Shooting from the Hip!

Color as a Subject

I used a flourescent White Balance setting. It brought out a "real" white in the walls and really highlighted the colors of the fruit.

I really like this necklace and I was taking photos of both the necklace and the shirt when I realized that my shower curtain had almost the same exact colors. I used Tungsten white balance setting.

I found a small flashlight and used it as a spotlight for this picture. It gave the blue heart some "pop."

I used the flashlight as a spotlight in this photo as well. I really like the shadows it creates.

For this picture, I tried to over expose so it would turn out a little brighter than the room lighting was. Regardless, the photo turned out a little darker than I was hoping.

I really like this photo, it reminds me of a whirl pool. I used the Daylight setting for the white balance.

This is a hammock that was a crumpled up on my front porch. I used the Daylight setting for the white balance.

I used Tungsten as the white balance setting. I took so many gosh darn pictures of this ashtray so I could find the right setting to bring out the blue.

I used a tungsten setting for the white balance.

WOOT!

I did a little blurring in the background but kept Wes in focus. I also "burnt" the edges a little, to give some sort of spotlight feel.

When I took this picture, I immediately saw a heart formed by Claire's hands. Sooooo, with a little help from photoshop, I made one. I smudged a little pink from the heart on her lips and cheeks. I also overexposed, leveled, curved and turned the picture to black and white (a little obvious on that last one, but oh well)

This photo was easier to work with. Curves and Levels helped me brighten the picture!

I think the cropping was necessary. Then I got to play around with a little bit of everything in photoshop! Gosh I love it.

Using Curves was harder than I thought, but at least you can see Wes now... :)

Portrait of Claire

For this picture, I used a thin T-shirt as a diffuser. It worked a lot better than my scarf that I used as the diffuser for Wes' pictures.

With these photos, I used a spotlight. I played around with the shadows it created.

For these pictures, I used a sheet as a reflector.

Portrait of Wes

These photos were taken with full spot light.

This photo was taken with a diffuser but I used my scarf and it turned out a little dark. :-/

This photo was taken with a reflector.

In Class Controlled Lighting

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