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The Beginning of the End

School has started! The first day back and I already have papers that I need to present in the morning. 

Writing

Flag

Roller coaster

Trip

Fields

Sun Flare

Set

Fountain

Rest

Fog

Nightlife

Faces

Old and New

Colors

Mourning the loss of Summer

            Hey everyone! How's the weather where you live? It's cooled down a bit for us but it's still extremely humid out. School is about to start back up again and that means like all good things, summer must come to an end. People are trying to spend their last free days to the fullest and are traveling all over the place. My family has some of the same plans and we are still trying to cram college visits into the last remaining days. How are you spending the last days of summer? Comment below! See ya' tomorrow! 

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Truckstop

Music in B&W

Driving

My Favorite Photographers

Favorite Photographers:

• Robert Capa: War photographer of the Spanish civil war, and WW2. Was killed in 1954 when he stepped on a landmine. There is now a medal in his honor called the “Robert Capa Gold Medal Award” that rewards those with “exceptional professional merit”.

• Ansel Adams: Landscape and nature photographer. Created the “Zone System” along with others. The “Zone System” was a system that found the correct exposure for black and white film papers.

• Philippe Halsman: his photographs made more TIME magazine covers than anyone else to date (101 photos). He took many photos of celebrities, writers, other great minds of the time such as, Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, and Salvador Dali.

Find out more:

Ansel Adams

Robert Capa

Philippe Halsman

My Photo of the Day

More to Come....

         Hey guys! I hope that you have enjoyed my notes on photography! The last post in that series will be tomorrow, and will be focused on three of my favorite photographers. Enjoy, and I'll see ya' tomorrow!

Types of Photography

Different Types of Photography

• Fashion Photography: Taking photos of clothing or as clothing as its own an art form.

• Beauty Photography: Often imaginative lighting and modern and abstract makeup to help “bring out the beauty” of the subject.

• Nature Photography: Taking pictures of landscapes and forested, rural, and oceanic “natural” areas

• Wildlife Photography: Takes a great deal of skill. Creative angling. Pictures are of animals and other wildlife.

• Black and White: High contrast, and dramatic lighting. Used to capture the classic beauty of the subject.

• Wedding Photography: Photos of couples before, during, and after the wedding. Creative lighting and lots of color.

• HDR Photography: Merging of three photos of the same subject. High contrast, often used in an industrial or metropolitan setting.

• Travel Photography: Lots of color. Photos of novelties or activities that people from a different area might not usually see.

• Time Lapse Photography: Captures motion. Taken by shooting a specific subject at different time intervals.

• Macro Photography: Brings out small details in a given subject that the viewer might not normally see.

• Underwater photography: Taken underwater, often of sea life, sometimes of people in pools or swimming of some sort.

• Storm Photography: Subject is often lightning, however rain and snow photography are also popular. Captures motion.

• Night Photography: Taken at night, dramatic lighting and shadows. 

Camera Vocabulary

Camera Vocabulary:

·         Aperture:

o    The wider your aperture is the more light you are letting in your camera when the photo is taken.

o    The narrower the aperture may also help more of your photo become in focus.

o    Ex. F/22 is a narrow aperture whereas F/1.8 is a wide aperture.
 

• Shutter Speed:
• Shutter speed is how long it takes for your shutter to close when taking a photo.

• For fast motion pictures it is better to get a fast shutter speed (ex. 1/300th of a second). For a more blurred together effect it is better to have a slow shutter speed (ex. 1/30th of a second).

• Longer shutter speeds are helpful when you are in low light situations because there is more time for the light to come in.

• ISO:
• The faster the speed the more sensitive it is to light.

• With a low ISO the lighting in the photo more accurately portrays the light in the given photo.

• High ISO allows more light to show and is helpful when showing more detail, especially in night time photographs.

• The higher you increase your ISO the more noise your photo will pick up.

Photography Tips

Photography Tips:

• Since the camera captures and focuses on everything in a shot make sure that the lines and subjects in your photo frame or lead up to what you want to be the main focus of your shot.

• Don’t leave to much space around what you want to be the focus of your photo or else it will be hard for the viewers to determine what is the main focus

• Don’t just keep your camera straight up and down with the ground. Play around with different angles because you will get different lighting and a more unconventional view of what you’re taking a photo of.

• Try having the focal point of your picture stay out of the exact center so that it will look more interesting and will cause the viewer to take in the entire photo.

• Bright primary colors attract the eye so make sure that you are taking a photo of those colors at a time when the lighting brightens and complements them, so it will not look monochrome and boring.

• Make sure the background nicely compliments the subject of the photo. Even if you are in nature you can still find ways to manipulate the background by using different angles so you can have different lighting.

• Don’t take one photo and leave. Instead you should stay and watch what you are taking a picture of so that you can see how it changes and know the exact moment to take the picture and capture it in a way that best portrays your subject.

• When you are taking photos of animals or insects it is best to be on their level for a more intimate photo.
  
  
• If you are taking photos of animals with people it is best to make sure that there are no gaps in between them so that it looks like a closer relationship between the subjects.
  
  
• If you are taking pictures of pets make noises in the direction that you want them to look whether that‘s behind the camera or off to the side.
  
  
• When you are using flash remember that your shutter speed can change how your photo looks with flash and how much lighting contrast is in your photo.

• Make sure your camera isn’t on a setting where there is too much exposure or too little exposure when using flash so that you can get a realistic looking photo without too much reflecting light off of your subject.

• When used correctly flash can help when wanting to have more dramatic lighting, especially in portraits and black and white photos. 

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The learning photography series will start tomorrow! I hope you like it!

Learning Photography

            Hey everyone! It's been a nice Monday as far as they usually go. I started my day out with some amazing new tea I got at Target yesterday and played the piano for about an hour. With the state fair fast approaching I have really wanted to improve my photography, and because of that I have been doing a lot of research on the topic. This lead to me realizing that I could easily share the research I have done and some need to know facts with some other budding photographers out there. So..... coming later on this week I will be posting a few different factoids that could be useful for newcomers to photography. If you'd like to learn more, make sure to stay updated on my blog, and subscribe to email alerts to know when the next blogs are posted. I hope you're as excited as I am, and I will see you soon!