photographic impressionism

Camera: Canon
Model: Canon EOS REBEL T2i
ISO: 400
Exposure: 1/25 sec
Aperture: 5.0
Focal Length: 50mm
Flash Used: No

Technical: Manually pulled out of focus. Hung some crepe paper flowers from a hanger from a light fixture to get back light and glow effect.  Set White Balance to Fluorescent to get more warm overcompensation of fluorescent "crisp" light. (I don't know how to describe it, but fluorescent gives a light that makes things look white white to the point it looks blue...like a white LED).  Or well that's what I think. 

Artistic: Feeling kind of blue, wanted to make something that felt ethereal and delicate.  I wanted to capture the feeling you get when you look at an impressionist painting...you know how they use the pigment to capture something. You know it's a flower or a lake or a person, but that's not what's important in an impressionist painting, it's the feeling of movement (or this case, i wanted to capture the sense of aliveness -- though it's just crepe paper) or emotion.  

March Showers brought April Flowers

Model: Canon EOS REBEL T2i

ISO: 100

Exposure: 1/160 sec

Aperture: 8.0

Focal Length: 55mm

Flash Used: No
Lens: Kit 18-55mm 3.5-5.6f

Higher aperture to get focus at different depths, but still had cool depth of field effects. Found interesting sea star looking thing in the middle of the flower. 

Model: Canon EOS REBEL T2i
ISO: 100
Exposure: 1/800 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Focal Length: 55mm
Flash Used: No
Lens: Kit 18-55mm 3.5-5.6f


Higher shutter speed because wind blowing.  Had to hold flower still by the stem.  Lower aperture (larger opening) to get shallower depth of field to make the edge of the flower really stand out from the background.  


Critiques:
Photo 1: I should have isolated the flower more, the background leaves and other flowers are really distracting from the central focus of the star in the flower. 
Photo 2: Wish I were less predictable and played more with the shadows/light on the flower.

Defying the Laws of Gravity...

So I was inspired by a series of levitation photos...(and please feel free to translate inspired as I out and out copied).  And mine don't compare to hers at all...BUT!  really what I wanted to do was to get pictures of my brother around his school that are uniquely him.  He is such an amazing person, so unique, creative and just awesome in every way (yes, yes, I know...and NO I'm not just saying that because he's my brother).  Anyway, he was kind enough to jump for me and help me to make complete asses of ourselves, so I could get a neat photo.  It was really hard...she takes somewhere between 10-300 photos to get 1 shot.  We did about 10 the whole day...ours not quite to her standards. =P

Night of Worship

I went to see Francis Chan speak last week.  I wanted to take photos and capture something that I've only experienced so I could remember it.  Again this is a photoblog and as such, it's just supposed to be photos.  But to me photos capture feelings, emotions, who people are.  And if you've ever experienced the complete and udder joy and freedom during worship of a Heavenly father who loves you...that's what I wanted to capture...Photos help me remember things. 

So the following photos are to end on a humorous note, and well, i couldn't mixed them with the above photos...that just didn't feel right. 

baby wanders onto stage

i paparazzi a paparatzo (sp?)

  

uncomfortable journey into black and white...

I don't know how to do this...so it was good for me.  remember, don't be distracted by the colors, learn to read the light.  At the end of the day, though colors may be dynamic, if you don't have interesting light, the photo falls short.  Obviously, this was a power point day at work...

I don't like the pole in the Dave's Rubicon's picture.  It's light and distracts the eye from the Rubicon.  It looks so sad stuck out there in the rain, but not because it's all wet, but because it doesn't get to play and has to sit at work.  Reminds me of Dave.