I took these pictures Christmas day around an iced over puddle. The only regret I have is not trying to utilize my ISO at 100 or 200 because now I don't know what they would've turned out like. These were my favorites. ISO: 400 APERTURE: 5.6 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/4000 This is ice that my brother threw and it shattered. I thought is looked pretty because of the light, and it reminded me of glass. I tried to blind shoot this so that I didn't have to get a boring angle from above looking straight down on it. This helped with the light. ISO: 400 APERTURE: 5.6 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/250 I thought this was a neat picture because the leaf is frosted, but the grass around it is green. I got down on eye level to see it. You can see the detail in the frost and leaf, but all the grass is out of focus.  ISO: 400 APERTURE: 5.6 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/1000 The ice had neat indents in it, and I wanted to get neat pictures of them. I tried putting my camera as close t...

So, I was using my 10D and looking at pictures online that I wanted to recreate when I thought about trying to manipulate my depth of field. Sometimes I just feel lucky, and I usually keep my f/stop down all the way anyway for a fast shutter speed, but I felt like I was cheating, so I set up a white background and white paper in my bathroom to do this picture. I found it on the internet explaining depth of field. (I didn't really read the article. I just liked the picture.)  ISO: 100 APERTURE: 8.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/125 This was the original picture I recreated. I used a flash. I couldn't get the picture in the dark, so I ended up turning on the lights in order to control my depth of field and focus. This is what I ended up with. ISO: 100 APERTURE: 8.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/125 I noticed while I was taking pictures like that, that there were shadows going to the left of the crayons and I wanted a picture of them, so I took a vertical shot. The way the flash w...

1. Reflection ISO: 160 APERTURE: 8.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/250 I could've taken this picture a bit more extreme. Rachel (left) could've been a little more rugged or crying with makeup running down her face while Caroline (right) could've presented her bright kind of character better. 2. Stack of Books ISO: 160 APERTURE: 7.1 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/250 This was a poor editing job on my part. There's odd shadow things around the books, but I do like that you can see the detail in the books. 3. Undergarment ISO: 1250 APERTURE: 3.5 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/40 My original idea for this photo was to sit in a tree in shorts with socks on and autumn leaves on the ground so the background was nice and pretty. That way, I could shoot down to my feet, but in an obvious was so it looks like I was sitting in a tree. I've kind of procrastinated, so I didn't have enough time to play with that. This is what came up. I just really like pictures with christmas...

ISO: 800 APERTURE: 2.5 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/250 I like this water drop picture, but it's not the best I ended up with. That will be in my project blog. For this, I orginally had someone hold the bag while I used a crappy lens to try to focus on the water. This didn't work at all because I couldn't focus on the top of the water. Finally smith explained that I needed to use the wood frame so it falls in the same point everytime and I can use a pin point to focus. After about the third time of shooting this assignment I was told I could use strobes to change the color of the water. I put a sequined jacket under the fish bowl and lot it from the right and got a neat looking color of water. 

ISO: 1000 APERTURE: 4.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/50 This picture was a last minute assignment by yearbook. I was told that I needed a picture of Miles Coleman which would be cropped into a square. The only problems I had shooting this assignment was that Robert Hoover was on his phone the whole time in the background. I realize I should've worried about my background first and told him to get off his phone. Otherwise I'm pleased with how the picture turned out. Miles is exposed properly and is smiling so it has lots of expression. I didn't have to do a lot of editing which I feel makes a good picture. Next time I have to shoot something like this I'm going to figure it out before having to get something last minute. 

ISO: 800 APERTURE: 2.8 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/80 Something simple that I didn't think about last time I shot the newspaper work night was the lighting. It's really simple, so simple I overlooked it. I've been taught that that is the first thing you think about when you enter a different room or environment. Last time I tried compensating for the lack of light with my ISO. This time I learned from my mistake and ended up with much better pictures. I made sure all the lights were on so that we weren't sitting in the dark. It was that simple. I tried a few different angles than last time and overall ended up with pictures that required a lot less editing than before.

ISO: 1600 APERTURE: 2.8 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/250 All the pictures I got from this assignment look the same because the only thing our students were doing were standing around with clipboards. There's only so many ways that you can make that interesting, but I did my best. I chose this picture because it's shows one of our students interacting with the middle school students. It also has the subjects of the pictures in it: our students judging the middle school students on their robots. It was super dark in the room so my pictures turned out like crap. I used a flash in the beginning but it ended up not helping all too much. 

ISO: 400 APERTURE: 4.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/5000   I shot this assignment with a 10-24. I think this picture is a neat kind of view. It still shows students but it has an emphasis on the trebuchet. The colors turned out really pretty and bright. I wish there would've been some clouds out that day.   I like that the student is posed with his trebuchet about to launch it. I chose to blog about this picture because it stood out compared to the others I took because of all these reasons. I don't like that there's another student behind the trebuchet.