Vanilla Days
I like this site because it's got a lot of examples [great examples] of HDR photos. It's also a tutorial site, so you can go out and try to make your own HDR photos. I like HDR photos because you can take a simple picture, or even a really great picture, and take it to a different level. Not to say that it isn't a good picture, but it's just a different way of looking at it. HDR is kind of like an optional enhancement, but if not done properly, you can ruin the whole thing. It just makes the lighting more interesting and is almost like an illusion.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
IS2 - Lines
I enjoyed this assignment a lot because we had a lot of freedom with it. The great thing about lines is that they don't have to be lines that are physically there, we can use implied lines. I was hoping to get some more pictures using implied lines but I never got the chance or my timing was off. I kind of wanted to get a picture of a line of people, at a store or at the bank or something.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
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I've always had a love for photography, but I guess I never really was aware of it until this one day two years ago. I remember it vividly; I was on my way to a friend's house after visiting three different malls, so I was taking buses I never usually took. I hopped onto one bus that was familiar to me, thinking it was heading downtown, when it was actually coming from downtown. I stayed on the bus thinking it would eventually turn back in ten minutes or so, but it didn't start turning back until half an hour later. I was pretty sour about it, but while I was on the bus, I got to see the sun just before it began to dip into the river, against a prospering sky of blue and purple. It was amazing. I knew then that I wanted more moments like that. I'm more the type to try and describe things with my words, but if I were able to have some type of physical evidence of what I preach about, that's something else. It wasn't until several months later that I decided to take the next step. In a time when I was lost in a sea of confusion, when I wasn't quite sure of what to do after high school - whether to take courses that my parents had approved of or a different route - a friend had pointed out that I showed some potential in photography. That's when I started taking it more seriously. I had never owned my own camera, and used my brother's little point and shoot from time to time. Four months later, I invested into a DSLR. Quite a big step from nothing, hahaha. It's been fifteen months and since then, I think my growth has been dramatic, and I'm never turning back.
Some skills that I hope to accomplish over the year are better people pictures, overall better composition, using my environment more creatively, editing my pictures tastefully, and to be more well rounded as a photographer.
Now, for a secret about myself. If I weren't going into photography, there are three other fields of study I would be happy to go into; music, writing or astronomy. I play several different instruments, I love to express myself with words, and star gazing is a must.
One other little secret; when I eat burgers, I eat the edges first and then the middle. The purpose for that is, I say all the good stuff is in the center! =)
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