EricHe_WinterSun

   This picture was taken at 3:00 PM, the sun was setting but still shining. I noticed that the sunlight almost directly shine into my room, which is warm. But when I looked outside, the scene was very cold, bleak and desolate compare the sunlight. I like the feeling of this contrast. So I grabbed my camera and took this photo. Because I was indoor, so my focus is on the dust on the window which can make the sunlight a little bit more soft, and we still can see the outside scene, not clearly but enough to represent the theme.

Seashell_Julianna

I took this photo of a seashell in my seashell collection. I like this photo because of all the textures, that can be seen in the shell and the sand around it. I also like the focus in the photo because it is clear and focused on the seashell. It allows the viewer to focus on the main focal point of the photo. The thing I wish I could change about this photo is the lighting in the top left-hand corner. It is distracting and overly exposed compared to the rest of the photo.

Odisi_McAuliffe

I took this picture during the Christa McAuliffe memorial service thing at my brother's school. It was a mix between remembering her and connecting what happened then to what could be done to improve future space missions and other spin off's of things NASA created that are used in things other than space stuff. The school my brother goes to is the Christa McAuliffe charter school so it makes sense why they had this and since its a techy school they made it connect to science. The guy in red is my brother because he gave a speech .

Alex_Firework-like Pine Needles

I took this photo this afternoon when I went out for a nature walk, I took a lot of photos on my walk and this photo was among my favorites. I decided to choose this photo for this Sunday's post because I thought this photo was an interesting photo. I like the lighting in this photo because it reflects well on the fresh and balanced colors of the green pine needles. I also like this photo because it looks like the pine needles are like the shape of fireworks when they go off. I think the lighting in this photo isn't too overexposed and the color tones of the needles aren't washed out and distorted. I also like how some of the needles aren't exposed to a lot of sunlight while a majority of the pine needles are casted by sunlight causing them to contrast between lighter green and dark green. I like how the two pine branches are the only subjects in focus and the rest of the other objects in the middle ground and background are out of focus because it draws your attention to the two spiky pine needles in the front of the photo. I also like how the center of the two pine needle branches have a little blossom-like cell which is orangish-yellow/green because it adds variety to the photo and also draws your attention to the details of the photo. I like how there is one pine needle in the middle ground on the right middle corner of the photo which is reddish brown because it catches your eye. I think the most important part of how this photo came out was the great subject lighting on the two branches of pine needles because it is well focused, the color details are nice and you can see the crisp details of the nice green needles. I think if the photo was too overexposed the pine needles wouldn't look as beautiful and smooth to observe. I cropped a little bit of the right side of the frame because there were some non interesting pieces to the photo which would have made the photo slightly less interesting. The only thing I wish I could have changed in this photo would have been to have some of the pine needles in the front of the photo in focus because some of the needles aren't focused completely and makes the photo slightly strange and I also wish you couldn't see another pine branch in the background of the photo because it slightly throws off the focus of the front needles of the pine tree branch. I took this photo on my Nikon D3200 without flash, using auto focus settings, natural lighting, and auto white balance.

Teddy_Leaves

I took this photo today using my Nikon D3200 when I was out looking for things to shoot photos of. I chose this photo out of the 50+ photos I captured today, this being one of the ones I liked most to post today. I like this photo for many reasons, this first is that there isn't anything distracting in the background of the photo, which allows it to capture attention to the leaves in the photo. The second reason is I like how when I took this photo the background on the top got darkened by the lens of the camera as it was focusing on the leaves of the beech tree. Thirdly I like how the leaves are in focus and you can see the details of the textures and plant cells in the leaves which create different patterns on the leaves. The fourth thing I like about this photo is the light casting in this photo, I like how the light is reflecting on different parts of the photo such as the edges of the leaves in focus, the top part of the leave, the branches in the background on the lower part of the photo, and the leaves in the upper back right side of the photo. I like it how the light reflections casted a white beam of light off of the different features in this photo. I also like the different sources of colors in this photo such as browns, whites, tans, oranges, reds, and yellows in this photo. I also like how you can see the brown little dots on the leaves where the leaves are starting to oxidize to change the color of the leaves to more of a brownish color. Lastly I like how when the light was casting from behind the leaves in the center it created a shadow of another leaf and of the branch where the leaves are attached to. I think that without these things in the photo it wouldn't be as interesting of a photo as it is. 

gracem makeups

These are my late posts. The first photo I like because I tried to get the person shadowed out like so, it took me a few tries but I like having the sun behind him. If I could go back, I would try to have the other people on the ends not be there and only have that one person be the focus. This was taken in Maine.

The second photo is Boston, if you couldn't tell. I didn't do anything to this photo but the scenery was fantastic. I was going back to the car and there was a garage opening and all you saw was this. I like the time of day because you can see the reflection off one particular building very well. I don't like the boat to the right of the photo as much though, I would go back and shift the camera over to the left a little bit so that the boat wouldn't be part of the picture.

The third photo is in the cape. My family decided to have a day trip because it was a nice day and even though it was winter, there wasn't snow visible. The person in this picture is my brother and I took a picture of him looking out on the ocean while I was looking at him looking at the ocean. Its a simple photo but I kind of like it because its simple.

The last photo is a picture of my dad. I was at his office at Boston college and the light was really good out of this window so I asked him to stand in front of it so I could show the shadow off of his face. I think there's a lot of distractions in this which I realized only after I took the photo.

jonny_snow day

I took this picture when i just woke up this morning. I just think this view make me think that winter  is really coming.