Assignment 2

Point of View

I take my grandsons to the park,  and they love to climb! (of course, they do...they are boys!)  I took the first photo straight on..feeling quite proud I didn't cut off a foot!) The photos that follow are my favorite when changing my point of view!

 Blake made it!

Less is More

I had the privilege of visiting my parents this weekend.  My Dad is 91 and my Mom is 87.  

When I arrived, they had their table set as they always do...as if they were serving very special guests.  My Mom has always loved to have the smell of fresh bread in her home,  as well.  (I can remember coming home from school to the smell of fresh bread as a child).  When I saw the table, I knew what I was going to photograph for this part of the assignment.  

Assignment 1 In Lifestyle Photo Class

Assignment 1

I chose to photograph my grandson, Blake, coloring a picture for his Mom while she is away at work.

The details were the items needed to get things done, first shown in the order his Nana arranged them, to be followed by a three your old boy's arrangement as he dives into the task at hand.  I hope the sequence reveals the rest of the story as asked of us in our assignment.

Working so hard......

For you, Momma...I love you!

I feel a bit like my grandson, Blake, as I start this class.  I have the tools and the desire (as well as a great deal of passion) to be a student of this art, but my skill level may be lacking to truly get it right.  I look forward to learning from each of you as we continue this journey in the days ahead!

Assignment 4

It took me awhile to collect my photos for this assignment...but am thankful for this extra week to get a review of these shots...tough stuff!!

Front Light....used the canopy of my grandaughter's  stroller to help with some overhead sun issues.  Love the blue sky!  1/4000 1.8 100

Silhouette of my daughter and her son on his 5th birthday...she was a bit melancholy knowing her baby is growing up and will be off to school.  1/4000 10 200

Backlit photo 1/500 2.5 200

Backlit 1/4000 2.2 320 (why 320 I am not sure)  I forget this third part of the triangle!

 Side light...wish I could take this over to recompose and not be in so tight, but this was good in that I had to move around  my subjects  until I found the light source I was looking for.  I like the soft light of this one.   1/800 2.8 100

Natural Reflector 1/1600 2.8 100

Thanks again for the extra week!

Assignment 5

Last week, I did not post an assignment, as we did not have a sunny day in which to take the requested photos.  I LOVE Fargo, but we have had a rough spring weather wise, and sometimes I find myself a bit jealous when I have seen your bare feet, green grass, and flowers in the ground in the photos of my very talented classmates!  This to shall pass....in fact, tomorrow we are expecting sun!  Yeah!!!  :)

Again, I loved the lesson and the video tutorials.  The following is my attempt at the assignment.  I look forward to seeing all of your work!

Still life.....this took me an hour to do..getting the right angle, and not catching my reflection in the bottle.  This was fun, and I hope to do more of this.  It would be fun to do something like this and  have it printed on canvas for artwork in the home!   I might play around with filters with this one in photoshop and see what happens!  Thanks, Brooke, for teaching us about natural reflectors.  I am not sure I would have thought to put white under this subject. 

1/1000  fstop 2.8 ISO 1600

(I know...higher than we were suppose to, but did I mention it was pouring out today!)  Everything else was dark and many shadows.

Still Life

This is my son, Zach.  You have seen him before, because we both share a love for photography, so he is game to hang out with me (I can't tell you what a gift that is for me!)  Today, we were celebrating,  as I had the privilege of gifting him with his first DSLR camera.   This was taken in a dark restaurant with windows to the South.  There was an overhang above them (and again, a rainy day), but I do like this photo.  To be perfectly honest...I am not sure I am fully getting accurate metering, as I took plenty of photos that were so washed out, although they looked good in my viewfinder...aaaaaagggggghhhhh.  Okay...second attempt at the photo underneath..taken today..on a sunny day.....my left shoulder was to the window while my subject looked out the window.  I was very happy with this shot...practice, practice, practice!

1/160 fstop 1.6 ISO 400

 1/2500  fstop 2.5  ISO 200

Sillhouette

Assignment 3

Composition

Happy May Day!  I have been pouring over this material this week and getting some ideas in my mind of what I was going to photograph today...on my day off from work and when I had access to my grandchildren!  We were going off to the park where I could think of color, textures, shapes, and lines.  Well.....woke up today to snow and wind like  you would not believe!  It is downright raw outside.  With that being said, I must confess that two of the following photos were taken last week when we had a day of spring...a day of new beginnings and hope for warmer weather.  Hooray for photography so we can hang on to those memories and wait for all of it to return!

2.8 - 1/200 - ISO 400  100mm Lens

This was taken from a bouquet of flowers that I mentioned last week.  I read in a book that if you spray flowers with water, it adds texture, as well as giving the idea that the morning dew is on them.   This is where the use of the manual focus points comes in handy.  Thank you, Brooke, for your tips on that in your focus discussion.

The Rose

22 - 1/80 - ISO 250

Metered off of the sky to get the silhouette effect as well as the f22 to pick up the sun rays.  You just don't know how much we miss the sun around here!  I am excited to get this effect with other photos.

The Sunset

2.5 - 1/1250 - ISO 100
Okay...not very exciting, but I drive by this everyday, and now instead of seeing it as a line of Hessco sandbags to protect our neighborhood, I see it as a line for photographing!  I like how the use of aperture can lead you to believe that the bags go on forever (and it seems in reality that they do)  They are our "designer" bags :)  As you see they say Spirit of Fargo! (I am from Fargo, ND - and yes, they say I speak just like the movie!)  I wish I would have dropped the shutter speed a bit and perhaps the sky would not have been so washed out?

The Line