MicroMacro - Plants

These are pictures I took of plants using that 'micro macro' technique I was told about. Keep in mind that it's hard to keep still when you're using a slower shutter speed and have to move to focus rather than using the focal ring, so a couple of these pictures are a bit blurry. Can you guess what these pictures are of?

This Year in Pictures - News

(From Reuters)



     This is a picture of Prince Harry falling off his horse during a game of Polo. The reason this is one of my favorite 2010 'news' pictures is not because the prince is falling of his horse, but because of the people's facial expressions in the background. I really like how some people are laughing at the prince as his falling off his horse, and how a couple of them are actually taking pictures of him, like the photographer who this picture. This picture tells the story perfectly, but the only problem is that you can only tell that it's someone falling off a horse, not a prince. I think that the contrast between the repetition of standing people against the 1 falling person helps draw your eyes to the subject immediately, as well as the fact that the falling man is in the close to far left corner of the frame.

Cairo, Egypt Riot Photos

Here's a link to The New York Times' page of photographs from the Cairo riot. They're being updated daily for sure, and potentially hourly. I find it very interesting that there's photographs being uploaded seeing as Egypt has now shut off their internet, but people are still finding a way around it!
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/egypt/index.html
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/world/middleeast/201101-egypt-protest-gallery/

Photographer Project: My Best

These are my best pictures from my shoot in which I recreated a picture taken from Erwin Olaf's Paradise Portraits.

The original name of his picture I copied is called Matt

Micro Macro

Macro Photography Trick

Knowing that I love to do macro photography but don't have a macro lens of my own, my photography teacher showed me this video. After watching it, I was literally jumping in excitement! I grabbed one of her cameras, 2 lenses, and tried this trick myself....

Salvation Army

So a while ago we went to volunteer for the Salvation Army. My teacher was lead to believe that we were going to be working with the homeless one-on-one with them, or in the soup kitchen, so that's what she told us we were going to do. So this made me very excited for a certain reason; I was going to photograph and interview some of the homeless that I was going to be around. Before we got to the Salvation Army location, we had a bit of time to just walk around and take our own photographs.

When we got to the Salvation Army, however, we were told otherwise; we were not allowed to photograph anyone in the shelter, and that we wouldn't be working with the homeless. Instead, we were split into 2 groups; one group was handing out hot chocolate to people who donated to the Salvation Army, and the other group, which I was in, was brought into a room to sort out donated items for Christmas gifts for the homeless. These are a few pictures I took when I was walking around.