These are pictures that I took for the photo demo. I learned a couple techniques to improve portraits with light. One of which was a technique that doesn't require fancy equipment, it uses other objects to bounce light onto the subject.

For my last assignment I chose to take pictures of me light painting. This was one of my favorite assignments out of the seven that I chose, but I had a hard time thinking of ideas for this one. most of my pictures were taken in my basement and the rest were taken outside at night.

Technical Information:

ISO: 400

Aperture: 5

Shutter Speed: 3/0 sec

I chose to take pictures of shadows and light for this assignment. I got up early in the morning to take pictures of shadows outside and ended up taking pictures of tree shadows. This was one of the harder photo assignments I had to shoot, because I couldn't really think of any ideas for it. This is a picture of forest shadows early in the morning in the back of my house.

Technical Information:

ISO: 200

Aperture: 3.5

Shutter Speed: 1/2000

This is a picture using a technique called panning. Its not very focused on the subject but it has a blurred background which is the main point of a panning photograph.

For this assignment I chose to shoot pictures of animals. over the weekend I went out in the woods to take pictures of birds since there aren't very many animals around my house. I was outside for about three hours each day trying to take some pictures of birds, but for some reason I couldn't find very many or get close enough to take pictures. I was using a 200 zoom lens but it still didn't help very much. I eventually found a hawk and snapped a few pictures of it. The picture Im turning in is a picture of my gecko. I chose this picture over my pictures of the hawk because they weren't as focused as this picture.

Technical Information:

ISO: 400

Aperture: 2.8

Shutter Speed: 1/200 sec