Final Photos

 Camera: panasonic DMC-FZ28, Lumix. Lens 27 mm (1:2.8-4.4 / 4.8-86.4)  Focal length 86.4 mm. ISO 200. AV F/8. Shutter speed 1/800. No flash

                                   
 Camera: panasonic DMC-FZ28, Lumix. Lens 27 mm (1:2.8-4.4 / 4.8-86.4).  Focal length 86.4 mm. ISO 200. AV F/5.6. Shutter speed 1/100 .No flash





                                      
 Camera: panasonic DMC-FZ28, Lumix. Lens 27 mm (1:2.8-4.4 / 4.8-86.4) . Focal length 11.1 mm. ISO 100. AV F/4. Shutter speed 1/200.  No flash

 Camera: panasonic DMC-FZ28, Lumix. Lens 27 mm (1:2.8-4.4 / 4.8-86.4) . Focal length 86.4 mm. ISO 100. AV F/4.4. Shutter speed 1/125. No flash

Camera: panasonic DMC-FZ28, Lumix. Lens 27 mm (1:2.8-4.4 / 4.8-86.4).  Focal length 86.4 mm. ISO 100. AV F/7.1. Shutter speed 1/400. No flash

Camera: panasonic DMC-FZ28, Lumix.Lens 27 mm (1:2.8-4.4 / 4.8-86.4). Focal length 83.8 mm. ISO 100. AV F/4.4. Shutter speed 1/400. No flash

Camera: panasonic DMC-FZ28, Lumix.   Lens 27 mm (1:2.8-4.4 / 4.8-86.4) Focal length 86.4 mm. ISO 100. AV F/5.6. Shutter speed 1/250. No flash

Camera: panasonic DMC-FZ28, Lumix. Lens 27 mm (1:2.8-4.4 / 4.8-86.4).  Focal length 86.4 mm. ISO 640. AV F/4.4. Shutter speed 1/250. No flash

Camera: panasonic DMC-FZ28, Lumix. Lens 27 mm (1:2.8-4.4 / 4.8-86.4). Focal length 86.4 mm. ISO 100. AV F/5. Shutter speed 1/320. No flash

Camera: panasonic DMC-FZ28, Lumix. Lens 27 mm (1:2.8-4.4 / 4.8-86.4). Focal length 4.8 mm. ISO 100. AV F/5. Shutter speed 1/200. No flash

Camera: panasonic DMC-FZ28, Lumix. Lens 27 mm (1:2.8-4.4 / 4.8-86.4). Focal length 84.5 mm. ISO 200. AV F/5. Shutter speed 1/500. No flash

Camera: panasonic DMC-FZ28, Lumix.  Lens 27 mm (1:2.8-4.4 / 4.8-86.4).  Focal length 86.4 mm. ISO 200. AV F/4.4. Shutter speed 1/125. No flash

Camera: panasonic DMC-FZ28, Lumix. Lens 27 mm (1:2.8-4.4 / 4.8-86.4) . Focal length 12.4 mm. ISO 100. AV F/4. Shutter speed 1/200. No flash

Camera: panasonic DMC-FZ28, Lumix. Lens 27 mm (1:2.8-4.4 / 4.8-86.4) . Focal length 20.8 mm. ISO 250. AV F/3.6. Shutter speed 1/800. No flash

Camera: panasonic DMC-FZ28, Lumix. Lens 27 mm (1:2.8-4.4 / 4.8-86.4) . Focal length 59.5 mm. ISO 100. AV F/5.6. Shutter speed 1/250. No flash

Camera: panasonic DMC-FZ28, Lumix. Lens 27 mm (1:2.8-4.4 / 4.8-86.4). Focal length 86.4 mm. ISO 125. AV F/4.4. Shutter speed 1/125. No flash 

Camera: panasonic DMC-FZ28, Lumix. Lens 27 mm (1:2.8-4.4 / 4.8-86.4).   Focal length 26.7 mm. ISO 100. AV F/3.7. Shutter speed 1/600. No flash

Camera: panasonic DMC-FZ28, Lumix. Lens 27 mm (1:2.8-4.4 / 4.8-86.4).  Focal length 47 mm. ISO 160. AV F/5.6. Shutter speed 1/320. No flash

Camera: panasonic DMC-FZ28, Lumix. Lens 27 mm (1:2.8-4.4 / 4.8-86.4).  Focal length 86.4 mm. ISO 160. AVF/4.4. Shutter speed 1/125. No flash

Camera: panasonic DMC-FZ28, Lumix. Lens 27 mm (1:2.8-4.4 / 4.8-86.4). Focal length 42.6 mm. ISO 100. AVF/3.7. Shutter speed 1/100. No flash

I took these photos on campus this week.  I did a little editing on them mostly just cropping and boosting the brightness and contrast.  The first two are of an icicle I found dangling from a car.  I like how you can see a drop starting to form at the tip of the icicle and see the detail in the icicle.  I had found this river rock on the Yellowstone and decided to put it in the snow.  I like the contrast of the smooth, colorful rock against the white snow.  I think the colors and the designs in the rock is what makes this photo interesting.  The next photo is a little less interesting because the rock is more plain and simple but I like the composition, but I could crop it more to make it follow the rule of thirds a little better.  I really like the texture of the final picture.  I also like it because it is sort of hard at first to tell exactly what it is but once you see the other rocks that are poking out of the snow you know that the rest of the bumps in the snow are more covered rocks.  For the last few assignments I have taken photos on campus or at riverfront park and I am looking forward to going home for thanksgiving to be able to take some photos of some different subjects. 

This is a photo that won the photo of the day award for national geographic on October 13 of this year.  This photo was taken by Richard Bryant and is of a American alligator claw.  One of the strengths of this picture is the unified colors.  It makes the alligator claw blend in so well with the background that it seems like it is part of the background.  light in this picture also plays a role in giving the alligator leg and claw more detail and texture. Texture in this photo is strong and as a viewer you can almost feel the alligator scales.  The arm of the alligator comes into the picture right where the rule of thirds line is which makes the composition work.  also the photographer did a good job of including all of the claws and not cutting any of them off. 

Submission for art show

Nature photos

These are some pictures that I took at Riverfront park and here on campus.  When we had our first snow of the winter I decided to go out and take some photos.  for all of these pictures the editing that I did was trying to crop them to make the composition more interesting and trying to make the colors stand out by changing the hue/saturation and contrast/brightness.  In the first one I tried to crop it so it fell into the rule of thirds. I did the same with the second one also.  I like how the red stands out in the leaves that are covered in snow but I think I need to change the composition in them.  The last leaf picture I cropped a lot because there were a lot of other leaves in the background that I think distracted the viewer.  In most of these pictures I think there is a good variation from darks to lights. I also like the sharp edges of some subjects countered by rough edges.  for example the leaves have sharp straight edges whereas the snow on top of them has more variation in the lines and edges.  There is a good contrast between sharp images and blurred ones.  in the second picture of the wasp nest most of the image is in focus but there are a few branches that are not.  In the first two images you can see the snow falling. I can not decided if this helps or hurts the images but I am leaning towards hurt. In my next edit I would like to try and get the snow streaks out of the picture.

Thursday 11/3

This is a  picture that I took when I was taking pictures of leaves for our last blog.  I like how the bright green algae in the bottom of the picture plane runs through the water in little channels that your eye follows and brings you to the reflection.  The leaves floating on top of the water could be a little distracting but overall I like the picture.  I changed the hue, saturation, and contrast when I edited it and it made the green algae really jump out and made the water more blue.  I think these edits make the picture much more interesting. This photo may have too much going on and would better serve as two different pictures one where the subject is the algae and the other of the reflection but I also like how they work together.

 I think pictures of nature reflecting onto water are very cool because they almost create an optical illusion.  I found some other cool reflections on the National Geographic website.

These are both photographs by Raymond Gehman.  The first one is of Wind River Range in Wyoming, and the second is of a lake in Canada.  Both of these reflection shots had to be taken at just the right time.  Not only a time when there is no wind but also a time when there is the best light. Also planning to take the second photo during the fall makes it a more interesting picture because of all of the changing leaves. 



 

Edited leaf photos

 

These are all pictures that I took in Helena over the weekend at a park called Spring Meadow.  There was this cool algae that had collected along the outer edges of the lake and it created a cool setting for the leaves. 

I like the patterns in the algae and how they run through the picture.  I dont really like the two small shadows created by the leaf in the upper right hand corner

 I like this one with the interesting shadows and highlights on the leaf and how the lines in the algae outline the leaf.  I think the composition of this picture could have been a little better by maybe cutting off a little bit of the left edge so the same amount of leaf is off the frame like it is on the top

 I like the contrast of the red leaf covered with green algae floating on top of it.  The composition is not that interesting because the leaf is in the very center of the picture plane.  But it was on the very edge of the lake so I didnt have very many other options other than zooming out which would have taken away the detail and emphasis on the red leaf and the green algae.

 I like how water reflection plays into this picture and I think it makes the picture of an ordinary leaf much more interesting. I also like the smooth line where the water starts in contrast with the jagged outline of the leaf at the top of the picture plane.  I do not like the small reflection of the sun in the top part of the picture.

 Both of these pictures don't necessarily have leaves as the main subject though they are in the picture.  But I do like the composition of the above picture and how the eye travels along the water nicely through the picture and brings the viewers attention to the algae and covered in leaves.  In the picture below I like how the eye travels through the picture as it follows the highlighted fishing line.  however, I don't like the plain boring background.

This photo taken by Kani Polat is of hot air balloons hovering over a ancient rock formation .  I think the composition of this photograph works really well.  I like the placement of all of the hot air balloons.  The red balloon in the upper left hand corner really stands out and closely follows the rule of thirds. From the red balloon the viewers eye jumps to the other colorful balloons that stand out against the background. It was taken at a great time of day where the sun was low so it created a lot of interesting shadows in the landscape and highlighted the mountains in the distance.  I also like this picture because of the contrast between the hot air balloons and the landscape.  You never would think to find a dozen brightly colored hot air balloons flying over a rocky desolate area.

This is the photo of the day today for National Geographic.  It is a picture of marine catfish in Japan taken by a photographer named Brian Skerry. One thing about this picture that I like are how much the fish stand out because of their vibrant green color against the sandy ocean floor.  This photo has a lot of motion in it which also makes it an interesting picture to look at.  by using a longer shutter speed the photographer has made some of the fish blur along with the ocean floor.  I think this makes the picture more interesting because it almost gives it another layer for the viewer to look at.  The first thing or the top layer that I see are the fish that are in focus and as I look at it longer I see the fish that are in motion which is like a second layer.  The composition of the photo also gives it movement in that the school of fish are placed at the left and are swimming through the picture plane to the right. 

This is a photograph by  David Doubilet a photographer for National Geographic.  This photo was the photo of the day for Wednesday October 5th.  I think photos taken under water are very interesting. The  silhouetted bushman standing on the boat above the water makes the picture interesting.  My eye travels through this picture well from the seaweed to the shadow and then the bushman and the rays of the sun. I also really like the color scheme in this picture. 

This is a picture I took a few summers ago.  I took it when the sun was setting which created some interesting light on the pedals of the flower.  I like how the green grasshopper contrasts with the white flower and that it somewhat follows the rule of thirds.  I don't really like the dark green background of the leaves in the top of the image and the blurred light part of the background in the left corner.

I like the simplicity of this picture and the bright colors.  I also like the details in the leaf. I couldn't figure out how to rotate the picture but I think it would look better if the picture was rotated.