Semester is over

Digital Photography is now over, the semester is done. Kind of depressing, this was truely a fun class. I learned a lot about the cameras and colors and got a new perspective at what I'm looking at when I take a picture. I'll pop in here once in a while but not as often to kind of keep who ever does look at this up on whats going on.

Photo Story

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Fun in the sun on the ice

This how the guys relax on a Sunday afternoon, "Need for Speed"!!!

Just cause

Here are a couple of pictures I thought was a nice way to end the winter. Spring is trying to come through. I was going down the road to go home the other day and saw this deer cross the road, so I had to stop and got my camera,the deer stopped and looked at me as if it knew I had the camera and posed. The next picture is of the group of snowmachine racers that my husband raced with this winter.

Week 7 / photoshop picture

For week 7 the assignment was to post a picture done with photo shop and blending two different pictures together, at least that is what I have done. Remember I am still learning this program. I took my son on his dirt bike and added it to a picture of a dirt track. It's not perfect but I think I did ok.

Week 6 / lighting

This week we were supposed to take a picture of something at three different times during the day. Every time I tried to do this the weather wouldn't cooperate with me. Eventually I will post those pictures here, the weather is getting better and the sun is staying out longer. yeah!!!!

OK here are a couple pictures I promised.

This was taken at 8:30am on 2/24 This one was taken around 9:30 am on 3/17

This was taken at 1pm on 3/17

Week 5 assignment / Landscapes

For this weeks assignment we are to take landscape pictures. This picture is taken from the top of my driveway. There are 3 house structures in the picture, the house near the middle of the picture is the main house, the house on the right hand side a bit further up is a guest house, and the structure a little further up on the left is like a sun room.

More Landscape

These next few pictures were taken when I went for a ride down one of the backroads near my home. I like the views.

Roadside Landscape

I liked the cluster of White Birch here.

Back road Landscape

Rather breath taking, isn't it!

Week 4... Framing / Rule of Thirds

For the Rule of Thirds the picture is seperated into thirds
so the subject of the picture isn't centered. Here
are a couple of examples.

Framing

For this weeks assignment we were to take one picture to show
framing, I couldn't choose which one I liked the best hence I

posted all of them.

Enough Snow?

Here are a couple of pictures just because I want
to share how ready for spring I am !!!!

Literally waist deep in the snow.

My girls

I created this playing with photoshop, all still a bit new to me.
I think I captured them nicely.

lighting for time of day

Assignment was to take a pictures of an object at different time of the day.
I chose 8:30am, Noon, and 4:30pm.

Not a lot of difference in lighting, it was a cloudy day.
I didn't think the sun was ever coming out again.

week 3 assignment / color schemes

For this weeks assignment we had to choose 2 of the 3 color schemes (Monochrome, Analogous, Complementary). For the first set of 3 pictures I chose Monochrome (same hue different shades).

For my second choice I chose Complementary color scheme. Here are three pictures I found for this scheme.

You may have noticed similar picture for both schemes. For the first the purples are the hue of different shades and here the stitching and lettering are in yellow which is complementary to purple.

Pictures in Macro

Taking pictures in Macro was the assignment. Using still subjects are much better than ones that move, as you can see the blur in the bottom picture. These are my pets (worse than child) top: Angel, middle: Cocoa, and bottom: Mandy.

eyes a glow

I tried to get a good shot of the white tiger with its eyes glowing, but i couldn't get a clear shot of the tiger and show the eyes are glowing so this is what I ended up with.

The assignment was to take lots of pictures of anything. I guess this shows I need to buy dog food. Don't want my babies to go hungry.

picture from a different angle. Winter pictures are nice but its time for summer.

I took this picture with my teacher in mind. She is into textures.

JUST BECAUSE

After living in Vermont most of my life this is the first time I've seen
a turkey in a tree. I've always seen them on the ground and never
gave it a thought about where they went from the fields. Like the saying
"learn something new every day!"

Guess what?

This is the guess what this is assignment.

Tatoo

If I ever get brave enough to get a tatoo this is what I would like
to get. I love white tigers.

Mystery Machine

This is the kid in me coming out. I think if I had the money I may have really considered buying this van. I've been watching Scooby Doo for a great many years and wouldn't it be really funny driving around town in this. It would definitely be a head turner.

sunrise

A nice way to wake up on a cold morning after a long week.
This was taken from the bedroom window. One of my favorite pictures.