Fall Colors

When driving home one evening I looked up to the sunset and realized what I was missing. I pulled over right away and started taking pictures (luckily I had the camera with me). It was a matter of minutes before it was dark, but I was able to capture some great shots. Once I got home I realized that most of my shots had been blurred, fortunately I also had a few good ones. I like this one because of the colors and the shape of the lighting post. Not sure if these are analogous colors, but they make an interesting picture.


On Saturday I left my house in search for colors to capture for this week's assignment. Turns out I did not have to go too far. I made it to my parking lot and noticed a very colorful tree (half reddish, half greenish) and started taking pictures of its leaves. Actually this is after being sidetracked with taking shots of these beautiful butterflies who were just calmly moving from one flower to the next in a nearby patch of green. Back to the leaves...this is one of my favorites, I love the similar yet soo different hues of red and yellow (well more copper than yellow).



Ok, this last one was taken on Saturday as well while out grocery shopping. These mums were placed in front of the grocery store (they were all over) and I loved the vibrant colors. Conveniently enough this pair of mums were perfectly placed for capturing analogous colors. I have taken a few more photos of different color schemes, but I will post those on Flickr for everyone to see.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/alinar/

Favourite Macros

These pictures are among my favorites for this week's assignment. Of course they were all taken using the macro setting. The first one is part of a sculpture and what caught my eye is the expression that the man has which I believe is accentuated by the bluish color of the sculpture. 

The second one I took at an Civil War event this weekend. It's a book which has been shot with a rifle that was used in the war. I thought it was pretty neat to see the damaging efects of the weapon. 

The third one was taken at the Civil War event as well and it is a child's toy from that era. I liked how the colors came out. Even though the paint is faded and peeling the color is still strong.

Collage

My collage is made up of different pictures I took in Burlington and Boston. I used the macro feature on my camera as much as I could as well as the zoom. Some of my subjects were much farther and realized that once you zoom out past a certain level my camera was not able to focus on the subject anymore. I aslo have two different macro settings on my camera and used both when taking the pictures. I only noticed a slight difference when focusing on objects that were the farthest. Making the collage in Picasa was fun, I liked the different ways you can make it look.

Comparison

For this week's assignment I choose to photograph a piece of artwork that I have in my house. I was a little difficult due to the angles at which I took the pictures, but they came out all right. In this first picture I was looking to get the closest circles in focus, but it came out the other way. I am still  happy with the result.

The second picture is a detail of the artwork. I used the flash in this picture as opposed to the first one where the natural light was in advantage. What I like about this picture is

how clear the details in the metal are, as well 

as the contrast, it almost looks like black and white. 

First pictures.

Hey, it works!