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 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!

Week 5 BOC: Wedding

For the wedding photo challenge I wanted to do something a little different because all I do is shoot weddings every single day of the week. Often I feel like when you look through a wedding magazine you don't really see the typical wedding photograph that a real wedding would have. You get a more posed, model type shot. So instead of the typical wedding dress, I put together an outfit that was of course all white, but was just a dress-slip and a white lace top. I went for a more grundgy, vintage style. I decided to not use any additional lighting, just ambient light. I also used my 50mm 1.8 lens, which also sort of gave it a fuzzier look which felt more vintage as well. I cross prossessed the image as well to give it a different look. I think overall it came our pretty well.

Week 4 BOC: Sports Photography

For my sports photography challenge I went to a gymnastics competition in San Diego. Sports photography is really tough because lots of sports don't allow you to use flash photography indoors while athletes are working out because it can be dangerous and distracting. Therefor you have to rely solely on there being enough ambiant light inside whatever room you are working in. If there is not much ambiant light and you boost your ISO all the way up you may not be able to keep your shutter speed quick enough which will result in motion blur. You generally want to keep your shutter speed above 1/250th of a second. Luckily in this facility there was quite a bit of extra ambiant light, however I could of used a little bit more. I shot at ISO 1600 which is not something I really like to do, but I had no other choice. Overall they came out pretty well, I just would of liked to have boosted up my shutter speed a little more.

Week 2 BOC: Crime Scene

For my crime scene photograph I used food coloring for the blood! Inititally my idea was the keep the photograph in color, however once I started taking the images the food coloring wasn't quite thick enough to be believable blood splatters.
After I turned the image into black and white, it sort of gave an old school feel to the image. I think it is a really simple image as well. I didn't want to give a whole huge scene, just a simple detail shot with an idea of what may have happened in this crime scene.
I leave it up to the viewer to imagine what exactly happened here.

Week 1 BOC: My Photo

I really don't like to have people take pictures of me, so usually I am the one who does it. I think that I am generally wearing a smile across my face when people see me, so that is why I chose to smile in this picture. However, I always scrunch my nose up when I feel awkward or nervous, so I think it fits well for this photo. I'd much rather take pictures of other people so it is just sort of an awkward situation anyways.