Fascinate, fascinate, fascinated...

This first image was captured with a point and shoot. I was impressed at how close it was able to focus, however, it was a little grainy. I think it was a Canon Powershot, but I could be wrong. The picture was taken with the close up option, the flower. This next image was taken with a Nikon D60 (again, no promises). I like the colors in this image better than the ones from my own camera and I'm wondering if it is because of the flash. I didn't know how to turn off the flash so I just kept it on. I used aperture priority on the Nikon.

This final image is one that I took with my own camera in manual mode. I used the lightbox and think it looks okay. I would have liked to have taken more time, but there was a line in the box so I didn't.

oh c'est la vie please don't go and abandon me

This assignment was about learning to use selection tools to replace things from one picture and put them in another. The top is an example of replacing an image in the picture and the bottom is replacing the sky in a picture. This first picture is my dog, Shmo. He is in Ohio.This second picture is America's favorite donkey, Perry, from Shrek. He lives in California.

This final picture is when Perry and Shmo get to meet via Photoshop.



This first picture is one of my favorites of my fiance and me. We are in San Francisco on a bike ride, but as you often may find, the sky is very overcast. (Note the lack of clarity in the buildings in the background.)


Main Fountain at Stanford University. Love it.
Combined it was hard to get to look good first because of the trees. Then it was hard once I had somewhat overcome the trees because the background buildings were so cloudy. So I selected all of the background and did levels on them twice and tried to get some of the saturation to come out. Not great, but I think it looks okay.

If you are a teacher I am a vessel, oh So carry on, carry on, carry on...

The assignment for this entry was to create a photo video using Photo Story, a free program downloadable by Microsoft. Instead of using a program, I asked Dr. Jenny if I could create my own video using Adobe After Effects, because it is my goal to learn how to use the program this semester. These are a series of pictures I took while I was in San Francisco over short spring break.

Raise some question to the rule who says you'd have to lose a love to find one

I'm over all pretty happy with these pictures I took at Leesburgh Falls today. I wish that I had taken more pictures with super fast shutter speed, I didn't really realize that they were only partially frozen water droplets. Anyhow, the above picture was taken with a 1/400 shutter speed and an aperture of 3.5.
I really like the picture below with a slower shutter speed. The aperture was f/22 and the shutter speed was 1.3 seconds. I like it.

We promised the world we'd tame it, what were we hoping for?

This is the Columbus skyline from the Confluence Park Restaurant. It is where I am getting married this summer. It will be very beautiful when it's green. I used a tripod and rotated the camera to capture ten different shots. The pictures looked the best on auto white balance. I recreated the corners using the clone tool in Photoshop, it wasn't very fun. I had an aperture of f/14 and a shutter speed of 1/100. I probably should have used a smaller aperture and slower shutter speed to capture more detail.

I found my friends in the forest of loves

Mercer, PA
These are a few random shots I took in Mercer, PA. This first was taken in the anitique store next to the courthouse. I used an aperture of 3.5 and a shutter speed of 1s film speed 100. This is another one of my favorite random pictures of the town of Mercer. Pretend like you know who James D. Kathar is and the shot is a lot more exciting. Aperture 5.0 Shutter 1/160 film speed 100.

These next three were taken with exposure compensation. This first one is where the camera said it should be. Below is three stops over exposed and below that is three stops under exposed. The picture that I thought was best was one stop under exposed. The aperture in each picture is f5 and the shutter speeds are 1/160, 1/80, 1/ 320, respectively.

I'm not wild about this picture, I wanted to use the above pictures as my courthouse picture, but I didn't have another good example of exposure compensation so I used it as that instead. I think this picture is very simple and rather plain but overall okay nonetheless. I used an aperture of 5.0 and a shutter of 1/500. I'm not sure why I didn't just shrink the aperture and have a slower shutter, but that's the way I did it.