Light!

Today's subject is LIGHT! *cue lens flare across typed word*

I thought that Shots of the sun were a good place to start, but I eventually made each picture related to the light of the sun (directly or indirectly).

So I started with the sun.

Keeping it simple, I started with Pics that capture the sun in all its glory, well except for the objects that obscured it. I wasn't going to stare directly into the sun to get a pic least I damage my eyes or the camera (Is that possible? I didn't want to find out).

I took a LOT of these kinds of pictures over the weekend, some were meh, but these are my personal favorites.

I then tried sun reflections...

Didn't work out as well. This is pretty much the only decent one.

And I also got this shot with the water. no reflection (as i thought there would be) but I like how the water blends with the light.

Inside the house I tried to get angles that let in natural light:

Again, I was unhappy with the quality of these (for the most part) except for the shots where I used my window to add reflections:

The little glare that always gets in the way when you try to take photos of displayed stuff in glass is finally working in my favor! I like how the sun becomes a sort of tear or light in the last pic.

Bonus!

I took this shot during the Abstraction assignment, but thought it fit in well here, so here it is. The light just bleeds through the image blurring the plant. I could have fixed the focus but I liked it this way.

Abstract Images

The week's assignment of abstraction was quite puzzling at first but I eventually got the hang of it. As such, I took over 40 pictures, many of wich were less abstract than one might hope for. those Images ranged from good to terrible but I decided to keep them in a separate folder in case I may ever need them. Even without those Pictures I had more than enough to complete the assignment. so without further ado, I present the

First thing I'll be posting today is a picture of batman:

See? it's Batman! Okay It's actually a hose but its also batman! for this image I decided to set the shutter speed longer to make the exposure longer and see what I get. What I got was batman. the hose rack-thing forms his head and ears while the sweeping motion of the hose suggests the edge of his cape. still don't see him? I'll post an outline of his shape then.

Next up on is an image I like to call Straw Hive:

When I saw this in the cupboard, I thought it looked kind of like a beehive. when I took it out the box like container turned out to be very warped, and despite several tries to get it square, I decided "screw it" and take the picture as is. At first I thought the result was okay, but upon uploading it to the computer I realized that the small compressed view-screen is terrible at showing the image. the natural look of the warped box made the subject look more like a beehive. after snapping a few photos, I had to shove the damn thing back into place in the cupboard. It may look nice in this picture, but I hate that stupid box.

One last Image for now:

I don't know what to say about this. This image was one of many of the fence/tree/sky motion images and possibly my favorite. why? because I can't remember where I took it. All the other images I can recall exactly where I stood and what is being blended, but this image, is it the tree and white fence? or the bush and the other white fence? despite the large blurred strokes in this picture (the least clear of all the blurred images) you can still tell that the subject is some green foliage and a white fence. plus it also looks vaguely like a barcode.

Welcome to the Photography Den!

If you happen to stumble on this blog through pure happenstance (not likely) then I will explain what everyone else already knows. This is My Photography blog for my digital Photography Class. My goals this semester include improving my photo skills and learning more about photography.

Here are some photos from the first assignment:

A worm's eye view of the yard (do worms even have eyes?)

Something beautiful made ugly (And rather sinister... that Rabbit's dynamite!)