Cahines_Christmas

These are two photos that I actually took after Christmas. The first one is a close up of a ginger bread house. I like this one the best because it's in good focus and you can see a lot of detail in the candy pieces. You can also see little parts of icing clue that wasn't perfectly placed. The second one is a close up of a Santa hat on a mini Christmas tree. This one is also in good focus and has the background and other un important things blurred out. I especially love how you can see details in the red ornament.

gracem christmas photo

These are the christmas photos on the left is cookies that my family and I make every year and they happen to bbe my favorite. On the right is an ortament my dad sister and I got at my mom's office when we were younger.

Alford_reef and tree

The first picture I took with my canon 5D. It was at my grandmothers house. This is her back door. She put her reef and all her christmas cards on the door. So I thought that it would be a good holiday themed picture. I had to zoom in the best I could to get the best result for a picture.

The second picture I also took with my canon 5D. This was taken in my living room where we put together and decorated our tree. So I waited until it was dark outside. So when it was dark outside I turned on all the lights and I tried to get as many ornaments in the picture as possible. I also tried to get enough lights shining at one time.

Julianna_Holiday Photos

I took these photos of Christmas decorations my family had. The first one is of one of the ornaments we had on the tree. I like how it is clear and in focus. I also like how you can see the tiny sparkle details that are on it. The only thing I would change about it is how there is a tiny over exposed part on it. I tried to get rid of it by taking the photo at different angles, but the over exposer was worse. The second photo is a photo of one of the lights we had on a string of lights we had hung on the mantel. I like this photo because you can see the tiny details in the light and how it brightens up the background. I also like the contrast in textures. The light is smooth and shiny while there is rough woven cotton in the background. The only thing I would change is the shadow in the corner. I tried cropping it out, but if I cropped it all out I would have cut off some of the light along with it.

Daniel_Holiday Photos

I took these two photo outside my back yard, this first photo was my host parent's swimming pool, as you can see, it has been freeze, but the beautiful part is the ice shape in the swimming pool, it looks like a little mountain in the middle of the swimming pool, I really like it. The second one was took in the forest which was from my back yard, I put the camera on the ground and took this photo, I like the surface of the snow, it looks really shine especially with the sun light. The little trees on the photo are really funny, because their height is like from short to tall, but actually they are the same height and somehow I just randomly got this funny view. I think for me, during the holiday I prefer like to embrace the nature, because nature always have many beautiful sight waiting for me to take the photo from them.

Alex_Holiday Photos

I chose the top photo for my first holiday photo because I think this photo was a nice photo of the presents under the tree. I like the balance of color with the present gift wrapping complementing with the pinkish red rug and the brown wrapping paper complementing with tannish white part of the rug. I like the lighting in the top photo because it is not too overexposed to too much light and the color is well balanced without any color distortions. I cropped the top of the photo and part of the corners because there were some distractions with chairs partially framed in the photo so I cut them out to make the photo easier to look at and to focus on the Christmas spiritual essence of the photo. I like how there is a pattern of green and red and pink in this photo because the gift wrapping balances the tree with the Christmas colors. I also like that the photo has a wide focal range in this photo which makes this photo more visible to observe. I also like the bottom photo because there are a lot of different ornaments on the tall Christmas Tree in the George W. Bush Presidential Library Christmas exhibit. I was fascinated by its enormous height of around 18 feet. I also found the ornaments funny as well because the ornaments towards the middle of the photo are sewn dolls of the characters of A Christmas Carol with Marley in the red robe and wearing a night cap on his head. I also like the balance of color in the second photo because it has an even balance of whites, reds, and gold. I also like the reflection of the room shown through the shiny round silvery ornaments near the bottom of the photo. I also like the lighting because it isn't too harsh except for the top right corner of the tree. I wish the spotlight on the tree wasn't shown in this photo because it slightly distorts the colors in the bottom photo and it washes out some of the green branches and some of the ornaments near the top of the tree. I also wish the focal range in this photo was a little bit wider in the bottom photo because it is blurry near the top of the tree. I took these photos on my Nikon D3200, without flash and using natural lighting and auto focus adjustments.

Teddy_Holiday Photos

I took these photos when I was in Texas during Christmas break. I thought that these two were among the best holiday photos that I captured during the trip. I like how in the first (top) photo the chair in the center closest to the camera is blurred and out of focus, which allows the dining room table to be the main focus. I like the lighting in the photo, it isn't harsh and it keeps the feel for the photo calm and relaxing. Through this photo it clearly shows a feeling to Christmas because of the colors and decorative napkins and red and green flowers. I love the variations of Christmas themed colors are shown in this photo through the salads, through the napkins, through the flowers, and the candles. I also like how the chandelier light is reflected on both the brass covered light switch and on the glass cups, which allows a sparkle of light to bounce off of the glass. I also liked that there weren't any distractions in the background. Without these features this photo wouldn't have as much quality and strength. 

The second (bottom) photo I took on Christmas morning when I was unwrapping presents. I thought that capturing the photo of the Christmas tree would allow the viewer to grab the feeling of Christmas in more than one way. The subject of Christmas in this photo is expressed in three ways through the tree, through the ornaments, and through the ornament that says "Noel", which means Christmas in French.  I love the lighting in this photo because the light in this photo comes from two different sources. The two sources are sunlight and the christmas tree lights. The sunlight in this photo is reflected through the right side of the tree in this photo, which allows a semi-silhouette shadow of the branches of the tree, as well as the sunlight casting onto the right side of the anchor ornament. I also like how the light from the Christmas tree light is reflecting on the right corner of the Noel ornament. I like how the christmas lights sparkle through the camera lens.  I think one of the best features in this photo is the shiny little green ornament, I love how the light is reflected onto the ornament allowing a mirror reflection image of the mantle and fireplace in the reflection. With the mirror reflection in this photo it allows another feel to the photo. If this photo didn't have all these features it wouldn't be as interesting as a photo. The only thing I wish I could have changed in this photo would be to have a crisper detail of the tree and the ornaments.