Assignment 2 - High Key/Low Key

 I found that I liked taking pictures of blacks more in shade where the light was less harsh. I found that the bright sunlight caused the shadows to be too dark so that I couldn't bring out the detail and it washed out the colors.

A black umbrella is not easy to balance on one's chin.

Even with my white balance adjustments on my camera, I found that I still wanted to tweak the white balance in lightroom to get the whites to look good. The light source was six 100 watt incandescent bulbs and it came out really yellow. Lightroom prettied it up nicely.

Bracketing Practice

Black on Black

I was able to pull our the purple sweater reflection. That was pretty awesome.

White and Black

I was even able to get detail in the shadow on the slide of the glock.

Assignment 1

6 Plant Ovaries (curse you biology 1620!)

12 dinosaur fingers + toes

29 in the parking garage
because no one really pays attention to the numbers

46 gold fish
I ate them all.
I gained a pound.

69
because there's no place better for these than on the floor.
They look best there.

Lightroom Picture Manipulation

Manually focusing this little camera is difficult. The Memory Stick PRO Duo "adapter" I have is not an adapter to SD card, so I have to get one of those. Good thing my wife, Katie, had this wonderful picture that she shared with me so I could fiddle around in Lightroom too.

Here's the original. I think I polished it nicely.

Star Wars Image Test

Best. Scene. Ever.

Test... this is your quest.

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