Patterns in Winter

The pattern in this picture is the corn stalks coming out of the snow in rows. The secondary subject would be the woods behind creating the horizontal line with the field. I turned this picture black and white because it enhanced the rows and helped draw attention the true pattern.

Down the road from my house there is an old barn made of these stones. I thought this would make a good pattern picture with the different yet similar size and shapes. I didn't know if it would look better in black and white or color so I decided to post both pictures. 

This picture I shot towards the sun through these trees. The effect was the trees where shadowed and the sky behind was colored. I thought it made a neat pattern pictures with the branches. 

My boyfriend's dog had come with us on our walk and in his excitement ran ahead of us. He left the perfect trail and I just had to take a picture of it. The pattern is his repeated prints in the snow going in a straight line.

I ended up having to edit out a power line in the sky because it was much to distracting. I found the repeated "V" pattern with the dead buds interesting. Again I didn't know if black and white or color was better so I posted both.

Edits Number 1

I was suppose to re-edit from previous post but I didn't want do anything to them. Instead I decided to edit some other photos for fun. Enjoy :)

This is the before picture that had a very distracting background. I wanted to take out the two gates and the strip down the wall that took away from Joker and I. Below is the after picture.

I forgot to save the before picture for this one but the four wheeler was blue. I  decided to mess around with  changing the color and chose this color since it only had color on the four wheeler and not in the background. I had fun turning different things different colors but ended up turning it pink. I just know the owner of this wheeler will love it. :)

For this picture I simply worked on enhancing it. 

Winter Light

Cold Winter Morning

This picture I took around six in the morning. I loved the light pink color in sky mixed with the purple. The tops of the trees were slightly frosted which added a cool effect I thought. 

Snowy Fence

I took this picture at 10 a.m that same day. I chose to take this picture because I thought the lines from the fence and its shadow made a neat picture. I also liked the animal tracks detail in the snow. I made the picture black and white since there wasn't much color to begin with. 

Ol' Fence Post

This picture was taken at three in the afternoon. I loved the texture of the old bored and how the light just touched the tip of it. The color is also really rich, especially the green mold and brown rust on the bolts. 

Depth of Field

Narrow Depth of Field

Narrow depth of field is when you set your camera lens to the widest setting it can go, and just focus on one particular area in the frame.

Wide Depth of Field

Opposed to narrow depth of field, the who frame is in focus showing the whole picture. Landscapes are commonly considered to have a wide depth.

Professional Photographers

Jim Brandenburg

Skyline Deer

Jim Brandenburg is a Minnesota native that has traveled around the globe as a photographer for National Geographic. He has also had his work published in The New York Times, Life, Time, Smithsonian, Natural History, Geo, BBC Wildlife, Outdoor Photographer, National Wildlife and Outside. Over his long photography career he has won many awards for his work. The National Press Photographer's Association twice named him Magazine Photographer of the year. He was named Kodak Wildlife Photographer of the Year by BBC Wildlife and the Natural History Museum. He was also the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award by the North American Nature Photographers Association. Brandenburg was a Hasslebald Master in 2002, A Nikon Legend Behind the Lens in 2001, and Canon Explorer of Light in 2005. In 2008 he was the recipient of the World Achievement Award from the United Nations Environment Progrmme in Stockholm and Sweden in recognition of using nature photography to raise public awareness for the environment. And those are just a few from his long award list. As you can tell, Brandenburg photographs nature. I think that is why I like his photography. I seem to be drawn to the nature photos. Below are some more of his photos.

www.jimbrandenburg.com

Keith Carter

Eiffel Tower

Keith Carter grew up watching his mother scrape by as a child photographer in their small Texas Town.  He didn't think photography was for him until his college years when the light in one of his mothers pictures caught his eye. It was then that he decided to take up photography and for 15 he assisted his mother's business around the state. Carter became a self-taught photographer who decided to make his home state the center of his artistic world. According to the John Bellows Gallery, Carter "transforms the mundane details of small-town life into the sublime, revealing mystical, quirky, and difficult facets of human (and animal) nature." He creates his works of art on large square negatives of a single-lens reflex Hasselbald camera. To attain the mystic feel and add mystery to his photos, Carter blurs and limits the depth of field in his photos. Carter also strongly emphasizes the area in-focus, creating the sense that time and movement have just been captured by the viewer.  I like his photography because his pictures are different and make me think. It gives ordinary everyday things a sense of mystery. Below are more examples of his work.

Fireflies Contact

White Owl

Pram

http://www.edelmangallery.com/exhibitions/2010/carter/cartershow2010.htm

                                    

Winter Texture

This is a texture of snow and ice. I took this photograph in my driveway after I had slipped and fell on the ice. As I sat there looking at it after I fell, I figured all the dips and rises of the ice mixed with the snow would make a great texture picture. 

This photo is of an old fence post that had fallen over. I thought it would make a great texture picture because of the detail on the post itself and also the texture of the snow mixing in with the dead grass. 

My third texture picture is of icicles on the roof of our old barn. I like how the shadows of the icicles appear on the barn and the angle at which I took this picture. It makes a great texture photo because of the icicles themselves but also with the barn side and the roof.