Avadon

 

Welcome to the Universe

Hello! This week I took my pictures at my boyfriend’s house. I got my inspiration for the water photography from the following site: http://www.popphoto.com/Features/How-to/You-Can-Do-It-How-to-Photograph-Water-Drops. Chris, my boyfriend, did the pouring for me. We made a little studio backdrop with a towel. The streams of water were originally vertical and there was only one in each shot. It took me a good amount of time in photoshop to erase around each one and blend them into the background. I was going for a gravity defying look. It brings to my mind an episode of The Universe in which they explain how multiple universes interact. All moving in wavelike motions sometimes bouncing off each other. It was quite difficult shooting because I only had a 1 gig memory card with me at Chris’ house and I was shooting at a very rapid shutter speed so I had to keep going through and erasing pictures. Before he helped me with the water shots I had taken a bunch of pictures of his pups. His oldest, Riley, had the most awesome spots around his eyes from old age. He is sort of blind so the flash made a crazy reflection in his pupils. I had also taken some still life pictures of his bamboo plant. I was sorry to have to erase so many of those. I love still life nature pictures. Overall, I’m happy with my results this week. (:

Variety

This week I tried a variety of things. I began with an attempt at using candle light. I used this sight for tips http://digital-photography-school.com/14-tips-for-great-candlelight-photography. The Buddha picture was done with candle light. The effect I was going for with the candle light never really materialized so I also attempted some fish tank photography. It was hard though because the inside of the tank was slimy so all my pictures looked hazy. Overall I am happy with my results for the week.

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Movie Week

 

I really enjoyed this week in our photography class. We spent the week watching videos on two very different photographers. The first of which was Joel Sartore. He is a photographer for National Geographic. He photographed in the areas of nature and photojournalism. The main focus of his video was to show the challenges of being a photojournalist. He, like many other photographers, had to spend long periods of time away from his family. This was very hard on his wife and kids. But his passion for photography prevailed. Despite the fact that he would sometimes be gone from home for so long that his family get used to him being gone, he still wanted to be out there taking pictures of parts of the world that not many get to see. Personally, I do not think I could do job quite like this one. I would love to travel to exotic locations around the world for my work like Sartore, but I want to have a family when I get older. I want to be able to watch my kids grow up. And as a photojournalist, I would not be able to do that. The second photographer we watched a video on was Richard Avedon. He started out his career as a fashion photographer but went on to specialize in portrait photography. Now, this man’s work can really be called art. The composition of his fashion work is beautiful and the emotion he captures in his portrait work is priceless. Avedon, to me, is quite the inspirational character. I do not have much to say about Avedon because there are not words to describe perfection. I have included in this post some of my favorite pictures by both Joel Sartore and Richard Avedon. Enjoy.