady for more than a split second!). Our exposures were between 10 and 20 seconds.

Here are some of our results! I think they were awesome! This first one is what the original shot looked like BEFORE we desaturated it. Even it looks cool!

Wendhy you rock! Thanks for letting me share with you!

Two Light Table Top

Two lights, a table, and stuff to go on it! lol. Let me know which version you like best cause I am having a hard time picking out a version to turn in. I have color, sepia/antique, and black and white. Also one has my mom's notions box in it. Let me know what you all think!

White Balance Comparison

The point of this assignment was to illustrate the effect photographing the same subject using different white balance settings under different lighting conditions. We had three different white balance settings to use: Daylight, Tungsten, and Flouresent. There are of course many more settings than that but they are the three most common lighting conditions. You should be able to see the difference of photographing in the right and wrong lighting situtations.

Daylight as main source of light:

Above: White balance set on Daylight

Above: White Balance set on Tungsten

Above: White balance set on Flouresent

Tungsten (common house hold lights) as main source of light:

Above: White balance set on Daylight

Above: White balance set on Tungsten

Above: White balance set on Flouresent

Flourecsent light as main source of light: Above: White balance set on Daylight

Above: White balance set on Tungsten

Above: White balance set on Flourecsent

I didn't exect the flourescent light shots to come out correct. They hardly ever do since flourecsent lights are what all my teachers call an "unnatural" light source and is really hard to photograph in well.