Assingment #7-Numbers

21

Blackjack! Number 21. I like the simplicity of this picture. I also like the creativity. In a couple of my pictures I didn't just automatically give the number. You have to think to figure out what the number is. I also like the composition of this picture. You see just enough of the hand to understand the person is holding a blackjack. That is all you need to see. I also like the focus in this picture. The cards are in near perfect focus. I really like the contrast on the jack. I like this picture. It is simple but cool.

91

Simply 91. A few bananas, simple, yet neat. I really like the shadows in this picture. They help create some nice contrast contrasting with the tile. Myself, I really like shadows. Shadows really add a lot to pictures, especially contrast. I aslo really like the creative aspect of this picture. I mean honestly. Who else would use bananas to make the number 91?

8

D-Will, 8. Its Deron Williams baby. I was suprised that not many other people took pictures of jerseys, I guess I just think diferently than others. I really like the light in this picture. I creates some nice contrast and shadows. This is part of my life, the Utah Jazz. This helps portray that with my Deron Williams Jersey. Without this jersey, I would not be able to live.

1

Numba one. OH yeah. There are two differnt ways you could see a one in this picture. There is a one on the golf ball, and the golf ball and box put togehter make a one. However you want it, it is a one. I really like the black background in this picture and the crisp focus. The black background contrasts nicely with the white ball. Overall, I really like this picture. It looks like it could be an advertisement for Callaway golf balls.

36

Yum. Whipped cream, gotta love it. When I was beginning to run out of ideas during this asssingment, magic happened. I started to think of ideas that I never would have thought of, such as this one. My personal taste sometimes involves a lot of contrast. Contrast makes the picture look lucious. In this case, the picture literally is lucious because it tastes good too. Yes! I successfully made two pictures with one print!

42

This is my favorite picture from this assingmnet. Starting off, I really like the background. It does not distract from the picture yet it is really "calming". It makes you want to fly away to scrabble island. Hurray! It is in perfect focus! This picture also has a cool shadow, hurray for shadows. The refection of the scrabble pices in the glass is sweetly awesome. The scrabble pieces almost lool like they are floating! THIS IS AWESOME!

16

16 pieces of candy, sweet, literally. The light is this picture is gorgeous. Without the lighting this pic would not be as cool as it is, and this is quite a cool picture. The lighting creates some nice whties and some blacks, sweet. I really like this pciture. The colors in it just look gorgeous. I will come back to this secret location many times to find this sweet light.


81

I like this picture because it is different. Some other people took pictures of locks, but not in the way I did. The arrows on the locks are pointing to the 8 and 1 one respectively. The reflections on the door handle are very cool. I always like som nice reflections. The white background also is very simple and does not take away from the picture at all.


49

After spending too much time on the first several numbers of this assingment, I had a revelation, I am taking this assingment too seriously. So then i grew some brains and became practical. I thought up the idea to take pictures of golf clubs. Even though this picture appears as a little bit dark, I still like it. The reflections on the golf club really make up for the darkness. It helps create some nice contrast. The pciture also tells a story of the golf clubs, the old trusty one(4) and the new shiny one(9). Which one do I like more, the new one! Who doesn't love shiny golf clubs.

56

I like this new perspective of the golf clubs. They are leaning up against the bag, I am trying to decide which one to use for my next shot. Ill use the 5 iron, not the 6, nevermind, actually, I AM using the six iron. That is the story of golf. I also really like the texture of the golf bag. It helps add a really nice and simple background to the shiny golf clubs.

Assingment #6- Portraits

When I learned we were shooting portraits, I thought to myself, "CRAP". I do.not.like.portraits. My stance on that has been completely changed. I realized that portraits do not have to be a fixed awkward picture, they can be a naturally formed picture and the subject doesn't have to knoe your taking it. Doing fixed portraits often creates a fake personality. I don't like that. I learned how to make people look as they really are. But, I really liked the self portraits. I liked trying to be another character. I was able to come up with some sweet ideas such as the modern day investor. Ok, I am going to admit it. I. really. like. portraits.

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No pictures please. SERIOUSLY. NO. PICTURES. In this pic I was trying to be an unfortunate tennis player who lost a match at the U.S. Open. Yes, I lost, unfortunately. I am walking through the press room, putting my hand out so no one can take a picture of me. That obviously didn't work. I really like this picture. I really like the contrast in the picture but I also REALLY like the story it tells. The picture looks fantastic against the solid black background. Me gusta this picture.


This is the investor of the recent reccesion, suprised, depressed, angry. I tried to show the pain that many people involved with the stock market are going though. The cool blurry streaks in the air are newspapers. I, the stockbroker, have gotten so angry that I have ripped a copy of the wallsreet journal up and I threw it into the air. I love the story behind this one. The darkness and black background also help add to the themes of the picture, anger and astonishment.


In the pictures I took of other people, I did not tell them I was going to take a portait of them, such as in this picture. I really like how natural and soft the portait looks. The light is sweeeeet. But, this picture tells about this little boy, my cousin. Here he is getting ready for an easter egg hunt. He is waiting, waiting, waiting. CAN WE START ALREADY! He is swinging his bucket in anticipation. This picture may not describe him individually as much, but it relates to a larger idea: childhood. This is a perfect description of childhood. I makes you remember back when you wated to go hunt Easter eggs. It makes you remember back to when you woke up at five in the morning on Christmas day saying, "Is is time yet???" It makes you remember back to when you couldn't wait to go trick or treating on halloween, trading candy afterwards (actually, who still doesn't do that?).


Also, in this picture, my grandma did not know it was being taken. This is my grandma, the EXCELLENT cook. She is seen here cutting her delicious, i mean DELICIOUS strawberry pie. She makes one of the best strawberry pies around. I like how her face and body are in focus but her hands are blurred, for she has busy hands. I also like how the picuture does not look fixed. It looks natural. It does not look entirely set up.


Again, like my first picture I have lost a tennis match in the U.S. Open. As expected I am very angry. I really like this picture, it really shows what happens when one loses a match. In this, I have thown my towel on the ground, the look on my face screams dissapointment. The blur and track of my arm and the towel is very cool. My bag and most of me is also in focus, which I also really like. Whith these portraits I like blurring part of a picture to help illustrate a story.


Awwwww, cute little baby. BUT, this is not just a cute baby! It is a cute baby with a story!!! This cute baby is holding a blanket. Clara does not go anywhere without her blanket. Anywhere. Before the picture was taken, she was crying, for the sudden rush of many people towards her to great her nearly scared her to death. But then, Sir Blankey came to the rescue!!! She now is becoming less uneasy, although she is still undecided if she is liking all of this attention.


Like many of my other portraits, I like how casual this one is. It was not staged, and not fixed it shows a true story. My younger cousin had been begging my older cousin for a piggy back ride for a while. She finally got her opportunity, but she looks dissapointed. She realized that this piggy back ride wasn't going to be so great after all. It is just an often form of dissapointment that we have to learn to deal with every day. Things that to not live up to the hype, but my little cousin didn't care, she continued on smiling about the day. People need to learn to meet dissapointment with a better attitude.


Yes, this is me, but it is not me. I am a wealthy stockbroker. But, as you can read it says on the paper. "Pay falls again." Which is representing the modern stockbroker today in the recession. You also can see by the expression on my face that I am depressed and sad. I really like the story in this picture. It represents the stress that many people have in these tough times. Getting to the technical part. I really like the contrast from black to white. I also like how I am in focus and the paper is in enough focus that you can read it. I LOVE THIS PICTURE!

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Yes, my grandpa. This is the time that you can definately see my grandpa at a family party, when he is cooking the turkey. But, after that, he will generally go into his room and watch TV. Good 'ol grandpa. Also, if I asked him if I could take a picture of him, he would not want his picture taken. So, i sleathily... CLICK. Sweet. Natural picture! This picture wonderfully helps portray my grandfather.

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The big monsterous truck. Yes, my uncle owns this truck. I took this picture of his as he was getting into his truck. I told him to turn his head and.. BAM. Neat pic. Nice contrast, good compostion, and always, a story! My uncle loves trucks. Infact, he owns a company which tricks out anf does cool stuff to trucks. This picture helps portray that. Him, standing with his ENORMOUS truck. What a good way to naturally show one of the main focuses of his life.

Some Seriously Cool Birds

Some insane sand hill cranes that I chased after.



Here's a Northern Flicker


I got some sweet pictures of these ospreys. Notice the fish.

Assingment # 5-Get On Your Belly!!!!!

This picture makes me feel like a little kid staring a a toy truck in a toy store that I WANT SO BAD. The truck looks so powerful, shiny, and new. The blacks tires look luscious as the light reflects off the door. Yes, I want this, but my parents say it costs too much. I will eventually by it by my self. That will by a wonderful day.


I like how plain this picture is. It is just so strikingly simple. It is just a lens. Nice. Well, I like the contrast from the lens to the white background. I like creating contrast sometimes without shadows or reflections. Talking about reflections, of like the image of the windows that is reflected in the glass of the lens. The dust around and on the lens makes you think, hmm, when was this leas used. Why hasn't this person used it. It is a nice lens.


The picture was inspired by the high key assignment, which I really liked. This picture which is mainly high key with a little bit of solid black appeals to me. I just really like high key pictures. This is a new and interesting perspective for a salt can/holder/dispenser thingy. The question is, why is it so black inside the salt dispenser. WHO TOOK MY SALT.


On this picture I like the part of picture that is in. I like how it looks with the and of the bottle blurred and middle to top of the bottle in focus. The perspective of the bottle makes it look "grand" and powerful. I also like the reflections of light on the bottle. I helps create some snazzy contrast. I really like the reflections of the light, that is my favorite part of the picture.


When I took this picture, I thought to myself, "This is stupid, why am I taking this picture of nothing." After I took the picture I thought to myself,"Wow, thank myself for not listening to myself." I really like this picture. In fact, it is not a picture of nothing, a lot is going on here. Look at the crazy, eerie, contrast creating shadows. Look at this stick that is wonderfully focused upon which has a light color that helps create contrast. Look at all of the other branches... on the ground... vanishing to the distance... Thank you ant's eye view.


What is that interesting picture, a whi....whhhha....whe... whisk, oh yes a whisk and its shadow. YES, it is a whisk. NO, it is just one whisk. This picture of one whisk with another behind it makes it look like a shadow, but it's not!! The whisk in the back helps create more contrast, even though it is not a shadow. The contrast between the black and white make this happen. I shall now think of a whisk in a not so boring way.


BOOM. This picture is like biting into a crisp juicy apple, even though there is nothing food involved in this pic. The bottom of this table is in such great focus. The texture of the bottom of the table is awesome, I can feel myself touching the table. I also like the shadow created by the table. I creates some nice contrast. None of this would be possible without the ant's eye view.


I like the perspective of this picture. I tried to point the camera directly upwards at the golf pin. It is hard to tell whether it is a long pin or a short one. The picture plays with your mind in that way. As always, I like contrast. The white flag contrasts the black pin nicely. I like this picture. It has my one of my favorite perspectives of my pictures.

Assingment #4 - Highkey Lowkey take 2

As i begun this assingment, I felt like I had already run out of ideas which I used for the first assingment. But, that somehow led me to be more creative and think of interesting new ideas! Hurray!!! So, this assingment turned out to not be as bad as I thought it was going to be, not knowing what to shoot. So, thankfully I was able to come out with some cool photos.


I like how crisp this picture is. The crumbs seem to be perfectly in focus. This picture is cool, because there is a shadow, even though the picture is mainly black. For some reason, this picture makes my mouth water. I guess its just the crumbs on the plate. I like how shiny the plate is. It reflects some cool shades of black. The plate helps make this picture happen.


This indeed is a low key picture. But, there is still some contrast in it. I like how much of the photo is black, but there is still a little bit of contrast. The different shades of black in the photo look cool. There is not just dark black, but also lighter black. I also like the part of the picture which is in focus, which is the "Wilson" part. This is my favorite of the two low key photos.


This is my favorite picture of this assignment. Believe in or not, this is a bowl for fruit. It does not look like it. It looks like the "gates to heaven", or at least how I would picture it. This white on white looks nice in this picture. The picture looks kind of mysterious. The pattern of the basket, or "gate" is cool. This picture is definitely my favorite from this assignment



I like this photo. I like the extreme white on white. There is not much gray at all in this photo. I also like how in focus this is. The story behind this is, why is there sea shells in Utah? Where is the sand, the tropical backdrop. No, its just a shell and a star fish on a white blanket. Yet, this is a cool picture. The white on white is awesome. I like high key.

Assingment # 3- HighKey/ Lowkey

I like this lowkey/highkey assignment. It was a change from normal black and white photos. At first I did not think that I was going to like it, but I actually think that it is really cool. I especially like pictures which are white on white now. I think those pictures look awesome.


YES! It looks good now. After many attempts of trying to get the correct color of black, I have succeeded. I like how the background and the frame are almost the same shade of black, but not quite. The small distinction is able to give edges, and shape to the picture. I made a very small change to the blacks but, on my print it made a huge difference. The white sticker is nice because it helps add a little bit of contrast which the picture needs. I also like the little glow of light on top of the frame. I liked the low key assignment. I never knew something so dark could look so good. Success!


I like this low key picture, but it is not black enough for me. I would like to increase the blacks in this picture. Let's see what happens.

This is the final product. I really like this picture. I upped the exposure to make it lighter. This looks so much better. I also added some black to them bottom of the donut. I really like the white in this picture now. It looks like a really clean high key picture. Before this, i thought something all white would look stupid in black and white. But, a crisp with picture like this with a tiny bit of black looks really cool.

This is a picture of two wonderful powdered donuts. I like the composition of the picture. Yet, it is a little gray in the background. I would like to increase the exposure and make it lighter.

After Screw Up

It looks cool, but, I screwed this image up as much as possible.