Umbrella Project Part 4

Photo 7:
This shot was a random one noticed by my wife.  We sprayed the umbrellas with a mist of water to achieve the rained upon effect, when she noticed the neat look it had with the water and the shadows.

Photo 8:
I wanted to capture the water streaming down this one, so my wife was spraying it with the water hose as I was snapping shots.  I had to use a neutral density filter on this shot to get a long enough shutter speed to achieve any motion in the water.

Photo 9:
Once again my dog, Bridgett, agreed to be my model.  It took a while to get her to sit still with the umbrella, but I think this photo captured her attitude very well.

Umbrella Project Part 3

Photo 5:
Once again my lovely wife agreed to be a model in my project.  This time my dog decided to join her.  I like this shot because both of them are gazing out of the scene.

Photo 6:
This was an interesting shot to capture.  My wife threw the umbrella into the air quite a few times befor I got a shot that I thought I liked.  The problem was when I was going to review them my battery died and I did not have a spare on me.  But I loved this shot when we got home.

Umbrella Project Continued

Photo 3:
My wife standing on a pier.  This is one of my favorites from this project because of the reflection and the emotion it conveys to me.

Photo 4:
This is my good friend Maryah on her wedding day.  Since I was taking her photos for her she graciously agreed to model for my project.  This was taken at about noon, I use a reflector to add some more light back into her face. 

Umbrella Project

The project that we had for this week was to take creative pictures of umbrellas.  I did the best that I could, but sometimes the imagination just wouldn't work.  Or I knew what I wanted the photo to look like in my head and could never get it to translate to the real world correctly.

Here are my attempts at this project.

Photo 1:
An umbrella backlit by a CFL bulb in my living room.

Photo 2:
Another umbrella backlit by a CFL bulb in my living room.  This time with a twist (literally), my wife is spinning it while I take the photo.

Advanced Photography Class 6

On Monday, we discussed the photos that we have taken over the course of this class.  It was really neat to see my fellow students work.  We have some very talented photographers in our class.

Our next assignment is to photograph umbrellas.  We can do whatever we want - be creative is what we were told.  So I will see what I can come up with.  I have a couple of ideas right now and will start posting the photos as I take them and process them.  We are allowed to do photoshopping if we want.  I prefer to try to capture everything in camera and do as little as possible after the fact.  We will see how good I am to create the scene in real life as I have it pictured in my head.

This weekend I should have some opportunities to take some pictures, as I am going to Nashville for a friend's bachelor party.  Next Saturday I will be one of the photographers doing a wedding.  My job is to get candid photos and the ceremony.  Another photographer is taking pictures of people for the guest book. And another is doing all the formal (posed) pictures.  This should be an interesting experience as it is outside and at 2 in the afternoon.  If anyone has any suggestions, I would appreciate the advice. 

Advanced Photography Class 5

Last night, instead of having our regular class we had a guest speaker. Mark Mosrie is a commercial photography out of Nashville. He had a lot of really good photos and gave us a lot of useful information to get started in the photography field.

Ken also gave us some magazines to check out:

• LensWork
• Photoshop User Magazine
• Digital Photo Pro
• Shutterbug
• Phototechniques