Bruce- tool closeup

Bruce- my landscape shot

I think I could have gotten a little DOF for the foreground.

Bruce- purple flower

Bruce- purple & white flower

Bruce- Cherry Tree Bark

Bruce- Mossyrock garden

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.