I started going through some old photos last week and found this one. It was taken my junior year of high school when I was on the yearbook photography staff. There is a more journalistic style that my recent work hasn’t really had.

So looking at this photo I had all these thoughts about it, but I couldn’t seem to fit them into much of a post. So instead of pushing my feeble writing skills to the x-treme limit this post is going to be bullets.

I like this photo, but I don’t know why. It’s a more complicated composition then I usually make. I’m not quite sure if it was a successful attempt. An interesting try at least.

Its photos like this that I’m sometimes weary of posting. That is, photos that I think are interesting, but I’m not sure are good. Being objective about one’s own work is hard.

I’ve gone back to this photo a couple times today to analyze it. Initially I don’t much care for it and I find I have to stare at it for a while before I come around.

This photo is a little unsettling to me. Since the composition is more complex. I feel like I don’t really understand it.

I’ve experimented with some crops, but neither of them really do it for me.

So those were my thoughts on this photo. For the record I’ll be the first to admit that bullets are a major cop-out. Oh well.

So I want everyone who reads this blog to post a comment. You don’t have to say anything but your name. But you do have to comment.

Everyone.

Sunday my aunt and uncle came over for dinner. After eating I took some photos of their kids. I like these photos, I really do. The contrast is nice, the expressions are genuine, the photos are sharp (and the ones that aren’t have an “unsharp quality”). But I do have a problem. These photos, they’re too cute.

I don’t want to be a photographer who takes cute photos. My other portraits are classified as “non-cute”. This is intentional.

This is my cousin Tuey (or possibly tooie, toie, tuie, touille) he is nicknamed after the delicious chocolate-hazelnut spread Nutella. This idea is a product of his two older sisters.

I watched Good Night & Good Luck a few days ago and decided to do a black & white redesign of Love City. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. I keep finding myself going just to check it out & to see if I can make anything better.

Yesterday I found these photos of Ilona Gregorievna that I never posted.

In the last few days I’ve been experimenting with HDR and panoramic photography.

HDR is short for High Dynamic Range Imaging. It works by combining multiple images that have been exposed for different amounts of time. Those images are then combined into a singe image. The final image has been adjusted to include the highlights of one and the shadow detail of another.

This photo was exposed for 30 seconds. In the background cloud detail can be seen, but the foreground is overexposed.

This photo was exposed for 1 second. The foreground has more detail on the door & window, but is underexposed everywhere else.

Combining these and other photos with exposures between 1 – 30 seconds creates this.

Panoramas are created by stitching multiple images together to create a wider image.

This is my room in 360 degrees.

So I was looking through my old photos, looking for something to post and I noticed this picture of my dog Puck. I played with the photo a bit, but the whole time I was thinking that it reminded me of something.



Is it me or do Puck and Trace have the same expression?