Fair Photo 3 of 8
This seahorse can be seen at the Tennessee Aquarium in Gatlinburg.
This was shot with my Canon Digital Rebel with the built-in flash (I have an off camera flash on the way Sigma EF 500 DG Super Flash). This photo has been matted on an orange mat similar to the color on the item behind the seahorse.
More to come later.
This is photo number 2 for the fair. This was taken at the Aquarium in Gatlinburg, TN.
It was originally a color picture, but to me it wasn't that exciting. I started playing with it ending up applying an "antique greyscale" filter to it. To me this photograph now jumps out at you. The print of it is even better.
More to come.
1 of the 8 pictures I am entering in the Tennessee Valley Fair Photo Contest. This one falls under the category of Motion - Action Shots. This photo was taken at an Ice Bears game while I was in my Introduction to Photography class. Getting an action shot that looks good is hard enough in good conditions. If you have ever been to a hockey game, you know that the lighting conditions are not exactly perfect. I took over 200 hundred pictures at this game playing around with apeture and shutter speed to get a picture that I considered good. Hope you enjoy it. I will continue to post more pictures for the fair as I get them edited and cropped.
Our first class was last night. The instructor seems to know his stuff and should make the class interesting and fun. I am looking forward to working with all the studio lights and other equipment that they have available for us. The class is Advanced Photographic Techniques. In the past they have focused on the chemical process the film goes through but the class will now focus on the process that digital chips go through to create the image. The book we will be using is "Perfect Digital Photography." We are required to have an off-camera flash for this class also, which means I need to spend more money. I also found out today that I can check-out light kits from the University of Tennessee Studio. I will need to get certified on the equipment so that I can start play with it. I will add more as I take pictures and attend classes.
This blog will be a log of my journey through photography classes. I will hopefully share my notes and pictures with everyone. I will also post any relevant information or websites that I think are interesting or informative.
