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.

Panoramic Photo

This is a panoramic picture of the pool at mercy. The picture is made up of 6 or 7 picture spliced together with Adobe Photoshop CS2. This was done in the morning by shooting on continuous and panning across the scene.I like this picture because it shows a lot of the scenery and the blue from the pool contrasts the rest of the picture.

Photo Essay #3

Part three of my photo essay.

In this picture, I really tried to capture this kid feeling alone and depressed. He is sitting out in the bleachers looking at the kids who are playing out on the field. I like this picture because of the lines from the field leading people to Joey and Joey falling on the rule of third line.

Here is sort of the same picture as earlier, just a wider angle shot. I blurred the background a tad bit to really emphasize Joey longing to hang out with other people.

Photo Esasy #2

This is part two of my photo essay.

Again, I tried putting my subject on a rule of thirds line and tried to emphasize the use of proportion in my pictures.

Here is a picture of another one of my models, Joey sitting alone on bleachers at school. This picture showcases lines, proportion, and my subject falling on the rule of thirds line. I really wanted to capture the essense of being alone with no one around.

Photo Essay #1

These following pictures are all part of my photo essay about teenage lonliness and depression. This is my first picture done at a park in the afternoon with overcast. I liked this picture because the proportion of my friend, James, to the rest of the picture is cool and how he sits on the rule of third line.

This is my second picture in my photo essay. I took this picture trying to capture more of the lonely side of this kids story.

Stop Motion Photography

This is a series of pictures of Tim Wood doing a "James Bond" type of walk and shoot. This was done outside in front of a fence with no sunlight. I was shooting on 1/1000 second shutter speed, f4.2 for f-stop, and a 1600 ISO. I edited the pictures so that there was blood falling from the top of the screen just like the opening of the James Bond movies.

Falling Action Shot

On a very cloudy day, I was hanging out at school before rehearsal started and I had my camera on me. I decided to do an falling action shot by having my friend Chris, jump from his car onto the ground. I shot from a very low to the ground so that I could get an angle from below Chris. This picture was inspired by Aaron Siskind and his falling pictures. I whited out the background and changed the image from color to black and white. I was shooting on 1/400 seconds and f18 for the f-stop.

Water Action Shots

This weekend was raining very hard, so Mr. Hermano decided to have us take pictures of water falling. I walked outside my house to patio where a clear overhang was covering me from the rain. I took a picture of this water droplet dropping from the overhang. I was shooting with an 800 ISO, 1/1000 second shutter speed, and f9 f-stop. It took a while to be able to capture a good droplet falling from the overhang, but I found that shooting on continuous to be very helpful.

Sports Photography

Motion photography was our topic for this chapter. I went down to Oakland for a girls volleyball tournament that my friend was playing in. I was shooting with a 1600 ISO, 1/320 seconds for my shutter speed, and f4.5 for my f-stop. People can see that the volleyball falls on a Rule of Thirds line.