Spring, come and gone...

Spring time is the time of year when nature looks its best.  The long winter is gone, and flowers begin to bloom.  For this assignment, I wondered around my neighborhood a coupled days, and shot anything that stood out.  I played around a lot with aperture settings on this assignment, and really enjoyed it.

Slow Shutter, Long Exposure, 30 seconds of time...

Slow shutter speed, capturing light and anything in its way.  This was by far my favorite assignment this year.  For the ''MOPED'' tags, I stayed up all night with my friend, and shot almost the same shot over and over, playing with all the settings I could, trying to get it right.  Tripods were a key element in getting these shots to turn out right, and without it, I definitely would have had some difficulties.  

Selling Edmonds, at a very high price...

Advertising locations.  Portraying activities to do, things to see, and showcasing the community.  For this assignment we had to "sell" a certain location.  I picked Edmonds.  I went down to the beach, got some nice shots overlooking the water, and some shots of my dogs playing in the dog park there.  I liked this assignment because we had to think about what people would want to do in a location like this, and decide how we were going to portray that in our photography.

HDR, 10 pictures in one...

HDR.  This assignment was especially interesting to me.  I love the effect you get when you combine 10 different pictures into one, and see how the colors react to one another when they are blended together.  For the water shots, you also get a cool "ghost effect" since the waves are moving and when they are combined together it gives it sort of a blur.  This was definitely one of my favorite assignments because we got to experiment with different apertures and shutter speeds to get the shot we wanted.

Desire, a lifetime investment...

Everybody should have a goal in life.  For my siblings it is to become successful in the sports they love.  My brother is constantly playing tournaments and traveling to different locations across the Northwest, so for this assignment I thought it was a perfect time to showcase his talent.  As for my sister, she loves to swim.  So one day me and her went down to the Aqua Club, and I got some shots of her swimming.  I needed a high shutter speed, and a good zoom lens for this assignment so I'm