Jessica - Essence of Olympia

Deana - Breaking the rules

Breaking the rules....The reflection. I waited for a car to park to

catch a bigger reflection of something that didn't belong. No luck

on the vehicle. To retake the picture, I should have stepped

back and picked up more of the sidewalk chalk images.
F/80 ~ 1/125 ~ ISO 125

And what can we say about the incidents in the park....toooo funny!

Deana's Postcard

After the search for the "postcard" photo on Saturday, I found

it on Tuesday with a break in the rain. Data on this

is F/10 ~ 1/80 ~ ISO 200.

Postcard

F10, 1/160, ISO 125

Greg - Field Trip - Symmetry and Value

Well, I am a bit bummed out that the class is over. I really had a lot of fun and felt like it expanded my vision.

The field trip was fun. I decided to work on symmetry and value. I had the thought about the "postcard shot" in the back of my head the whole time, but I found myself in a lot of alleys and dingy places, so no postcard shots!

For symmetry, I took some shots that followed the rule and then I broke it. I'm not sure I broke the rules for value, although I was thinking about both value and symmetry when I was shooting the gargoyle faces on the OSPI building.

Bruce- Olympia Postcard

Bruce- Olympia Postcard

Bruce- Olympia Postcard

Sunshine - Breaking the Rules

f/22
ss/ 1/6s
iso/ 200
28mm
.9 ND Filter
Cheap wireless remote from China :D


Rule Broken: Use a plain or unobtrusive background to shoot subjects.

f/3.2
ss/640
iso / 200
50mm

Rule Broken: Fill the frame with the subject, to create impact.

Sunshine - Postcard

f/22

ss/ 1/6 s

iso/ 200

28mm

.9 Neutral Density Filter

For my project on Saturday, I wanted to focus on lines, particularly taking images of the corners of building, and trying to get the Downtown Olympia feel. I also wanted to try a slow shutter speed image to get motion blur from objects in the image. I picked this particular bluilding because of the the asymmetry (the contrast between light and dark sides of the building, but otherwise the almost the same). By bringing the corner of the building off center and tilting it, gave the building more emphisis in the picture. The motion blur comes from the pedestrian crossing the street, which adds a little more walk around feel of Downtown (wish there were larger amounts of pedestrians). I also like the white VW bus parked in front of the Urban Onion.

Rules Broken: Keep the camera level with the horizon. Always shoot with everything tack sharp.

I did a vintage processing on the image, just to see how it would change the mood.

I Couldn't Resist

Reflection

This photo is of a door that I found downtown. I took the picture to break the rule of keeping your own reflection out of the photo but I kind of like it. F2.8, 1/60, ISO 100

Melissa - Downtown Olympia

I don't know that I'd use this as a postcard shot, but I think it's the photo of mine that says the most about Olympia: 1. bike with grocery basket, 2. whimsically painted building, 3. unusual shopping, 4. thriving downtown, and 5. laid back people, as typified by that old skateboard dude gliding out of the shot. I wanted him at a different spot in the shot, but a car passed between us and luckily I just caught him on the way out of the photo. So it's a rule-breaker, but it does balance the shot a little better.

Melissa- Oly Attitude

This is my favorite shot from the walk-about field trip. I wish I'd used a higher f-stop and focused the whole image better. Still I think it's a funny photo; that dog really has the Oly attitude.

Here's Delilah

I was so concerned with getting Delilah in the lower right corner for balance (like the slideshow photo with the little dog watching the lady do laundry) that I just about gave the guy a haircut! (subtle photographic commentary?) I don't think I focused the shot on Delilah though ( she was pretty squirmy!) but maybe on the guy's foot.

Sylvester Park Stalker

I wanted to pass along to everyone to be on the lookout for the Sylvester Park Stalker. He was trying to disguise himself as a photographer taking pictures of strangers.

I love breaking rules...

Rules broken: all of them. This is a bad picture for so many reasons; poorly cropped, the trash can in front of the main subject, over-exposed, all kinds of reflections off the window, the women's head is cropped off right through her forehead... but I like it because she is watching (and "listening") to him play from inside Starbucks.

f/9, s=1/250, fl=300, ISO=800, pattern metering

I walked up to the capital building after the field trip and this cute little girl caught my eye sliding down the ramp on the wrong side of the steps. I let her move through the frame and captured this just before she exited. Her family were out of frame to the left keeping an eye on her.

Rule broken: Never lead your subject right out of the frame.

f/11, s=1/200, fl=200mm, ISO=400

"I went to the park one day and a photographer's convention broke out"

Rule Broken: keep the actual subject of your photo in focus. What's interesting to me in this picture is the park-like feel with the bench and young women in the foreground, the green grass... and the crowd of photographers in the background.

f/7.1, s=1/400, FL=300, ISO=500

"Lady in Blue"

Rule Broken: again, never lead your subject right out of the frame. This still works for me because of the chaos of the trash can, the bikes and chair, offset by the "the lady in blue"

f/7.1, s=1/800, FL=300, ISO=500

Rule Broken: Never take a picture of your teacher. It will cost you $200. REALLY?

F/7.1, S=1/500, FL=165, ISO=800

PS: Thank you to whoever may have picked up my spent coffee cup from under the bent at Sylvester Park. I went back to pick it up and it was gone. Devin

Breaking the rules

These 4 shots were taken this past Wednesday during class. I LOVED breaking the rules.

Rule broken: don't photograph your own shadow

f/5, s=0.769, FL 16mm, ISO 3200, no flash

Rule broken: Don't do diagonal lines from corner to corner.

This was my wife's favorite shot of the night. She liked the distinct orange and blue colors, and she could still see they were trashcans up against a wall

f/6.3, s=1/4, FL 16 mm, ISO 3200, no flash

Rule broken: don't adjust the zoom while the shutter is open

I disagree... I like this effect

f/6.1, s=0.625, FL 16 to 85 mm, ISO 1000, rear sync flash

Rule broken: keep the horizon level

Usually true, but I like the horizon balanced with the curb and lettering. I also like the perspective and depth particularly with the car to the left as reference.

f/5, s= 1/8, FL 16mm, ISO 2500, fill flash

Greg - In Class assignment - Breaking the Rules

I was playing around with my flash, using long shutter speeds and moving the camera around after I clicked the shutter. Fun stuff!

ISO 400, f4.5, 1/5 second shutter

Trailing Lights - Matt

f/16.0, 30 sec, ISO-100, WB-tungsten, 35mm. I've been wanting to do this for a long time so I decided to give it a shot.

Around the Campus

I intentional used a slower shutter speed to capture the movement. I intentionally cropped the top of the pole off to let the viewer visualize it. I didn't really like the cars in the background so I cropped them out but may have cut too much off the picture. F22, 1/15, ISO 100

I liked the composition of this one. F11, 1/180, ISO 100.

On this one I wanted to capture a moment in time when the blossoms were blowing off the trees. Unfortunately a lot of them blended in with the background too much. F6.3, 1/180, ISO 100.

Jessica - Emphasis, Proportion/Scale, Space

Proportion/Scale

ISO 100, Tv 1/1600, Av 4.5

The seagull sitting atop the pylon helped to give an idea of the size of the pylon.  I waited for the kayaker (in the background) to be just to the right of the pylon but was wishing he/she were more in the middle ground and more visible in the image.

Emphasis

ISO 640, Tv 1/250, Av 8.0 (both shots)

My mother-in-law mentioned that she was always drawn across the lake to the little brown and green house.  I shot in both portrait and landscape to see how the change in perspective changed the emphasis.  Of course the dock in the foreground on the landscape image pulls the focus away from the house.  I kept the depth of field at an 8 to keep the house in focus in hopes that the viewers eye works it's way back to the house even though the dock might be the first thing they notice.

Space

ISO 200, Av 6.3, Tv .8 sec

ISO 1000, Av 5.0, Tv 2 sec.

Both were taken at dawn.  I loved that the water was so smooth that it reflected the sky and hills as well as the lights from houses (in the 2nd one).  The shot below was later in the day.  Wish I'd taken it from the same perspective as one of the two above.  

 

ISO 100, Av 5.6, Tv 1/160

Sunshine - Space

f/6.3

ss/100

ISO/200

WB/Auto

28mm

This is the Bridge at Tumwater Falls Park. I have a thing for this bridge and can photograph it over and over again. This time I used my zoom lens and tried to get the widest angle of 28mm. Out of all the images, I think this is the best perspective because you can not see where the trail leads, and it looks like the trail just ends at the end of the bridge.

Sunshine

Emphasis and Dominance in a different perspective
f/11
ss/100 (too slow)
ISO/200
WB/Auto
28mm

I wish I could have gotten this one with one foot about the other, but my shutter speed was too slow and they all turned out blurry (in a bad way).
I liked this image because you can only see her bottom half, and there is no one else in the playground. She is alone.

Sunshine - Contrast

f/8
SS/800
ISO/200
WB/Auto

Deb - Busy Photo, Happy Kid

There is a lot going on in this photo but I believe all lines lead to my daughter, who found her own way to be entertained by the balloons while she waited for me.

Deb - Emphasis/Dominance (extreme version)

This angle makes it look as if the balloons are falling toward me and make me feel a bit claustrophobic, even with the sky as the background.

Deb - Emphasis/Dominance

Deb - Inverse proportion?

Not a very original shot, but my reflection in the center of the chrome is tiny in proportion to the size of the bike, contrary to reality.