Big Project Progress

Over the weekend I brought the school camera with me to Maine so I would have some mountains to photograph seeing that there is not really any in or near Gloucester. I took hundreds of pictures from all different angles of many different mountains but these three pictures are probably my favorite three and the ones that I am going to put into my presentation. The reason I chose to do landscapes of Mountains rather than something that would be easier like oceans or buildings or something that would be easy to do in Gloucester is because I think mountains are such amazing land forms. They are beautiful  and majestic but at the same time intimidating and deadly. Something about them just intrigues me and I have always loved mountains maybe for that reason.

The first photograph I took was next to the lake a few minutes from my cabin. I actually walked onto the lake to take this photo and you can see the snowmobile tracks on the ice from people snowmobiling on the lake. The mountain in the picture is mount Christopher and it is probably one of my favorite mountains because I have snowmobiled to the top and hiked it and The sights from the top are magnificent. The second photo is actually the same lake just the other end of it. I drive by that house on the top of the mountain quite a bit when I am in Maine and I always stop to admire it and when taking this picture I stopped my car in the middle of the road and got out to find the right angle to take this picture. Luckily no cars came by so I got to take my time taking it. The third photo was also taken by me parking in the middle of the road and I tried to make the road a leading line into the mountains that were really far away.

Big Project Post

These three pictures of mountain landscapes I took over Christmas vacation with my phone. The first and the last photo were taken near my cabin up in Maine standing on top of a cliff and looking at the whole valley below and the second or middle photo was taken at Sunday River on Jordan peak. You can see the lift lines on the right side of the picture. The only hard part about taking these photos was freezing my hands of by taking them out of gloves to get the picture I wanted and then hiking through a good amount of snow to get to the right angle. So far my big project is turning out to be more of an adventure to get cool shots that I like and I am enjoying this project right now.

First big project post

This is the first picture I took for the big project assignment. I took this picture December 1st but for some reason never got around to uploading it until now. You can see the mountains in the background of the picture through the tree that I climber up to take this picture. 

I tried to resemble on of Whit Richardson's photos with this picture by making the tree near me sort of the focus but you can see the mountains in the back behind the tree like the image of Whit Richardson's below.

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.