Make Up: November 29

I love this picture and I hate this filter. I took this over the summer while I was in California. I really liked the picture and decided to try out some filters on it. I soon realized that all of the filters sucked. A couple of days later I was looking at ATPI photos and realized just how many people use filters. It's like nothing that wins is original work anymore. It's been jacked with and torn apart over and over again until it's something completely different than it was before. I learned from this picture that I want to start editing way less. 

Make Up: November 16

ISO: 400   F/stop: 7.1  1/60 sec

I've been realizing recently that being in photography is teaching me more than just how to take pictures. These two images are pictures of me paying my dues. It's a known fact that you have to pay your crap before you can have fun. Well, the teacher in the Tigervision class has been asking me to take pictures of lunch menu items for him for video's they put up in the cafeteria. This isn't an assignment from yearbook or newspaper. I'm not getting paid and neither is the club. But if we want to continue having a good relationship with our fellow publication classes, sometimes we have to take the turds that roll down hill.

Make Up : November 18

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!

Self Portrait POC

  

This is my piece of crap. I used my Rebel and set my ISO and my focus because I didn't know how to set my aperture and shutter speed.  I basically decided that since this has been my life for the past month, this is what I would portray. It was actually 2:30 in the morning when I took this and I was in fact not done with homework. Anyway, because my Rebel doesn't fit on the tripods, I took a chair and a dresser and twelve books and set it up in front of my bed. At first I tried to do it with just the computer light but everything was just black around me so I opened my closet door (which is to the left) and ended up bringing down the exposure in that corner in Lightroom. Honestly, I do like it just because it actually portrays what I've been doing recently. 

Make Up: November 14

I have a million bajillion pictures from the Nutcracker but I can only put a few on here so I chose these. Don't know if they're the best choices, but they're well enough.

Make Up: November 10

A couple months ago I got to go to a T Swift concert with my friend Emily. I wasn't actually aware that you couldn't bring in anything other than a point and shoot camera. They confiscate your camera if your lens is over four inches. Mine was six or eight haha. I just had my long lens in my purse and they never checked it. Shooting it was so much fun though! It was so cool to mess with how the lights changed and everything was moving and crazy. It was fun.

Make Up: November 8

I used to be crazy good at basketball last year. Not gonna lie. This is the first basketball game of the year I've shot and it was absolute crap. It was so crappy and out of focus and blurry and grainy and BULL that the yearbook teacher legit called Smith to tell him how bad they were. So I'm determined to get good b-ball picks soon. In the meantime, my bad ones...

Make Up: November 4

The past two mornings I've had to shoot swim practice at 6:45 IN THE MORNING!!! I absolutely love shooting swim but I am absolutely terrible at it and it makes me so angry. I tried my absolute best but my camera shutter decided to be a big poop head so that messed it up along with me just being plain old bad at it. This was the only good picture I got and it's not even of legit swim. Gah.

Make Up: November 2

I saw a picture on Flickr of this girl who did a self portrait of half of her face and a violin because she's taken violin lessons her whole life. I really liked it so I decided to recreate it with Claire and her violin. I wasn't a super fan of what came out of it but I any more experience with off camera lights I get is good. I'm not the best at flash and umbrella and blah blah so I was basically just proud I got the lighting all good :)

Make Up: October 31

This isn't an exceptional picture or anything but I learned something pretty important out of taking it. I was given an assignment to take pictures of girls in the locker room. Not changing or anything! Just them chillin in there. Well I got there, and it turned out that all of the girls that are in there in the morning had left fifteen minutes before for a basketball game somewhere faaaar away. There were two or three girls in there who were dressing out for P.E. I took all of the backpacks that had been left in there and set them up in one place and then put a girl up beside them opening her locker. This made it at least look like there were other girls in there, you just couldn't see them. This whole assignment taught me a very important lesson...how to cheat.