Feeling Creepy

So for one of the photo 1 assignments the class had to do street photography, which isn't really my thing. I don't enjoy taking photos of random strangers because it makes me feel like a low key stalker. Sometimes people would look at me while I was taking their photo and it made it even more awkward. I did it though and I guess thats good to push out of my comfort zone, but at least I now know that street photography still is not my thing. I did get some nice shots though, like a man on a bike who was awkwardly looking at me. I also got a cool shot of a woman walking and two men walking in the opposite direction with a pole between them so it gave a nice separation to the image. I de-saturated the image and left the woman's blue backpack with the most color because I thought it would look cool and give it a nice pop almost. Of course I was across the street while I took the image so I zoomed as much as a could and in the end I had to still crop a decent amount to get the total focus on the subjects.                                             

Yellow Flowers

For my photo 1 assignment the class had to take photos three different ways. One was the subject had to be in the center, filling the frame, and to be on the edge of the frame. Of course we needed 60 images and I had fun with it because i had the freedom to take whatever pictures I pleased. The only ones I had trouble with were the images where the frame needed to be filled. It was difficult for me because it can be hard to make an image look interesting while filling the whole thing. The ones that I loved and are proud of are these photos with these yellow flowers I found at a state park. It had all these bees on them that wouldn't move, no matter how close I got to them. There were also a ton of beautiful orange butterflies flying around too. Of course those were hard to photograph because the butterflies kept flying away when i got close but I managed to take one I really like. The kind of photography I want to do is nature and wildlife so thats why I was so excited with the way these images came out.                                                             

Salem

For my birthday I went to Salem, Massachusetts and it was interesting. There were so many places for great photos and the architecture was really intriguing. The town has so much history and thats one of the reasons why it was such a good place for me to take some photos. There were many historical houses and they were all black, which is interesting and something we don't have a lot of on Long Island. The grave yards were also interesting because they were so old and worn out that some of them couldn't even be read from the ware and tare. One place in particular is the Burying Point, which is the oldest cemetery in Salem and many of the grave stones were from the 1600's. I thought those would be awesome to photograph because its historical and I don't see many stones here that date that far back. One grave stone in particular was in my opinion kind of beautiful because it had all these pink-purple flowers around it. It was also next to this huge tree that had a giant hole in it and looked decayed. This one was beautiful I think because its ironic that in a place of death, which is not seen as beautiful, there were these extremely pretty flowers growing everywhere in bright colors. I think thats what drew me in because I took plenty of other photographs but the ones I took in this cemetery were something else.                                      

Photo 1 Assignment 1

    For my first assignment in photo 1 with professor Cyr, the class had to basically experiment with our cameras. Each student had to take ten photographs of a high ISO, low ISO, vast depth of field, shallow depth of field, etc. In total there had to be 60 photos and it was a little stressful because it can be hard to think of 60 different picture ideas. In the beginning it was easier to think of things and get the creative juices going, but then I ran out of ideas. The hardest for myself personally was to get images using a fast shutter speed and low shutter speeds, especially the low shutter speed. Personally i'm not a fan of blurred photos so I didn't think any of my photographs looked good like that. 
    All in all it was a positive thing to get to know my camera better and experiment a bit with my pictures. The one photo I liked the most was with a shallow depth of field. It was sunset and i used a dog's eye view to get the image of the tree. I really like that one because sunsets are one of my favorite things and I plan on going into the field of landscape photography and/or wildlife. 
    This project was a little difficult but it did make me think outside the box a bit of what I usually take photos of. Now it is a little easier to think of things to take pictures of and to not just settle with the first image, take multiple in different ways to get different perspectives.