Hello friends,
I know it has been a while since I have posted on here. Sometimes we can't help it when life gets in the way of things. For those of you who are still reading, thank you for sticking with you. Even though I haven't been as active as I would have liked, I haven't completely let photography go by the wayside.
In the time I have been away I have finished my NYIP unit three photo assignment. I will let those pictures be a bridge back to sharing pictures with you. I welcome your critiques on opinions on these as I do all my pictures.
Photo 1: Using sidelighting to emphasize surface texture.
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| 1/1600 sec at f/3.2 ISO 100 30mm |
Even though this is one of the first pictures I took for this unit, this one gave me most trouble. Whenever I made time to shoot this, I was reminded of the fact that the sun does not shine in Buffalo between the months of December and April. I had picked this fire hydrant as a potential subject for this shot. I was lucky enough to catch a brief break in the clouds one late afternoon. The street behind the hydrant had the potential of being a cluttered and distracting background. I used a shallow depth of field and framed the hydrant tight in the frame to minimize the distractions in the background.
Photo 2: Using backlighting to enhance the subject.
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| 1/160 sec at f/5.6 ISO 100 50mm |
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This photo of my daughter was taken at the playground at Four Mile Creek State Park. The swing set was situated in front of the setting sun and the sun was just at the top of the trees. I set my exposure based on a meter reading I took away from the sun. I used the sunlight behind her to give a halo effect to her hair. Even though her eyes are closed, the expression on her face captures her personality while playing. If there was one thing I would have done differently, I would have used a slightly faster shutter to reduce the blur from the swinging and get a sharper picture.
Photo 3: Using “open shade” to photograph a person outdoors.
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| 1/100 sec at f/3.5 50mm |
This picture was taken this past December at Glen Park in Williamsville, NY. This park, and the small waterfall in it, is a popular location for wedding photography. This is the one picture in the unit that I used Aperture Priority instead of manual exposure. With the trees, snow and water in the park, there was one to two stops difference in lighting throughout the park, and my daughter was moving too quickly for me to keep up in manual. In this shot she is standing on a cut off branch a couple feet off the ground. I had some other pictures from this shoot that I had considered using, but my wife liked this one the best. Since part of being a photographer entails taking pictures other people will like, I chose this one.
