Still Life: Single Object

Here is a picture of a toy ship taken in our class studio at Mercy. I liked the angle this was taken at because it was kind of a perspective shot. The lighting was fun to work with because putting the lights in different places gave the shot a different mood.
f6.3, 1/80, ISO 1600.

Landscape Photograph in Color

This is a picture of the Kohl Mansion. This picture was comprised of about 25 pictures. I like this picture because it reminds me of a John Mayer album cover. This picture represents lots of color, proportion and balance.

Principle of Design

This picture represents in Principles of Design picture. I like this picture because the proportion of my models feet to the rest of his body is being played around with. My model is also emphasized because of the lines created by his legs leading to his face and the saturated color of the sky.

f7.1, 1/3200, ISO 800.

Micro Lens/Zoom: Texture Emphasized

This is a picture of the brick wall outside of the Mercy Kohl Mansion. This picture shows texture, movement, and pattern.

f5.3, 1/60, ISO 400.

Still Life: Grouped Objects

Here is a picture of a bunch of plates and bowls stacked up in my kitchen. I choose this as my still life grouped objects picture because of the repetition in plates and lines along the bottom of the picture. There are a lot of unique and straight lines in the picture along with emphasis. The lines help draw the viewer in while the picture focuses the eye on the plates at the bottom because of the depth of field.

f3.5, 1/60, ISO 1600.

Element of Art

This is a picture of a light fixture in my bathroom. I choose this as my element of art picture because there was a unique flowing line through the picture, space, shape, and texture. The light on the right is also emphasized because of the depth of field and the light falling on the rule of thirds line.

f5.8, 1/20, ISO 1600.

Narrative Photo

Pictured is my narrative/autobiographical photo. I like this photo because of the depth of field putting emphasis on the Nikon lens cap. I thought this was a good representation of my life because I always have a plan, always on my phone, and always taking pictures. There is also a lot of value represented in this picture.
f5.6, 1/50, ISO 400.

Zoo

On March 2, 2010, the two photography classes at Mercy took a field trip down to the San Francisco Zoo for our animal chapter. We spent a couple of hours taking pictures of all the different animals at the zoo. The zoo showcased many different animals ranging from monkeys, tigers, giraffes, and birds. This was a great opportunity to practice our animal photography skills. These pictures were taken on shutter priority mode, on a 1/200s shutter speed and an 800 ISO.

This is my environmental portrait picture of a giraffe ni its territory. This was taken with a f/9 f-stop. I really liked this picture because it captures a lot of the background and shows how tall giraffe is.

On the right is a picture of a silver-back gorilla standing on a rock. This is one of my favorite pictures because the gorilla gives off a sad feel to the picture with its eyes and body language. I shot this picture on f/5.3.

On the left is my pop art image of a giraffe. I made the picture so that the print looks like small tiles put together. I thought it was interesting how even though the spots distorted the image a little bit, viewers could still identify what the image is. f/6.3 was the f-stop for this picture.

On the right, is my first choice picture of two kangaroos playing around. I liked this picture because it was one of the few action shots of animals that I had. The kangaroos were playful. This was taken with a f/13 f-stop.

This is my second choice picture of a tiger walking around in his environment. I liked this picture because the tiger was staring out and sort of caught eye with the camera being able to hold a scary glare. I also liked this picture because viewers can see the fur of the tiger very well. This was shot with a f/6.3 f-stop

Interior Photo

For my interior photo, I decided to take a picture of an award I got this year that was sitting on my desk. I thought it provided some cool lines in the picture. Through photoshop, I emphasized the star by blurring the background. I took this picture with an 800 ISO, f/4, and 1/4 sec. shutter speed.

Chapel Photo

This is a picture taken at Mercy's chapel in the morning. The light was very low causing the shutter speed to be very slow. I shot on 800 ISO, f3.8, and 1/8s exposure. I like this picture because it showed the depth of the chapel as well as the lines in this picture.