Anyway, a few weeks ago we finished up our creativity section by choosing a randomly numbered powerpoint slide. The phrase on the slide was our subject for the week, and we were free to interpret it however we wanted. My subject was "music to my ears", which immediately made me think of my mom playing her violin. Since this was a creativity assignment, I decided to challenge myself and incorporate the sun into the picture - something I had never done before. It took lots of experimenting, and close to 200 frames, but I think I'm getting the hang of it now :). This is the picture I submitted for class:
We are learning about post-production right now, so last week we didn't have to take pictures. I ended up trying to figure out my photographic vision (my personal 'style' of photography) and taking pictures of the bleeding heart plants in our garden. I really wish I had a macro lens, but I tried to make the pictures really sharp so that I can crop them down. I'm not going to upload any, because I shot them RAW and I want to edit them on Lightroom... once I download the trial version, which I don't currently have :).
Yesterday, I did a photoshoot for my friend Morgan, who won Miss NJ and is going to the Miss America competition :D. This was the first time I'd done a shoot like this, so there was a lot of trial and error involved, mostly with the lighting. I had a mini studio set up in my basement with a sheet and several desk lamps, but the lamps all had different bulbs, which made a good WB hard to find - even with a calibration target :/. In the end, I learned a lot, and ended up getting pretty good results. These are the two pictures we ended up with:
