Arboretum

 We were able to take a field trip to the Arboretum last Thursday. Once there we were let loose to wander and take pictures as we roamed around. There were so many things to take pictures of that we really didn't it make to far into the trails. Below are some of my favorites. 

Old Stump

Soft maple sample

Shrooms!

Hey there little guy!

Culvert

This was an accidental shot...but it turned out cool

Flower with birch background

Land of Giants

Our assignment was to shoot a picture and photoshop ourselves in either really big or really small. As you can see I went with a tiny me. I wish I could have gotten a better picture of me because the lighting is not the same as the tractor. However my position turned out great. The feet and hand position lined up great with the steps. Putting shadows in to make it look like you belong is really hard so hope you like it!

Light & Shadow

The theme for this photo shoot was Light & Shadow. At first I had no idea what I was going to shoot, but after walking around in our old barn, I found light coming in certain areas and decided to shoot them. They turned out pretty good, I thought anyway. When we all started downloading our pictures I saw a lot of people shooting actual shadows and thought that I had maybe shot the wrong thing. But after editing, I stick with my decision to shoot in the barn. 

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 This is the silo room. There is a hole in the roof that lets the light in and brightens it up. I turned the picture black and white since the color in the room was....well yucky. 

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I was skeptical about this shot. But I find myself liking it more and more. Maybe its the way the light comes in and lights the bottom while the top remains dark.  I also like being able to see the field. Note the shadow of the wire on the side (so it fits in with both light and shadow).

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You are all probably wondering what this has to do with light or shadows right? Well I was thinking of things to shoot and this a light. Simple enough, but the twist is that this light no longer works and so it can only cast darkness and shadows. Something different, cheesy I know but still fun.

Well I don't have much to say about this picture. I love how its dark on the inside and then bright. Also the wire casts a shadow as well as the roof (which you can't actually see). I love the lighting in this picture as well. 

Rural Decay

There is a "pit" as we call it a mile or so from our house that has lots of old junker cars and trucks sitting in it. Usually this place is an eyesore and not somewhere you would want to play or walk around. However it worked perfectly for this photo shoot! I chose to shoot this truck because I liked the color of it and it was the only one with a tree or bush of some sort growing around/in it. 

P.S. I realize that we only needed three but I couldn't pick just three of them. I had so many more that were not of the truck.

For this shot I took the picture through the window of the truck

Alphabet

For this assignment we had to find letters of the alphabet in pictures. At first I was was like "This will pretty easy!" WRONG. It took me forever to find the fist half of my pictures. Turns out I was just looking way to hard. Once I calmed down about not finding anything, they seem to just jump right out at me. My favorite are "o" and probably "g". 

I had to flip and rotate pictures to make them look like letters so some of them may look a little weird. And I ended up having some extra space at the bottom of the collage so I just filled it with some text.

CD Jewel Case

Wow.....that was actually fun. When this project was first assigned I'm not going to lie, I was freaking out. Especially after I pull New Wave music as the style I had to look up and create a case for. But after looking up what that style actually was I calmed down.

For those of you who don't know, New wave is a kind of pop rock from the 1970's to the early 1980's. Popular artists from this genera of music are Blondie, Eurythimics, Tears for Fears, Simple Minds and many many more. Most of you have probably heard the songs "Sweet Dreams are Made of This", "One Way or Another", and "Whip It!" Those are just a couple of the top 100 New Wave songs.

With my research done I went on to find a band name and an album title. I was in Madison at the Midwest horse fair walking around with the hundreds of other horse fanatics, when my mother and trainer (who also came along) said something about painted ponies. The joke is I use to ride POA poines and then moved on to a Paint horse. Hence painted ponies. Boom I had a band name that was just as crazy as the one from the 70's. I went on to name the album Riding the Wave keeping with the horsey theme I now had going on.  The wave part coming from New Wave. 

It took me a while to try and figure out what I was going to shoot for the album pictures. And I felt really stupid when my mom suggested doing exactly as the name said. Paint the ponies. So off I headed for my trainers barn full of her crazy colored ponies. I then cut them out of the picture and pasted them here. I had tons of fun blowing the colors way out of proportion, to much fun I think. I left the background white to keep the ponies the center of the attention. The middle cover is a close up of the eye. 

The ponies look weird on when I Transfered I apologize. It really looks cool in photoshop.

Multi-view Collage

I actually had a really hard time with this project. My artistic abilities and I do not get along at all. So here is my attempt at an abstract photo. I took pictures of my boyfriend's new racing four-wheeler since he just finished putting it together last weekend and decided to use it for this project. I tried to stick to his colors as well; lime green and blue, I didn't want to change the wheeler at all. I had a hard time getting the four-wheeler cut out by itself so there are places that look a little weird. Oh well hope you like it!