Reflections

1/125 f11 ISO 100

 

I could not resist taking a photo of one of the greatest examples of reflection known to humans.  Most of my first attempts at photographing the moon were blurry blobs of light.  After a little research on the internet, I found some solid settings.  I still couldn't capture objects surrounding me to use as size references because the camera made the moon the light blob again when I did that.  The site I looked at said that the only way to capture the moon in this detail with a more earthly foreground was to take two photos and overlay them somehow in photoshop.  I don't know if lightroom has this capability but the ones they showed were cool and I might like to try it.  I did use my tripod and my macro lens set for infinity when taking these photos, I took a lot of them, and my neck and shoulders hurt from the odd angle I was bent in trying to get the shot.

 

Moon Blob

 

1/60 f/16 ISO 1600

 

I dropped a mirror on the ground that was covered with leaves and twigs and was able to see the reflection of the sky and trees above.  I like the texture and the differences of colors.  Need to turn the picture because tree images in mirror look upside down.

 

Silouhettes

ISO 1600 f5.6 1/60sec

This skeleton image is taken in my classroom with only the light from the blinds to highlight the silouhette of skeleton.  I liked the way the light striped the blinds.  I darkened the skeleton in light room to emphasize the silouhette.  I couldn't figure out how to export both the before and after images from lightroom.  The videos really helped though because I had forgotten everything. I wish I knew how to get rid of that bar shadow on the blinds.   I had more fun with the next image because I wasn't trying to make it right.  I was just having fun making it the way I wanted it.

I took this image in front of my smartboard at school.  With a little editing and cropping in lightroom I am approaching what I believe to be a classic cameo silouhette.  Cool!!

                                                             ISO 1600 f4.5 1/60 sec

Passion for Red

My husband bought these strawberries from a lady who sells them out of the back of her vehicle at his workplace.  They were beautiful and smelled so good.  I worked with them for a while trying different photo ideas.  I finally went with this one because I like the way the snake comes out of the darker side of the picture.  I also like the hint of evil lurking in something that looks so delicious.  My photo shoot was brought to an abrupt halt because my family wanted to eat my subjects.  I did cheat when taking the picture and set my camera on P to look at the auto settings before I went back to manual and adjusted my settings. It is still frustrating to me that I can't really see camera shake until I download to computer.  I think I have some decent pictures until I see what I did on computer. 

It was just too tempting not to take advantage of that great snow and use it for my "smile assignment".  My home is surrounded by huge hemlocks that look even more beautiful when flocked by snow.  The second round of snow was reportedly good for building snowmen, but I couldn't get it to stick together so this snow critter showed up in the branches of a tree with a little help from me.  I think he's cute but the lighting probably deserved a little more attention.  I know he shouldn't be in the center and I took more of him in other places, but I like this one best. 

Overexposed in the snow

Took the first picture on P, came back and watched the video on shutter speed because I knew I needed to control light---put the camera on TV changed shutter speed to 1/1000 and see improvement.

Tracks from E. Mud River Bridge