Tuesday, November 26, 2013

1.  At first glance I thought that this was a picture of water with a very long exposure. Even after realizing that it was fog, I was still aw struck. I think this picture is beautiful, the way the light is shining on half of the fog and one of the mountain sides is gorgeous.  The trees on the mountains are not as sharp as, I think, they need to be. Overall, I think this picture is beautiful and there is not a whole lot that I would change about it. 

2.  This picture would be really cool if half of it was not completely blurry.  The contrast between the blue sky and the green algae is awesome and I can see where he was trying to go with it.  If only he had made the bottom as clear as the horizon it would be beautiful.  I'm not sure what he was trying to accomplish by using such a long shutter speed but whatever it was it didn't work. 

3. This is almost a perfect picture of a squirrel.  The back half of the squirrel is out of focus but that is to be expected when using a aperture of 2.8 because you lose some depth of field.  The blurred green background and the squirrels brown coat contrast nicely.  The front half of the squirrel is in nice clear focus.  Overall, this is a really good picture. 

Monday, November 25, 2013


I visited Costa Rica my senior year of high school and we got the opportunity to do a bunch of amazing things.  One of them was to hike to the La Fortuna Waterfall.  I took this picture with my phone and besides the people in the bottom I really like it.  The top of the picture is a little overexposed and makes it look kind of foggy.  This is the original picture.  The main thing that I really like about this picture is how green the tree in the foreground turned out.  If I were to edit it I would crop out the bottom and fix the the overexposure then a little touch up here and there to highlight some colors.  Overall, I think it turned out great for being a phone picture.

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

I took this picture during my trip to Columbus.  I found a bush of these berries and thought of the "red rule" of photography; that people are more attracted to red.  I thought that the red berries and the red-purple stems would make good contrast to the green leaves.  This is the edited version of the original. I cropped out some of the unfocused leaves in the corner to get rid of some distraction. Overall, I really like this picture and think that it turned out really cool.