Senior Session: Milena

I had so much fun taking Milena's senior pictures! She is absolutely gorgeous, and has just the right flair for portraits. :)

Westminster Vs Oakman Football Game!!

Well, guys... it's official.

I love football season. And I do mean, LOVE. :)

64 yard touchdown by Jordan Lake!

And... I didn't take this picture, Ben did, but who cares. I love these people :)

09/09 Photography HW

#1. Take a landscape photo using the rule of thirds with 2 elements in it at 2 different focal points.

Okay... my new title is "Worst Landscape Photographer Ever". I pulled an old photo for this, because I spent an HOUR wasting time and gas trying to find a good landscape picture, and found nothing. Well, I took 4-5 awesome shots in my head, but there was nowhere to safely or even semi-legally park to take them with my camera... -_-

Auburn's campus. It sort of follows the rule of thirds....

sort of.....ish... maybe.... -_- or not. Its also not straight, but SHH. I wanted my points to be Samford Hall (that gorgeous red building with the clock tower in the background) and whatever hall that is on the bottom right point. But I tried cropping it different ways, and it just didn't work out.

Also, in the above vintage-y edit, I lost a lot (okay, all) of the cloud details... which made me sad. Not sure how to fix that though.

#2. Take a photo making use of depth of field to pinpoint where you want your focus point to be, and make sure the focus point is following the rule of thirds.


I like this one... :) Can anyone say "really wide open aperture" and "awesome macro extension tubes"?

and it follows the rule of thirds beautifully! :)

#3. Take a photo employing unusual angles and a situation where the rule of thirds would not be helpful.


Okay... so I couldn't pick just one. I took the same picture in two different ways... and I couldn't decide which one to use. So here's both. :)

I unintentionally followed the rule of thirds with the picture below... my calculus book falls on one of the points, I believe. Oh well. :P

days 245, 248, 250

Seems to me like I'm good at posting weekly at least! Hey, its better than not posting at all, right? Right. -_-

day 245

my cake. it took me a LONG TIME. 6-8 hours. but it was sooo worth it :)

day 248
some of the cupcakes I decorated with Angie and Lauren for the school bake sale! :)

day 250
my lame attempt at landscape photography. As it turns out, I'm using a different picture for my photography homework... as long as buildings count as landscapes, that is. -_-

day 244; Photography homework!

Yeah, so I've slacked... but this is just practice for 2012, right? Right. :)

So, for my photography homework this week, I was supposed to play around with different ISO, shutter speed, and aperture settings... here's what I came up with:

Well, I thought the difference would be SUPER obvious where I used ISO 100, 400, and 1600... but I am blessed with a very steady hand, so even at shutter speed 1/5 of a second, I was able to hold it still enough to get a mostly-clear picture... and the grain isn't very obvious at a low resolution, but I PROMISE that the ISO 1600 pic is MUCH grainier than the rest! :)

Oh and I did edit these "DANCE" photos, but just a quick, basic edit - I'll post the final one I liked the best, fully edited, at the end of this post. :)

ISO 100 | F3.5 | ss 1/5

ISO 400 | F3.5 | ss 1/20

ISO 1600 | F3.5 | ss1/80

And now for some aperture changing-around.... I barely edited these pictures - just changed the white balance, because I can't figure out for the LIFE of me how to do it on-camera. So all these pics turned out quite orange.. but that's why I love Photoshop! :)

 ISO 1600 | F32.0 | ss 1.0

(Not sure if you'll be able to tell, but this picture is NOT perfectly in focus.)

ISO 1600 | F25.0 | ss 0.6

And don't ask me how I got this in focus... I really don't know....

ISO 1600 | F10.0 | ss 1/8

ISO 1600 | F4.5 | ss 1/20

And just for fun... I pulled out my 50mm F1.8 lens.

ISO 800 | F1.8 | ss 1/125

(I actually don't like this picture cause you can't see the converse clearly enough. But thats okay, this is just to demonstrate what aperture does.)

And also I should have used a slower shutter speed... but I didn't want to keep this pic anyways :)

And finally... my favorite edits of these two pictures:

day 244

days 238-239

So... I don't really know how to just choose ONE picture from yesterday, so I'm posting 5, as well as one from today... :)

day 238

Playing with Jenna's macro extension tubes - war eagle!!!

GO WILDCATS!! Football games are AWESOME!

day 239

again... playing with Jenna's macro extension tubes that she let me borrow :) the depth of field is INSANE!

Photo365 Project... Starting Again. Midyear.

Guess who's posting on her blog for once in a million years? :)

Well, long story short, I've been really busy... and I know thats not an excuse, but still. I swore I'd never start a Photo365 project midyear... but it looks like I'm going back on my word, because I think I need the practice so when I start it for real January 2012, I have the discipline to keep up with it. :)

I went photo-crazy last night, taking pictures of random stuff in my room.... so here's the result of that:

Below are the zippers on my combat boots for hip hop!

My new, beautiful, fantastic split-sole tap shoes. <3

Well thats all for now! I've taken a few people's senior pics lately, so I'll probably post some of those soon :)