Friday, March 30, 2007

Bits and Pieces



No easy way to explain this so above is an example of our next project. Due date Sunday April 8th. For this one I did it the old fashioned way. Real film, Dark room, Scissors and glue. The idea is to take allot of Little pictures and piece them together. This can be done by printing them as a contact sheet putting them all together and taking a picture, or for the more computer literate of us this can be done in Photoshop.
I had a friend at ASU that did this with his bike and a copy machine. He then put the life size picture of his beloved bike on the wall. It was pretty cool at the time.

Thursday, March 15, 2007

A Series of Shapes

This will end Friday. Next weeks will be a free for all submit your best 2 pictures. I will be out of town all of next week so I will try to get something but cant make any promises.

Jon pics

Lines

All of the pictures are plants or trees with a little help from Photo Shop. Some are a little hard to see but all contain some straight lines.



This one is a vine even though it looks like a bloody heat.




Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Kristy's second admit


Diamond


Triangle


Circle


Square

Kristy's Shapes


Circles


Circle


Triangle


Rectangle


Square


Ovals


Square

Monday, March 12, 2007

How to Make a Killer Photo using 8 Simple Composition Rules

I have been trying to teach Kristy about this but she doesn't like me teaching her so here you go.

Rule of Thirds
This “rule” applies for everything: landscape, macro and portraits, but exception would be the classic portrait. This means that instead of placing the subject (main focus of interest) in the centre of the frame put it on an intersection of the thirds. For me it is much simple to consider this “mind drawing” where my subject is placed either in point 1 or 2 or 3 or 4:



Cropping
Sometimes cropping a subject to make the viewer focus on some specific detail is an extremely good idea. But other times, when it’s not about details, it’s good to have the entire subject inside the picture and don’t take a shoot as if the subject is just about to leave, but rather just about to come if it is not standing. If you are in hurry or not so sure about what you want and you also got a high megapixel camera, you can afford thinking about cropping after shooting in the post-editing process. Otherwise, get closer and if getting closer will scare away your subject (hehe) then use your zoom.

To see the rest check out the link below.

http://www.photoaxe.com/composition-in-photography/

Parts pf a whole winner

Well it looks like Holly won this one with the piano. Congratulations Holly! Now you can brag to the world of your photo artistic abilities for a whole week.

Friday, March 9, 2007

Parts of a Whole Winner

Please vote for you favorite 2 in this post and I will declare the winner on Monday

New Challenge

A Series of Shapes

You may shoot a series of one shape, or a series of different shapes all from the same category. For instance 3 different circles you find, or 4 different shapes that are all childrens toys,etc... 5 total pictures, 3 minimum.

Holly





Thursday, March 8, 2007

Jim

Here is mine.

Dr Plum in the library with the candlestick holder!!

John's Post


Ashley

Hoop


Window


Sucka

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Kristy's Photos

Yes, she has a few more than allowed, but at least she submitted something.












All of these "parts" make a "whole" lot of Happy!

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

and again




Example




Since John is having a hard time I will submit one example. Not sure if this will be my final submission or not.

Friday, March 2, 2007

Check out some of my Pictures


I havn't posted very many of my pictures here yet but some of my favorites are.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbreeeez/

This is my all time favorite

Parts of a Whole Deadline

I guess I forgot this important detail. The deadline will be next Thursday the 8th.

Thursday, March 1, 2007

Block the trash

I found this today and it seems to work well. All you have to do is point your DNS to their site. So your internet traffic flows through the scrubit server and trash site get blocked. Its free but as a work of warning the site has a program you can install but my understanding is there is no uninstall for it. I dont like things that cant be uninstalled.
http://www.scrubit.com/

Jill

one more late night submission from Jill. Great picture.

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