Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Waterfalls

by: Bonnie Clark
This is a picture that my aunt took when her and my uncle took a weekend trip to New york. I'm not exactly sure where it was in New York but I just love the Photo. There's a lot of different things catching your eye. Originally you see the fall which is the main focus, but then your eye starts to move to other things in the photo. The white and blue tones of the water coming down with the Vibrant green from the plants just all goes together and works. Nature shots like these are her favorite to do. Her and my uncle take a lot of weekend trips all over maine and New england, and she finds all these hidden beautiful areas that nobody really knows about. There's a lot more to Maine then just the coast.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

National Geographic: photo tips



The 3 videos that I liked the most were, the one Macro function, candid shots, and camera symbols. I really liked the macro most because those type of pictures appeal to me, especially since they work well with nature shots. I love how you can take anything ordinary in the woods, or a field and turn it into something beautiful just by zooming that much more on it. The candid shots one I really liked as well because I have a lot of younger cousins and family get togethers that I like to take pictures at. Watching this video gave me some good ideas for different angles and how to really capture the moment in a different perspective. And Finally, I like the camera symbols video because I think he did a good job at explaining all the different buttons and symbols you have on your typical digital camera. It was a useful video for me, so that now I can make the most out of my little hand held camera.

Monday, January 17, 2011

nature photographers articles

http://www.naturephotographers.net/articles1110/ab1110-1.html
http://www.naturephotographers.net/articles1210/ab1210-1.html
http://www.naturephotographers.net/articles0910/ab0910-1.html
http://www.naturephotographers.net/articles1010/ab1010-1.html

Since I'm new to photography and it's just a hobby of mine, I don't know much about rules and how to work with the different lines and shades of color to really make my photos stand out. Reading these different articles really helped me get a better sense of what I need to be thinking of when doing different shots and how I can change them to make them look better. Hopefully I'll have a better trained eye for critiquing my own work.

The First Article is about the traditional rules of composition. This is one that I liked because I didn't realize how many different types of composition played a part in your photos. Now when looking for photo opportunities, I can look at something in a different perspective. The golden rule and the framing rule were two I liked most because they make for interesting photos. The golden rule has that pop effect on your focused point, which is something I like, and in the framing, the photo almost makes me feel like i'm there taking the photo myself.

Probably my favorite article was the composing with color. That's what really gets me in a photo. I really like when you can take the color out of a photo and just leave one item in it with color. when done right to the right photo, to me is so beautiful. I really like black and white the most. To me their so simple and yet there's so much to look at as your eye travels through the depth and contrast of the white, grays and black. And to me there seems to be more of truth shown through in them. The other twi articles also have good points in them and helped in my furthering of photography knowledge, but these first two articles are what really sunk in to me.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

My New Horse


This is my 6th month old quarter horse that I got for christmas. I absolutely adore him, and I can't believe how loveable he is at such a young age. That's why I named him Romeo. :) He's going to be the horse that I use in the colts program my junior year. Then I plan on keeping him and doing further training with him and making him my everything for trail riding to shows, to my horse in the program for senior year. This is quite possibly the best christmas present I could ever get!