Food photography

American West Heritage Center

It was fun for me to do this assignment and get a chance to try out my new camera. I thought the baby chick poking out here was cute.

At one point this calf licked my camera lens!

Thanks Alexis for getting me to see this shot from a more interesting angle!

I couldn't get the lighting right for these next two pictures which are from the same shot, but I loved the expression on this peacock's face. There is a lot of noise from cropping in for a close-up on this first one.

Composition

I had a lot of fun trying to capture these bees on camera, and found it quite a challenge. I realize some of these images are somewhat blurry, but I liked them because of the different angles.

These first two pictures are the same shot, but the first one is cropped vertically and the second one is cropped horizontally.

It is somewhat blurry, but I liked the perspective of the underside of the wings.
I am wondering if that red thing is its tongue??

This one isn't as clear as I would like and the color looks wrong to me, but I liked the side view.

I found the pollen sac on its leg interesting in this shot.
I liked the shadow effect in this picture.

On this one, I found the pollen all over its chest pretty interesting.

Again, this one is a little blurry, but I liked the view of his wings from the back.

Mack Park Field Trip

Thanks to our models who posed for us. They were great to work with!

Lighting assignment

For our lighting assignment, I took pictures from our backyard fence line, first of a mountain looking east, then looking west between our garden and adjoining field. I think it would have been better if I had chosen a subject that I could take from looking north or south so I'm not facing into the sun for part of them, which made for a lot of glare in some of these pictures.

6:30 a.m.

12:30 p.m.4:00 p.m.

6:15 p.m.
8:40 p.m.
8:30 a.m.

12:30 p.m.

4:00 p.m.

6:15 p.m.

8:40 p.m.

Willow Park Field Trip

I really enjoyed our field trip to Willow Park because it made me notice little things that I would never have noticed before. I found it interesting how seemingly ordinary things all around us can make such interesting pictures.

It took quite some doing to figure out how to adjust the aperture on my camera to get this picture to come out right. I'm starting to figure it out.

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Fake flowers from people setting up for a birthday party.

Pond.

I thought this railroad made for some fun pictures.

I liked how these ripples in the stream turned out.

I thought these stumps were pretty cool.

Experimenting with exposure settings

Sprinklers in the field behind our house.

Shutter speed 1/500 - Aperture F4.9 - ISO 100
Shutter speed 1/250 - Aperture 13.4 - ISO 100

White raspberry
Shutter speed 1/500 - Aperture 10.8 - ISO 100

Red raspberry

Shutter speed 1/500 - Aperture F10 - ISO 400

This cat wandered by while I was out in our raspberry bushes taking pictures. As soon as the camera went off, he ran out of there in a hurry. I think I scared him half to death.

Shutter speed 1/500 - Aperture F4.9 - ISO 100

These bowls have special meaning to me. My father made many, many of them which he gave away to friends and family. He died just a few years ago, which makes them even more precious to me. He was fabulous with wood!
Shutter speed - 1/250 - Aperture F9.2 - ISO 100

Shutter speed - 1/500 - Aperture F3.4 - ISO 100