Quality of Light - Pets

I know that I am going to inherently be more interested in pictures of my pets than anyone else so I spared the class of them, but this is my blog so I'm going to put up some of my favorites that I took during this assignment.

My cat Fluffy. Don't blame me for the name, he was a foster cat that I had no intention of keeping, but his mom had a disease that meant I had to keep him for a few years and he had grown on me by then. His nickname is rapidly becoming Zoolander because he always has the same look on his face in pictures

And here's Annie another foster failure:

And finally my dog Homer (I actually planned to get him)

Quality of Light - Downtown Concord

I over shot for the quality of light assignment. The problem was that I really wanted to shoot the Steinhart Aquarium the first week it reopened but quickly realized that I might not be able to get in so I went around shooting anything and everything trying to get inspired. And after I had amassed more than enough pictures for the assignment I finally got into the California Academy of sciences and shot another assignments worth. Because I shot so much I really had troubble decideing what I liked most so I'm going to split the posts up.

The first installment will be of downtown Concord.

(Ok, this is Pleasant Hill, but it didn't fit in anywhere else)

Metering & Bracketing

For the Metering & Bracketing assignment I did several more bracketing and equivalence sets then were required because I thought it would be easier than sitting down and forcing myself to memorize all of the f stops and shutter speeds. I also had to take a road trip to Davis so I took the opportunity to take some landscapes.Jessie commented on how it was nice that I took pictures of things I was interested in, but besides the landscapes they weren't particularly special. The only experience I have playing lacrosse is picking up my friends stick and throwing the ball against the wall. It proceeded to come back and smack me in the head. I do however have a fairly large collection of them because I was on the track team and the track and lacrosse teams were always at war for space. They threw balls at our feet as we warmed up and somehow over a couple years about a dozen lacrosse balls magically found their way into my bag.

48 in 24

For my 48 in 24 assignment I started taking pictures while I was hanging out with my friend and one of her classmates while they worked on a watercolor assignment. I took pictures of her paints, her work, the shops, and flowers. I tried to play with depth of field a little with the flowers and shutter speed with the fountain. When I got home there was a skunk on my patio so I captured a few images through my window.



My friend working on her project just as the sun hit the building behind us. It was really funny a few minutes before when a woman excitedly asked them if they were painting for fun and they both shot back with a harsh "no" in unison. I personally liked their paintings but I guess that while it is easy to appreciate watercolor it is not so easy to make.