Thursday, March 28, 2013

Assignment 8

Requirement 1: lead the viewers eye
road before Grand Coulee Damb
ISO - 250
aperture - f/11
SS - 1/350
focal length - 62mm

Requirement 1: lead the viewers eye
Columbia River, WA
ISO - 250
aperture - f/13
SS - 1/250
focal length - 18mm

Requirement 1: lead the viewers eye
ISO - 250
aperture - f/13
SS - 1/250
focal length - 70mm
Requirement 1: lead the viewers eye
Grand Coulee dam
ISO - 250
aperture - f/13
SS - 1/250
focal length - 29mm
 
Requirement 2: improve nature (before)
ISO - 250
aperture - f/13
SS - 1/250
focal length - 18mm

Requirement 2: (after)
 
Requirement 3: Panorama
Grand Coulee Dam
 
 
Requirement 4: lead the viewers eye
ISO - 250
aperture - f/13
SS - 1/250
focal length - 56mm
 
Requirement 5: The Golden hour
ISO - 450
aperture - f/3.8
SS - 1/180
focal length - 25mm
 
Requirement 5: The Golden hour
ISO - 160
aperture - f/6.7
SS - 1/250
focal length - 29mm

Requirement 5: The Golden hour
ISO - 100
aperture - f/13
SS - 1/500
focal length - 38mm

Requirement 5: The Golden hour
ISO - 100
aperture - f/16
SS - 1/60
focal length - 70mm
 

Choice
scary building east of Missoula
ISO - 250
aperture - f/11
SS - 1/350
focal length - 62mm
 
 
 

Landscape and Nature (week #8)

Criteria 1: S-curve. Nice windy gravel path in the middle of nowhere.  f-stop: f/11  ISO: 280  Aperture: 4.8 No flash

Criteria 1: S-curve. Winding tractor marks through a large field. f-stop: f/5.6  ISO: 100 Aperture: 5 No flash

Criteria 2: Improve: Here is an old outhouse at a school called Cracker Box school in the middle of nowhere. I edited everything to make it look like a classic warm picture. f-stop: f/11  ISO: 180 Aperture: 4.8 No flash

Criteria 3: Panorama: My actual Pano was an awesome picture-and it had this picture in plus a winding road. Technical difficulties keep me from posting it. I'll ask Myles for help :) This is my husband on-top of a very large hill filled with weird stones and fossils. f-stop: f/8  ISO: 100  Aperture: 3.6  No flash

Criteria 4: Texture: A big roll of scratchy hay. : f-stop: f/11  ISO: 250  Aperture: 4.2 No flash
Criteria 4: Texture: cute, bright, fuzzy, little, yellow flowers in the ditch. They are the first signs of Spring!
: f-stop: f/5.6  ISO: 400 Aperture: 5 No flash
 

Criteria 5: The Golden hour. We climbed up on our garage to get a picture of the sun setting over the Yellowstone. f-stop: f/11 ISO: 140 Aperture: 5 No flash

Criteria 5: Golden hour. We waited until the sun totally went down-which only took a few minutes. f-stop: f/9  ISO: 400 Aperture: 5 No flash

Choice: It was a windy day up on that hill. Always gotta have a picture together :)  : f-stop: f/9 ISO: 100  Aperture: 3.6 No flash

Choice: A view from the top. The VW looks like a toy car from way up here. Also, the texture and shapes of the sandstone/rocks is so cool. f-stop: f/9  ISO: 100 Aperture: 3.7 No flash

Choice: An old car in the middle of a field with miles of nothing anywhere in sight. My husband spotted it and I had to jump a barbed-wire fence to get out there. Pretty cool though.f-stop: f/11  ISO: 320 Aperture: 3.9 No flash

Panorama: Here is my husband along with the beautiful Montana background!

Assignment 8 Landscape and Nature

Line of Sight: This is a path we built at my parent's house 
to prevent the water from pooling up at the bottom of their driveway.

Photoshop: I cropped this photo and changed it to black and white.  
This is the old dump truck my grandfather used to drive.

Panorama: This is the creek beside my parent's house.

Texture: This is a lava rock at my parent's house.

Texture: This is a sandstone rock at my parent's house.

The Golden Hour: The sunset from the roof of my parent's house.

My Choice: This is my great uncle's car. I changed the exposure on this 
photo to make the blue and the white stand out more.

My Choice: This is the rock garden.


WEEK 8. LANDSCAPES AND NATURE


    Line of Sight.
    The bright white snow sandwiched between
    the dark blue of the water and brown brush
    draws the eye down the river to the bend.
    This was taken as the sun was going down at
    6:12 on 3/25.
    f11, 1/125, ISO 100, 53mm-manual setting.


    Improve on Nature-not possible.
    Improve on photographing-very possible.
    Also the Line of Sight is visible with the red scoria
    road winding up the hills. 3/2 at 4:53 prior to
    "springing ahead" with the clock.
    f13,1/250, ISO 160, 110mm-manual setting.


   Overall enhanced picture. I lightened the entire
   picture bringing out detail and warming the
   shot. I intentionally left the road sign in as it
   is exactly what the road looked like.


   Another picture as the day was drawing to a
   close with the sun to the right of the peak.
   This was taken on 3/13 at 5:06.
   f9, 1/200, ISO 100, 95mm-manual setting.


   I lightened only the shadows of the land and
   left the sky alone. I also fixed a spot in the sky
   that was caused by dirt (?) on my lens.
   I much prefer to fix photos by manually changing
   the settings on the camera rather than by manipulating
   the finished product.


   Panoramic shot. My camera does not have the
   panorama option so this was 7 separate pictures
   taken of a view of about 150 degrees. Camera was
   on a tripod to keep it as even as possible. I stitched
   it together with Autostitch. Taken at 4:56 on 3/25.
   f14, 1/160, ISO125, 38mm-manual setting.


    Panorama 2. This was taken during the "golden
    hour" at 5:54 on 3/13. When I got to the park there
    was not a cloud in the sky but quickly turned dark
    and ominous...but a nice contrast to the landscape.
    This was 3 or 4 pictures stitched together on Auto-
    stitch. It seems the fewer the individual pictures
    being stitched together the more vertical area fits
    together. f9, 1/125, ISO160, 38mm-manual setting.


   Texture...big time!!  This was taken after the sun
   set at 6:25 on 3/14.
   f7.1, 1/250, ISO 160, 28mm-manual setting. 


   Another texture shot.  The area where the
   fossil is, is very smooth with ridges as opposed
   to the roughness of the remainder of the rock.
   Photo was taken on 2/3 at 9:47.
   f10, 1/60, ISO 400, 127mm-manual setting.


   Varied texture of the pinecones, pine needles,
   and snow. This shot was taken on 3/23 at 11:48
   in the shade.
   f14, 1/40, ISO 100, 75mm-manual setting.


   This rock is about 3 feet tall and has so many
   different textures on it. To the left it looks like
   a piece of brain coral, on the right there are
   ridges surrounding it, the entire right is a mix-
   ture of hard rock and sandstone. The weeds
   in the front are to give the viewer a hint to the
   size of the boulder. I think it would look great
   in my yard! Picture was taken on 3/2 at 4:00.
   f5, 1/320, ISO 160, 50mm-manual setting.


   Part 2-my choice. I liked the 2 sight
   lines-the fence as well as the shadow
   leading to the old barn with the badlands
   in the background. Taken 3/2 at 3:33.
   f14, 1/125, ISO160, 75mm-manual setting.


   This is a photo taken during the "golden hour"
   on 3/2 at 4:10 pre-DST.  The repeating
   hills show a type of rhythm which leads the eyes
   down to the herd of buffalo which splits the land-
   scape's foreground and background.
   f6.3, 1/320, ISO 160, 125mm-manual setting.



    Part 2-my choice. The full moon was taken
    on 3/25 at 7:46. The sky was actually a dark
    blue, not black, but to get the detail in the moon
    my settings caused the sky to darken.
    f22, 1/50, ISO 400, 300mm on a tripod-manual.


    My choice shows how cold it was
    over the weekend-3/24 at 5:16. The
    ice continued melting until the sun
    went down. One drip was caught
    mid flight while the next was just
    getting ready to let go.
    f13, 1/200, ISO100, 127mm-manual.

Assignment 7

traveling home for spring break (great co-pilot)

new favorite chip!!!!

beautiful spring at home with green grass!

hail storm that came in and interrupted me and my friends attempt to go mud bogging with not a lot of mud (we though it was rain coming in)

another sunny day on my farm!

the truck I was driving back in when the trip was still going good
 
same truck 9 hours later.....