Rock Star!

I thought of this photo today and I wanted desperately to make it happen. It took a painful hour and a half experimenting and figuring out how to make the background bright, but I finally did it. My guitar got an amazing reflection and my arm got a green haze. A little photo-shop and I had me dream photo. Hope you like.

My nephew

My nephew Shae 8 months old

"Some" Cool Photos from September (taken at Garry Point)

What a nice tree

 Hmmm...don't know what to make of this one

 Nice framing

 Shiny water!

Whale watchers

Photographing People with Hard Light

My Response 

1. The side light lit up half the subject's face but made the subject look ugly. The half shadow and half light face were a big contrast that don’t work well together.

2. The flash didn’t exactly work for me most likely due to the sun and the angle I took it at.

3. The reflector didn’t work in the pictures because I had trouble holding it up. But when I experiment with it trying to get a good angle, I saw how the light was reflected on the subject.

4. At first my photos were very bright in the background, but then I lit up the subject with different exposure.

5. The different exposure plus a little bit of flash helped to light up the subject.

6. I don’t think the reflector worked well because I was too far away from the subject.

My Two Best Pictures

 Both pictures taken with light behind me with no flash and no reflector

Cool Pic

Thought this was cool

Composition Photo Shoot

All of these pictures were taken in the small and large quarry at Queen Elizabeth Park in Vancouver. Enjoy!

 "Repetition" How many leaves are there?

 "Unity and Harmony" in a waterfall (cluttered background works nicely)

 "Rule of Thirds"

 "Rule of Thirds"

 Where do these "Lines" lead

 "Framed" by the bridge above and the rock below

 "Warm and colorful" flowers with white in the back to keep it cool

"Tone"-bright curved leaves and fruit with the background blurred

 "Texture"-brick wall leads your eyes to the bell like tree

Both flowers with simple background "balance" each other

California Poppies

California Poppies 

Photo Shoot September 9, 2012

My mom and I biked to the dike along the Fraser River in Richmond and I took a few pictures. Lucky for me there was a shipwrecked boat there.

 Bikes ready to ride

 Wildflowers

 The Fraser River

 Shipwreck

 This is why they left the boat

 Just chilling...here...alone

 Tugging along

 Random Garbage

 Dike side flower

River logs

New Pictures

 A popsicle stick jeep I made

My parents standing in front of Parliament

Baseline Photo-shoot

A sunflower

More flowers

Some fish

A bridge

 Some fruit

And another flower

Number One Flower

This is one of my favorite pictures I've taken.

Welcome to Hot Stop Photography

Hi and welcome to my new blog for Schoolathome and Media Arts 11. I hope everyone enjoys my future pictures and I'll be sure to enjoy yours. I look forward to a great year with you all.

Josiah