Photowalk [5:15am]

This image finally loaded. It is from my walk to the gym at 5:15am. There is no sunlight, but lots of artificial light. The shadows seem more rigid here than with the sun shadows, but that just maybe because the sun gives a different tone to the images when compared to artificial light.

Light [Sun and Shadows]

Here the light was playing on the back of this sign, the constant shuffle of the shadows because of the wind changed the image. I could not get the same image twice if I tried.

Light Source [Sun Beams]

The sun beams through these holes reminded me alot of abstract photography, and I thought that I needed to get them on film.

Weather [Again with the Fog]

This first image here is of an old spiderweb that I found by the UH entry with the vehicle loop. The hoarfrost made the web visible to me for the first time, and the web has been there a while, I just never noticed it before. The second image I posted is very dark, which is interesting since it was taken at 11:00am in blazing daylight. I had to turn my eyes away and just point and click my camera, which was on my phone. The lighting in this image is not at all representational to the lighting that I was experiencing, my camera compensated for the exposure of sunlight.

Fairy Wings [PhotoWalk]

This weekend I did another walk around Lethbridge, on my first walk I found so many things that I did not notice about Lethbridge. I have lived here my entire life and I have never walked the streets of downtown. Mainly because I live on a farm 30 min outside of the city, but still, twenty-one years is a long time to have never walked these very familiar streets. On this second walk I completely changed my upcoming project. I found many different things. My image here with the fairy wings was inside a bus shelter. I could not resist placing myself in front of them for a picture. I saturated the color to make them brighter in the light. My over-all experience has been that walks should become a habit, things change so quickly week to week, that they are hardly noticed and photography kind of makes them permanent and timeless.

Lighting/Weather [Foggy Lamp]

I was walking into the University and I came across this lamp post and tree. The fog made lighting from the sun impossible, and the lighting from the lamp was dimmed drastically. So I hightlighted the light by doing a "color pop" on photoshop.com. This was a practice attempt at color popping for my assignment.

Weather [What the Fog]

Today was a strange weather day. There was fog on one side of town, that made it dark and cold, while the otherside, was warm and sunny. Two very different settings all within a few kilometers of each other.
I was able, as I was leaving the University around 4pm, to snap a photo of the fog from across the coulees. Then, after a few errands, I was driving and went into the fog. It was stil quite sunny when I entered the fog (it was about 4:45ish) and all light was dimmed down completely. I was able to get a shot of this too. Interesting weather, fanatastic shift in lighting, setting, and moods.

Lighting and Reflections [I Wear My Sunglasses @ Night]

This pair of sunglasses that I have are really reflective. The flash from my camera makes them look really Hollywood because the majority of the light is reflected back onto the camera lens. Since my flash is really bright I think that it is a good thing I was wearing those sunglasses, otherwise I may have become blind.
Reflected light can be utliized as a light source. With my image here this is not the case. My light source is my flash, which is just reflected back into the camera. Reflected light as a light source would be the light from "Source A" hits "Object B", then the light is reflected off of "Object B" to light up "Object C", and then "Object C" is photographed. That would be a case of where reflected light would be used as a light source.

Lighting [Pumpkins]

I know that this image may be a little dated for this project, but bare with me. I was making room on my computer this weekend for all the new wonderful photos that I will be taking this semester, but when I saw this one I knew it had to be posted. The lighting (Oh yes! There I go on again about lighting) is very suitable for this image. The candle light, with its flickering glow gives the image the correct "haunted" feeling. If there was more light, like a flash used, the image would not hold the same meaning becuase all around the Jack-'O'-Lantern faces would have been visible, giving them a less interesting setting.

Light Source [Flower Lamp]

Considering that the last image that I took (my horrible portrait using the camera in the digital lab) was not really up-to-snuff due to the lighting, I wanted to look at different light sources. This is an image of one that I have in my house and was by far the most interesting.

The light is warm, but I do not think that it would work as a main light, possibly a fill light. But overall that is not what it was meant to be used for, it is mainly for aesthetics. Perhaps if I find more interesting light-sources this may turn into a Bernd & Hilla Becher typography, without the strict photograph guidelines, like the cloudy day, similar size, etc. I will have to keep my eye on the light, and go towards it for a shot.

First

Here is my first posting of a portrait, what horrid lighting. :(