Gridiron

Photo by: Abigail Preston

This photo at first was not supposed to be a macro photo; it was just of my little brother talking to his football coach. But when I really looked at it I saw started to experiment with Photoshop and cropping. In the end this is what I thought was the best way to have the photograph. What I like best about this photo is the lighting and the placement of his eye. You really get drawn to it. Also it is an unordinary and that’s what I’m all about.

Bolt!

Photo by: Dustin Huynh

This is a macro photo a screw I found in downtown Tacoma, right next to U-Dub Tac Town. I tried getting really close and a detailed macro photos. I used this photo for “unique camera angles” assignment. I am very, very, VERY happy with how this turned out! If I were to do something differently, I would have kept the 50” mm lens on and took macro the whole shoot.
“This is how we do it!” 

The Subaru

Photo by: Bryce McCoy

With this photograph I tried to get really close to the subject to get a good view. I took this photo for a review assignment, using it for fill the frame. I am really happy with how the photo turned out. With the daylight outside, it came out fairly grainy, which was not intended. I tried to fix the grainy-ness, in PhotoShop, but not all of it could be fixed. Overall, I am very happy with the final product.

Why So Focused?

Photo by: B.Wheeler

This photo was by accident when I was adjusting settings on my camera. But some how it snapped a pretty nice photo of josh looking through his camera. I like how intense his face looks even though he isn’t really doing anything very important just looking through a lens. You can tell how focused he is by the wrinkles in his face overall I like the intensity of a photo I didn’t mean to take

Milton Tuck Knees

Photo taken by: Khrys Ross
I took this photo during our photo review assignment. We had to take a photo under each category, and I used this as my shutter speed photo. My friends and I went to
Milton skate park and I decide to bring my camera so I can know two birds out with one stone. My shutter speed was set at 1/250, and out I came with this photo, that I turned in as my favorite.

Yawning kitty

Photo by: Rosie Moslander

When I took this photo I was sorta still messing around with my camera. Trying to get the settings to how I wanted them and whatnot. This cat was sitting on the hot tube so I decided that I should take a few pictures of it. My boyfriend told me that it would be a great shot when the cat was yawning so he rushed me out when she was and I took the picture. I think what I need to do differently is that I need to fully make my camera go to the setting that it really needs to be one in order to get a much better photo. My shutter speed setting was set at 1/30 sec. I was using the rule of thirds element. To me, rule of thirds is my favorite element of composition.

Yummy Pig

Photo by: Alissa Boyer

I was trying to capture the expression; he had while playing with his favorite toy. The lighting in the room made it hard to take. I had to open the curtains and still had a hard time. He is always moving I had to follow him around for a while. He finally stopped moving long enough for this photo.

Small cow, big world

Photo by: Mae Snaer

In my photo I used center of interest to bring a more clear definition of what I tried to take a picture of. I tried a different angle by taking the photo closer to the ground so I got a shot of the grass, and how small the cow was compared to it. As for camera operations I had my shutter speed at 1/80, my ISO was at 100 which helped a lot because the weather was cloudy, my aperture was at 5.6.

Before a storm

Photo by: Elizabet Beggs

This photo took me awhile, the sun was blaring and of course these flowers have to planted in the front yard. My camera was just not working with all the light that was illuminating around everything! So the next day I took this picture, and it was right before the rain started (good timing) and I really like the end result. I love how all the details of the flower are in focus, I think it’s a good single center of interest. Can’t believe I took this picture.

Chillin’

Photo by: Justin McAulay

I had an assignment where I had to take a photograph that had leading lines to my subject. So I had my friend Isaac stand against a brick wall on school grounds. He just stood there “chillin’” while I snapped the picture. I really liked the photo because the lines just attract your eyes to my man Isaac. I had a very fast shutter speed with the bright sun shining, 1/125 was the speed.

Pink Flower

Photo by: Jessica Schock

One day I was walking around the Rogers campus, frustrated. I was so mad that I couldn’t find any pretty flowers to take pictures of. By this time I’m frantically walking around because the assignment was due that day. I finally found this little pink flower, I felt bad for it because it is missing about half of its petals. My shutter speed was 1/250. My ISO setting was at 100 because I was outside and it was cloudy.

VROOOM!

Photo by: Isaac H.

What I tried to strive for this photo was to use the line on the side walk to lead to the Honda S2K. Although the line on the side walk might have came out a little more blurry then I would have wanted the car just came out very nice in my eyes. So when I took the photo I actually just got down on the way so that I was laying down and try to get a nice straight angle the car. I am actually satisfied with the photo because I feel that the car just came out really nice. Something I would probably change is have the line that was suppose to lead to the car more focused and try to get better lighting on the photo so that there isn’t a glare on the car.

Hands

Photo by: Hilaree Hampton

After spending the day with my baby cousin I remembered that I had my camera. She was taking a nap so I snuck into her room and took a picture with her hand on mine. I like that it’s like sweet and makes you think of the special times you have with little kids. I tried different angles and this is the only one that stood out to me. My settings were a 1/125 shutter speed, 4.0 aperture and my ISO was at 1600. I hope you enjoy this picture!

One Single Flower Standing

Photo by: Halee Dew


One of the cloudy day’s we have in the beautiful state of Washington I decided that instead of being bored out of my mind I was going to go experiment with my macro lens. While walking around my neighborhood I saw a flower bed with only one flower standing while the others were lying on the ground. When I was trying to get the perfect shot I was making it a priority to make that one flower the single center of interest. I set my iso to 200 and my shutter speed to 250. Then I proceeded to get as close to the flower as I could, granted it took a few shots, but I finally got the picture I wanted. I like the photo I took because you can tell what my focus of the photograph it and how you can see all the details of the center of the flower.

Heavens Little Angel

Photo by: Ellen Snyder

In this photograph, I was very pleased to be able to take pictures of my baby cousin. I was taking pictures of expressions for a assignment, I was trying to use the reflections of the window on her face to give her a more natural vibrant look on her face. It was kind of tricky to get the setting just right because of the weather outside and it was really dark inside the room. My settings were f/5.6, and 1/50 shutter speed. I really enjoyed taking pictures of a child because they are so energetic and full of life, but at the same time it can be very hard to get the right pictures of them.

Hey Jude

Photo by: Danielle Gintz

I took this photograph of The Beatles record Hey Jude for a photo skills review assignment. I wanted to get a sort of unique view of the record and use the grooves of it in the shot somehow so I did a close up shot. To get the picture I used a shutter speed of 1/5 seconds with an F-stop of 4 and 1600 ISO since there was so little light in the room. I like how there is a single stream of light cutting across the album towards the apple in the middle and how the background is totally black. If I could change anything it would be to have a longer depth of field so that more of the record could have been in focus.

Sunset

Photo by: Tasha A. Smith

This photo was part of my elements of composition assignment. I edited this picture in camera raw to make it look redder around the clouds and purpler in the sky. This picture was the most interesting to look at.

Sky in a Puddle

Photo by: Lizzi Curl

I chose this photograph to post to the blog because it is my favorite shot from our September projects. I adore how crisp the puddle came out and how little Photoshop manipulation was necessary to make this photograph come out as well as it did. It was a simple shot, but I liked it more than a I would have liked a complex shot.

Grayscale Delight

Photo by: Wynn Michael Wesson

After gobbling two mondito burritos with my friend, we headed across the street to find a pleasant surprise. An arch full of gray color and pyramids was laid before us! I quickly dropped my belongings, threw on my notorious 150mm lens, and began to imagine a piece of art for my easel. As the young Ansel Adams once said, “A good photograph is knowing where to stand” and I took this advice and applied it to my masterpiece. I set my stance, focused on a peculiar angle, and spent twenty minutes waiting for the perfect photo. Click! The photograph comes out greater than expected, almost as great as my daguerreotype in Mr. Tylczak’s class! I truly love this photo because it displays my hunger for unique angles and shows a complete tonal range that only dodging and burning could have helped, but I did not use Photoshop tricks! All in all, I gave this my all, and in the end, all of my all was shown through my photograph, truly a sight to behold and Ansel Adams would be proud!

Mystical Poisonous Berry

Photo by: Brayden Michael Richards, III

Well see here young photographers, I know many of you strive to be like me and achieve the same work that I have compiled. So I will let you, my little apprentices, in on a little secret. First off, I camped out under this beautiful tree for hours just waiting for the perfect lighting. My quest to pure excellence began with twisting on my macro lens and putting my camera into the correct settings; like daylight white balance, the correct ISO, and nice quick shutter speed. My angle was extremely unique because I was lying on a bush to get this beauty. I knew that I didn’t have to try to get amazing pictures but this one turned out especially good.

Morning Dew

Photo by: Jessica Antis

I took this photo around six o’clock in the morning, after I realized I had an Elements of Composition assignment due that day and didn’t not have any photos. I thought this photo looked pretty cool because of the water drops on the leaf. I was very happy with my end results for this assignment, even though I had to wake up early!

A Night on the Town

Photo by: Molly Ladner

This photo is probably one of my favorite pictures I have ever taken! I took this on the Museum of Glass Bridge over the freeway with the Chihuly glass. This was a 25 second exposure and it took a few tries to get the photo as dark as I wanted it, but still with the headlights from the car as bright as I wanted! Something I would do differently is that I would make sure that the photo isn’t kind of crooked. It looks a little off to me when I look at it. So I would check that the tripod is on more of a normal ground. This is the first time I have ever taken a picture like this and I was so happy with how it turned out!

Autumn Leaves

Photo by: Megan Bussey

I was taking pictures of leaves and trying to get a macro photo, but this one is more of fill the frame. I loved the color of the leave and I think it really draws your eye. When I took the picture and I didn’t need much help from Photoshop because I was outside. My aperture was 25.0 and my ISO was 100.

Wes’ still got hops

Photo by: Tyler Hiles

Well for starters I want to share that this photo is one of my favorites. Anyways I took this picture to show the stopped motion and it helped me finish my project. The lighting was really set for this picture just a hot September day it really doesn’t happen that often in Washington. Hope you enjoy the photo.

Fall Colors

Photo by: Tyler Carlyle

This photograph was kind of an interesting piece because I had the challenge of using the element of filling the frame. I used a macro lens attached to a 55mm lens. This let me stand a little farther back, and still was able to get the flower large enough. I really like this photo because it is really vibrant, yellow pops out on the red of the flower peddles.

In the Moment

Photo by: Josh Palmer

This photo to me really stood out the most compared to the rest that I took at this game. What I really was trying to do in this shot was to really capture the player’s emotion when heading towards the ball carrier. As you can see his expression was much focused and you can just tell ultimately what his goal was. To get this shot I was shooting at a ISO of 800 which is extremely high for an outdoor setting but on that day it just so happen to be raining constantly and cloudy so not a lot of light was coming in, I also had my F-stop 9.5 which again is high for outdoor but the whether was just not being cooperative, my shutter speed was 1/2000 on this picture because I really wanted to capture as much activity as I could in the 5 second intervals football is played in. A couple things that I would change in this photo would be ISO and my F-stop. Next time I am going to shooting at a low ISO and a low F-stop to let my light in. But despite that I was very happy with how this photo turned out.

Calming Chill

Photo by: Brooke Adams

I took this photo for a review assignment for fast shutter speed. I have this fountain on my deck, and I thought it would make an interesting subject. In order to get the crisp action, my shutter speed was set to 1/2000. I love how detailed the water is, and my use of rule of thirds. I used a levels adjustment and some sharpening in Photoshop to make this photo pop

A princess’s flower

Photo by: Alexis Dewey

This was one of my favorite pictures. I liked it because there wasn’t too much going on in the photo. I went for a fill the frame look. I wanted there to be some depth of field to where the main middle flower was in focus. I used the 210 mm lens. One of my favorite parts of this photo is the surrounding little flowers. I thought it added more of a type of framing to the bigger flowers. The colors reminded me of Disney. With the pinks, blues and purples, I thought of it as more like flowers you would see with one of the Disney princesses.