Big Kittys

The Tiger

Tiger! Tiger! burning bright 
In the forest of the night 
What immortal hand or eye 
Could frame thy fearful symmetry? 

-William Blake

I got the chance to go to the zoo, I haven't been there in a long while. it was quite exciting, and I have to say even though our zoo got a cool new polar bear my favorite animal there still is the Tiger! the kitty's just have this amazing majestic powerful strength too them. 

 
One question you might ask is how did you get a picture without the bars being in the way, the answer to that is, with the zoom lens that I am using the bars are actually still there they are just blurred out, I have not quite perfected this yet because you can see some blurry spots. That's something I would like to practice, if I could spend my entire day at the zoo.

This Tiger is perfect for having in black and white because her stripes show the contrast between black and white so well.

Hope you all enjoy these photos! Please feel free to leave a comment!

Mushroom's

What room has no doors, no walls, no floor and no ceiling?...
A Mushroom!

Luke and Alison

In this picture is my Brother Luke and his girlfriend Alison.

 It was so fun taking fun pictures like this in the woodzy area, It was so beautiful especially with the sun shining down on the trees ad there faces, it might not of been so planed out as I would of liked if you look closely you can see that my brother is wearing bright Slurpee shirt.

I chose to have this picture more of a fuz on the face to create a more of a daze feel. I think it makes them look more cute, and like in a daydream with each other.

The next picture I was sitting in a little hole to get the height ratio I wanted. I think It draws more effect to how the sun hits onto them and the trees.

I love taking pictures in nature,  its beautiful to see the way the sun glistens off the trees. and seeing a Momma deer and a baby deer crawl thought your photo shoot!


 Photography Tip: If you always plan out where the sun hits your subject you will get closer to the picture you want.

Now and then its good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. -Unknown


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The Vanessa and Carmela

Carmela

Sorry I haven't posted for a while I have been away from my camera for a long while, longer than I would like.

I went on a photo shoot a while back with this kid Carmela to take pictures of  our friend Vanessa. Carmela and I are both interested in photography and love to take pictures. With similar cameras we can help each other figure out settings and give tips to each other.

Its helpful for me to have a friend that shares the same interest in photography that I do, and its more fun to have a friend to enjoy it with you.

Vanessa

These photos I would like to point out are taken in the city, but we were looking for pictures that didn't have tons of houses and distracting stuff in the background. 





This struggle I would say is the biggest for the city photographer unless you prefer the city style, but me I would prefer country, but we make due with what we have.

Photography Tip: When trying to doge houses in the background, try and use different angles to get them out of the way and don't forget about checking the background when focusing on your subject.

  
This Kid Vanessa she is amazingly beautiful, any picture of her would turn out amazing she is so photogenic. I think she will defiantly go far in her career of modeling.

I love having these to as my friends and its such a blessing to have them in my life.

Hope you enjoy the pictures!  

The Classics

This is the type of picture I call the classics. They are the classics because its one of those pictures you have seen a thousand times but a little different every time. Well one reason to take a "Classic" is so that you can see if you can imitate the type of photography you want if you are not quite sure what you are doing, I don't suggest doing it that much, because you don't want to tread to close to copying. Another reason is to see if you can take a classic and make it your style. I chose to take it because it simple and fun, and something I can easily do again, I plan to take the same picture next year and see the improvements or style changes I have made.                                                          The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together. -Saadi                                                      thanks for reading, hope you enjoy.

                                            

Sarah's Sweet Sixteen

This is Sarah, I got the wonderful opportunity to take pictures of her in her beautiful dress. She looks like Elsa from the movie Frozen. She even did her hair too look like queen Elsa braid.

We had some time to take some pictures outside which is what I always prefer, and it was a perfect day because it was warm but not too hot, and  there was light cloud cover giving me the perfect amount of light to work with. It also helps that her smile is so perfect! 

I still am loving black and white, I had to have one out of the 4 I posted today to be in black and white. I think that this picture in the black and white makes her eyes pop out more, that would also have to do with her make up, which she did a good job on. 
  

I am still using my friends lens, that I am going to have to do some research in seeing how much they cost because it works rather nicely, for the type of photography I like. 

This picture was taken inside while getting ready. let me just say I love her heels! I would love to wear heels but I cant for I am a tall girl.

In the house the lighting wasn't the best to I had to use some "fake light" as my friend would call it, meaning I boosted up the ISO a little higher so that the camera can account for the lack of lighting in the room. Just be careful when you do this not to forget your settings are on that because when you go outside and forget about it your pictures are white, (and yes that was a mistake I did make ha ha, luckily I caught early on)

In this photo I hyped up the shutter speed to capture the movement of her dress frozen in the picture. Moving the ISO up a touch to balance the quick shutter speed. I did that because if you were to just put the shutter speed up the picture would be dark because the faster the shutter speed the less light comes into the camera, meaning you should put some camera "fake light" in to balance everything.


photography Tip: Play around with your ISO and Shutter speed.  Find different setting that you would normally use, maybe you will find something you like better, and don't settle for an okay picture keep trying for something you can be proud of.

"Where the road ends an adventure begins" - Mrs. Frizzle

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Beautiful Decay

There is beauty in decay. To often we look at what is supposed to be beautiful, but really we should be looking for that beauty in other places. Like these roses, they are wanted when they are fresh red bloomed flowers, now they are forgotten, dead and lifeless and still beautiful.

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." -unknown