Smoke

Well, I got bored today and decided to try another picture.

This time I wanted to try to get a smoke stream coming off of a candle. I've seen these before and thought they looked kind of cool.

I had a hard time getting the smoke the way I wanted it to be. Either it would be too thin, too spread out or it would be streaming out of the picture. I couldn't ever get it to float straight up like I wanted and I don't really know how other people do it. So, I experimented with blowing it out from different angles, different size breaths and puffs of air until I got a couple I liked. I ended up sucking in some smoke and my eyes are red from the heat and smoke flying up in my face, but I think it was a successful shoot...meaning I got at least one picture I liked. I'm only posting this one, since all of the others look pretty much the same.

Let me know what you think.

T

Water

Just one picture on this update.

I saw a picture of an apple falling into water that I wanted to try to replicate, so I thought I'd give it a try. I need a bigger glass container, probably a fish tank, but this picture still came out all right.

If I ever get a bigger container, I'll probably try it again later, but for now, this will work.

Let me know what you think.

T

Chicago

OK, Here was my first real trip out with my new camera. I went downtown at the end of the fall (mid-November actually) and spent several hours just walking around taking pictures. While I took about 350 pictures, I really only came out with a handfull of useful images. I guess I probably should have read my books and user manual before going down, but oh well, I still got some decent shots (at least I think so).
I also played a little with the camera tilt, as you can see...so yes, I did realize that my camera was tilted slightly to the left when I took all of these pictures...I thought it would give it a little bit of a contemporary look or something.
Let me know what you think.
T


- Same picture as above but you can see more detail in this one. It's more of an HDR image, using 3 exposures, rather than just one.

- This image was way overexposed when I took it, so I decided to just mess with the exposure/color/saturation levels even more and I thought it ended up looking pretty cool.

Flowers

I've tried taking pictures of flowers a couple of times and really liked the way that they turned out. I've messed with desaturating some of the images and playing with the colors in Photoshop. Between all of those things, I've come up with a few pretty good images.

(these are all the smaller versions of the images to save some space on the website)

Let me know what you think.

T

First Day

Well, I thought I'd set up a blog so that everyone can keep up with the different pictures that I've been taking lately. I've just gotten my first "real" camera (thanks to Paige) and have been snapping away. Until now, I've been emailing my pictures to everyone, but I figured this would just be easier.
I don't really know what I'm doing as far as photography goes, but I thought I'd give it a try anyway...I was kind of hoping that it would just run in the blood.
I'll try to keep this updated as I keep taking new pictures or as I try out new subjects, so bear with me.
Let me kwow what you think of any of the pictures.