Seeing Red

   






 For the final project I matched objects that are red together. I printed out two images on one piece of paper so that it was obvious what two images went together.
     The first two images were put together because the swirls of the rose go with the swirls made by the nail polish. I wanted to take a picture of a rose since I think red roses make beautiful images. Then I had the idea to swirl red nail polish in water to get a wily design to match the rose picture. That's how I went about with  the idea for this project.
 















  In the second two images I took the picture of the red cardinal first. Then I saw a red feather from an ornament on my Christmas tree that would go well with the red bird.
     Im happy with how my final project turned out. I put my creativity to the test to see how many red objects I could photograph in an artistic way. It made me realize how many red objects there are, exceptionally during the holiday season.
   

Fact Sheet: A look into the nature photography career path

• Nature Photography- Photographs that are taken outdoors and shows natural elements such as landscapes, wildlife, plants and flowers, and close-ups of nature.
• The majority of nature photographers are freelance photographers who sell their work on their online websites to individuals and collectors.
• Some work for publications such as National Geographic by going on assignments.
• The least amount of education needed is a high school diploma
• People who have a high school diploma can take some classes to learn the fundamentals of photography.
• To further chances of becoming a professional photographer for companies, an associate’s degree or a bachelor’s degree helps.
• Work days aren’t a typical 9 to 5 type of job. Photographing depends on the weather, lighting, and opportunity.
• There’s also the business part of the job so not everyday can be spent outside taking photographs.

Reaction Paper #3

    In class, both Professor Keener and Professor Cyr presented their photography work to the class. I found it interesting seeing the work that they have created. It was cool to see what kind of photography style each have.
     I really liked Professor Keener's journalism work for the newspaper. I liked the images were still artistic and not just point-and-shoot images. The one that really stood out to me was the photographs of the little boy who lost his arms. They showed a community getting together to help welcome that little boy home from the hospital. Keener's artistic photographs that he made in college were also very interesting. His self portraits had a strong mood and emotion to them.
     Professor Cyr's abstract/ texture images were visually pleasing all together. I liked how his photographs were in collections where they all go together, like the sky images. I really liked the developer trays collection of photographs because of the different colors of the trays on the black background all put together.
      It was interesting hearing how two photographers got to where they are today. I enjoyed hearing the stories and jobs they've had before teaching. I really enjoyed the presentations.

Red Orbs

   Continuing with the red theme that I'm doing for my final project, I took out of focus pictures of lights. I like when lights are out of focus because they create the bokeh effect. My christmas tree lights helped to get the cluster of light orbs.
   For the images with tons of light orbs, I desaturated the other colored lights and mad eat red lights more prominent.
    For the image with the two orbs I made sure to get close to two red lights. The one orb has black lines through it which is from the the Christmas tree branches.