Natural light post Assignment

The natural light portraiture was not one of my favorite assignments at all. I do not really see how taking a picture of someone close up and in light can turn out to be a beautiful picture. This is just my personal opinion of course but I think pictures of nature and images with majestic backgrounds look much better. Here are the pictures I took for this assignment though.

Natural Light pre assignment

    For this assignment we need to take a picture of someone that we know with a window behind them to provide natural light for the portrait. The portrait should represent who the person is for example the cook of the family might be wearing an apron holding a spatula or something. The natural light should make the portrait of the person you are taking a picture of look unique and beautiful like the picture below.

The Big Project Pre assignment post

      For the big project I am going to take pictures that resemble Whit Richardson's landscapes of nature. I am mostly interested in his landscapes of mountains rather than his desert landscapes. His photographs of extreme sports like biking and skiing also interest me a lot but we are not allowed to choose more than one type of photograph to take for the rest of the year so I decided to choose to take images resembling his mountain landscapes. All of his images are in color so I no longer have to make my images in black in white which in my opinion usually makes the picture look more dull and less beautiful. These are just a couple of the images that Whit Richardson took that I admire.

Near and Far Post Assignment

      I really enjoyed this near and far assignment mainly because it gave me the chance to take cool photographs of nature which is one of the main reasons I am taking photography. The pictures I took are from the top of my mountain in Maine and I brought my camera up there because I knew that I would be able to get some fantastic shots. The only part about this assignment that I did not really like is how we have to have it in black and white. Although some pictures look much better in black and white I think it takes the beauty out of most pictures especially those of nature. Here are some of the pictures that I took for this assignment. Even though I took at least 200 hundred pictures over the course of the weekend these are the ones that I like the most.