Depth: Deep and Shallow

This week’s focus to play with aperture and try and get the subject in focus with the background blurred or get everything in focus all at the same time. I loved taking pictures where there was good, natural lighting because then it was easier to bring up the aperture to get everything in focus and not sacrifice image quality by increasing the ISO from a lack of light. I thought it was neat how I have complete control about what I want to draw the eye to and focus on. My favorite is turning the aperture down low to around 2.0-2.8 and get my background extremely blurry.

 

 

Ice: 1/26/16; 11:15am; Rexburg; 50mm; f 2.5; 1/1000; Canon 70d

Edits: Exposure, contrast, shadows, clarity, vibrance, and saturation.

 

Mugs: 1/26/16; 11:45am; Rexburg; 50mm; f 2.5; 1/160; Canon 70d; handheld light

Edits: Highlights, shadows, whites, blacks, and vibrance.

 

Tree: 1/26/16; 12:15pm; Rexburg Temple; 50mm; f 13; 1/320; Canon 70d

Edits: Exposure, contrast, blacks, clarity, and vibrance.

 

Rexburg Temple: 1/26/16; 12:35pm; Rexburg; 50mm; f 13; 1/320; Canon 70d

Edits: Contrast, shadows, blacks, clarity, vibrance, and saturation.

 

Spori Art: 1/21/16; 12:50pm; BYU-I Spori Building; 50mm; f 4.5; 1/40; Canon 70d

Edits: Exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks, and saturation.

 

Light – Motion: Freeze and Blur

This week the focus was to freeze and blur motion, and I had so much fun experimenting with cards, flour, matches, and a computer screen. The most surprising thing to me was how extreme I had to go by taking the shutter speed way down to three seconds or bringing it up to 1/1000 of a second. I loved seeing how it worked with the kind of lighting I had, and the best pictures I got either had great lighting or terrible lighting. The most difficult thing I came across was blurring images because it was hard to know if and what to focus on, and sometimes it was challenging to get one object in focus while everything is moving around.

Uno Cards: 1/19/16; 3:00pm; Rexburg; 50mm; f 2.5; 1/800; Canon 6D

Edits: Exposure, contrast, shadows, whites, blacks, and clarity.

Flour: 1/19/16; 11:30am; Rexburg; 50mm; f 2.8; 1/1000; Canon 6D; handheld light

Edits: Exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, blacks, clarity, and crop

Heart Flame: 1/19/16; 2:30pm; Rexburg; 50mm, f 16; 3.2; Canon 6D

Edits: Exposure, temperature, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks, clarity, and vibrance.

Computer Screen: 1/19/16; 2:50pm; Rexburg; 50mm, f 16; 2.0; Canon 6D

Edits: Vibrance

Photobook Design

I used photos that I have taken in the past of people who I am close to. For my design I wanted the style to look clean, simple, and classy, so I chose a red color scheme to bring out the pinks. I chose a font that looked fancy and that complimented the message I want to get across. I decided to make the white boxes be an element that I would repeat throughout the pages to ultimately bring everything together.

Past Photos

Hi there! My name is Ronnie Harris and I’m from Flagstaff, Arizona. I come from a family of 10, with five brothers and two sisters, and they are all my best friends. I met my cute husband while attending school here at BYU-I and we were married just over a year ago in the Mesa, AZ temple. I love making videos, being outdoors, dancing, and eating mac n cheese.

I’ve always been into videography but I am just barely getting into photography. I’ve spent a little time in Photoshop and I’ve practiced taking pictures on my family and some of the outdoors, but that’s the extent of it. Taking the Visual Media class was extremely helpful in introducing me to the basics and so I’m extremely excited to learn more!

 

This is a photo I took a couple weeks ago of my beautiful sister, Tess. It was taken just outside of my home in Flagstaff.

Edits: Brightness/contrast, vibrance, and crop.

 

I took this photo of my husband in Yellowstone National Park while we were there with family this past summer. He had some fun putting on his mom’s hat and lavalava.

Edits: Exposure, vibrance, brightness/contrast, clarity, and crop.

 

This photo was taken of some lily pads in the Gardens on BYU-I campus.

Edits: Exposure, contrast, vibrance, highlights, blacks, whites, and crop.

 

This is a mud hole that was also at Yellowstone. I loved the way the sun came over the hill.

Edits: Brightness/contrast, highlights, blacks, vibrance, and crop.

 

I took this photo of my brother at a place in St. Anthony.

Edits: Exposure, brightness/contrast, vibrance, luminance, blemishes, and crop.

 
My husband and I in Jackson, WY right after the sun rose. I actually took this picture using an intervalometer I held in my hand while my camera was set up on a tripod.

Edits: Vibrance, exposure, luminance, and crop.

 

This is another one of my brothers I took in Papa Johns when they came up to Rexburg to visit during the summer.

Edits: Exposure, brightness/contrast, vibrance, blemishes, and crop.

Past Photos

Hi there! My name is Ronnie Harris and I’m from Flagstaff, Arizona. I come from a family of 10, with five brothers and two sisters, and they are all my best friends. I met my cute husband while attending school here at BYU-I and we were married just over a year ago in the Mesa, AZ temple. I love making videos, being outdoors, dancing, and eating mac n cheese.

I’ve always been into videography but I am just barely getting into photography. I’ve spent a little time in Photoshop and I’ve practiced taking pictures on my family and some of the outdoors, but that’s the extent of it. Taking the Visual Media class was extremely helpful in introducing me to the basics and so I’m extremely excited to learn more!

 

This is a photo I took a couple weeks ago of my beautiful sister, Tess. It was taken just outside of my home in Flagstaff.

Edits: Brightness/contrast, vibrance, and crop.

 

I took this photo of my husband in Yellowstone National Park while we were there with family this past summer. He had some fun putting on his mom’s hat and lavalava.

Edits: Exposure, vibrance, brightness/contrast, clarity, and crop.

 

This photo was taken of some lily pads in the Gardens on BYU-I campus.

Edits: Exposure, contrast, vibrance, highlights, blacks, whites, and crop.

 

This is a mud hole that was also at Yellowstone. I loved the way the sun came over the hill.

Edits: Brightness/contrast, highlights, blacks, vibrance, and crop.

 

I took this photo of my brother at a place in St. Anthony.

Edits: Exposure, brightness/contrast, vibrance, luminance, blemishes, and crop.

My husband and I in Jackson, WY right after the sun rose. I actually took this picture using an intervalometer I held in my hand while my camera was set up on a tripod.

Edits: Vibrance, exposure, luminance, and crop.

 

This is another one of my brothers I took in Papa Johns when they came up to Rexburg to visit during the summer.

Edits: Exposure, brightness/contrast, vibrance, blemishes, and crop.

Past Photos

Hi there! My name is Ronnie Harris and I’m from Flagstaff, Arizona. I come from a family of 10, with five brothers and two sisters, and they are all my best friends. I met my cute husband while attending school here at BYU-I and we were married just over a year ago in the Mesa, AZ temple. I love making videos, being outdoors, dancing, and eating mac n cheese.

I’ve always been into videography but I am just barely getting into photography. I’ve spent a little time in Photoshop and I’ve practiced taking pictures on my family and some of the outdoors, but that’s the extent of it. Taking the Visual Media class was extremely helpful in introducing me to the basics and so I’m extremely excited to learn more!

 

This is a photo I took a couple weeks ago of my beautiful sister, Tess. It was taken just outside of my home in Flagstaff.

Edits: Brightness/contrast, vibrance, and crop.

 

I took this photo of my husband in Yellowstone National Park while we were there with family this past summer. He had some fun putting on his mom’s hat and lavalava.

Edits: Exposure, vibrance, brightness/contrast, clarity, and crop.

 

This photo was taken of some lily pads in the Gardens on BYU-I campus.

Edits: Exposure, contrast, vibrance, highlights, blacks, whites, and crop.

 

This is a mud hole that was also at Yellowstone. I loved the way the sun came over the hill.

Edits: Brightness/contrast, highlights, blacks, vibrance, and crop.

 

I took this photo of my brother at a place in St. Anthony.

Edits: Exposure, brightness/contrast, vibrance, luminance, blemishes, and crop.

My husband and I in Jackson, WY right after the sun rose. I actually took this picture using an intervalometer I held in my hand while my camera was set up on a tripod.

Edits: Vibrance, exposure, luminance, and crop.

 

This is another one of my brothers I took in Papa Johns when they came up to Rexburg to visit during the summer.

Edits: Exposure, brightness/contrast, vibrance, blemishes, and crop.