My Christmas Present

Merry Christmas to me!

Immediately playing with the lens, of course. English liquor trifle for desert.
And since the semester is officially over- photos of kittens.

Kitten checkin' out my new lens that's right in his face.
Kitten attacking the lens in his face.


I'm not sure if anyone is going to go on the blogger since school is over, but for anyone who is Merry Christmas, happy holidays and best wishes for the new year! See everyone next semester.

ASMP meeting

The seminar the other night at Briarcliff college was super informative. There was a lot of talking but it was all information that we all needed to hear as students. I think what I got most out of it was it put a sense of reality in my goals; like everything I want to happen with my photography career is achievable with the right steps. So although I asked my share of questions and listened to everything they had to say I think the question that won't really have an answer is where do I start? I think you just have to get started, finish school do well and put yourself out there in anyway possible at this point.

Portrait Project

I redid both of these shots for a portrait project I have.

After doing the assignment in 147 about lens and distortion I totally see it in this photo. I like the effect it has though because the closed point is the subject

Most powerful photos of 2011

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-most-powerful-photos-of-2011

I think this is worth everyone taking a look at.

Red Bull Photographers

http://blog.pocketwizard.com/?p=3037

This article is awesome and so is the photographer. I found him when looking into what it took to get sponsored by Red Bull for horseback riding(which has been a huge dream of mine for so long and something they've never done before. I've been throwing ideas together for shoot a video with some friends of mine and looked up their photographers for inspiration. After reading this story and seeing a few photographers work that shoot for Red Bull I'm starting to see that shooting for them would truly be a dream job.

I pressed save now again =/

Seeing Jim Lennon's study was awesome. It made me realize how much work it really takes and that it's something I am not going to want to do alone. Him and his wife seemed like a great team. I'm going to take more business classes than I planned on taking after hearing all the planning and long term things he had to do. It was really eye opening though and I enjoyed going there

It was interesting to see written out what I did my week. I pretty much have a routine where my mondays and wednesdays were the same and the other days I did mostly the same things: school, go to my barn, ride my horse, see my boyfriend. I drive more than I thought I did. I live about 20 miles away from campus =/I also realized I'm never bored and am never really not doing anything. that's good I guesss.

Magazine Cover

So this was my original vision when we were assigned the magazine cover assignment. I used a strong rule of thirds keeping in mind to leave room for the graphic designer to ad text and what not, and i shot the subject weighted right as if leading right into the magazine. With all this being shot and thought out, I then realized magazine covers are not horizontal. -_-

So I re-shot vertical. This was my second shot. I found it to be harder leaving breathing room for text and things without having the background too cluttered and distracting. It would've been easier to accomplish that if it was a shoot in a studio but that's not the type of magazine I was "shooting" for.

This I would say is my final one. I've seen issues of this magazine ( Equestrian) and many others where the title of the publication is behind an important part of the photo, in this case the subjects head. And there's room on the sides for other texts. But I put all three up to see what you guys think!

RAW v.s. JPEG

After the last assignment we had I was really interested in all the differences between RAW files and JPEG files, besides the obvious. This website was really basic in explain everything but I really liked the breakdown at the end where it suggests what you should shoot in for all different types of photography. It's not saying you have to but they're just suggestive accurate reasons why one format would be more useful than the other. Definitely really helpful and you should check it out :)

http://www.slrlounge.com/raw-vs-jpeg-jpg-the-ultimate-visual-guide

We were talking a lot about proper exposure between the subject and the background so I was really consious of it during this shoot. Shooting with a polorizer filter was making the exposure of the sky and the horse too dark so i took it off, metered the two and came out with this. I've also been trying to remember to get close to my subjects. I don't really ever zoom in that much because it throws everything off, but i usually am pretty consistant with how far I am from my subjects. I shot this as close as I could get with a 55-80mm at f/4.0

Strobist

http://strobist.blogspot.com/2011/09/bjorn-stopped-by-house-on-way-home.html

I love this site. I always visit it time to time so that I have lots of new blogposts to read instead of just one or two. Always learn about new techniques for lighting photos, learn new strobes and other photo stuff, see awesome photos. The way he writes is also relaxed so it doesn't get dry. awesome site :)

Project I did on alcoholism this semester.

Messin' around with photoshop a little.

I have a friend that's really into parkour, he can do some pretty incredible things. This is the first time I shot him doing it but I'm happy with how they came out. Obviously I did some work in photoshop. Tried to keep it simple and give the effect like he was frozen and sharp in the air.

- low contrast, some low saturation, cooling filters, increased blacks. Just playin' around :)

First post.

Well apparently I've been a member of this since March of 2010?

Don't know how that's possible but oh well!

Went to the beach the other day, this is my friend Keri.

Put a warm filter on in photoshop, lowered the saturation and burnt the corners.