Black and white photos

Ok I have a treat for all you guys that view this blog if anyone actually reads this. I know this is way way late but these are the final Photos  from my First Portfolio project, I will post the final nine for the second set once I get the critiques and everything out the way. So without further adieu Here's my final nine photos from my First Portfolio

So This is my First Photo all these images were taken at the Botanical gardens in Norfolk Virginia, This is a statue of I think The virgin Mary and a little baby. I've taken numerous photos of this statue but I think it looks wonderful as Black and white. One thing I hated was that it was a pain in the butt to make this thing black and white, I couldn't find the balance that I wanted for the longest time, because I'm picky about my photos like that, truth be told I'm still not happy about it but it'll do I suppose you can't have perfect everything. Next Photo

Second Photo. In class I got a lot of comments on this one. This one, as in this one spot could be my little escape, that and I have plans to do a cosplay shoot at this one spot. Hopefully photos of this one will be done once I get the costume and things for it. Anyway this one was fairly easy to edit I think I like the sky and the flowers most this one was even more of a pain to edit than the last one was because I had such a rich amount of color that I had to just deepen the sky and whiten the flowers and boom this photo. Next up

This one here is from the Japanese Garden, When I take Photos I want my viewers or lack of to feel what I feel when I take photos. When I took this photo I felt relaxed, calm, at peace and I hope you guys can feel the same.

This is only three of the nine pictures I have I'll post the other six at a later time But I guess this is what you call a teaser post, Next Post will probably be more edited photos or my personal photos of having learned Shutter Priority mode. Probably Shutter priority mode because I plan on going to Busch Gardens for a bit and freezing the roller coasters as they move.

Shutter Priority mode/compliments

WHoot I learned yet another skill set! How to use Rea(my dear Nikon 3100) Don't judge me I don't pick names for my camera they tell me their names. Well except for beloved I kinda chose that name(He's my Nikon D40 by the way and my personal/adventure/slash will always have a soft spot in my heart for camera. I love my cameras. Anyway....

So I learned last week to use the Shutter Priority mode on Rea to take photos the assignment was once again to get 150-300(I got 320 @_@) still amazed I shot that much I don't realize how much I shoot sometimes. Sorry getting distracted again. Anyway As I said a few posts back whenever I learn a new skill set or some new mode on my Camera I will take my personal camera out and shoot using that mode and post photos.

Now there's gonna be two separate posts for this. The first set is gonna be from the photos I took using Beloved, and the second set from my Portfolio assignment. But before I start the photo posting. Something really odd, well not odd I guess I'm just not really used to getting them is that I've been getting a lot of compliments on my photos from my class mates. Two of which are guys I sit between one is a professional that works with Lifetouch, and the other two from my instructor who's also a professional and the third another classmate that shoots models. I think the most flattering, that made me feel really shy about my skills. Why I'm shy? I dunno Its how I am I don't get complimented on things much so my reaction to it is to be really shy and knock my photos off as they're nothing special they suck, they could be so much better. But The comment was after he had complemented me  on my composition was if you can do these kinds of pictures with an entry level camera think of what you can do with a professional one. I almost went speechless after that. I don't really think I'm THAT good. I just shoot what I want to be engraved in people's brains, and for them to know the beauty of this planet that we're slowly destroying. I mean if the great spirit Gaia were real(yes that was a captain planet reference) I would love to shoot photos of her to show the world the damage we're doing to it.

Ok onto photos now that I've had my sappy everyone is probably gonna skip that whole paragraph rant. Photo time.

 Ok so here's my first pic. Honestly it came out pretty well with the exception of that frog leaf off towards the right being bright as crap, the photo looks peaceful tranquil, like a Japanese Garden is supposed to look I felt so relaxed walking through it.

Ok this is the sand garden. Normally in Japanese Gardens one doesn't walk in these and play in them just observe them I've seen a numerous amount of these pics, some of them are huge with many rocks and boulders, and some are like this with just two. I forget the purpose behind them but yeah the whole theory is to observe and let nature relax you and go with the flow

Photo edits/short post

Ok as it is 12:37 at night and I probably won't finish this post before I fall asleep I'm just letting you guys know I got around to editing one of the pics that I want to post....if I can retrieve it I'll show you the after pic with all the color effects, the before pic will probably be up tomorrow once I edit this post.

Ok here's the first photo edit from the Rally I think it was...three weeks going on now...no a month ago. The main campus I go was having a call to arms rally and my instructor, That dude in the pic talked about his life and how he didn't let the bad things that happened to him keep him down, and from finding his own success, He is a very inspirational man, and a very kind one as well that lives for helping people find their own success in life. His shirt and the reason only the o and the two rings are edited is because I feel strongly about it. During his speech at one point he was talking about sex symbols and um, yeah kinda held up a pair of lingerie, of course he stated that's what America and the world wants you to think is the typical sex symbol, so he proceeds to take the top half of his suit off and lo and behold this shirt. I'll post what he was wearing before this one but in my eyes, Marriage is the true sex symbol not only because its the right thing to do but because marriage kind of symbolizes that closeness during sex, and that unity, and to me that's what marriage is, becoming one, becoming unified in a close bond that will always last and never separate.

Yeah that's my sappy for the night I'm off to bed now so I can get up in a few hours.