Week 4

Caught getn pretty. Just wanted to have some fun this week around and hope to get a few laughs. 1/160, F 6, WB on auto, ISO of 500. Adjusted the levels, color balance, saturation, and crop in Gimp. The green in our bathroom does not photograph well. I attempted to adjust the colors a bit but still seems to give the sickly look. During the day with natural light it actually looks much better. After seeing this might repaint the room.

Playing around with very low/ limited light sources.
Setting of HI 0.7 ISO ,2", and F5.6, with the WB on Auto. Picked up the light I wanted but with such an high ISO got very grainy on me .

Ghosts

Ghosts

For this shot i wanted to utilize the beam of light that was eking out of the the bow steam box. My intent was to have the effect highlighting multiple versions of my wife's eyes. I had the white balance set to auto and the iso at 200. My shutter speed was at 3 and my aperture was at F22. I also utilized a tripod to reduce camera shake.  I personal feel that the image is to bright overall, I wanted just the beam and faces for the final image. I definitively have to work on lighting placement. Also having such an extremely slow shutter speed I gave my wife to early of cues to move ( and to fast would have been better if she move slower as to get more versions of her self) their by limiting the amount of ghosting I captured. I do like the texture of the wood box behind the aluminum flashing, and its crispness. The singular shaft of light pierces the multiple faces well, I think however maybe the background paint is trowing me off. To do again I would have placed the subject against a black or more textured background (possible brick, or cinder block would have created nicer textures against the faces) to help break it up a  bit. Also post production work with level adjustments as well as cropping the image thinner to focus more so upon the light and the blurred faces it is creating would help to strengthen the image as a whole.

Target practice

Target Practice

Just out doing some stump shooting ,while messing with depth of field. For this shot I actually used a white balance of 400, and the aperture priority function. I think it overall turned out ok , however if I had waited another half an hour around five o'clock I would have had some more dramatic lighting.