More HDR!

So, the more I practice, the better I seem to get... Wierd eh? Anyhow, I've been playing around with this whole HDR thing, and it's yielded some pretty cool results. I've determined that fishtanks look so cool when turned HDR.






Anyhow, I'm going to ask everyone once again to mind the photomatix mark all over them. One day I'll be able to afford the software!
Until Next Time!

MOVIE EXTRAVAGANZA

So, on top of loads of assignments, getting a snack stand set up, and trying to figure out what I'm going to do about my poor leaky house over shoot week, we had to spend some precious daylight time at the school watching movies. I chose to watch "Born into Brothels", "Manufactured Landscapes" and "I am Cuba"

Born Into Brothels was a fantastic documentary. It's amazing how nieve most of us are to what goes on in other countrys. It was very disturbing and yet heartwarming at the same time. It was nice to watch the follow up at the end of the movie as well so you know what happened to the children that were part of the photography program. It is the type of movie that makes you wish you could help every kid that's born into that type of situation.

Manufactured Landscapes was very eye opening to the damage we've caused our planet over the years. I actually ended up going to the library and taking out Edward Burtynsky's book with the same title as the film. He has such a beautiful way of capturing even the most disturbing scenes and getting you to really LOOK at it. I must admit, I was never all that interested to get into photo documentary, but his work has made me want to dabble a little deeper into it, with the hope of opening peoples eyes to something that may normally go unnoticed by the general population.

I AM CUBA was depressing (and confusing). I wish that I had not ended my movie week with this movie. The way that it was filmed seems to give the entire movie alot of deep feeling. All in B&W I found it still very easy to know when they were trying to portray a feeling of joy or utter dispair, although the feeling of dispair was far more dominante. It was a very well done film, but I think I would need to watch it again to get the whole meaning of it, as I don't do well with subtitled movies.

I will post some of the shooting I've been doing over shoot week soon!
ROCK ON FOLKS

First Attempt at HDR

So, this was my first attempt at making an HDR. There were a series of shots that I took at Winnipeg Beach in the fall, and since I was not aware of how easy HDR's were, but tried to shoot for a couple anyhow, they just kind of sat dormant on my computer. It is by no means fantastic, because I don't think I shot for it properly, but now I know how to do it as opposed to making well educated guesses!




It'll get better, and I'll keep you posted!
Rock On!

ps~ pardon the Photomatix water mark, I can't afford the softwear yet, so I'm just using their trial version

Hey! YOU! SIT STILL!

Cass is a beautiful goof ball of a girl in my class. It's not hard to make her look good, which was a bonus for me, cause it was next to impossible to get her to sit still!






Pretty ok for the first High Key portrait attempt!
Thanks for the fun afternoon Cass, we should do it again!

Cheers folks!