Monday, November 17, 2008

Cancer

My sister, being amazing as she is, shaved her head today because our grandmother was just recently diagnosed with agressive breast cancer and will start chemo next Wednesday. So I decided to take some portraits, these two are in digital but I will have film ones too.















































I really like how the sepia one turned out.



Also, I'm extremely frustrated with this whole self portrait thing but this is a digital one I took that has the same type of theme as the film ones. I really think that the film ones turned out horrible though.. but yea. here it is.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Shutter Speed. fun times.

Shutter speed controls how fast the shutter opens and exposes light to the sensor and film. The longer the shutter is open, the brighter the picture will be. The shorter the shutter is left open, the darker the picture will be. Shutter speed is noted in seconds such as 1/100, and 1/60. Also, you must take into consideration the speed of the object you are taking a picture of. The faster the object moves, the faster you have to make the shutter speed.

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Another self portrait.


Not my actual one that I'm supposed to do,just another facebook/myspace one.I just really liked how my hair looked.

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Some more digital things.



One's a little fun thing of me. And the other is of my friend that I did a photo shoot with at Jacobsburg Park. We found this awesome old shed thing, which is what she's standing in next to a barn on one of the trails. There will be actual film pictures with this photo shoot on here once I get them developed.

Friday, October 17, 2008

Aperture Assignment Thinger.

Ok, so I learned some things about aperture, which I needed to because I fail at film photography and know nothing.

1} I learned what a stop is. It's any structure that limits the light intake of the camera. An example of these structures would be a diaphragm.

2} I also learned that the size of the stop effects the depth of field, which means whats actually in focus and I wanted to know what actually controlled this so that I do the whole thing where you take a picture of an eyeball and everything else around it is out of focus. Which I will do that exact picture eventually with someone who has a neat eyeball.

3} One last thing I learned is that an f-number is the ratio of focal length to effective aperture diameter. The lower the f-number is the more light gets in.


Alot of this stuff on this page honestly is kind of going into my brain and kind of swishing around in there and then getting lost. I do better with physically seeing things on the camera to understand it. I'm like that with all technology items, well if you can even consider my camera to be a technological item since it's ridiculously ancient. But anyway I ramble stupidly.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

zombified


This is my favorite self portrait ever. I took this at 4 am or so and just digitally edited it with my crappy substitute for photoshop until I get it. I also can't tell if I like this upside down or right side up.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Feek


I love him <3 And yes that is a Harry Potter blanket behind him because I am a loser and own one.