Wednesday, December 16, 2009

photo montage



No matter what path you take in life one must commit to that path fully and that path alone. Thats something i learned snowmobiling. It relates to all of life. When snowmobiling you plan a path and you try to stay on it. If you let your mind wander too much it loses track of your path and you tend to get stuck. Most of the time needing help getting pulled out. i blended the two opposites to try and show this difference. one blue and white and cold. and one with red and orange and warm. both extremes. both exciting. That tried to create a balance between them both. The one on the right the trail leads off the screen however the ridge line on the left is suppose to balance that. It hopefully will create some movement. the words i wrote are just my opinion on my own thoughts created by the pictures.


This picture is about keeping an open mind. Its good to commit to a certian path however one must know all sides and all paths to truly understand their own. In laymens terms "keep and open mind" Cliche but if somethings made it to the status of cliche its probably true. There is a river in the center and the woods almost semetrical creating rule of thirds. Also the color repeated with a warm calming sence of mid autumn while keeping your eye moving.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

know your camera

I own a Cannon powershot SD1200. it has 10.0 megapixals 4x optical zoom and 16x digital zoom. Some things that i learned about it is that it is easy to use but takes a good enough pitcure. Optical zoom doesnt distort as much as digital zoom. The camera can change the lighting by a great ammount. Shutter speed blurs the photo. Flash makes things look flatter. In display mode it can show me the light sources. Image stablizers dont work as well as they are hyped up to be. macro works well for upclose images. infinity setting works well for long range/ landscapes. and portrait works well for taking pictures of people. What format of pictures does it take? How can one make objects seem more normal? How can one get sun spots out of the image?