Under law, the photographer who will own copyright on any photos he/she has taken unless the photographer is an employee of the company the pictures are taken for, or is an employee of a company told or hired to take the photos, or if there’s an agreement with another person to let him/her use the pictures.

In all other situations, the photographer will own the copyright. If the photographer is paid for his/her work,  the payment will be for the photographer’s time. The copyright to the photos will be the photographers, and any copys without permission would be an infringement of copyright.

Photography Assignment 3

February 24, 2012

For this assignment I am suppose to take four pictures that include: Balance, Gradation, Repetition, Contrast, Harmony, Dominance, and Unity.

This picture has Contrast, Balance of the two cars and Dominance from the sun. I was trying to capture the light of the sun’s light coming over the two cars. I was also trying to catch some shadows from the cars.

You can see the Repetition of the weights on the stand and also some Harmony. I was trying to get a line of the same object and have some of them in focus and some not.

This picture has a lot of Repetition, Harmony, and also some Unity. It looks like the lockers on the left lead into the wall on the right where the other lockers are, but then if you look at the floor, it goes around the corner.

This picture has Balance of the tiles and the leaf. It also has some nice texture difference of the leaf and tile. The detail of the leaf is pretty neat too.

The assignment was to take the same picture of texture three different times. First angle.

You can see the difference in texture of the leaf, the veins on the leaf, and the wood behind it. Second angle

The leaf is a little more out of focus in this picture which adds different texture.

Bonus picture of texture. The lockers are smooth, but the wall and light behind them are a little softer.

I’m trying to find four pictures that incorporate Shape, Weighing/Placement, Emphasis, Dynamics, Balance, Point of View, and Rule of Thirds. This is hard to try to find only four pictures that include all of those things.

This picture includes Shape, Dynamics, Placement, and a little bit of Emphasis. I also like the Texture and light in this picture. Even though it’s quite a simple picture, there is a lot to look at.

 

This picture includes POV (Point of View), Placement and a little bit of Asymmetrical Balance. I found out by editing the photo that if it’s turned on the side, the picture looks brighter. I think that’s because the lighter sections in the picture are in the top, and when you turn it, it’s on the bottom.

This picture includes Rules of Thirds. The railing is appearing from bottom right of the picture and running through. It also has POV and Shape.

In this picture the main point I wanted to get was Rule of Thirds, but it has some nice color in it too. It also has emphasis of the blue. It’s a simple picture and has a main Dynamic and Placement.

In photography class at school, we needed to take four pictures that used lines that define or separate an object. Lines can lead an eye out of a picture or they can lead your eye into a picture. The different lines were: Vertical lines, Horizontal lines, Curved lines. and Oblique lines. Here are my top three picks.

You can see that there are many lines in different places in this picture. Some on the roof, the long Vertical railing through the center, and even the reflection of the roof on the railing. The railing leads your eyes into the picture.

Even though it looks like these panels are curving in, they are actually straight. These Horizontal lines draw your eye to the right side of the picture.

I’m trying to capture Diagonal lines with the light post going through the picture from bottom right to top left.

The Curved lines in the weights in this picture draw the eye towards the back of the picture towards the wall and the other stand in the background.

The black crossing in between the tiles creates Oblique lines. There is also some nice color and texture in this picture.

Skiing

January 6, 2012

On January 29 and 30th we went to Castle Mountain to go skiing with some friends. It had rained the day before and the bottom of the mountain was a bit slippery, but at the top there was powder. We were used to skiing on ice at Sunridge, so skiing on powder took a little longer to get used to. After I got the hang of it, it was amazing! The second night it snowed two inches and continued to snow throughout the day, so there was a lot of powder. That was definitely the best time I’ve had skiing and I hope we go again next year.

School

December 1, 2011

Today, Mom and I went to a highschool to see what the courses were like and take a tour and stuff. I ended up staying the whole day. I guess you could call that my first day of school. Ever. It was pretty good. The students and teachers were nice and since I didn’t have to worry about tests, it was fun.

http://www.edmchristian.net/OurCampuses/seniorHighCampus.aspx

Jello Night

November 22, 2011

Last friday we went to our youth group and they had a event called Jello Night. You probably guess what we did that night. We played games with jello! There was a kiddy swimming pool full of it. There was jello everywhere and everyone was covered to toe in it. My hands and feet were orange at the end of the night. They had all kinds of silly games and at the end there was a slip and slide with jello. That’s probably when I got the messiest. After that I had to get changed and cleaned up so I could play drums in the worship band. I had a lot of fun!

Rodeo!

November 13, 2011

Last night dad and I went to the rodeo. We got there right in time for it to begin. I’ve never seen so many cowboy hats in my life, not even in Texas. It was pretty cool. There were bucking bronks, roping, barrel racing, and bull riding. I think barrel racing was my favorite because it was the fastest. Roping was pretty good too and so was bull riding, but the bucking bronks got kinda got old after a while because there were a lot of them. It was loud, exciting and everything I expected a rodeo to be, even the rodeo clown was funny.

River Valley Trail

November 9, 2011

Here’s a video of a trail I found in the river valley near our house.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teEm0Ef_CJE

In a magazine, The Futurist, there is an insert called “Outlook 2012”, in which there are listed 60 different ways the world could change in the future. Most of the predictions are way out and I don’t think they could or will happen for many years. Here are some that I think are more realistic:

Lessmeatarians
Social game based learning
The internet will automatically search itself
How to ward off mosquitoes
Future full of bikes

“Lessmeatariansm”- is the prediction that the world will be changing to a mostly vegetarian diet and using less meat. I found this one interesting because a lot of people eat a lot of meat. The predictions is that it will reduce agricultural greenhouse gasses. This makes sense, but I don’t think we should just stop eating meat. I think we should find away to harness that gas and use it for something or just find some clean, efficient way to get rid of it.

Social game based learning – The prediction is that games will be used as more of a learning and social tool and replace text books in classrooms. Video games and learning don’t usually go in the same sentence but It would be nice to be able to play games instead of reading text books.

The Internet will automatically search itself so we don’t have to – This prediction is quite interesting. People predict that we won’t have to type in something in google to search it, your smart phone will pick up information from your environments and anticipate what you want to know. This would be amazing and it could also have some problems. Say you saw someone throwing dog poop in a trash can. Your smart phone would search dog poop in trash can. Hmmm….

How to ward off mosquitoes – The prediction here is that we will synthesize the important compounds released by mosquitoes predator’s. People could release these natural chemicals into breeding areas to ward off the mosquitoes. This would be nice, because nobody really likes mosquitoes buzzing around all the time.

Future full of bikes – The prediction is that more and more people will be using bikes as transportation. Being the bike addict that I am, I found it interesting that people actually use bikes for transportation and not for just doing crazy stuff in the mountains. It does make sense to use them as transportation to work or wherever you want to go. They’re cheap, (well… Kinda) they don’t pollute, and you’ll get some exercise. Now if they could build dirt jumps on the way to work or school, I wouldn’t want to use a car anymore!

The magazine is interesting, but some of the things in it are kind of crazy. Some people are still living in clay huts and I think we should spend more time on helping them then pursuing some of these ideas.

But there’s nothing wrong with dreaming…