Sketchbook

I chose these pictures because I feel like it represents who I am as a person. I put pictures of my brother and my friends because they mean the world to me and I don't know what I would do without them. Along with those, I used a lot of pictures of nature because I love the way nature looks through the camera.  Everything about nature is beautiful in my eyes and the lighting from the sun makes everything looks so natural and makes things pop. The quote I used was "Another sunrise, another beginning." I love this quote because it's telling you not to live in the past or stress over something that happened in the past. Everyday is a new day, so make it great and don't dwell on the past.

HDR Assignment

HDR Examples

HDR

I love the way all these photos look because the colors all stand out more than a typical picture. It's the perfect brightness in every picture to see even the slightest details. The techniques that they use to take the pictures such as framing, leading lines, repetition, etc. enhance them all even more.

HDR Notes:

Allows you to automatically increase the dynamic range of a photo

3 bracketed images (same scene, different exposures)

A lot of people use Photomatix Pro to overlay their pictures and edit them

Tripod needed to stabilize the camera to capture the same three images in different exposures

6 Locations:

Family's farm

Under a tree

The creek

The park

Hawk Watch

Carlisle 

I picked these locations because they're all important to me. I love being outdoors and taking pictures of anything nature involved.

I chose these locations because they're outdoors and everything is more beautiful outside. I love the way the trees pop.

Summer

I took this picture of my brother when my family and I were staying at a cabin in Forksville, PA with some family friends for a weekend vacation. At the cabin, there's a creek right down the hill so we all go down there during the day. When my brother was playing in the creek I took this picture of him and I really like the way this picture looks because it's really capturing the moment and you can just see the pure happiness.