Christmas aftermath

Most of the pictures I took this weekend had nothing to do with the assignments. I did get a few for the themes but, again, nothing much. The second theme for the holiday break was Christmas aftermath. Wrapping paper and sleeping people were the only things I could think of for Christmas aftermath. I guess wrapping paper will have to do because anytime someone was sleeping I either didn't have my camera or was sleeping myself!

Lights

Since I couldn't use christmas lights for this assignment I had to find something else that was interesting and had light! These were the best "light" pictures that took over break. They aren't the greatest pictures ever but I guess they are alright. The shadows are good here though!

Textures and Colors of Winter

Children! Ty and Emerson

Very first attempt at star trails!

 

And a second attempt! Turned out much better than the one below! Now that I know how to do this, I am going to have a lot of fun with this kind of photography!

Well I have seen many pictures like this and finally decided to try it out. It, of course, did not work out on the first try but after this clouds had moved in and there were no stars to be seen. Next time I take this I now know a few things I should do different. Let see the first most obvious one, use a tripod! I had it sitting on a table since I didn't want to pull out the tripod. Next time I will try to find a building or landscape instead of just a tree if I can get away from just my backyard. I also will probably leave the moon out although it made a neat effect. The settings I used were, ISO: 100, aperature: 7.1, Shutter speed: bulb, release mode: remote and the exposure was 5 minutes. I tried another one for 15 minutes but it did not turn out at all. When I get a chance to try this again, and hopefully succeed, I be sure to replace this first-time shot with a decent picture!

A few more pictures of the snow, winter, ice and cold. I seem to be taking a lot more winter pictures this year compared to last year. It's not my favorite season to go out and take pictures but I've been finding many interesting things lately! We'll see if I can keep them going now..

Snow!

What a weekend of snow! What was it.. 23" or so? Even though the weather wasn't very, let's say favorable, for taking pictures outside, I still got some decent pictures! Not my best, but they are alright. The middle three pictures are at my grandma's house. We went there Saturday night and Sunday afternoon and by the way we almost were killed on the way home Saturday! The two pictures on the top and bottom are at my house. Just the snow blowing around! It was a veryy snowy weekend!

colddd!

This picture doesn't fit into the 'cold' theme here but oh well.. I like it!

Hard Select

For this assignment we had to either make ourselves miniature or giant. At first I wanted to make myself miniature and sitting on the moon but I couldn't get close enough for a good picture of the moon. Then I decided to make myself a miniature skater in the snow because I've been trying to get a picture similar to this just "normal" size but I never felt motivated enough to go do that. Sooo, here's what I got out of those two pictures. It turned out a bit better than I thought it would.

Don't fall!

This is Betsy, one of the senior girls I skate with. I took this a few weeks ago when I wasn't able to skate, due to an injury. It just happens that the very second I took this picture, she trips over her toe pick and almost falls. Of course this picture is edited to make the effect of a spotlight!

WInter pictures!

I still don't have my laptop to upload all of these pictures to so I haven't taken many pictures lately. I think there is about 1,300 pictures that need to go onto my laptop. These are a few from the thanksgiving break, not much but a few!

Portraits of Emerson

 This is my favorite picture of her! She's such a cutie! Her eyes are so sharp in this picture! I like the black background too!

These are all from the day I babysat her and her brother Ethan. Emerson was much more cooperative than Ethan so she ended being the "model"!

 Leaves! I'm definitely no slacking on leaf pictures. I don't think I ever will. I have quite a few to choose from and that's without taking any new pictures!

 Katrina's horse... I forgot its name! But I like it.

In this picture I put a  layer of 'old paper' on top and then made the opacity very low. I think it makes the picture look a little more rustic!

Seasons

Here's just a few pictures I have from each season, except spring. I'm sure all of these are really fall pictures but they look like each different season so it works! I love the fog in the winter picture!

Weekend Open Theme

 A strawberry floating in some water. I was trying to drop it into the water and get a picture of the "splash" it made. The first time I tried this it did not work out at all. The second time I got a few pictures of the splash with the strawberry being in focus but there was a lot of noise. Hopefully, if I can get a light box, it will work out eventually.

 Still trying to learn how to use my camera and all of the settings. This weekend I figured out a few new things about it. This one I was trying to do a close up and get a clear image of the frost on the edges of the leaf but I don't think the lens on my camera is meant to take pictures up close like this. I'll need to get a macro lens soon since that's one of my favorite types of photography!

 Leaves...... again!! Just trying out different settings and different times of the day.

Here I was trying to get a close up of the water drops but again, I think I need a different lens.