Sandra's Family...

A lovely lady by the name of Sandra booked me to do a bunch of family photos for her immediate and extended family. It was Sandra's parents, all their children and their families. It was totally insane and some of the best fun I have had in a long time! Every family group wore a different color shirt and jeans. We had a Light Blue group, a Dark Blue group, a Green group, a Yellow group, and a Pink group. It made things really easy for me..."All right green team! You're up!" Sandra you have one awesome family!

Boots

I took this a few weeks ago and was looking for a good quote!  Found one...Cady had put her boots on "all by my own self!"

The Luckiest

Here is my final project for my Intermediate Photography class...let me know what you think!

Cadence

Just a few of the beauty in my life...

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!

High Key/Low Key Lighting

Examples of High Key lighting. Designed to flatter and works best on children and women. Very few shadows and very even lighting.

Low Key lighting is much darker and designed to bring out texture and isolate certain qualities. It is best used on men and to create a visually interesting shot. The example below is called Rembrandt lighting. One side of the face is lit well and the other is cast in shadow with the exception of a small area of light below the eye. I didn't have as much time to work on this one and so I only have one really good shot. Thanks mom for posing for me!

Compositional Ephasis

So I almost forgot about this assignment and ended up taking the shots the day before they were due! I know so bad! It won't happen again! lol. My teacher gave us a list of composition elements to pick from and then had to submit seven for a grade. We had to use the same object or person in all the photos. Cadence and I had a great time finding places to put the flower. Here are the ones that I ended up with...

This first one is Selective Focus

Texture
Vertical vs Horizontal (Point of View)
Balance
Balance in color (cause I couldn't decide which I liked better)
Framing
Rule of Thirds
Scale