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Fine Art Print: McKenna Pro

This past week I had the opportunity to pick the top image I had shot from this semester, that was submitted to be printed on a 16×24 large print. The image that I chose was from my macro assignment where I shot a picture of a bee on some yellow flowers at the Thomas E.Continue reading “Fine Art Print: McKenna Pro”

Photo Contest: GuruShots

This week I had the opportunity of submitting two of my photos that I have taken throughout the duration of the semester in two of GuruShots photo contests. Here is a link to the site: https://gurushots.com/. Hopefully you will see some of my photos on there! ART DROPS CONTEST: This image was the one IContinue reading “Photo Contest: GuruShots”

TOP FIVE PHOTOS

I picked these photos as my top five photos from this semester that I have taken because it shows that I can take photos of a variety of subjects, in a variety of locations, while still being cohesive with my work. I think these photos showcase my strengths of shooting close-up/macro shots with just myContinue reading “TOP FIVE PHOTOS”

Macro Photography

For this assignment we were asked to take macro shots of insects, fruits, veggies, flowers, and any objects or textures. I don’t have any macro lens’s but I was able to capture all of my images by using my 18-55mm kit lens on my Canon Rebel T5. I shot all photos with aperture priority on,Continue reading “Macro Photography”

Phone Photography

This week in my digital media class we are learning more about Phone Photography, taking great pictures that can sometimes be even better than our DSLR cameras. I normally use my Canon Rebel T5 camera but this week I got to use my Apple iPhone XS Max. All edits done to these photos were doneContinue reading “Phone Photography”

Excursion – Fine Art

For this part of my excursion, we were asked to capture five or more fine art photos such as Landscape, Nature, Wildlife, Architectural, and Close-ups. Since I was camping in Caribou-Targhee National Forest during this excursion I wanted to keep my photos in the nature theme again. But I was also able to capture someContinue reading “Excursion – Fine Art”

Excursion: Portraits

OUTDOOR: For my outdoor portraits I took these photos at my complex’s fire-pit over Memorial Day weekend. I am still learning how to take photos of people so I wanted to make it more casual which fits my kind of lifestyle more. I used a fairly low iso considering how dark it actually was outside,Continue reading “Excursion: Portraits”

Excursion: Creative

LEVITATION: For this image I took a picture of the background and then had my friend hold a burning roasting stick, I was able to crop out some of the stick in Adobe Photoshop to making it look like the stick was floating in mid air. ABSTRACT: For this photo I wanted to try outContinue reading “Excursion: Creative”

Excursion: Series

SUBJECT & PROCESS: For this series I decided to have my subject be plants because I loved that there was a vast variety of them on the Brigham Young University – Idaho campus during the springtime. For the majority of my photos I wanted to do close-up shots of the subjects and create bokeh toContinue reading “Excursion: Series”

Landscape Perspective

For this assignment we need to pick a subject and take multiple shots that have a variety of angles, close ups, landscapes, one humanizing aspect and one with a texture added. I decided that my subject would be this green bench in the Taylor Quad in the middle of the Brigham Young University – IdahoContinue reading “Landscape Perspective”