Rose Petals

I thought these flowers were so beautiful and I should at least get a few pictures while they were still alive! I think these pictures really capture the overall beauty of the whole bouquet.

It's Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas!

I really love using the KISS rule to make an impact in a photo, as you can probably tell..

Turkey Day!

I tried to use the light to create a cool effect, and boy do these look like tasty rolls!

What a Cutie!

This picture really tells it all; I thought it captured her personality perfectly and it came out as a cool shot as well.

More of Little Sophie

Sophie sure makes for a good model! She likes to pose for the camera and knows just what to do to get a good shot! It's hard to think she has no idea whats going on! What I really like about this picture is how the light comes in from the right, directed towards her face and she is looking into the light as well. The plants in the background add to the picture and contrast the colors in her coat.

Sophie!

The sunlight really added to these photos and highlights the fur around little Sophie.

Shadows

I thought all of these photos had an interesting effect of the shadows helping to highlight certain portions of the frame.

Attempt #1

The slide show I put together below was the result of an attempt to get the average tourists view of Washington DC. The day I went to take pictures ended up being dark and dreary, so I decided to attempt to portray the darker side of the Nation's Capital. If you really think about it, there is a lot of darkness surrounding us. The music with the slide show was perfectly synchronized with the photos, but in the process of saving the file as a movie file, it seems to have gotten off a little bit. I left all of the photos unphotoshopped to follow the photo journalist perspective.

Attempt #1

Jaws

Positioning can really add something to a photo as well as show the human scale. This really shows the massive size of the shark jaw!

Simple Touches

By adding in some light and darkening other areas, this simple photograph makes it look almost as if it wasn't even taken outside.

Extraordinary?

The top is the altered photo, I felt like changing the white balance added a warmth to the picture, which makes it fit in more with the overall feel of the basilica. The original photo was a little too cold and harsh.

Metro

When looking through photos, I thought this particular one could have a lot of impact if some simple things were edited slightly in Photoshop. Certain areas could be burned and others dodged to really give the center of focus some impact.

The Unseen

Sometimes the unseen are also the prettiest things. I thought that these photos really helped to showcase that. After practicing with the unseen, my overall conclusion is that the unseen is what appears in a scene after further examination. The unseen may be the most dynamic object in the image, but it isn't the most eye catching on first glance of an area. In this particular example, the fountain would be the normal eye catching feature, but what really makes the fountain special is the curvature around the edge. This curvature allows water to elegantly flow over the edge almost unnoticed.

Little Ladybug

I felt like these two pictures really captured the joy of trick or treating for young children! By keeping the little girl the main focus in both shots, the eye goes directly towards her, not to mention the fact that she is the brightest object in the frame.

Halloween!

When helping out with trick or treating, I really tried to focus on the people and their actions in all of the photos, while trying to maintain a sense of consistent style in a lot of the photos I took.

Some More Photos from the Capitol

These photos are all attempts at practicing "one shot" techniques. In all of the above photos, the composition was thought out, camera adjusted and prepared to try and attain the best possible result from the beautiful architecture within the Capitol Visitors Center.

Some Portrait Practice

These photos were an attempt to follow my usual style with the object in critical focus being the only portion of the photo in complete focus. For these photos I really tried to capture the subject in portrait like shots.

The Capitol

These are just a few of many photos taken of the BEAUTIFUL architecture at and surrounding the Capitol. When taking these photos, I tried to focus on getting the composition just right, so only one photo would have to be taken (AKA one shot =])

Green Leaves

These are some older nature photos that I took just before the leaves began to change. The lighting in each really adds to the photo, while still keeping it simple.

White Balance

These photos are all examples of shots that could have turned out really cool, but the white balance the camera was set at tended to make the photos a little grainy and colorless in some shots.

Fall Colors

All of these photos are dramatically impacted by the lighting. If the pictures were taken around noon, for example, the overall effect of the photo would be completely different.

Out in the Field

This photo was taken with the light in front of the subject, creating light spots on the back and creating shadows along the front.

In this instance, the light was behind the camera, illuminating hte front of all of the plants.