Ghost Town

This photo is a composition of seven different photos, stacked using Adobe After Effects. I shot at f4 with a 1/10 second exposure using my wide angle lens at 12mm.

Gram and I were in the river arts district a few weeks ago trying to find something to shoot. We couldn't find much, and so on our way home, we saw an interesting bridge with a place to sit in between the two lanes. I shot about 10 photos in a row with continuous shooting mode on, and stacked the photos in After Effects. What I originally intended on happening was for the photos to look normal and just be stacked, but what happened is that the light apparently combined and created extreme highlights. I think that this looks really neat but I needed to crop out half the photo because the rest of it is just white. It looks like there are four clones of Gram and I like how everything is just a little transparent, the car being the most. It's a photo that is unique to my typical styles and I really enjoyed having this produced!

P.S. I edited very minimally beside lowering the exposure just a bit (the brightness) and adding some grain to create more texture in the spaces that are just white.

Intense Focus

     This is a photo of Kaylee, she is in my group along with Daisy (in the background). We are working on an English project where we are required to construct an epic poem and create a brief film from it. Kaylee and I make a great team, as she is interested in filming and I am interested in photographing. I took this photo while I was messing with the school's digital media equipment and surprisingly took this picture with a low-end camera. Kaylee at the time was editing and piecing together our clips that we recorded earlier that day, which made her a great model as she was being moderately still.

Even Bugs Can Love

This picture means something to me, with a totally vague representation of what it looks like. Bugs aren't really... a concern to us humans, and I'm not saying that's wrong. For me, the bugs holding on to each other, on to love, represents us as people, trying to hold on to our culture as it is lost. The bugs are very insignificant, and that is the same way that we as people are thought about to many high social class businessmen that run the world. We are just bugs to them, as are actual bugs to us. I'm sure I could find multiple things that this picture represents to me, this was just one that popped into mind when I first saw it. I also just think it's a beautiful photo that shows love in the most profound, and tiny places. 

Grumpy Frog and the River Arts District

I was playing pool Thursday night, and I came upon an enormous toad whom I picked up and placed on the pool table. I got my new macro lens and took some pictures of it before it hopped away. We have tons of toads and frogs that just hang out on our front porch and sidewalk and stuff at night! It's pretty cool. The other picture, Gram and I were at the River Arts District trying to get pictures of trains. We walked down the train tracks until we got to the train parking area. Being a photographer is sketchy business! It's fun though.

NEW PHOTOGRAPHY BIRTHDAY EQUIPMENT!

    Yesterday, the 23rd, was my birthday! I had asked for only a macro lens but it was too expensive so I wasn't expecting it. On Sunday, I celebrated my birthday at my dad's house. We went out to Wasabi, had fried cheese cake, went to the Chocolate Lounge and it was great. I got an awesome camera bag which can hold all of my camera equipment and more. It also has a laptop slot, a place to put a tripod, and a waterproof cover to wrap it in if it starts raining. I got a 64GB SD card (which is enormous!), and also a $25.00 Google Play card from my sister.

     Yesterday, I celebrated my birthday with my mom. We went to Tupelo Honey and had Cookie Cake afterwards. I opened the first present which was a 90mm AF 1:1 Macro f/2.8 lens! I was a little concerned at first because my old camera couldn't autofocus on AF cameras. Luckily, I opened my second present. It was the Nikon D90!! This camera has the autofocus motor in it, so I can now use the macro with autofocus, AND my older ultra-wide angle lens on autofocus! We basically didn't pay for the camera though, because we are going to sell my old camera on Amazon and get a little less than what we got the [refurbished] D90 for. Today I tested the macro and my new camera out for the first time. I just went walking around my yard and I got this picture of a spider hanging from it's web (it was a TINY spider), and my dog's nose. Both shot with my macro.

     I want to thank my Mom and Dad, Jimmy, Hillary, Bob, Gram and Pop, Maya, and last but not least, Callie, for making my birthday so amazing!

Abandoned and Creepy

     Last weekend, gram and I went to the Warren Wilson barn that is very old and spooky. We went inside and took a couple of photos and then left. The next morning we came back to have some more time, and we spent about an hour there. On our way home, we went to an old Tuberculosis Hospital on the VA hospital campus. It was really creepy and I had to sneak past the workers to get this picture.

Beaver Lake Photos

       Today, we went out to try and get some photos of beaver lake while there was still fog lingering on it. Unfortunately, we arrived a little too late and missed it. The sky was full of grey clouds and it was a pretty boring scene. We canoed our way over to a little cave-looking site, completely shrouded in trees and bushes. Inside, there were all kinds of plants and organisms and birds. I didn't get to photograph much but I do feel like I captured the mood of the morning; gloomy and heavy. The first picture especially captures this feeling, but the other two are just some simpleton photos that I took that I like. Other than missing the fog, it was a good day.