Travis and Elise

These are the first official engagement pictures I have taken. It was interesting because I have never had to have good results for someone else. I have always produced images for myself mostly. So in this experience I defiantly got a taste for the business side of photography. I must say it is a little stressful. But I really enjoyed the learning experience it brought on. So thank you Travis and Elise for letting me take your pictures.

Jordan

I did a photo shoot with Jordan and I think some of the pictures turned out quite nice. It was a cloudy day so the lighting was perfect. Unfortunately Jordan is not a very cooperative model but she sure is beautiful.

Color Blind?

If your interested in color photography it might be advantageous to know if you are color blind or color deficient. Most forms of color blindness are genetic disorders that are inherited at birth. These disorders are most commonly carried in the X chromosome. Since females have two X chromosomes both have to be defective for the them to experience symptoms, but males only have one X chromosome so they are more likely to have symptoms of color blindness. In the book "Capturing Color" by Phil Malpas, he states that on a general average 8% of males and 0.5% of females suffer from varying degrees of color blindness.

There are a few types of color blindness protanope, deuteranope, and tritanope. Here is an example of how those who have these different types of color blindness see:

Check and see if your color blind by taking a online test here.

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In this post I wanted to do a shout out to the color indigo because in my opinion it is the forgotten color of the rainbow. Now even though this picture is a little more violet than indigo I want to educate you on the color indigo (it was the closest thing I had to indigo so just use your imagination). Indigo is the hue that is between blue and violet, it has wavelengths of approximately 420-450 nanometers. Some of the other colors approximate wavelengths include:

Red        630-750

Orange  590-630

Yellow   570-590

Green    490-570

Blue       420-490

Violet    380-420

If you want check out a nice indigo image check out this link, the image in this link is not mine. So if you want to sound a little more educated you can identify things that are truly indigo and not violet, blue, or purple.

Final Monet (Photoshop)

I know I already showed you guys my Monet project, but I wanted to show you the finished project and tell you about a wonderful program called Photoshop.

All of my pictures go through Photoshop before you guys see them. Mainly because I have to clean up all the dust spots that get scanned in there. The whole process is kind of long and tedious but let me educate you a little.

Step 1: Get filmed developed ( I get it developed at Wallgreens)

Step 2: Take my film to the photolab and put it in a special esal that is made for 35 mm film

Step 3: Preview the pictures using the scaner

Step 4: Choose the best ones to really scan

Step 5: Have the computer scan the specific negatives that I want and have it save it to my jump drive.

Step 6: Open up the images in photoshop and clean up all the dust spots that got scanned in (even though I cleaned the scanner and the film). This step probably takes the longest because sometimes these dust spots show up on peoples faces or other places that have a lot of detail. When I fix these I have to copy different parts of the picture so the consistency of the image stays intact. 

Step 7 (optional): Adjust the color of the image so the color is more eye catching (I don't like to do this, just because it's not my style).

Step 8: Print on a 5x7, 8.5x11, 13x19, or a 17x22 sheet of luster paper.

Sunshine

"Sunshine... on my shoulder, makes me happy."

-John Denver-

This is my cousin Rachel... again. I wanted to dedicate this post to her. She is graduating this semester and I wanted to take a picture of her because is one the people I care about most here in Rexburg. Her sister Sarah calls Rachel "Sunshine" sometimes, so I thought the composition of this image was very appropriate. So I just want to say thanks Rachel for helping make my semesters here amazing. I love you cuz.

To I go along with the theme "Sunshine" I chose to take this picture right at sunset. Sometimes you'll hear a photographer talk about beautiful light most of the time it is in reference to sunrise or sunset. These are the best times of day to take beautiful pictures. The reason behind this is you don't get that direct harsh sunlight, it makes everything have a natural glow.

If any of you have taken physics you find out that light has a temperature associated with the color. Now you often hear people talk about how blues and violets are cool colors and oranges and reds are warm colors. When referencing actual color temperature this is not the case. Here are just a few examples:

Light Source     Color Temp (kelvins)

clear blue sky    20,000

hazy sunlight     9,000

overcast sky      7,000

morning sun     4,500

late afternoon sun 4,500

sun rise and set 2,000

Motion

In photography sometimes the photographer wants to get a certain point across by showing motion in the picture. In this image, as you can see, one of the wheels is stationary and the other is rotating. I chose to take a picture of this because one of my wheels' barring is locked up and makes ridding a little harder. So If I ever go cruse with anyone else I have to work a lot harder to keep up.

The way you capture motion is by using a long shutter speed. This picture I used a 1 or 2 second shutter speed and had a tripod. A tripod is completely necessary if you want to have some clarity in you image.  Now when using a long shutter speed you have to be aware of the amount available. If you use a long shutter speed in the middle of a sunny day your image will be very bright and you will lose a lot of detail in the hot spots. Hot spots are areas where there is direct sunlight or there is something white in the image. I took this picture at 5:30 in the morning, the sun wasn't even up and this is how bright it turned out. So remember to think about the amount of light you have.