Typical Day

You guessed it. I have to shoot pictures of typical day and make a it look artistic in some arrangement. There is a lot of wonder about what I do in my life. What is my 'Typical Day' like? So if you're curious, you can see my little putsy collage of photos I've taken to try to show what my day is like. It's not as good as I would like it because frankly through out the day I forgot to take pictures of the things I was doing because they seem so typical and normal of happening, I didn't think much of it. So I got a few, and then I took a few more because there are some awkward spots were not much was recorded for my doings. :)

 

 

 So here's my day, or what the pictures show. First picture is my bedroom, getting up and starting the day and going off to school is probley they hardest task of the day, at least it ranks up pretty high. Speaking of going to school, that's the second picture. My mom drives to school in the morning and I ride the bus home. Don't I look thrilled sitting in my mom's car on the way to school? Mind you, it's only 7:30 am - to early to be up and alive. Since the day I took these pictures was Thursday, that means student counsel meeting in the third picture, I'm not in this photo but I like it cause all the head counsel members are with are leader - looking like they're deep in thought. Finally first hour comes and I take a picture of my computer for photography (this class) I think it's kinda ironic. Because of school rules, I felt awkward taking picture of me in my other classes, so I just skipped to lunch, Mini Corn dogs, a bun, and milk. I have the last lunch of the day, so slim pickings. My friends and I have a 40 minute lunch break or so before our next class so I took a picture of me hanging with one of my close friends. At the end of the day I pack my things and leave for the bus to go back home. Hence the 7th picture of my binder. Usually when I get home, I go out side and listen to my ipod for a while, I love swinging on the swings. It's really bright today. I never took a picture of me eating dinner, so I just took one of the fridge, something good comes out of there. The 10th picture is suppose to represent me doing my homework, yuck. After a long day I rewind and play with my kittnes (who don't like pictures) and I paint for a bit while watching TV. I sleep of couasrs, then I wake up and do it all again.

I do more things then this (like shower and wast time on the computer), but I think it summarizes it pretty well. 

Walk In The Park

Alright, so we took a class field trip to the park! YAY! And wee took some pictures obviously, to update to our blog.  These are like the top seven pictures I took. It seems like majority of them are in black and white, I guess that's just the way that my camera likes to work. 

It was very humid that day, so not only was my hair like crazy, but my camera's lens did not seem to want to focus.  O well, I think for the amount of stubbornness my camera was going through, I have some awesome pictures. 

                       This is probley my favorite picture of the lot. I had to change it to black and white to increase composition.  I think this one has good composition, symmetry, good texture, lighting. To me this seems like one of those famous black and white nature pictures you would find in those nature magazines.

I'm not sure why this one is listed in my top 7 phtotos, but I think it's pretty sentimental. 

It gives sort of a nararive to the park itself, not just the plants and objects around. I think 'Yellow Poplar'  is a type of tree, I'm not sure though. 

I have a lot of pictures of the little puddle in the ground, reflecting up at the trees that are actually 180 degrees away and up how many feet in the air. I love reflected photos, I took a lot of them,  and that's what burned up my memory card. Mabey sometime I'll do something more with my reflective photos. 

Heres' a picture of some wire from a wire fence cutting into some plants. This picture is rather chaoctic. 

There are so many different shapes and textures, I think that the only way I could have pulled it off, is by converting it to black and white. 

                                                          Yet another black and white photo. This time of the year, everything is green, and so trying to find great color is hard to do. Sometimes things just turn out better in black and white. I think these flowers are really interesting,  I have no idea what they are called, but  I'll call them 'friendship flowers'. Why? Because the little flowery things are connected in a circle like a group of friends holding hands. This photo has many shapes as well. Like the semi-circle connecting the flowers off to the side.

Here's another reflective photo. Some moldy branch in the middle of a little muddy pond. In the reflection you can see a tree, it's kind of giving off a false impression. This little stick/branch with mold that looks sickly, is looking as itself as a full grown proud tree in the reflection. If you can think of it that way. 

I've been debating whether or not to show this one. It's a fly on a leaf. Not the most exciting example of  up closeness, but my camera did not want to shoot really good details. Pardon my camera, it's old with stubbornness. But hey, I think for the first time shot, it came out pretty good. Flys are finicky and usually  do not smile and stand still for their close-up. But I got it. 

Light and shadows?

I say this with a question mark, because when my assignment was handed to me, I never really understood what I was suppose to take pictures of. :/ I guess good examples of light and shadows. But what really is that? I know it when I see it, because some photos the only 'important' part is the shadows it creates, but how to capture that in a camera is confusing. I think mostly I just took pictures of painting/windows/and mirrors with interesting light in the background.

                                       Here's a picture of a painting that is in my living room. It's a picture of a deer out in the middle of the woods with snow, pine trees and a small creek. I like this photo because in the middle of the photo there's a door (reflection) like it's saying enter into this world.

                                            Here's another painting and reflection of light. See I can improvise. I paintied this painting FYI, but you can't really see it that well. Instead you can see the old lamp sitting in my living room and the end table. I had to increase light and contrast to make it show up better, else it looked like a giant undefined blob.

                               What do ya' know? It's another painting reflection! :O How unusually. Boy I'm on a role going around taking pictures of painting in my house and looking for interesting lighting backgrounds. I also painted this one too. I think this one is my favorite (reflection/picture wise -not over all painting) It's kinda random, a nice abstract red and purple background meshed toeghter with my kitchen dinner area.

                               Hmmm, one without a painting, how unusual. I figured that I should show at least  one photo without a painting in it. here's just the living room without much lights on, and just the sol living room lamp is standing there. I tried editing it by increasing the contrast and light exposure to see what it shows, and it looks really creepy. The little black spot on the right looks like a man in a black trench coat, how unusual!

Not much to say about this one, but it's amazing on how dirty and gross mirrors look when you put flash on them. Think I should clean it?

Spring Journalist

Spring is defently one of the most beautiful times of the years. When that ray of hope first comes that Winter may finally be over and summer once again will return. Other then pesky Spring pollen causing allergies - I don't really see how you can not enjoy it.
My job was to shoot pictures of spring, trying to show that ray of hope. But I have to do it like a journalist meaning no Photoshop. What pictures you take are the ones that come out. You get what you see. No Photoshop to hide your mistakes. Ohh and I have to do a fancy write-up on it. No problem.

              Nothing really much to report today. It's kind of cold outside where I live and the shadows of the early evening are starting set. It's a perfect opportunity to take pictures - I have plenty of light.
I start out my journey by going to my conveinty located river in the back of yard. You have to love that. Now is the time of the year where pollen falls through the air and lands where ever it wants. Including the mighty river. Yes, even a strong mighty river battles with the seemingly average pollen as it clogs it's rythem of flow. I choose this photo because it has a nice composition. I also thinks this is a nice reflection of what time of the year it is.

Parallel lines in nature with a beautiful sun and clouds and river to match. Truly not an easy task. I wanted to capture the time of the day by showing of the sun.  I took this photo before the top one, looking over a little ledge type thing standing on my toes trying to get a nice steady shot of what was ahead of me. Compared to the first, the river looks strong and infinite and it stands probley by itself. It also looks calm and peaceful, like it is going to be settling down for a nice afternoon nap. I choose this photo because there is so much to look at it, and yet it's so simple. A visionary photo. The two parallel trees standing by itself seem to represent something by itself. The scrawny one leaning upon a slighty bigger one. It hardly looks like it can hold it's own weight. Sometimes that's how life is. You have to carry others and help them through when you can hardly carry yourself. And you can always look back and see the beauty behind you and be able to smile for a little while.

I was walking back from the river when I stumbled upon this little tiny nut. Above me was tree producing probley hundreds of these, and over it's long life probley thousands. I don't what it was, but I found this trail of nuts in the small area interesting. This little guy was stuck somewhat in the mud. It's a nice contrast of colors as the green leaves come though. Little tiny weeds are too big for this nut, over crowding it and making themselves look big. Perhaps the nut is confined and is happy being protected in a way in a nice shady spot, less obvious then it's companions, hoping that a squirrel won't drag it off and eat it alive. Who knows, mabey that is what little nuts want. Mabey the little weeds are hiding and overprotecting it from the world. Mabey they are even bullies to it.

Haha who knows what a simple little nut like this would want. :) But just a simple little analogy or thought to describe this picture, a simple little story/caption for your entertainment.

Return of the Giants

 It was a long weekend, I mean a chaotic uncorignatied weekend. I got very little sleep, hardly ate, and didn't do much for homework expect for re-reading Romeo and Juliet for English class. It was prom weekend. And through all the chaoticness of going to the hair salon, getting readying, going to prom, pulling several muscles in my back, sleepover, waking up early with less then an hours sleep then parading off to go to country benefit concert. Finally the 2 days were over and Monday came. As weird as this is and I doubt i'll ever say it again; but I'm glad and happy it's Monday, mabey now I can relax. Anyways there is my long story about why I haven't gotten around to post my last too blog post that I'm suppose to do. I took next blog photo's I just forgot the card (honestly) the weekend assignment, not even thought about what I should do. I'll think of something.

Ok, enough blabber. It's time to do what I'm suppose to do and post pictures. I'm making up for it by posting a second land of giants photo that I did. This one isn't as good. My original concept  for this shoot is that I would take picture of myself with a chainsaw chopping down this great big monseral of thing. More commonly known to us as a dandelion.  ( Thanks dad for letting my use yours - trying to buy one my age would of been hard.) Unfortunately I realized that most of the chainsaws that I took chopped out my feet, making it kind of hard to look like I was realistically standing. The tips of the blade got a little funny too. I wasn't planning of posting this, but I'm trying to make up for having not to show.

I could go on and on about reasons why this doesn't look realistic and really corny looking. But I'll leave that to you. Rember though that I did this one out of and fun, I realized from the time I loaded it into photoshop that my pictures wouldn't mix well. Just for laughs.
              By the way; English class kids don't the opportunity get to play with real chainsaws like photography kids do.
                            

Land of the Giants

       The next assignment is probley my favorite one so far. I had so much fun not only taking the photos and trying to think of a great idea, but unlike the simple editing on Photoshop and then publishing, I spent several days editing trying to make it look realistic.
The theme of this shoot was to capture a picture of my self and then edit myself into an impossible situation making me look like a little tiny midget. Or that Jack and the Bean Stalk fairy tale came true, and somehow I ended up climbing up the the stalk looking for the golden egg in the Land of Giants. I'm a small person,  but I'm not this small. :)
    I hope you enjoy this photo, it was a pain to edit mostly because of the shadow I had to put in. Such a fake. But looking at it, I don't know, I think it turned out pretty well. A happy accident.

Details

My last assignment seem to focus on big things and not specific details in trying to look for the alphabet in real life. My next assignment gave me a little less stress. But it didn't give me direction in what I should take pictures of. Finding specific detail was what I was looking for. Usually this means a small depth of field.  I don't feel like talking/typing as much as usual. Compared to most photo blogs, sometimes I wonder if my text is is taking away from the point of the blog. It is a pitcure blog after-all. Mabey I'm just running out of random things to bring up.



      These pictures are un-edited. I feel like I had a good turnout, and sometimes pictures just seem better if you are able to say this is what you took with your camera, not what photoshop gave you.

                                                    

    This is the only picture of the lot of about 200 the I edited. Mabey that doesn't count much because the only changes that I made was change it to B&W on photo bucket.

     There you have it. A blog post where I didn't give a half a page chat on each picture.