Published March 27, 2023 by

2/27/2023: “Your World” photographs

The front of the school building, a familiar sight that no matter how many times I see it, my mind always remembers for some odd reason… I will randomly refocus upon getting to the concrete squares and look up to see this, so it felt rather fitting to include it as a photo to showcase my day-to-day life
I truly had no plan for this shot, as, well… I’m in an active game of tennis as this goes on. I simply trusted my mom with the camera to know when a good shot was coming, and, well… boom. I thought this picture turned out fantastic and that it was well worth the little bit of hassle that came with asking my mom to take the shot and teaching her how the camera model worked. I don’t do tennis EVERY day, but I do it enough that it’s a dedicated part of my week
The humble homework couch. The place I crash after school, do homework, and play on my phone, although mostly, it’s all homework. It’s a relatively quite spot which allows me to focus when I need it (and yes, I’m here as I write this) I visit this couch quite literally every day, so I felt it was right to jam-pack it with the most amount of objects I could to show the business about this spot.
Time in robotics, an AMAZING pastime of mine! I took a picture of our bot in the making, but made sure the aperture blurred out the tool chest to the right so that it wouldn’t be distracting. I tried to show just as much of our geeky-ness as I could in one picture, and for a few shoots and a LOT of tuning, I think it turned out GREAT! I made the camera have a warmer tone to it to try and indicate how much I enjoy this activity
Another pastime of mine, playing video games. At the end tail of almost every day, I sit down on a little bean bag at the top of our stairs, turn on the PlayStation, and have a bit of fun with a game! It’s truly my favorite way to unwind besides talking to friends, and I enjoy it to DEATH! I tilted the photo to include more of the stair rail, hallway adjacent, and to add to the flair of an otherwise dull picture a bit
BONUS PHOTO: My bed (yes, I totally fixed up my bed for this shot) I was planning to get a shot late in the day, more at night, but then I realized just how much time I spend in my room during the daytime, so I took a shot on the evening side of things rather than at night to better fit how my life is from day to day. There was little planning here, it’s a bonus shot ` v `

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Published March 18, 2023 by

Motion Blur 3/18/2023

I asked Blake to do some jumping jacks. The settings for this picture were as follows: F-stop: auto, ISO: 100, TV: 3″
I took a picture of Nolan jumping and throwing a basketball while Blake and Ben took photos. The settings were: F-stop: auto, ISO: 100, TV: 3.5″
I asked Ben to flip a coin so I could try to catch it in mid-air and I CAUGHT THE SHOT!!! Settings: F-stop: auto, ISO: 3200, TV:1/240
Asked Weston to bounce a ping-pong ball, and caught it mid bounce. Settings: F-stop: still auto, ISO: 3200, TV: 1/240

My favorite picture of these by FAR has to be Ben’s coin flip, I’m VERY proud that I caught this in “One shot” mode, I absolutely N A I L E D the timing!!!

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Published March 11, 2023 by

Due Mar. 13: The River Runs Through It

This picture was taken with a TV of 1/200, an ISO of 6400, and, if I’m honest, an unknown f-stop ‘-_-

When taking this picture, I tried to achieve a frozen look to the water so you could see the churning of the water as it splashes into the rocks below, and I think for a first shot, it’s pretty good!

This picture was captured with a TV of 0.5″, an ISO of either 200-400, and, yet again, an unknown f-stop

In this picture, after experimenting with a higher TV, I found a good way to keep the camera still enough to create the kind of picture I was looking for, that being a blending of the motion of water, and I think it worked out pretty well!

I’m honestly REALLY intrigued by TV settings and want to experiment more with them… I think capturing a bird flying in a relatively slow TV would be a REALLY cool picture, or capturing a game of ping-pong with a small depth of field so that the ball is in focus, but the player isn’t would be AMAZING. I’m VERY keen on experimenting with different TV’s in the future!

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Published March 1, 2023 by

Depth of Field photos

This picture I took with as high of an AV as I could (or as small a lens opening as I could, the AV value was maxed at 36), and after you compare it to the other, which had a relatively low AV, around 7.1, you can really see the difference. Take a look for yourself!
This photo, as I already mentioned, had a very low AV, of 7.1, the lowest on my camera being 5. You can CLEARLY see that the background is fading out somewhat and that the paddle and its container are in better focus than before, or perhaps they SEEM that way in comparison to everything in the background being quite so blurred

Looking back on these two pictures, I now have a newfound appreciation to my eyes and their ability to perceive light automatically, WITHOUT physical or conscious input, W O W * _ *

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