Showering with the Geese

So I went out yesterday to try to finish off the last of my DT assignment. It had been raining out, but while I was driving over to St.Vital park it was just spitting a little. So I figured I would get a little damp (since I didn't have a rain jacket) but I would be fine in what I had on. So I pull into St.Vital park and park my car. I put my camera in one of the rain guards, just to be safe. I get out of my car and get over to the geese and start taking pictures. When all of the sudden the skies open up and buckets of water are falling on me. I considered running back to my car, but with in seconds I would completely soaked right threw. So I figured I would just keep shooting. Wound up getting some funny shots of the geese in the rain. They didn't seem to enjoy it very much either.

Working the subject....100 creative ways

Oh boy, what do I say about this assignment. It started off really good, I was finding lots of angles and interesting shots. I thought I had to have at least 50 images by now and to my surprise I only had 30, 70 more to go. I found it pretty hard to come up with new angles and ideas. Maybe I chose bad objects, but it was very difficult. Finding 100 different shots of say building would be so much easier cause of all the different textures and I guess cause it's a bigger area and there is more going on. Anyways, I think my 100 images came out pretty good, they were basically all different. That was also really hard, I couldn't remember what I had already done so I was worried I was just going to end up repeating things. Luckily I don't think I did.

Over all I think it went well, though.

Image Capture assignment at Grand Prix

So these are a little late, but this is my Image Capture assignment done at Grand Prix. We had to do this assignment on our field trip last thursday to Grand Prix. It was fun! Man, panning is so hard! I really need to work on it. I had a lot of trouble getting the faces in focus and nice and sharp. The faces were all much clearer than the background, but

I don't like that they aren't perfect.

Working on AT and DT assignments at the Park

Here are the colour versions of some of my AT Simple Composition pictures. I think they look pretty cool with the high contrast of colour. The bright red edges of the guitar make it stand out of every scene. There are also some of the images for my DT Exporting assignment. I was really trying to get some shots of the birds flapping their wings. It was really hard, I always have both eyes open but the one i'm not using is blocked by my camera so I can't see anything. So I was holding my camera up by my face waiting for a shot. It was a little tiring and frustrating.

I think I'm going to use birds as my theme for this DT assignment... it shall be tricky trying to get the 1 sec. shots with birds though. Should be interesting!

AT Simple Composition B&W Film

This is my Simple Comp. assignment. I had lots of fun shooting this one. Basically the point the of the assignment was to have 1 subject in the image and use basic composition to enhance the image and make it interesting. I have colour versions of some of the guitar pictures too. Some I like more in colour and some I like more in B&W. They both are pretty cool. I have a couple favourites, I wonder if anybody can figure them out! I actually love how all the images turned out.

I was happily surprised!!

AT Simple Composition

So I decided to go out and take pictures of some guitars today for my A.T. assignment. I'm so glad I took my digital camera with me and took the pictures in both the black and white film and digital. Some look super cool one way while others look really good the other way. However, this image is awesome in both! I think it looks like an album cover. Totally framing this one! haha! Oh my gosh! There are so many geese at St.Vital park! A little girls started to feed them right beside me and I was worried they were going to eat her! The dad ended up picking her up out of the pack of rioting geese! Anyways, got some good shots out of it! I'll put a slid show up later of all the photos!

Stress Test!

So yesterday was a pretty eventful day! I woke up as per the usual and found myself feeling so crappy. I did my regular routine and down to my jeep. I get in and start on my way, I look both ways before I enter the street and notice something out of the corner of my eye. I get out of my car and walk to the other side and low and behold somebody has spray painted the whole side of my car, windows and all. The only thing I could think was thank goodness they didn't write something. So then I go to school and it's the regular kinda of day, out shooting in the morning and then shooting again in the afternoon. Our class is told we aren't aloud back in until 3: 15. So we all come back up at that time and grab our stuff to head to the computer lab. When Laura notices that her Debit card and money is missing. Everybody checks there stuff and more people have their Visas, Debit Cards and money gone. We were all in complete shock! How could one of the 36 of us, who we just spent the day before bonding with, do something like that!? Of course the police were called and such, but talk about stress. We all felt completely violated! We don't know what they were touching. I was looking threw pictures from the school trip and I didn't even want to look at the other students, cause I don't know who it is. I don't know what it's going to be like on Monday. Very Very awkward is my guess.

I'm not going to be able to look anybody in the eye other than my classmates.

DT2.1JB Lines

This assignment was very challenging for me because I wanted to do more than just obvious lines. Thinking of creative ways of showing lines was hard. I ended up driving around and going to parks getting ideas and writing them out. There are lines in everything, though, if you just look closely and pay attention. So once I started to take pictures and look at them and see that there always seemed to be lines leading to the subject, I started to relax and not be so "stiff" about what I was doing. Then my creativity started to flow and I had some neat ideas. I wanted to have people in my photos so I had to wait till the evening for my friends to be available. So while shooting the sun was setting so I didn't get the nice blue sky I had originally wanted. It ended up really making the shot of the side of my jeep gorgiouse, though, with the oranges and yellows.
So it all worked out in the end!

My Passion

My Experience

Hi,
My favorite photography genre would have to be wildlife and nature photography. I also like to do portraits, not in a studio but out on the street. I hope to really learn the business of photography so that I have the confidence to go out and sell my work and sell myself as a photographer. There are plenty of other things that I would love to learn, such as studio lighting, and wedding photography. I have so many really great memories related to photography. My first memory that I have from when I was 10 years old. I went on a road trip from Winnipeg to Toronto with my Mom, Brother and Papa. We drove across a long bridge and we got to the one side and it was really foggy. The bridge seemed to vanish into nothingness. I had a little Crayola camera and I took a bunch of pictures of the bridge and was so proud of myself! When I got home from trip and developed my film there were no photos on the roll. I was so disappointed. So that is my first photography related memory. One of my best photography memories is, I went to the mountains to work on my photography and there was a spot where there were these mountain goats. When I got there, the goats were at the very bottom of the cliffs, down by the river. I climbed over a fence with my camera gear and sat at the top of the crumbling cliffs and waited for at least an hour. Slowly the goats worked there way all the way up the cliffs and eventually were standing right beside me. I got some of my favorite shots ever there! It was awesome!!
Patience definitely pays off!!

Chocolate things

Those Chocolate things that somebody brought were SO yummy! Thank you to who ever brought them! I will enjoy another at lunch most likely!