Project Teaser...

Well, I think I am doing cars for my final project, but I'm not 100% sure yet. It doesn't seem unique, but maybe I could make it unique in a special way...

Here are some of the photos I took recently with this project in mind...

I like what I have here for shots, but I don't know about a final project...

Cliche Photos

Cliche photos. It's the photo you see every day, in every magazine, in every family photo book, everywhere. The same, played, tired, and overused photographs that show up everywhere. They were cool when the first person did it, took that first cool and unique shot, but when everyone else wants to take the exact same picture, it becomes cliche. They are boring to look at, you see them all the time, so nobody ever stops to look at them. If a shot isn't unique, then it just isn't cool. If a person looking at a shot has seen the exact same thing before, then it isn't a unique shot. Sure it could be a nice shot in itself, like the never ending road, but it will never be "original".

Fireplace After

I did a little bit of re-editing to my Fireplace After shot, and I can't move it down without the links breaking. So here is the after for the last shot of Asignment #7

Assignment #7 - Reshoot

For this assignment we were supposed to reshoot one of our previous assignments. I chose Assignment #3 - Bracketing. I think it was one of my weakest assignments, and though I bracket most of the time, I decided to really bracket a lot on just a few subjects.

For a change, I shot at dusk, and played a lot with lights and darks, and tried to photograph really dark objects using a tripod and lots of bracketing. I did a lot of messing with lights and I think I came out with some interesting shots. I tried to keep the editing to a minimum, and I think that I found the perfect exposures in my original shots without having to edit much of it at all.

Here are the four before and afters:


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After




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Before

Assignment #6 - Portraits

For this assignment, we were to shoot portraits of people. I enjoyed this assignment, trying to portray the feelings, emotions, and personas of the characters I was shooting. I was really lucky to go down to Arizona and shoot while most of my extended family was present. I was also able to shoot my dad and my grandpa on the golf course, which is one of their favorite places to be.

I will probably be shooting some more portraits over christmas break. I don't think that the photos I took were nescessarily bad, but I do think that I could do much better. My favorite shot is the one of my dad on the very bottom, and it's probably one of my favorite shots this term.