Ideas

Natalie majorly needs ideas for this complimentary/ analogous assignment. I got a few okay shots, but I just can't come up with anything good. Urghhhh. Ideas ideas ideas come to me please. Okay well that's all I had to say...since I have no ideas. But I am excited for this Halloween extra credit assignment!!

Cute Little Frog

So.. time to blog again? I think so. I never blog enough, and I'm trying to fix that. So we'll see how long I can keep blogging. I am always busy, but I can blog in class, which is good! And shoot after school. So much time....

This is from the scavenger hunt assignment I believe, and I saw it today and decided to play with it in lightroom and upload it onto my blog. So now I am! I like this little cute frog, he's so cute. I couldn't get as close as I wanted to and keep it in focus, so its not as great as I was envisioning. But I still like it. I like how you can see the little scratches on his face and the dark eyes and the light and what not. I also kind of like the colors that come up, like the blue on the bottom and the pink in the back.

Blogging

Blogging blogging blogging. Wow that is a lot of g's. But anyway. I decided I needed to blog. Also, I finished my assigment 3 a day early. So I thought, why not blog now in class? So I am. Also, I learned to do custom whtie balance. And I am so excited to use it! Now my shots will look much better and not yellow and gross like that. But, I am not super excited for Analogous and Complimentary colors. I really liked Monochromatic for some reason, and I got some images I really liked. But now, I am ready to take a break from focusing on color, and I was excited for motion. But, oh well, here we go into analogous and complimentary colors. I'm kind of confused and not super into this assignment, but hopefully it will be easier than I think it is going to be and I'll get some inspiration. Other than that, I'm excited to be on assigment 4 and am loving photo! (..most of the time) Okay, Natalie is bored with blogging now and is being entranced by Emma's amazing monochromatic shots.

Assignment #3 - Monochromatic

So, Monochromatic. Yes. I loved this assignment. I didn't at first, but as I kept shootind and getting better ideas, I started to fall in love more with my camera and the images. I learned that I don't need to shoot just what I think will work. Sometimes, shooting bad images gives you good ideas for other, better images. I also learned that composition is way important. I took many images of the same thing in different ways, and then I got better images. My first were much less interesting than the ones I took after a few shots of the same thing. I also learned again how important focusing is. But I think this time, I might actually continue to work on it. The ones I loved the most were always in focus. And Emma's oh my gosh they were so fantastically awesome and perfectly in focus. And light is so important too. All of the best ones have good light. And good light can make an uninteresting image interesting. And it makes the color much better. So maybe these lessons will stick with me.


So... green watering can on green grass.. yeah thats monochromatic. Not my favorite out of my monochromatic shots though. But, I was cold and we taking this image so I wasn't very excited about spending time on this one.


Black photo binders!! Exciting... They are my sister's... and I had to take them into my room because the light in her room is horrible and after taking several images in her room, I went back to my lovely light that always helps me.

I love this one. It's a basket-type thing. It's also my sister's and the color it was in my sister's room was so incredibly horrible compared to how it was in my room. It's not a super exciting image, but I like it for some reason. I love the 3 nails and the focus on the woven things. And I love the color, with light from my favorite lamp. I wish the nails were perfectly in focus though.

Similar to the other one, because its the same thing, I love the color on this one too, and I don't know, its just rather interesting to me. I wish I could've focused it a little differently though.

My blue scrunchie/loofa/ whatever you like to call it on my blue shower curtain. Fantasticly blue. I like the composition on this one. ps my favorite color is blue :)

Little eggs on white under white washcloth. So cute! Somebody in class said "I feel like they are hiding from the rain." And I love that idea of them as beign personified and it gives you a much stronger feeling when looking than just thinking of them as eggs under a washcloth.

Green leaves! When shoothing this, I kept changing what was in focus to try to decide what I liked the best, and I think I like this shot, but don't love it. I do like the bright little circle on the edge of the leaf.

One of my favorite for this assignment!! Purple lamp with purple lamp shade. And the lamp is turned on, which is why it's bright in the middle and gets darker on the bottom. I love that. And I took so many shots of this before I got this composition that I liked the best. And it was worth it.

Green button on a green scrapbook. Yeah I'm creative :). But I couldn't get it perfect ever, I don't think. But I do like this image. I kept changing the angle and where the button was and how close I was, and none of them really worked for me. But I liked this one the best. I never put it in the middle though, because that bothers me.

Not a great one. Just red shirts. But its just my 10th one, so I don't feel too ashamed. I took some shots with just regular light of these, then turned on my favorite lamp that I always use, and they looked tons better. Although the color was a little skewed with such a yellow lamp. But that will change with my new white balacing. There were so many red shirts I have, who knew? This is my favorite out of these shots, obviously but I never really loved the composition of all the different shades of red.

Random?

Natalie loves Photo. And she also loves Eddie, her Canon printer that sits right behind her and is wonderful. Except the days that he isn't wonderful. Like today, when he was being annoying trying to print a roll print which obviously wasn't working. So I printed on James, who just doesn't compare to Eddie. But, Natalie finished printing her Monochromatic images and is very proud of herself. And will talk about it more when she uploads it to her blog. But right now, she just wanted to blog about her accomplishment and how great she feels right now. It was a good day, and everybody loves good days.

Irving Penn?

How could anybody not love this image? It makes me smile every time I see it.

This one too. I love how her hand is in a position that doesn't physically seem natural to me, but she looks completely comfortable in it.
Did you know he died at age 92 on October 7?? Thats like.. 4 days ago! Crazy. Sad. He once said "Photographing a cake can be art". Yup. I agree. Great photographer.

Irving Penn

Natalie is blogging about this to remind her the next time she looks at her blog this weekend to blog about Irving Penn and take Monochromatic pics and possibly Motion too. Mmm... lots of shooting.