After taking pictures this last week, I was looking through all my photos and I realized a lot of the pictures I took were reflections of a lot of things. I'm not saying this is a good or a bad thing. If a photo turns out cool from shooting an object as a reflection then you might as well roll with it. I think for the future I might start deliberately shooting objects from a reflection angle and try and make it look the same as it would without having shot it from as a reflection. I think its's different and you can get some different looking shots with shooting reflections. Not only did I do reflections this last week, but I really just took a bunch of random pictures. I love it when you have no plans on what to take and you just wing it. A lot of times you can get some really golden shots by not planning anything and just "get the shot" while going through a standard daily routine rather than going out of your way to actually get a photo. Don't take this the wrong way, there are plenty of good planned out photos, I'm just it's also not impossible to take some lovely shots just while going through your standard operation of life.
Most of what I just said probably sounded like I was just rambling. I tried to express that the best way I could but that most likely came out different than I wanted it too. Anyways, I will put descriptions on each of my favorite photos. So look below each photo, if you please, to see what I did in shooting it and the editing side of it. Enjoy these photos, if you feel inclined (by that part of your brian) to enjoy these photos. Have a Merry New year and a Rockin' Christmas.
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| Description: odd, mysterious, unpredictable, unorthodox. This is actually a shot of an elevator button. I desaturated it, and turned down the exposure almost all the way to just get a different picture.: |
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Shutter Speed: 1/250
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 200
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| Most people would hate this photo just cause it's poorly taken and blurry but I like it. I like how the kid on the left is just an outline of a body. The blurry face adds to the anger portrayed from these photos. It almost portrays them as ghosts because there is no detailed outline of their figure. I got this shot by leaving the shutter speed open for about 4 seconds. The kid on the outside (on the left) ran around the other two and that is why he turned out as mostly just an outline of a body. The other two people just stood there and didn't move. I had to have a low aperture and ISO to compensate for the over exposure I was going to have as a result of leaving the shutter speed open for that long. On the editing side, I had to turn the exposure down a lot to even be able to see anything. I bumped the contrast up, and the clarity also a little bit. |
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| oooh thats nice. Yeah, this shot was taken at Thors pizza on Schweitzer. All the necessities you need to enjoy a nice slice of pizza, or not.. your choice. For editing, I just figured I turn down the vibrance some (I know thats pretty standard but figure I would just role with it) I bumped up clarity to make the glass pop out a little more and I also turned up the contrast to darken areas around the salt shaker and everything else. |
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| I like this picture a lot because of all the lines that come about from it. I'll try and point out as many as I can. Ok, the handles on top of the condiment dispensers are all consistent together forming a line to the middle of the photo. Next, the top of the condiment dispensers (the edge of them) form lines to the middle of the photo. Then finally the nozzle of the dispensers forms a line to the middle of the photo. Moving on to the back portion of photo, there are lines from the bars supporting the gated fence as well as lines from the lane handles going into the food areas. I know wish I would of put arrows to show you what I'm seeing, but hopefully you can see the same lines I am seeing. |
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| This is a photo of the crossbars of a railing. I really like how there are a bunch of vertical consecutive lines from the supporting crossbars. And when you look just to the right of those ( the back part of the picture) you see the horizontal shade lines on another post, that also adds to the lines in this picture. For the editing in this, I just turned down the temperature a little bit to add a little blue to the picture and make it a little darker and not as bright. I bumped up the clarity a little bit as well as some of the contrast. |
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| When I was taking this photo, I wanted it to overall turn out a little darker. That is why I left the ISO at 200 and had the SP pretty fast for being inside (with not that much light). This photo portrays satisfaction to me. Sam is totally comfortable and relaxed by the fire, he doesn't care for a second what his expression is like. In editing this, I bumped the contrast a lot to keep the photo as dark as I could and then I desaturated it. Thats about all I did for the editing.. keeping it pretty simple. |
Shutter Speed: 1/250
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 200
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| I think this photo is funny just cause of Sam's reaction and whats going on. Sam's reaction definitely throws out the word confusion in my opinion. A confusion that Sam excepts and jut roles with it. People might say its a horrible photo cause it's crooked and what not, but I like it how it laid out. That why I didn't want to straighten the picture out, I wanted to leave it just how it came about from the picture. Once again all I did was bump the contrast on this and desaturated it. I didn't want this photo as dark so that's why I turned down the SP a little bit. |
Shutter Speed: 1/160
Aperture: 5.6
ISO:200
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| I like how the depth of field on this photo played out. The first little sparkle ball is out of focus as well as the last two. This puts most the focus on the middle ball. I tried to darken the corners to even put more of an emphasis on the middles sparkled ball. In editing this, I bumped the clarity a little bit just to give it a little more detail than it already had, added some contrast to it, and shifted the temperature just a hair to colors of my satisfaction. |
Shutter Speed: 1/200
Aperture: 4.0
ISO:200
Shutter Speed: 1/100
Aperture: 5.0
ISO: 200
Shutter Speed: 1/100
Aperture: 5.0
ISO: 200
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| Another blurry like water paint picture. Looks like the outline of a coffee cup but I actually think it's the outline of a cup of noodles. I can't totally remember. I turned up the vibrance a little to make the brown pop a little better and bumped the clarity a little also. |
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| All these photos of the water drops on the window are just great, I really like them. The reason I like them is because you first see the drops on the window, then you see the reflection on the window. And the reflection adds color to the picture behind the rain drops. Editing wise, I turned the clarity up a lot to emphasize the water drops more and make the pop out in detail. Turned the contrast up a little and turned the temperature down some to give it more of that glassy reflection look. Shutter Speed: 1/100 Aperture: 5.0 ISO: 200 |
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| Same as picture above: Desaturated |
Shutter Speed: 1/80
Aperture: 5.6
ISO200
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| Another railing reflection on a deck: look bellow for more details about these railing reflection pictures. |
Shutter Speed: 1/25
Aperture: 4.5
ISO: 200
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| Ok, so the goal in this photo was to see how many different reflections and how many different pictures I could get jammed into one picture. It's a little confusing, but this is a tiny layer of rain on a wooden railing. There are two reflections and then the actual picture itself. On the railing, on the left side of the photo, there are two reflections. The bottom of the photo is the reflection of the overhanging roof above me. The top of this photo on the left is the second reflection of a roof tip at another section of the building. So the upper right of the picture is not a reflection and those are just the white cross bars of the deck. |
Shutter Speed: 1/60
Aperture: 4.5
ISO:200
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| This is a complete reflection of the railing. The reflection is the underbelly of the overhanging roof. I like how the reflection adds to an older film look almost. In certain areas of the picture it's blurry. It almost looks like a tilt shift lens was used to blur the upper left side of the photo. I thought this turned out pretty cool. |
Shutter Speed: 1/30
Aperture: 5.0
ISO:200
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| This photo is half a reflection and half the actual picture. See the outline of the tabasco sauce on the counter?.. from there and down is the actual picture and above that is all a reflection in the window. The reflection is the kitchen where the pizza is prepared. I like this photo because there is smudges on the window making this photo a little blurry not totally clear. I also like how I made the reflection of the kitchen a little clearer than the actual picture part of the photo. It almost makes it look like the kitchen part of the photo is the actual photo and from the tabasco sauce down is the reflection but it't not. I think it's pretty cool. Inspiration: found this blog and a website, it's reflection pictures but I don't believe it's only one photographer that took them all. They are really cool though and good |
Nice images, good attention to the details in life, like the ghost effect that you have in the image of the crew standing together.
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