Night Shots

Taken 11/29/11

Nikon D7000

Sigma 30mm f/1.4

f/16

10 seconds

ISO 200

Focal Length: 30mm

Tripod Used

11/29/11

Nikon D7000

Sigma 30mm f/1.4

f/1.4

5 seconds

Focal Length: 30mm

ISO 200

Tripod Used

For my night shots, I decided to do two that was slightly a long exposures. Night shots are something that I’ve come to really enjoy doing because you can do so many different things with it, especially when you get into painting with lights and long exposure. I think that its something to do with the all black scenery and how the lights just stick out out of everything. Then, things can start to get interesting when you longer exposures because you have car’s going by and leaving streaks of lights like in one of my photos.

One photo that I did was on the corner of 24th and Grand. I was going for a long exposure with that shot because I wanted to show just how busy traffic can be. But that isn’t really the main focus either. I thought that it would be cool getting all the streaks of lights from the cars as they’re driving and turning. It can make for a really interesting composition. I had the ISO low so that I could get a longer exposure and also had to turn the aperture up so that less light was coming in. Just messing with these two settings and being in aperture priority allowed for the exposure to be about what I wanted it to be and capture the motion of the cars. It did take a lot of messing around with, but I eventually got it.

The other shot that I did is one of my roommates. When people go to raves, they sometimes have these gloves that they use to go with the music. In a way, its a style of dance but with your hands. So I did a long exposure of his hands using those gloves and going with the music.

Portrait

Taken 11/30/11

Nikon D7000

Sigma 30mm f/1.4

f/1.4

1/125

Focal Length: 30mm

ISO 400

Tripod Used

For my portrait project, I decided to do one of a dog. I chose to do my cousins dog because they’re the only people that I know that actually had a dog, and it was a puppy and still in its cute phase. I chose to do a dog because I thought it would be a little fun, challenging and also somewhat different from the portrait shots of people. I wanted to add a little more diversity and a little something different than just one portrait picture of a person wouldn’t provide. I was originally gonna do all my roommates (which is 7 of us total) to show difference in style and other personal things. But a lot of them didn’t really like the idea of having their pictures taken and weren’t really willing. So I had to decide to choose someone or something else. 

I couldn’t really do the portraits outside, because it is cold and it was kind of dark at the time that I took this photos. So I had to do them inside their apartment. I didn’t have anything to use for a background and so I just decided to go with the white wall background that they had and have the dog sit on a chair to give it something to sit on and made it a little higher up. 

Being inside, the light was limited and so I had to use lamps and a flash to get some good lighting on the face. I chose a different lens than what I normally use because it had an aperture that could go lower and help to soften and blur the background. The dog was a little harder to do due to the fact that it’s a dog. He’s also a puppy. So he likes to move around a lot and it was hard trying to get him to hold still. But he actually sat on the chair when there was a treat put in front of his face. So my cousin just sat there with a treat, out of the cameras line of view and kind of made the dog beg. It made for some pretty interesting shots.

Social Commentary

Taken 11/27/11

Nikon D7000

Nikkor 18-105mm 3.5-5.6

f/11

1/125

ISO 400

Focal Length: 50mm

No tripod

When first assigned the project, I had a clue of what it was that I wanted to capture. But the idea soon changed because many of the ideas just seemed like everyone was doing them. There is homelessness, abuse and a bunch of others. The idea that I went with, I’ll admit, is alright, but I just wanted to go for something different.

The goal that I was trying to achieve in this photo is kind of shown in the signs that are still in color. They are a group of fast food restaurants that are on Grand. I made the rest of the picture in black and white, and the signs in color to help them stand out more and to get the point across of what it is that I’m trying to capture. Although it’s not out in the open of what I’m trying to get, I’m trying to capture how unhealthy our society has come to and in a way, obesity. I think that it kind of looks bad what you just have a huge grouping of fast foods restaurants in one place. They’re all easily accessible and walking distance within another. Being that their drive thru’s adds to the lazyness to.

I personally think that something should be done about that. I don’t mean completely wiping out fast food restaurants either, because we all know that that would never happen. But, I mean, maybe limiting the amount of fast food restaurants or taxing  the food or something. Obesity and other complications from fast food are continuing to grow and just getting worse.

The process that I did for this photo was that I just went out by Arby’s and took a few photos while trying to get as many sign in as I can. I had to have the ISO high because it was in the evening and light was slowly going away. The aperture is what it is because I was trying to focus all them in.

Yellowstone trip

Wildlife

Nikon D7000

Nikkor 18-105mm 3.5-5.6

Focal Length: 105mm

ISO 200

f/6.3

1/400

No tripod

Abstract

Nikon D7000

Nikkor 18-105mm 3.5-5.6

Focal Length: 35mm

ISO 200

f/18

1/20

Tripod used

Rocky folks

Nikon D7000

Nikkor 18-105mm 3.5-5.6

Focal length: 105mm

ISO 200

f/11

1/160

No tripod

Atmosphereic

Nikon D7000

Nikkor 18-105mm 3.5-5.6

Focal Length: 32mm

f/11

1/200

No tripod

My choice

Nikon D7000

Nikkor 18-105mm 3.5-5.6

ISO 400

Focal Length: 80mm

f/11

1/125

No tripod

Macro

Nikon D7000

Nikkor 18-105mm 3.5-5.6

Focal Length: 92mm

ISO 100

f/5.6

1/500

No tripod

Landscape

Nikon D7000

Nikkor 18-105mm 3.5-5.6

ISO 400

Focal Length: 90mm

f/11

1/200

No tripod

Art Show Photos

Project 4

10/22/11

Nikon D7000

Nikkor 18-105mm F/3.5-5.6

1/1000

F/6.3

ISO 400

Focal Length: 105mm

Tripod: No

10/22/11

Nikon D7000

Nikkor 18-105mm

1/1000

F/5.6

ISO 400

Focal length: 80mm

Tripod: No

10/26/11

Nikon D7000

Nikkor 18-105mm F/3.5-5.6

Shutter Speed: .5s

F/4.5

ISO 200

Focal Length: 18mm

Tripod: No

Stablized: Yes

Project 3

10/22/11

Nikon D7000

Sigma F/1.4

1/2500

F/2.8

ISO: 100

Focal Length: 30mm

Tripod: No

10/22/11

Nikon D7000

Nikkor 18-105mm F3.5-5.6

Shutter Speed: 1/4

F/3.5

ISO: 200

Focal Length: 18mm

Tripod: Yes

10/23/11

Nikon D7000

Nikkor 18-105mm F 3.5-5.6

1/125

F/14

ISO: 100

Focal Length: 28mm

Tripod: Yes

9/27/11

Nikon D7000

Sigma F/1.4 30mm

15 seconds

F/2

ISO: 1600

Focal Length: 30mm

Tripod: Yes

10/23/11

Nikon D7000

Nikkor 18-105mm F/3.5-5.6

1/2 Second

F/10

ISO: 400

Focal Length: 105mm

Tripod: Yes

10/25/11

Nikon D7000

Nikkor 18-105mm F/3.5-5.6

1/100

F/11

ISO 100

Focal Length: 105mm

Tripod: No