Let it Snow

This photo was taken to capture the winter essence of the scenery. I am very pleased with this photo because it shows leading lines and I captured the snow as it was falling. This photo really has a "wintery" essence. This photo was taken in auto with an ISO of 1600, which is unusually high, an f- stop of 6.3, and a shutter speed of 1/640.

Emotion

I took this photo to capture emotion. The emotion I attempted to capture depicted a sort of upset and pondering expression. I think I accomplished this photo quite well. This photo was taken in auto, with an f-stop 5.6, and the shutter speed was 1/60.

Leading Lines

 In order to capture leading lines in this photo, I used the lines from the pattern of the grid at an angle leading to the subjects hand. This photo was taken in the auto mode, with an f-stop of 5.6 and the shutter speed was 1/10.

Interrupted Patterns

This photo demonstrates an interrupted pattern. The first pattern was blue stitching, which continues until the white cloth interrupts it. The f- stop of this photo is 4.0 and the shutter speed was 1/125.

Patterns

This photo shows a pattern of lines in this persons hair. I used as macro lens to capture this tiny pattern. The shutter speed in this picture was 1/13 and it had an f-stop of 3.0.

Landscape and Portrait Differences

This photo and the following photo share the same subject and background. However, this photo was taken in portrait mode with an f- stop of 5.0. The f-stop was high because the focus was on just the hand which is closer to the lense. You can clearly see the difference between this photo in portrait mode and the following photo. The hand in this photo came out more clear and the face is blurry although the depth of field is relatively small.

This photo was taken in landscape mode with and f-stop also of 5.0. Since this photo was taken in landscape mode, the foreground and background are both in mediocre focus. Also the lighting creates less of a focus on the hand as the photo taken in portrait.

Composition: Contrast

This photo shows a contrast by using light. The subject is standing sideways in a dark room with light coming through a window on her. This photo was set up and came out successfully. The shutter speed in this photo was 1/80 and the f-stop was 5.6.

This photo shows contrast by color. I set this photo up so that the black, dark shoes contrast with the bright, yellow flowers. This photo came out very successfully. The shutter speed in this photo was 1/30 and the f-stop was 5.6.

Facade Photos (Curtis High School)

This photo was taken with no flash with a shutter speed of 1/25. The focus of this picture was the two girls holding hands in the auditorium. This photo represents Curtis in a more emotional way because it shows the love and the unity between all the students here.

This photo was taken in Auto mode with a shutter speed of 1/320. The focus of this picture was the building itself. This represents Curtis in more of a physical manner and shows where you would be going to daily as a Curtis Warrior.

Night Portrait Mode

 This photo was very successful in night portrait mode. The picture was dark but you can clearly see the subject clearly and she is in focus.

This photo was also very successful. Surrounding the subject is dark but the area the subject is in lit and she is shown clearly.

Rule of Thirds

In both of these pictures I had the main subject in the left column of the grid in the viewfinder. The first photo I used an inanimate object with the background mostly empty, but clearly out of focus. In the second photo I had two people with a short distance in between them, but the closer subject was more in focus while the farther subject was out of focus. These photos were both very successful in conveying the rule of thirds.

Horizontal and Vertical Sports Mode Photos

In this photo I was in sports mode to capture the vertical movement of the subjects. The shutter speed of this photo was 1/500.

I was also in sports mode for this photo to capture the horizontal movement of the subject. The shutter speed in this photo was also 1/500.

Practicing Portrait Mode On The Nikon

Portrait mode is made to have your main subject only in focus, while the the background is heavily blurred out. This photo was very successful. As you can see the subject (the top of the hedge) is very much in focus while the background is blurred out.