Framing Slideshow

Here is my framing slide show.

Ah-ha moment week 5

 My week was crazy since the boys had vacation this week. But my ah-ha moments came this week at different times during their play. I realized that as much as I love taking pictures of my sons, they aren't the best subjects to use when trying to get more than 1 shot in the same place at the same time, like in our rule of thirds assignment. I also figured out that I tend to always center images and avoid background and depth in the shots I take. I also thought the framing would be much harder until I realized that there are tons of natural frames all around us.
    One of the big things I had to keep reminding myself of was something that occurred to me last week after reading everyone else's blogs and seeing their pictures, I can stage pictures, it's not something I tend to do so while I tried to do more of it this week, it felt really unnatural, but I'm sure it will get better with time.''
    As for my ah-ha moment about aesthetic, it was just getting a basic definition of what it means, it is basically the study of beauty and art, what is pleasing or appeals to people. I think this is such a huge thing, because we are all individuals and what we find beautiful is just as unique. I have this picture from the paper when Mother Teresa passed away that showed an up-close  view of her face, she wasn't classically beautiful by any means but her face had such character, I see that in a lot of the shots I have seen of Native Americans as well. I feel drawn to people that have seen hardship, and wear it in the lines of their faces.

Week 4 Color Schemes

This is the view across the road from my house this morning, because it was so cloudy everything ranged in shades of gray, so this would be my Monochromatic color scheme. It is such a different view than summer and fall when the colors are amazing.

This is a close up of one of the planet stickers my son has on his wall, since the colors appear next to each other on the color wheel it's my example of Analogous color scheme.

I felt like I had a hard time with this assignment, So I will add more pictures as I take them.

Collage week 3 Assignment

So I created this using Picassa, love the fact that you can make collages! It is random stuff that is cluttering my desk, notice it's almost all my sons' stuff :-) I used a plain green background and added the white borders, I felt like this made the pictures stand out better.

Like I said random stuff from my desk. I have to say I like slinky dogs tummy the best,

Figuring out the ISO settings

So I figured out how to set the ISO settings on my camera manually, and took the following shots so I could see how they change.  My camera has an automatic setting to change the ISO as the camera deems necessary, and that is what I have always used. The camera has settings of 100, 200, 400, 800, & 1600.
For some reason the 200 ISO picture didn't come out, will take another to add later. 

100 ISO

400 ISO

800 ISO

1600 ISO

Point of View Assignment

     I really enjoyed this assignment, looking at things from different angles and distance allowed a new world to open up to me. I choose to photograph the newest lego creation that I made for my 6 year old, when you look at it from any distance it is so insignificant and small, but as you go closer and to the height that a child who plays with it views it, a whole new world opens. It allowed me to remember why kids love legos as much as they do, I just wish they were less expensive! ----Jenn

Lego training building as seen by looking down.

Moving in closer, almost to the level my son views this.

Right in the thick of the action. "The evil skeleton is attacking, we must protect the sacred artifact!"

I love how the guys look life-sized when you take pics this close.

I really like this one, the spear coming out of the picture and the clearly visible details on the clothes.