Assignment 5 - Landscapes

This was really a fun assignment.

Sitting in the back yard one evening I glanced up and saw the view of the sky with the trees in the foreground. Using night landscape with flash I took the first three pictures. Saturday, a storm was moving in and I tried to get a shot of it. Monday morning I took my camera with me on a walk up my street then to Lemp Road and up to Forest, taking pictures along the way. That afternoon, I drove to Kirkwood park and walked around Walker lake then through the park to the amphitheater. It was a good time to go as there were not too many people there.

Not only did I get my assignment completed but got some exercise too.

Assignment 4 and 4a

The first set of pictures in Assignment 4 showed pictures I had taken using fill flash, slow synch and auto. In the second set, 4a, the first picture was taken with full auto with fan off. The next three were taken with the fan at high, medium and low speeds. The next four pictures were taken with slow synch with fan set on low, medium and high. The last picture was taken with slow synch, high speed with the night light on.

Assignment 3 - Photo story

These are pictures of an 18th century blanket chest, brought in by a client. This chest had been in a flood about a year ago and needed to be cleaned up and restored.

I photographed the restoration process which only took a day to complete. The chest required only one coat of varnish. A more complex restoration might require stripping, cleaning off stripper, sanding for smoothness, staining if it is necessary and several coats of varnish and fine rubbing with rubbing compound after each coat of varnish. The whole process is completed with a coat of polish. The final article should be satiny smooth with no brush marks. This process usually takes several days to a week to finish.

Bill started out by washing all the mud off of the chest with water, a rag and a toothbrush. It was allowed to dry for a couple hours then he worked it over with a furniture restorer, steel wool and a toothbrush to get into crevices. He followed up with a light sanding then stain and varnish.

Assignment 2 Portraits and ISO

The first 11 portraits are of a neighbor who graciously agreed to let me photograph her. The 10th picture was off center. These were all taken inside The next ten were taken outside. My mistake, I had her facing the sun so she was squinting or had her eyes closed.

After getting home, my husband Bill agreed to let me take shots of him for my outside pictures.

My camera does not have ISO settings per se so I used preset scene modes. All of the pictures were taken in order given.

Portrait: 1, 13, 22
Landscape: 2, 13, 22
Party/indoor: 3, 14, 24
Beach/shade: 4, 15, 25
Sunset: 5, 16, 26
Dusk/dawn: 6, 17, 27
Night landscape, 7, 18, 28
Closeup: 8, 19, 29
Museum: 9, 10, 20, 30
Food: 11, 21, 31

I retook 9 because it was off center.