Here's a toast to now

The Station
This is one of my favorite photos I took. I didn't see anyone else photographing this cement block with exposed wires and bolts, but I thought it was very interesting. I took several pictures of it and this is one of my favorites. I had an aperture of 4.5 and a shutter of 250. I also like the picture below this one. I think it also captures the essence of the station.

Macro/ Up Close
This was a picture I took of the actual rail road track when we first got to the station. I really like the frost on the metal. The aperture was 5.6 and the shutter was 125. The picture below is another close up picture I took inside the building Aperture of 4.5 shutter of 15.
Flash/Slow Sync
I'm not a huge fan of this picture, mostly because I loved shooting outside and inside was a little less exciting. Also, I could have picked a more interesting subject, but I guess it's okay. It took me several attempts to even get a good picture that wasn't blurred.
EXIF data for this image is aperture of 3/5 and shutter of 1.6seconds. I had the ISO set to 100.

when all i want, all i want/ is a state of hope

The flash on my Canon EOS Rebel has a built in flash with several options. It fires automatically in low light and backlit conditions in most of the basic modes. The flash has to be manually turned on when using the camera in a creative zone (Program, Tv, Av, M, and A-DEP). When using Av, the main subject is captured with the flash and the background is captured with a long exposure using a slow shutter speed.

Red eye reduction can also be turned on in most modes of the camera. There is also a Red Eye Reduction lamp indicator which can help to adjust the effectiveness of red-eye reduction. It is most effective in indoor areas and when the subject is near the camera.

Flash Exposure lock is the last option with the camera. It works in the creative zones.

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.