Weekly Blog Post

The first picture is one that I took while out hunting this last weekend with my phone.  This was taken with an ISO of 250, and aperture of f/10.  The only editing that I did to this photo was increasing the contrast and saturation as well as the clarity.  For the second picture, I used the same camera settings on my Samsung, but I didn't really do much editing.  The only thing that I did was increase the clarity a few stops and increased the dehaze so that the grass was less blurry since it was sort of windy.  The third picture was towards the beginning of the semester out at the Yellowstone River fishing access.  The editing that I did to this photo was increase the clarity a few stops as well as increase the temperature and saturation to warm up the picture a little bit.  The sunset added some warmth to the picture which helped warm up the picture.

Share 2 & Critique

The first picture is one that I took earlier this semester with my mom's Nikon.  I increased the contrast and saturation of the purple color of the flowers.  I had to increase the clarity of the flowers in the center and darken the background.  This was taken with an ISO of 150 and an aperture of f/10.  I played with the contrast with this picture and made it a black and white photo and it actually turned out really interesting.

The second picture is one that was taken on my Samsung at the beginning of the semester when I was out camping.  I did not have my Nikon at the time so I used my phone.  This was taken with an ISO 200 and an aperture of f/9.  I did some editing to this picture but not much.  I increased the saturation and the contrast of this picture as well as increased the clarity of the picture to make the post more clear.  I did this picture in black and white as well which ended up looking really good as well.

Weekly Blog Post

The first picture is one that I took while out hunting last weekend.  This one was with my Samsung since I did not have my Nikon with me.  This was taken with an ISO 200 and an f/9.  It wasn't windy so a fast shutter speed was not necessary.  The only editing that I did to this photo was to increase the saturation and contrast by a few stops.  The second and the third pictures are the same, just different editing done to both of them.  The second picture is one that I just turned the contrast way down to black and white and with the third one, I increased the saturation and the contrast a few stops to warm up the picture a little bit.  This picture was taken with my Samsung as well since I did not have my Nikon with me at the time.  The fourth picture is one that I took with my Nikon last week.  I did a lot of editing to this picture.  I decreased the contrast and the saturation so that the picture would be more cold and the tree's silhouette would stand out more.  Having the black of the tree against the blue of the sky helps the tree pop out of the picture.  I thought the colors of this picture were interesting and turned out very well.

Share 2 & critique

The first picture is one that I took while out hunting the other weekend.  I took this one with my Samsung since I did not have my Nikon with me.  This one took a little bit of editing but the sunset coming through the trees in the background added a lot to the picture without editing.  The picture was taken with an ISO 200 and aperture of f/10.  When editing, I increased the warmth of the picture and increased the contrast and saturation.  I also increased the clarity of the picture to sharpen the trees and used the dehaze tool to clear up the water since it was running.  

The second picture was one that I took towards the beginning of the semester at my grandmas house.  This was taken with my moms nikon.  This was taken with an aperture of f/2 and an ISO of 200.  When editing this picture, I brightened up the orange color and increased the clarity so that the flowers were more clear, leaving the background blurry still.  I had to brighten up the picture a small amount since it was under exposed when I took it.  I wasn't sure what else to do with editing this picture so I stopped here.

Weekly Blog Post

The first picture is one that I took at the spur of the moment of the sunset one evening while loading hay.  I could never really capture good sunset pictures but I figured I would attempt to take one with a subject in the foreground, which actually turned out really cool.  The second picture is one that I took of some flowers the same evening with my Nikon.  I did not really edit this picture at all, brightened it up a small amount but that is it.  The third picture is one that I took of the sunset the same evening.  This one I did not edit at all.  I could have increased the contrast a small amount and increased the clarity but that is all the editing that I would do.  I had to use a smaller exposure time of 1/25sec.  The fourth picture is one of my horse, Sundance, that I took while messing around with the camera.  I needed a faster shutter speed since he kept moving around and wouldn't stand still.  I used an ISO of 200 and an aperture of f/9, which is what I used for mostly all of these pictures.  The exposure time on this picture was 1/320sec.  These pictures were all taken just messing with my Nikon.