Short&Sweet

Week 9 EOC: 40 under 40

By the time I am 40, I expect to have a lot of things done! I am only 22 years old and I already have my bachelors degree and am on my way to starting my own business. So I full expect to have a lot of things done by the time I am 40.
I am hoping that by that time I have my masters degree in art and am teaching at a prestigious school. I want to be able to teach and have my own business. Basically I will be splitting my time between the business and teaching.
I also want to be married with a family. To me, success in life is not only business but the aspect of having a stable home life. To me that means being married with children and a nice home. I want to be able to take care of my family, so they will come after I have a successful business.

Week 8 EOC: Are Celebrities fair game?

Celebrities really have no privacy. However, that is why they are famous. They because that way by exploiting their life to the outside world.

I think that when celebrites go out in public they definitely have no right to privacy. However I think the same way with other people! The ordinary person risks going out in public and exploiting their personal life that way.

On the other hand, I believe that when someone is at home, they have their right to privacy. They are not trying to go out in public and make a different names for themselves. They are not trying to do their work, they are just trying to live at home. Being a celebrity means that when you leave the house, you are basically working. when you are at home, you should be able to have that privacy!

Photo Challenge

This photo was also taken with a wide angle lens. Basically I used a slow shutter speed to get this blur affect. I also used a technique called, pan-action. Basically you have a slower shutter speed but you follow your moving object with your lens and snap the picture. This allows for your subject to be in focus and everything else to have a blur affect to it. This obviously is of a carrousel. The carrousel was moving and I used the pan action technique to show that sense of motion.

Photo Challenge

This photograph was taken with a 50mm 1.8 lens, using a hot light with a soft box. Again I like to use different cropping strategies to accent different parts of the picture. Here it was just to simply focus on the eye. The liens within the picture I think are really interesting. The shape of the eyebrow creates a nice line that connects to the line of the edge of the face. The darkets part of the image is the eye which draws your attention there.

Photo Challenge

This photograph was taken in the middle of a dry lake bed. This actually was taken after I finished doing the regular photo shoot. This group of people is a very wild bunch and practically started running around when I was done with them. So I got my camera and started photographing them running around. They started reminding me of zombies because they were all dirty running around with ragged clothes on and dirty all over their body. I used a wide angle lens with all natural light. The lightness of the ground sort of made me feel like I had a clean slate to work with. The dry lake bed is a great placed to do any photo shoot.

Week 7 BOC Papparazzi

Paparazzi photography is definitely a different type of photography that you really have to have the perfect personality for. I personally don't think I could ever do that because you are constantly bugging people and disturbing their life. As for the quality of the photography, I was never really impressed with it.

The most common thing you see in this kind of photography is the "straight flash" look. Of course when you are running around trying to get pictures of famous people the last thing you will have with you is an off camera light source other than the sun.

So for my photo I decided to depict that traditional paparazzi style photo with the straight flash. I actually used the pop up flash on my camera (once of the maybe 3 times I have used it). I put the hand up in front to block the face because that is usually what people do when trying to hide from the paparazzi. When you can't run, you shield yourself.

Week 6 BOC Photo Challenge

Painting with light is something that I can find myself doing for really long periods of time and not even realize that a few hours has gone by, but it is also really tiring. This is probably because you are creating only one photograph in about thirty seconds.

What I did for this was put my camera on a tripod, of course. I wanted to make sure that there was absolutely no background whatsoever. So I knew that I needed to have a large depth of field. Of course when you do painting with light you need to have a long exposure. So I decided to put it at the maximum length, which was 30 seconds for my camera, which is without using the BULB setting. I also but my camera on the self timer, so that way there is absolutely no camera shake from my finger pressing the shutter down.

I put a filter affect inside the camera which was a blue tint. So here is the image! No post processing! Just fun!