photography #16

assignment 1: photography challenge

 theme of this challenge was catchlights. i submitted the photo on the left. which do you like better?

assignment 2: more on portraiture, candid.

i had to submit one candid photo with a focus on capturing personality and emotion through photography. the top photo was my submission. :)

  

this doesn't exactally count as a candid cause i posed them, but i love this shot. :)

assignment 3: more on portraiture, group shots.

i had to submit a photo with three or more people that had groupings in triangles with relatively even spacing between the heads. this was the hardest part of the assignment this past week. because of circumstances beyond my control, i only had 5ish minutes to do a shoot with my younger siblings. real life. every part of photography homework isn't beautiful or simple. :) i'm pleased with my results considering the situation, but i would really like to do another group shoot just for fun to practice the techniques in a more relaxed environment. 

family christmas photos: 2011

i took all these pictures... the tripod and delay-timer are my friend. :) 

my sister + the afternoon light= gorgeous.

i did a shoot with my beautiful sister while she was home for christmas. the light was amazing, and these are completely unedited. enjoy.

photography #13-15

i've gotten way off my normal posting routine, but i took lots of great pictures over Christmas vacation.
i only had one official photography assignment for weeks 13-15. we learned about portraiture during the class before break. for homework i had to take one candid shot and one technically correct 3-quarter view of a face. for the three-quarter view there are three things to remember:
-the nose cannot extend past the outline of the face.
-only one ear can be visible. (even if it's hidden by hair)
-there has to be a little skin by the far eye.

three-quarter view 

candid :)

here are a few [or a million =] shots from vacation:

i took our family christmas picture, did a shoot with my sister, and have an assignment from last week that i will share soon... 

photography #12

this past week, i was allowed to do a free shoot. mmm, very fun. :)

the goal was to keep working with exposure settings and experiment with some new ideas. i did several shoots, but my favorite was playing around with the lights on the christmas tree. it was so hard to pick just one for my submission, but i decided on the top picture. 

gorgeous ornament

the christmas lights' reflections on an ornament

sparkly light and dainty glass bell

christmas lights- panning

i'm all cought up on the weeks i missed this past month, and i don't have any photography homework due until after new years. but of course, break is just an excuse to have more time to take pictures, right? merry christmas!