Art Final

f/4.0

iso200

aperture 1/640

Canon Rebel T3i with Canon Efs 18-355mm Lens

iPhone 6s Plus

f/5.6

iso400

aperture 1/2000

Canon Rebel T3i with Canon Efs 18-355mm Lens

 iso/400

f/6.3

1/4000

Canon Rebel T3i with Canon Efs 18-355mm Lens

iso/100

f/6.3

1/4000

Canon Rebel T3i with Canon Efs 18-355mm Lens

iso/3200

f/4.0

30second exposure

Canon Rebel T3i with Canon Efs 18-355mm Lens

iso/200

f/4.5

1/2000

Canon Rebel T3i with Canon 30-700 Lens

iso/1600

f/8.0

1/3200

Canon Rebel T3i with Canon 30-700 Lens

iso/800

f/5.6

1/4000

Canon Rebel T3i with Canon 30-700 Lens

iso/100

f/25

1/15

Canon Rebel T3i with Canon 30-700 Lens

 iso/400

f/5.6

1/4000

Canon Rebel T3i with Canon 30-700 Lens

iso/1600

f/4.5

1/4000

 Canon Rebel T3i with Canon 30-700 Lens

iso/400

f/5.6

1/2500 

Canon Rebel T3i with Canon 30-700 Lens

iso/1600

f/5.6

1/4000

Canon Rebel T3i with Canon 30-700 Lens

f/5.6

iso200

aperture 1/640

Canon Rebel T3i with Canon Efs 18-355mm Lens

f/5.6

iso200

aperture 1/640

Canon Rebel T3i with Canon Efs 18-355mm Lens

f/5.6

iso400

aperture 1/2000

Canon Rebel T3i with Canon Efs 18-355mm Lens

f/5.6

iso400

aperture 1/2000

Canon Rebel T3i with Canon Efs 18-355mm Lens

f/4.0

iso200

aperture 1/640

Canon Rebel T3i with Canon Efs 18-355mm Lens

f/4.0

iso200

aperture 1/640

Canon Rebel T3i with Canon Efs 18-355mm Lens

f/4.0

iso200

aperture 1/640

Canon Rebel T3i with Canon Efs 18-355mm Lens

f/4.0

iso200

aperture 1/640

Canon Rebel T3i with Canon Efs 18-355mm Lens

iPhone

iPhone 6s Plus

iso/3200

f/4.0

30second exposure

Canon Rebel T3i with Canon Efs 18-355mm Lens

Entry 14

I found this website: http://www.featureshoot.com/ and I actually really enjoyed it.

It's been marketed as a photography inspiration website, but also offers great suggestions into improving techniques, new trends, and the like.

I still have about 10 pictures to get for my final, and might use some of the tricks they listed here in my exploration.

Share 2 and Critique 4

I chose this picture because I like the water droplets flying in the air around the buffalo.

I chose this picture because I like the blue of the water in it. 

Entry 13: Weekly Blog Post

I had no idea what to post today for my blog. I was scrolling through some of my Yellowstone pictures and found this one, which is a closeup I shot when I got bored was waiting to go back to the van and saw a fly land on a sagebrush. In short: (1) I am not skilled enough to take a closeup shot of a fly in a short amount of time and (2) I really should have tried not being bored and taking more pictures of buffalo than plants. This being said, I really like how this shot turned out.

Share and Critique 3

I have a bunch of Yellowstone pictures to go through, so I figured a share and critique would be a good spot to use more of them. I like the first picture because the sky ends up (to me at least) being the focal point rather than the geyser, and the clouds looked kind of cool.

ISO: 400

Aperture: 5.6

Shutter Speed: 1/4500

This photo, I mostly just wanted to see what I could do with Lightroom and had some fun experimenting. 

ISO:400

Aperture: 5.6

Shutter Speed: 1/2500

Entry 12: Weekly Blog Post

For my weekly blog post, I'm including an article I found in Buzzfeed yesterday of National Geographic's Nature Photography Photos of the year.

My favorite photo was this one, in part because the image portrayed the ever prevalent bison in the park in a new and unique way.

Likes:

• Focus is on tree with bison in background
• Photo structure: tree's unique features draw your eye into the bison
• Black and white edit makes the fog look more intense

Dislikes:

• There are a few trees in the background that could have been edited out

Here are the rest of the photos, but I wanted to focus on this one.

Entry 11: Regular Blog

Through the course of this class, I have run into one issue consistently: Photo Storage. 

Granted, I should have expected this, I have a 2013 Macbook Air running an 1.3Ghz i5 Core with an 128GB SSD, with 4GBS of RAM. 

 In other words, not a computer meant to store lots of RAW files. 

In my frustration of discovering that I couldn't actually store any files on my computer to edit, I became creative, and did my research.

Ultimately, I landed on temporarily using Google Photos associated with my RMC Google account (lots of storage included), and I have the option to upload "original, RAW" files enabled. 

I could have juggled an external hard drive, flash drives, etc., and as my job is in IT, I have a lot of these devices hanging around, but I've discovered a central issue with external devices: I lose them. All of the time. 

Given this, cloud storage seemed like the best alternative until I can upgrade my computer.

Although I still have storage issues on my computer(Lightroom is a HUGE application) , landing on Google Photos has saved a lot of frustration in figuring out what I'm deleting off of my Mac next.