Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Wonders of Roma

Roma is a wonderful city and full of small cobble-stone streets, numerous monuments that take your breath away, and a rich culture. 
Here are a few shots that I have acquired since being here... 

Part of the Roman Forum Ruins... great structures, if only they were complete so we could see their grandeur. 


A little chapel that has stalactites forming, quite great what time, nature, and development do when bonded for many years. 


The good ol' Colosseum. It's a pretty great place... Knowing the story of it all changes everything!


Thursday, September 22, 2011

Packing

I thought i'd get a few shots of the task of packing for a trip to Italy... I think I did a pretty good job of packing light... we'll see how I feel about that after I have spent days going on and off trains carrying all that I have :) 

I couldn't resist to add a picture representing the help I received from my family... Buddy sums it all up... 


Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Baby Photo Shoot

This week I was able to go and take 3 month pictures of a very charming baby. Here are a few of the shots that I got. 




Thursday, July 7, 2011

Out with the old... in with the new

I figured I should revamp my blog for my upcoming trip to Italy. I realized after three years that I didn't exactly like the way it looked... So I have redone the background and shall get to the picture soon.
My goal is to do a picture a day on the blog. Maybe I'll even start before my trip to get the hang of things. It will be a task but I shall get it done.
The importance of the background is that it shows Africa in the top right corner... That is where I am going some day! Enjoy!

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Final Project - Open Your Eyes

For my final project I found that I was attempting to pick up on things that aren't normally brought to attention. I worked to find contrast colors in everyday things so that I could use them to draw a viewers eye into the frame. I also found a great quote by Albert Einstein:
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle
  I thought it was appropriate for my project. So here are the images that I have collected for my final presentation: 
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Canon Rebel
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1/250 sec
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Canon Rebel
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ISO: 100

 
Canon Rebel
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Reflector used

 
Canon Rebel
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Reflector used


 

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36 mm 
Reflector used


Canon Rebel
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ISO: 100
Reflector used

 
1/160 sec
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ISO 100
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Reflector used

 
Canon Rebel
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ISO: 100
Reflector used


Canon Rebel
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ISO: 100
Reflector used

 
Canon Rebel
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ISO: 100
Reflector used

 
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Canon Rebel
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ISO: 100


 
Canon Rebel
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ISO: 100

 
Canon Rebel
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ISO: 400
Flash fired

1/125 sec
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ISO 100
55 mm
Reflector used

 
1/125 sec
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55 mm
Reflector used

 
Canon Rebel
1/125 sec
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55 mm
ISO: 100
Reflector used

 
Canon Rebel


1/100 sec


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27 mm


ISO: 100

 
Canon Rebel


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ISO: 400


Flash fired

 
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Reflector used

1/500 sec

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ISO 100

27 mm

Reflector used

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Getty Images

I found the website for Getty Images after finding them listed among recent award winners. I found their photos to be very interesting and moving. 
The are inspiring to me because I would like to go and take pictures of that which can bring awareness to Americans. I find that you can't really know about a place until you go there and experience it. And by experience it I mean 'do as the Romans do' so to speak, and talk with the 'Romans' to see how they view their life. 
If America view something as wrong, is it really wrong, or could it just be a cultural difference? Here are some interesting shots. I do like to keep in mind that photographers have an extreme power over their viewers. The viewer is not in the same position and knowing the same things about the photo so they can be deceiving. 





Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Prep Work for Final Project

For my final project I am going to be working with bubbles and kites. After taking one shoot with bubbles and not being super successful, I thought I'd look up some other works and see what would work the best for my future shoot. 
This shot below is kind of fun with back lighting and bubbles. Yet I think there are some various distracting elements that could have been removed to make this a great shot. 
 Below is another picture that I enjoyed from the website of 30 examples of bubble photography. 
I enjoy the desaturation of the background elements and the saturation of the bubbles. I think it would be a fun shot to try out. 

Below is another really neat shot with bubbles. Though I wasn't thinking of doing bubble shots in water It might actually be a fun thing to try. Especially if I have the tools at my disposal to capture a great background and clear image such as this one. 

 
 
KITES 

What is cooler than hooking a camera up to a motorized kite and take aerial photos!?! I found Scott Haefner's site on aerial  kite photography. 
I encourage you to check out his site and the neat events of which he has been capturing. 


Below is an example of silhouetted subjects and a colorful kite. I think it's a neat image and really captures the emphasis on the kite. 

This next shot is a fun black and white Image of kite flying. I think it will be fun to try and capture these types of images. The issue with capturing kites in photography is that it shall all depend upon the weather when i actually take the kites out for a fly.