Relaxing

I had a relaxing weekend. I took off work Friday and had a weekend to myself with no work or school work. Friday I went to the lab to catch up on some work but realized I left my portable hard drive in my Digital 1 class on thursday. I hope someone turned it in. In my photography seminar we had to pick a magazine we might like to work for and shoot for one day. I picked Vanity Fair. We had to shoot a photo we think would be featured or picked to go in the magazine

I thought this picture could be a good ad for maybe a mascara.

Productive Weekend

This week was a bit crazy for me. I missed school from being sick. Sometimes I wonder if I will ever get better. So now I'm trying to catch up on things. I've had to do many shooting assignments. One was Depth of Field and I wound up taking some great shots but during the transfer onto my computer I lost all my good ones. Go figure so I did a reshoot but did not get that many great images. Above are my favorites.

As much as I love taking photos, I love to edit them. Over this weekend I shaved my head. It was a whim of a decision but I did it because I have the balls to do it and I look ok. This is a photo I took of myself with a camera phone with an overhead lighting in my bathroom. I then used a photo editing software to make it black and white and played with my exposure and contrast level

Im my Photography Seminar we had to buy a magazine that we would maybe one day like to shoot for. I purchased Vanity Fair. I like fashion photogrpahy and I'm amazed by all the great photos there are of different celebrities. I am gaining knowledge everyday on how to take great photographs and I hope one day my photos will be just as worthy.

BEHIND

Soooo....I'm falling a little behind again. I'm just so damn tired I think. Missed three classes last week. My days consist of waking up at 8 am and going to sleep at 12am. Going to school full time and working full time is rough. I'm feeling it, but like all things it must be done. I am late on an assignment for my Digital Materials class and I'm shooting for my Digital one class. We had to do depth of field and I took some nice shots. I'm still havingttrouble knowing what aperature I should be in in certain lighting conditions but I'm learning. This is one shot I took.



I'm also having trouble being able to comment on other blogs. Anyone have any suggestions?

MOTION AGHHHH

Ok soooo the last assignment I was given in my Digital 1 class was to capture motion and on my first trial run I completely bombed at it. I tried today to shoot my landlords kids in their dance outfits outside and it was all wrong take a look

As you can see, the lighting is off, My fstop/shutter speeds weren't right. This is all just frustrating me. I'm still trying to learn all this stuff. I enjoy it I do, I'm just getting frustrating. Those of you who read this, I hope you find my misery humourous. I need to find some photo friends. You'd think, I go to school and in classes with all photo majors, I'd make some friends. I need to be more friendly. Any takers?

 On a lighter note, I'm pretty caught up with all my school work. That's always a good feeling. Trying to figure out how to use photoshop is crazy. It's a like a foreign language to me. But I hope as my time at SCCC goes on I learn all the tools I need to, to be able to take better photos than the ones above and hopefully find a friend =P

Sunday Funday

I'm still trying to catch up on all the school work Ive missed from when I was sick. I havent been able to go to the lab at school due to work and then my job cuts my hours. I'm getting very frustrated lately. My third shooting assisgnment has been assigned and I still havent made my contact sheets for the first one. Ok so its time to take a breather. My second shooting assignment was to concentrate on shooting lines shapes and textures. I concentrated a lot shooting plants. Closeups on them. I'm still learning how to use my camera and determining what the right f stops and shutter speeds work best. My next assignment is motion and we have to shoot an athlete or dancer which is going to be a challenge for one becasue I don't know any. I'm uploading some picturees from the last two shoots I did. Any feedback would be appreciated