Shooting Tight

For this photo shoot I used my 24-105mm lens. I'm in the process of getting a telephoto lens, so this was the one I had to use. I would try and shoot most of my shots at 105mm, but my photography side would kick in and I would take a "tighter" shot. I do like this method of shooting, I just wished I had a lens that would show the full effect of this. 

For a class we went and took photos of a model in a very old home in Washington. I decided to take advance of this shoot and left for a time to take pictures of what I thought was interesting in the home. In parts of the home you could see the sky where the roof should have been. The wood inside had been rotted out but left some really spectacular color marks. What was fun about this house was the wall colors. In every room there was a different bright color painted on the walls or what was left of them. Also with all these shots I only used natural lighting. There was a lot to take pictures of! I ended up taking about 50 photos for just this assignment, but picked the ones that I liked the best and were my style. In one of the first assignments we did, you can see the advantages of focal length and using a telephoto lens. It straightens things out and doesn't give the bubble effect to photos. Your subjects lengthen, look taller, or straighten out and photos overall look very different then being closer. I did include photos of the shoot we did with the model. Overall it was a way fun experience!

This Old House

This was to show the old wood that was on the ceiling. What caught my eye was how the light was hitting the wood bringing out the different colors.

What captured my eye for this picture was the lines. Everywhere I looked their were lines going every which way.

For this photo what I wanted to show was 2 aspects of the house. One was the broken window and the second was the condition of the house inside. I also loved the reflection of the trees that showed on the broken glass.

What caught my attention for this was the merging lines of the ceiling and also the different colors that come through the rotting wood.

I loved the light coming through the old drapery.

At first I took this picture with a fireplace in the shot, but I didn't like how the composition looked. I kept changing my angle but eventually I looked down and saw that the light reflected on the wood floor was the only subject I needed.

What I love about this shot was the light color of the wall paired with the dark stairs.

With this shot I wanted to show the condition the house was in. I thought this shot showed this perfectly with the wood hanging down from the ceiling.

Once upon a Time

Model: Yolanda Damon

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Shooting Wide

With this assignment I wanted to go over and shoot the progress of the new student housing. I saw a few people already take pictures of the construction but I wanted to show my perception on how I would shoot it. I love shooting with my wide angle lens. I have a fixed 14mm Rokinon and it shoots very sharp, I mainly use it for star pictures and night photography. One thing about this lens is the focus is manual and the aperture in on the lens itself, so you have to play with the lens before you go out shooting anything. 

With most of my shots I wanted to get up close and personal. On some of pictures I was inches away from my subject even though it looks further away (One thing I love about Wide Angle Lenses). What I also love is you get the whole subject and you don't have to get far away, example would be the entire building.

I wanted to get a shot of the whole building. I would have like to be on the other side of the street but with the construction on the sidewalk, it would have left me no room to stand. 

With this shot I wanted to show a different design point of view. From the 1st shot you wouldn't have know that the back of the building looked like this. I thought this was important to show. 

This shot was one I liked just because of the composition. I liked the different colors that came all together, once I figured out where I wanted to take my shot.

This was just fun. With my wide lens I was very very close to the chain and lock, this just give another view to the construction going on. 

I took this shot to show the lighting behind the building. The sun was directly behind and gave a really pretty light in between the structure lighting it perfectly. The one thing I would change about this shot was I wish I could have been closer and slightly higher.

This one again was just to show a different perspective.

I wanted to include this shot to show the DSU signs, just to show that is was happening at this particular campus. 

This was just for laughs, I probably would have named this lunch break.

I thought this shot was important to show the old vs the new student housing. I wanted to shoot close and have only part of each building showing.

Bracketing

This assignment was really interesting. It's crazy to me how different your exposure changes by going down or up one stop. I always shoot in manual mode, so it was a good exercise to show how much your exposure changes by doing only one thing on your exposure. By the end though I think my dog was done with me taking pictures and wanted her toys back. Luckily I have a very patient dog who listens very well and will pose for my pictures. 

Aperture

1/100
f/4

1/100
f/5.6

1/100
f/8

1/100
f/11

1/100
f/16

Shutter

1/60
f/8

1/100
f/8

1/160
f/8

1/320
f/8

1/500
f/8

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