Black, White and a Little Gray

Black, White and a Little Gray

In Digital Photography I, we began taking multiple photos of different subjects in different creative ways while i did take some looking through branches, i also took a few normal photos for myself. While editing these photos I found that they looked really eerie and creepy in Black and White. I have found that while others see the beauty in photography and the world, every once in a while I like to show the creepy dark side as well. Upon research on a paper in my Developing Creative Imagination class I found that this form of eerie photography and photography of abandoned places is known as Urban Exploration Photography and a photographer who goes by Freaktography.  I never heard of this form of photography until last week and i fell in love with it and while researching more I found that Sally Mann's work titled What Remains, where she photographed dead bodies, falls within the realm of Urban Exploration Phototography

Pushing Limits

Pushing Limits

"The Boat"

( Great River, NY     9/22/18 )

In my Digital Photography I class we learned about depth of field (see very first Blog post) and i was curious on the ability of my camera. I currently shoot with an older DSLR camera. I shoot with a Nikon D50 and i wanted to test where my camera and "kit lens" could catch with an extreme aperture and how much detail i could catch in the background as well as the foreground. So i went to a park near my house and i took this shot at ISO 800, f/36, and at a 1/500 sec. shutter speed.  While i did capture this beautiful shot my camera seemed to have locked up something internally and i had to partially take off the lens to close what ever stayed open. But it didn't affect my photo. 

Montauk, NY

Montauk Light House

On September 20th 2018, I drove out to the Montauk Light House in Montauk, New York for the first time ever. The purpose of this trip was to capture the sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean. In order to make it in time for the sunrise i had to wake up at 4:00 am and leave my house by 4:30 am  to make it in time. Once there i took a few pictures of the fishermen that were fishing in the ocean and a few photos of the lighthouse itself. As it got closer to sunrise i began to climb this hill with another photographer i had met there. I set up my tri-pod and camera with a wide-angle lens. I took a few long exposure shots as well as some normal shots all at an aperture of f/22 in order to pick up all the detail possible. 

Unfortunately, because of doing a homework assignment with my camera the day before, in JPEG format, i forgot to turn my settings on my camera back to the RAW format, so these photos are unfortunately shot in JPEG format.  Oops!

 "Peaceful Start"

( Montauk Lighthouse,  9/20/2018 )

 "The Morning Fishermen"

( Montauk, NY,    9/20/2018 )

"The Lighthouse"

( Montauk Lighthouse, NY,    9/20/2018 )

9/11/2018

Never Forget 9/11

"Never Forget"

Hauppauge, NY    (Sept 11, 2018)

This photo I shot while attending a 9/11 Memorial Service at the Hauppauge Fire Department. This shot required me to use a tripod and Long Exposure at a low ISO in order to get the proper lighting on the flag while still catching the beautiful blue tribute lights in the background. What started as just me just going to take a few photos of the ceremony, instantly turned into me becoming THE photographer of the ceremony thanks to my Uncle (who is a member of the fire dept.) and the Fire Marshall.  Out of all the shots that night this remains my favorite.

Long Exposure

Slow Shutter Speed (Long Exposure Shots)

Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY (Taken: Sept 2017)

Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY (Taken: April 2018)

While these are 2 older photos were taken as JPEGs these two are my favorite long exposures. I am planning on retaking these 2 photos in RAW format in order to take better looking versions. However these 2 images are a great example on what Long Exposure Shots can do. While it is dark outside or just night time in an urban area such as New York City, a fast shutter speed will not get you a desired well exposed shot and you do not want to increase your ISO so instead you can take long exposure shot (slow shutter speed). These shots i had used tripods and the editing wasn't that great afterwards. At this point of my life when i took these photos, i had only learned to use a DSLR camera on YouTube and learned shooting tricks there too.  The editing was done on my phone using Lightroom CC in the most basic ways possible. Still amazing shots regardless.

Catching Speed

Fast Shutter Speed Captures The Moment

"The Splash"

Gilgo Beach, NY

 

"Cornholio"

Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum (NYCB Live) 

While attending the New York Islanders Pre-Season game at the NVMC i decided to take out my camera and capture movement for my assignment catching a friend of mine playing Cornhole in a sequence shot (Bottom). Not only does fast shutter speed catch sequential shots it can stop movement in its tracks. I captured this by catching a wave as it splashed up at me while photographing at Gilgo Beach in New York (Top).

Shallow Vs Vast

SHALLOW   vs.  VAST DEPTH OF FIELD

1:18 Scale DeLorean model made to look life sized at 32mm f/4.5

"The Long Wall"     at 18mm f/20

This week in Digital Photography I, we messed around with the aperture settings giving the effects of a blurred back ground where only our subject is in focus (Shallow Depth of Field); and the effect of everything in our photo, foreground and background, are in focus.  I was able to make a 1:18 scale die-cast model car look life sized as well as bringing out all the detail in a brick wall. So by adjusting the aperture you can take something so small and make it look as large as life.