PORTRAITS!

this is my favorite portrait that i took. This is my little sister (Leela Poppy) and i absolutely love how it turned out. I love taking pictures of my little sister, because sometimes if the light hits her perfectly, it looks like she is radiating, and that the picture seems to be more painting-esque than a picture itself. this has only happened twice (including this time) but i hope it happens more often, because those are always my favorite photos.
i love how this photo turned out too. the only thing i wish i could have done is somehow got the railing not jutting out of her head by changing my angling. in class we started having a discussion about getting the people you are taking pictures of comfortable, and not to pose. this is what happened here, as the first few shots of my mom she was posing, but then my little sister walked up to us and my mom almost let her guard down, and the facial expressions/lighting (to me) turned out amazing.
with this portrait of my good friend (emily o.), i really wanted to work with the lighting with the faces. in this picture, i used a split lighting, but the only thing that kind of ruined it was her bangs fell over her eye, making it in the shadow.

overall, i think these portraits turned out really good, and i am very pleased with them.

5 photos

this picture was supposed to represent love. it was taken with my phone (only because i was at work) in the dairy cooler. i took red and black crates, and made it look like a heart. i messed with some settings in iphoto, and also rotated it because it was at an awkward angle when i took it.
this represents curves. now looking back on it, i probably should have done it on a white scheet/bare background, but i do also like the texture on the floor from the tiles.
this is my color shot, and the overwhelming color (as you can see) is green. i kind of like how the only thing that isn't green (the white at the bottom) still reflected all the green into it, making it all different shades of green.

these are my two candid shots. one thing i wish i could go back and do again with these is not have the flash on. that's one thing i have been working on lately, and hopefully i have been getting better on this since these were taken.

texture + 40

for this collage-type picture i took 40 (360 degree) pictures of a dead flower pot outside my house. My inspiration was of the person mooney gave us. He did a black and white of a hot air baloon, and it turned out very cool, and this is what i was going for in this picture.
for this picture i had my sister pose for me, and she made this face and started laughing hysterically afterwards. i used a texture of a wall downstairs in the kitchen, and a metal backing to a corkboard in my room.

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Montage

 This photo was not actually taken by me, but i helped create it. This photo was taken at La Push beach in Washington state. We camped out there several nights, and one night we got bored so we got the idea to do some light painting while it was dark out. We got some really cool shots like this, and eventually stood behind the fire and had my dad and sister stand there and we would paint fun/funny things around them (dinosaurs, cat ears/tail, devil ears, ect.). I did a generalization of what people think of me. I chose this photo because people can usually see i am am creative, which also ties into the camera in the top left. I love taking pictures, it just is a really good way to get the creativity out, and i think it is a lot of fun! the sheet of music on the bottom is to show that people know i can't go without my music. I would go insane if i lost my ipod/music collection. I'm always listening to music. Also, the logic board in thebottom left hand side is to show that i am a geek (in ways). It may not be apparent when you first meet me, but i love tech :P. 

ISO

For these i tried to have a higher ISO because it was freezing outside, but some of them (primarily after i had been outside for a while) got a little blurry because i was shaking.

this one is my favorite because i really like the contrast between the red and yellow and the backgrounds black coloring. I used a higher ISO, but somehow managed to retain the detail of the sign.

this one is a bit blurry, even though i turned the ISO the highest i could, which sucks because i now have a grainy blurry shot...
This photo i like a lot, and i turned the ISO up a bit because it was getting a bit darker outside. One thing i wish i could re-do about this picture is to capture some more detail and texture in the branch and the snow.
For this photo i had a lower ISO because it was kind of bright out, and i wanted a lot of detail without it being too grainy.

Compensation

For this one i used a white balance from the snow (equivalent of a white piece of paper) and also turned the ISO down to get some more details in there. I also turned the brightness up a bit, so we could get the background of the trees in there.

This one I turned the ISO up a bit.

I turned the ISO down a little here, and turned the brightness up a bit to get rid of the black in the background, so you could see some of the background instead of the black.
For this photo I put the ISO a little lower than normal. and i turned the brightness down because the one shiny spot of the ornament got too bright.