Holga


Well, about holga, I just want to say it was not my cup of tea. I don’t even know what the photo will look like when I take them, it was just like the first time I am using the film camera. Maybe I need to practice more, though sometimes the photo will surprise me. Besides that, I hate the focus of it!!! I always forget the change it since I can’t see the different in my view!!!!! But that doesn’t mean I don’t like it, it was really funny to take photos with it, because it looks like a toy. I feel really relax when I work with it, since I never know what will come out. It just sometimes makes me mad because of the turning of film and the focus.

Light and Shadow

It was a really interesting reading. In the reading, I find that something I really want to play want to play with, shooting light and shadow with the background that was full of fog. And I like the evil lighting which use the light and the bottom front of the face. And I would like to play with the grid too, but I don’t really understand when we should use what kind of grid. Inside the textbook, there was a lot of great photos, I would like to learn and try to shoot them all!! By the way, working inside the lighting room is really different from working under the sunlight, I like it more, but I like to take photos at the time of evening the most.

 

Reading Response for Practice 1


The reading is pretty funny, I really like how it says the relationship between the view of our eyes and the camera.  I helps me to understand how does the camera works and what should I do. I would like to try the example of view on with box camera obscuras. I think I helps me to think about more how the photo will look like before I take it. And I like how it tells the different view comes from different lens which I like the most!! I want to play with different lens now. But I am not very interesting with the Photoshop work… maybe I like to work inside the darkroom more.

 

Birds in Flight

This is some of my work.  During our portfolio exchange someone asked if I had any pictures of birds while they are flying so here are some to share.

John Obenaus

John is actually the guy that got me into photography.  Years ago when I was living in Costa Rica teaching ESL he and a friend showed up one day looking to photograph tropical birds.  I have been exploring the mountains a lot and decided to show them where I had been and seen many of the birds on their to see list.  My desire to photograph birds was born then.  John is a super cool guy and is always able to answer the questions I have.

Seth Casteel

Can honestly say I had never seen or thought about this idea before.  But what does a dog look like when it is underwater diving after something?  Seth’s new series of images showing just that are really impressive.

Mike Powell

Mike is a local sports photographer from based in Bellingham.  He has been featured in numerous sports publications and on the cover of Sports Illustrated.  Pretty cool to see a local guy making it big.