Post #19 (3/9/11 Pictures), 3-13-11

Wednesday was our day off!  We hiked down into the Gorge, and swam in the natural hot springs!

Hiking down into the Gorge.

The natural hot springs!

The river running through the Gorge.

An "Earth Ship" we saw when driving home from the Gorge.

Sunset on the drive home.

Post #18 (3/8/11 Pictures), 3-13-11

On Monday night, a snow storm hit... so there was a blanket of snow when we woke up on Tuesday!

The house we were working on.

The view from the house!

The mailbox of a neighboring Habitat House.

After working on the house today, we went to the Taos Rio Grande Gorge Bridge.

Post #17 (3/7/11 Pictures), 3-13-11

After a hard day of work, we took a trip up the mountain to Taos Ski Valley.

Post #16 (3/6/11 Pictures), 3-13-11

Over Spring Break, I went to Taos, NM with Habitat for Humanity to build a home.  Because we were in the middle of no where, I did not have cell service, and was not able to post during my trip.  This post, and the next five posts, are pictures taken during my trip.  The date which I took the pictures follow the post number.  (these were taken on my "point and shoot" as I did not feel comfortable bringing my SLR to a work site).

This was the Church our group went to on Sunday morning.  The following pictures are from the surrounding area

An old Adobe house which had been condemned.

Through the windows of the Church.

Chili peppers hanging next to a window of a house next to the Church.

Some stores next to the Church.

Post #15, Assignment 3, 2-27-11

The Rules of Composition

1. Impact: This picture was taken while driving through a tunnel with a slow shutter speed.

ISO: 100, Aperture: 13.0, Shutter Speed: 2.5"

2. Cropping: When taking this picture, I was really concentrating on what the image below shows.  However, before cropping it, there were columns running down to the floor and other mosaic work on the left and right because of the angle at which I was taking the image.

ISO: 1600, Aperture: 5.6, Shutter Speed: 1/60

3. Biggest, Boldest, Most Favorably Placed: When home and looking out into my back yard, my eyes always go directly to our green summer table.

ISO: 200, Aperture: 6.3, Shutter Speed: 1/320

 4. K.I.S.S.: I am very proud to be Italian, and thus, the Italian Crest must stand out!  What better way than to use K.I.S.S.!

ISO: 200, Aperture: 9.0, Shutter Speed: 1/60

5. Rules of Thirds:  This is another picture I took in my back yard.  Horizontally, the 1/3 is the roof, 1/3 is the layer with the rooster, and the last 1/3 is the sky.  Vertically, 1/3 is the tree branches on the right, 1/3 the layer with the rooster, and the last 1/3 the smaller tree branch and lots of sky.

ISO: 200, Aperture: 5.0, Shutter Speed: 1/2500

6. Leading Lines:  I showed this as one of my favorite pictures at the beginning of the semester, but I did not know then that it has great "Leading Lines"

ISO: 200, Aperture: 7.1, Shutter Speed: 1/1600

7. Balance: This photo is symmetrically balanced.

8. Use of Framing: When taking this picture, I used the branches to frame the center piece, the flower.  I did not want a very sharp/hard frame though, so I took the picture at a low to medium aperture to try and blur them out.

ISO: 200, Aperture: 9.0, Shutter Speed: 1/320

9. Avoid Merges: When first taking a picture of this cake, other objects (glasses, plates, ext.) were in the image.  I moved them, but then people were still in the background.  So, instead of moving my surroundings I moved the angle of my camera and took the shot from above.

ISO: 800, Aperture: 5.0, Shutter Speed: 1/50

Before:

10. Room for Logical Movement: My cousin wanted to take some pictures to practice her head shots appointment, so we fooled around with head shot type photos.  I wanted to be sure Ali had enough room to move around and change her position without having to change where I had my camera.

ISO: 200, Aperture: 5.6, Shutter Speed 1/125

Post #14 ("Southern Belle"), 2-26-11

Since I was young, I have collected porcelain dolls.  This is a doll my Nannie bought for me when visiting the Oak Alley Plantation in Vacherie, LA over Labor Day Weekend, 2010.

ISO:400 , Aperture: 4.0, Shutter Speed: 1/13

ISO: 400, Aperture: 4.0, Shutter Speed: 1/20

ISO: 400, Aperture: 5.0, Shutter Speed: 1/4

ISO: 400, Aperture: 4.0, Shutter Speed: 1/6

Post #13 (My Addiction) , 2-25-11

I drink roughly 12 cups of coffee per day... and my FAVORITE! coffee is Dunkin' Donuts!  I like the first picture because the coffee looks "larger than life" and it is seen from the perspective of all coffee lovers, staring into the window wanting their coffee!

ISO: 200, Aperture: 5.6, Shutter Speed 1/200

ISO: 200, Aperture: 9, Shutter Speed: 1/200