Painting With Light!!

ISO: 100   23mm   f/5.6   30.0sec

       There's a first time for everything, right? Well, this was mine. I was really excited about painting with light, so when my turn came up, I was ready. I feel this picture is alright for the first time. However, I wish I wouldn't have taken so long on the other parts because I wasn't able to get all of her arm on the right side of the picture. This has made me more excited about painting with light in the future. 

My Favorite Four-Legged Creature

ISO: 250   33mm   f/6.3   1/200 sec. 

ISO: 250   37mm   f/6.3   1/200 sec. 

       The first day I checked out a camera, I went home and immediately started practicing on my dog, MacGregor. I decided to follow my dog around the yard as he did whatever he always did. In the first picture I was sitting on the ground as my dog walked toward me. In the second picture, I was laying flat on the ground, then MacGregor mirrored what I did.  In the first picture, I should have given a little more headroom because the tip of his ear is cut off. In the second picture, I should have made it a stronger horizontal picture. During processing, on the first picture, I changed the color to "preset: B&W Creative-Low Contrast."On the second picture, I changed the color to "Preset: Color Creative- Yesteryear 1." I also cropped some of the sides on each picture. 

       

Cheerleading Practice!

ISO: 800   50 mm   f/3.2   1/80sec

       Well this was my first real assignment, and I had cheerleading practice. Going into this assignment I didn't really know what to expect, but I made the best of it. One thing I wished I would have done differently was gotten closer to the cheerleaders. I kept my distance the entire time, which I now was not the best idea. I could have captured a lot better images if I would have gotten in the middle of everything. After the assignment, when I put the photos on the computer, I realized how much I was under-exposed. I did look at my histogram, but apparently I read it wrong. However, I have learned how to correctly judge my histogram. When processing my photo, I had to crop out some of the sides and headroom, as well as adjust the exposure to +0.32.