Three of my favorites

Perfect Photo project

This is one of my project photos for Perfect Photo. Before it was really dark and I lightened it up with fill light in bridge raw editing. The photo does look a little blue when I look at the outer lining of the window. I forgot to try to even out the hues so it wasn't so blue. I like extreme angles so I focused on the benches and the wall while leaving the front of the photo more blurred out then the rest using and ISO of 100. I also used 1/80 of a shutter speed.

Photo 2 Journal 2

This morning I was in the car on my way to school and I saw this bird fly over the retreat meadows. It was a large bird maybe a crane, not sure, but anyways it was just after eight o'clock when I saw it gliding over the water. There was fog rising off the top of the water in little puffs so it look good with different spot of fog flouting up and this bird just flying through all of it. I would have used a faster shutter speed to capture the movement of the bird and to also keep the picture dark enough to allow the viewer to see the fog rising off the water. I higher aperture to keep everything in focus. I cant go back and try to capture it because that bird most likely isn't going to be there and that's a real bummer because it was a really cool scene.

One miss opprotuninty I can go back to is on my way home. I getting home around late, around 6 to seven 7 and the sun is setting over the field is next to my house. The sun is often just about to go behind the mountain but the rays spill through the trees and onto the road a few feet before my driveway. I feel that the incline that I'm at is what makes the picture I keep seeing in my head. The sun is stretching out the last of the shadows before it is behind the mountain and its pretty good lighting. Bright and warm. I would use a shutter speed of 80 maybe to not have it be to dark or to light.

Journal 18

Yesterday I need to go for a run to clear my head. I really just needed to pound out all my energy just by running, but i wasn't going to be able to do that because my old fat and lazy dog decided to follow me and I couldn't leave him behind not know if he was going to get hit by a car or something, plus i love that dog to death and it would hurt me even more if i just left him wondering why i didn't wait for him. So i just jogged by his side. At some point I ran a little a head of his and went around a corner of my road. When I realized he wasn't behind me I stopped and waited for him. It was around 6 when i went running to the sun was setting and everything was bathed in the warm light of the setting sun. As I waited in the shade I watched as he came around the corner and was bathed patchy sun that shone through the leaves and lighting up his fur. His mouth was open and his tongue drooping out but he looked like he was smiling. Casteel actually gives advice on how to get your dog to smile and he says to take your dog on a long walk to get them tired, but that it makes them happy and I wish that I could have had a camera built into my eyes so that i could take a picture of that picture perfect moment of my goofy old dog trying to jog with me. I forgot me camera at home, because who jogs with a huge camera around their neck? I would have used a a shutter speed around a hundred or so and opened my aperture a little bit more to let in light but not to wash out anymore detail that was already being watched out from the sun.

Journal 17

I was walking to my moms work on Friday with my friend Dakota. I had my camera that I forgot in my locker for the past two days and was trigger hungry to start taking pictures again. We stopped a few times to let me take pictures of things that caught my eye when we finally stopped in front of this house. It was cloudy out so their was no contrast between the shade and sun. The house had a lot of plants that were over growing over the stairs up to the front door. I stopped and took a plan old picture of the stairs. They looked cool all cracked and stuff and i always wanted to take a picture of them. Then I got an idea. I moved up closer to the stairs and placed my camera against the all of it. When I got home I know that this was an abstract pictures because there is nothing really defining which way is up or down. So I rotated it on to its side and liked what I saw. So these are stairs that are sideways. I never really noticed the pink flower petals that are on them when i was taking the picture or even the little plant growing from the side. I really like this picture. I think I used a slowish shutter speed like an 1/80. Somewhere around that.  I think my ISO may have been a 200-400, possibly. Anyways I like it a lot!

Journal 16

I'm on my way home and its about close to seven. I'm just staring out the window and looking at the river and i see this bush with pink flowers all over next to the river side. It was just on bush. but the way it look with the dark rushing water and the green all around it making its pink more notice able. I would have tried tog get a picture of it but I forgot to get my camera out of my locker after school so I guess I just have to drive on by. I would have used a slower shutter speed because it was dark out and to get the movement of the water rushing my and giving it a soft look.

journal 15

I was on my way to Connecticut to go see my little cousins first communion. It was around ten on a Saturday and we were on the highway. it was really cloudy and foggy outside. I was staring out at the mountains and saw the fog flouting off the mountain side. Sense were on the highway you cant really pull over on the side of the road to stop and take pictures. I mean what if someone decided to hit me! Yeah no. but anyways it liked the way it was lifting off the mountain. I would have used a faster shutter speed and a higher ISO to capture every detail of the fog kind of curling away from the mountain side.