Life's Alphabet

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Macro Photos

In the process of taking a macro photo, you must get close and upfront to your image. The pieces to this chess set are made of wood, but have taken years of beating, I wanted to capture their marks and nicks and the natural glow of the pieces. 

Sometimes when you get really close to a subject you can't realize what it is, you instead see the detail and texture of the object. This is a couch pillow in my living room, the browns and golds you see are enhanced reflections of our light.

The juices of the sliced tomatoes create an interesting texture and glam. I was just looking for fun odd picutres to take because I didn't want to have the same basics like everyone else, I saw the difference between the white boul and then the inner and outer colors of the tomato structure along with the seeds. I went for the detail and cropped it so you could see the spread of shades.

When taking this picture I started with just the brown striped rock, wanting to catch the sediments and varried shades, but when I looked at them I couldn't quite make it pop as much as I wanted to, so I moved it onto a white counter top and placed another rock, one that is a more typical rock you expect, and focused on just the first rock. This made it so that there was more and forced the eye to focus on what is upfront rather than just see the image.

 

My sister's eyelashes are very delicate, they are light and fluttery. I wanted to just make a simple picture detailing her lashes and cheek. So I made it closer to a black and white.

A typical macro photo, this is a flower plant thing that we had on our kitchen table. It has such original blooms I had to get up and take a picture. The point was to get the fuzziness feeling through the lense and out to the viewer.

Food, this is a pistachio in it's shell. I placed it on a white piece of paper so that you could see the purples and green of the flesh of the nut surrounded by the shell that is a completley different color all together.

It's a raspberry. I focused in on the berry and moved the lighting hoping to catch the shadow and dark light contrast of the surfaces and background while continuing to keep the focus on the berry. Mission Accomplished.

It's a dirty shoe. A piece of life laying around hoping that it will have some importance in the world. I used a flash on this image so I could try to get the varied whites of the shoe to stand out.

My Grandfather clock went of and the tiny men came out and started to circle like they do on the hour. I photographed them at this point because I liked their detail and color with the lights.

Time. I wanted to capture time. So I took a picture of the hands on my clock and changed it to a grey black combo to make it more dramatic.

Coolest picture I have ever taken. A dirty handprint was left on my front window next to where we take our shoes off. It was dark outside and the light inside reflected just right so I could capture the print that was left.

 

In this particular picture I realized you can have a busy bright background, you can just focus on your subject, in this case a jeweled butterfly, and make those details stand out more.

The other sister also wanted a picture of her, since I took one of Abigial earlier so I took one of her watching TV, just so I could get the uplook and once again focus on the eye and the shadows around it.

Piano keys, the basic black and white contrast. Shadows and lights, I literally layed across the edge to get this one, I wanted to get a new angel.

This one is special because of the editing, it is actually a baisc shower scrubber what ever you want to call it. But after I got to changing the contrast and saturation it turned out really cool.

 

Pin Hole Camera and Shadow Cast

During the pin hole process I learned that it takes different amounts of time for different amounts of light to be imprinted onto the photo paper. These are my outdoor, the negative and the positive.  The image was the bicycle rack outside in the north lot. The exposer was hard to catch because you could only let the light in for about half a second.

 These are my indoor pin hole. It is just me sitting in front of my computer, I am blurry because I can not sit still for the amount of the exposure which I believe was 2 minutes 36 seconds.

This is a pair of earrings I was wearing on the day we cast shadows and exposed a sheet of photo paper in the dark room with the enlarger. 

Tilt Shift

Brownie Camera

1. What is a Brownie Camera?
The brownie cameras are the first real portable cameras that allowed anyone to take pictures at a figurativley low priced camera.
2. Who invented it, and when?
It was created by Eastman Kodak in the 1900's but they didn't start taking off until the 1950's
3. How did it change society, and of course, the photography world?
It changed society because suddenly people could catch moments in life and remeber them, they didn't have to go in and pose for pictures, but rather take them themselves in their own lives. The photgraphy world took its own twist with newer technology advancing home pictures and snapshots, creating a greater demand for film and people who had the ability to develop them. Overall, this was the first big jump in the photography world, and without it we wouldn't have things like camera phones and digital cameras.


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