Phoblography

A friend of mine knows that I love taking pictures so she asked me to take some of her daughter that's graduating this year. I was a little intimidated, I admit. I've never taken portraits before, but I knew the perfect place for some great shots. I've been wanting to take pictures at this abandoned house by my neighborhood for a while. Thanks for giving me an excuse Amy!!

This was my favorite shot of them all... although I doubt it will work for what Amy wants it for. I just love the colors and composition. And especially the sun rays that show up in the pictures.

Love, Love, Love.

I didn't want to overload the blog with pictures, so I had to choose a couple that I really liked as options for Peyton to send in her graduation announcements....

And these last two were just some editing that I did. I don't have a fancy program to do it with so my options are limited.

I gotta say, the whole process was pretty awkward. I had no idea how to ask Peyton to pose or stand. She was asking me for direction and all I could say was "uhh, sit over there?" I'm glad I had my friend Maria there to point out some great spots for pictures!!

Probably a bad idea

I had to drive to downtown today to pick something up (upcoming post) and I decided to use my new iPhone app and take some pictures. I probably shouldn't have been driving while taking these, but it happened and I love them.

This just goes to show that with the right editing you can make any picture look cool. Man, I need some good editing software.

Lazy Sunday

Ryan has had the Flu since last night and so he's been out of commission all day. 

I'm scared to death that I'm going to get it too, which will be REALLY bad for school and work. I don't have sick days at work and for one person to miss a day is a BIG deal because there is no one to cover. I also have not thrown up for 7 years. I really can remember the last time that I did, which I'm probably totally jinxing myself now for mentioning it. But the last time was when I had my wisdom teeth out in 2001. The dentist (my brother-in-law) gave me some Percocet for the pain and my mom bought me chocolate pudding. It didn't take me long to figure out that the mixture of Percocet and chocolate was making me sick so I OBVIOUSLY stopped taking the drugs... (we're still talking about my wisdom teeth if you are confulsed).

Anyway, this semester of school is ending on Tuesday and I'll only have 2 semesters left before I actually have my dang degree... I should be writing my paper right now but I've had a really hard time motivating myself. So instead I've been taking some really great pictures around the house and of my dog.

 

Originally uploaded by lackycb

Lazy Sunday

Since you all want to see them I'm sure....

I'd like to pretend that I'm sort of photographer, and I'm trying to avoid doing any more of my homework, so here are some pictures that I've taken. Feel free to comment on how artistic I am... seriously...

This is one of the first I did for my class. I was playing with the depth of field on the camera and I've found that I like pictures better with a shallow depth of field. It makes the focal point really show well and just makes it all together more interesting.

Growing up my mom had a matchbook collection where every restaurant or hotel that she stayed she'd grab one of these to take home with her. She had a pretty good collection going and now it's mine. I don't think places give these away anymore, other wise I would continue on the tradition. This was the MACRO/close-up picture that I turned into class.