Long Exposure Photography

     I had always thought these types of photos were totally fake and made in photoshop. Little did I know, this is easily accomplished by a slower shutter speed and the use of a tripod. This was the same day as the crabapooluza photo, after the beach we eventually made our way back towards my friends school and hung out at the park. There it had this really nice waterfall, I ran back towards my car to get my tripod and attempted the photo. It was a lot harder to take than I imagined I had all these slight little bumps and ruined it. Finally through trial and error I got exactly what I was looking for!

This was taken with my Canon EOS t1i. The shutter speed was 4.0 seconds, f22, and ISO 100.

Crabapooluza!

     In March I drove down to Newport Beach, CA to visit a bunch of friends off at school. My friend Karlyn and I were both bumming around the beach taking photos and hanging out together. We were walking around the jetty on the end of Balboa Peninsula near the water I saw this little crab in between the rocks. Luckily I had my zoom lens on me, I got to get really up close and personal from a distance.  I really wish the lighting was better.

This photo was taken with my Canon EOS T1i. The shutter speed was 1/125, an aperture of 5.6 at an 800 ISO.

New Wide-Angle Lens!

  Another hobby of mine is shopping [I refuse to pay retail!] I'm on eBay a lot and found a wide-angle/ fish-eye attachment for only $40 the moment I came home from work that day I started playing with it. I was on my way downstairs to find the dogs for some photos of them I realized that the staircase is round, and that might turn out cool on the lens. It actually came out a lot cooler than I imagined which I was very stoked about. I feel the piano really added a lot character to the photo. I think I might re-shoot this sometime during the day to see how that would turn out also I should try and adjust the white balance as well hopefully those will be even better. Once I get around to it I'll be sure to post them here. 

This was shot with my regular Canon T1i. At a 1/30 shutter speed, f5.6, and 3200 ISO. On3/22/11 @ 11:56pm

 

Broken Spinkler or work of art?

I was hanging out at a friends house who was helping me with a photo assignment that wasn't going to well. We decided to take a break from the frustration and the monotony of staging photos. We were watching a little bit of TV and out of nowhere we hear this thud against the windows. Eventually we realize that it was a broken plant sprinkler it was a really opportune moment for a photo. It was near perfect the way that water was facing the sun to create the rainbow effect. I probably should have moved that cord in the fountain but when your in the moment, you never think of these things. Also I could have risked getting my camera wet! Otherwise I really liked this photo.

This photo was shot with a Canon EOS T1i, the shutter speed was 1/400, a 5.6 aperture, and 200 ISO.

She's cute and she knows it..

     At home unwinding after a long night at work I was playing around with my camera and photographing the nearest interesting subject, my dog. Lulu is a long-haired, extremely cute dachshund, the worst part is that she knows it, and even knows how to use it to her advantage. She looks sweet and innocent but she knows better. I really liked how this photo turned out mostly because it perfectly illustrates how I like to relax. In the reflection of her right eye you can see the TV, then in her left eye you can just barley make out me with my camera. To top it all off the photo as a whole turned out really nice as well. Without this post you probably wouldn't even notice.

This was shot on 2/22/11 at a shutter speed of 1/20, an aperture of 5.6, and at ISO 3200.

First Photo Endeavor.

     After finally learning how to properly use a digital SLR camera, I set out on my first photographic endeavor. Needless to say it was rough, I felt more focused on my shutter speed, aperture and ISO settings than the subject I was photographing. Nearly all photos were properly exposed and in focus, but they all lacked composition, and were boring. Eventually I scrapped all photos from that day and waited for an opportune time to go shooting again. It ended up being February 16, 2011 an irregularly cloudy/ windy day for Las Vegas. I had a solid four hours to kill until my photo class at 2:00pm. I went to my favorite place to go when I need to kill time, Red Rock Canyon. A storm was just about to come into town and the line between thick cloud cover, and sunlight was really defined. The entire scene was a seemingly rare spectacle, at least from my point of view.

I shot this with my Canon T1i at a 1/400 shutter speed, F7.1 aperture, and 100 ISO. This is where the line of cloud cover was really defined.

I shot this with my Canon EOS T1i at an 1/250 shutter speed, F9 aperture, and the ISO was at 100. The contrast of the clouds made the whole scene really cool and a raw scene of nature.