Beautiful Mare

This is a photo I took earlier this year, (before the snow) when I was out visiting my sister. Its one of her neighbors horses. Its a beautiful mare and pregnant! Personally I love the look of white flea bitten horses. Again I love the natural look of her, she has no halter or bridal on her face no saddle, and just a pure nature filled background. I LOVE THE COUNTRY!

I want to draw your attention to the color of the sky, it matches closely to the color of the horse many photographers would disagree with the technique I used because generally your not supposed to match up the colors because it usually draws your eyes away from the subject, but I think in this case it suits it well. 
The color of the sky is also darker than the bright blue everyone thinks of. Its white is because it was a cloud covered day, which is perfect photographer weather for the daytime. The reason being is if your shooting when the sun is out on a bright sunny day that will create shadows on your subject. A perfect day with a light cloud cover will make for a photo to have enough light for your photograph but not create distracting shadows.

thanks for reading and feel free to leave a comment or suggestions, I would love to hear from you! 

Is it Christmas yet?

Instead of  going with natural light I decided to get into the Christmas spirit and take some unique pictures of Christmas lights.

 So this is what I did, I took my lens off and I cut on two separate pieces of paper in the shape of a Christmas tree and of a snowflake, and taped it onto my camera, this is a easy project to create and enjoy.

 

A few things I learned along the way.

1. When you tape the tree piece of paper on you need to tape it upside down, so the tree point faces to the ground, because my first few pictures were upside down! (I'm pretty sure it has to do with the mirrors on the inside the camera, but I will have to do more research with that specifically.)
2. There is two ways to do this experiment with the lens and without. I chose without, without causes the light shapes to become bigger. (at least bigger than I expected, and harder to fit into frame) 
3. Wear gloves! for these Christmas outdoor pictures, my fingers were getting COLD, its gonna be hard to find a warm pair of finger mittens. 

 

I plan to experiment more with the Christmas lights, I would like to try and make the shapes smaller to get more of it in the frame,

although for the first time doing this project I will say my pictures turned out satisfactory.

I would like to give a shout out to my brother who took the effort to put up new Christmas lights! 

Thanks for reading! hope you enjoyed! feel free to leave comments. 

MERRY CHRISTMAS! 

Two passions

I went to visit my sister for almost a week. Her name is Tasha and she is the caretaker of these beautiful horses, she is very talented with working with them. I very much enjoy visiting and riding together. 

 

 Taking pictures of horses is one of my favorite things to take pictures of. horses structure is very different than people and other animals, so its hard to get all their unique quality's in the picture. It was early in the morning and we went out to get the horses to bring them in and they were drawn to the suns light for warmth. (it might look warm outside but it was actually pretty cold).

For the first two pictures I placed the sun behind the horses body so that the sun would shine around the figure of the horse, to make it look like a glowing effect. The pictures look like a silhouette but not as dark, and I like this better because you can see the details of the shining leaves. 

 

The Third picture I love love the sun rays, I only wish that they were more prominent, that will be something that I will have to research more. I also love how natural the photo is, often times when taking pictures with horses you get there halters, bridals and all there gear in the picture. In these photos my intentions were to take the photos natural. 

Please tell me what you think! suggestions? thanks!  

Introduction

Hey, welcome to my blog, my name is Hannah Grace. This blog is the beginning of a project. At school we are working on whats called "passion projects", what that means is we get to teach our self what ever we want. I have chosen photography. I'm specifically going into how to photograph with light. every day the sun comes up and goes down, and I want to use it to my advantage in photography.

I plan to take many photos and post them on my blog, good and bad photos, hopefully most of them good. I plan to talk about how to improve, to talk about my successes and my failures, and most importantly learn from those mistakes. If any of you fellow people have heard of the magic school bus, you would know Mrs. Frizzle always says "Get messy, take chances, make mistakes!", and thats what I want to do. I also plan to express myself though my pictures, learn to be a story teller though my photos, talk about styles I like, and styles I dont like, learn patience and dedication. In the end I hope to have a professional portfolio of my favorite photos.

I am really looking forward to working on this blog, evidence of that being that I want it to be perfect. I might just be a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to things I like, so much so that I have held off writing my first blog post to make sure I have the perfect words, kinda like getting a new journal that you dont want to write in it for the first time, because your scared to wreck the beautiful empty pages. but someone very wise once told me "you can't wait till your perfect to start something,  you gotta start and grow into it". So this is me writing in my first pages.