Photography Tips | Portraiture

"Today's lesson is on Portraits!"

por·trai·ture /ˈpɔrtrɪtʃər, ˈpoʊr-/ Show Spelled[pawr-tri-cher, pohr-]

–noun

1.

the art or an instance of making portraits. 

 

1) Interact with your subject so you can get close.

2) Candid shots work wonders! (candid means the person isn't posing, it'a all natural)

3) Use objects

4) It's all about the eyes 

          ~rule of thirds! The "Rule of Thirds" is you divide your paper/screen in a tic-tac-toe grid. You 

           want your subject to be on the lines. Usually pictures are centered, but the human eye is more

          "attractive" to the things on the sides. Does that make sense?

5) Light is your friend (and also your enemy)

6) Be unconventional

7) Watch your backround (distractions)

{A Couple} Photography Tips | Macro

Last week, meaning Monday through yesterday (Friday), I did a photography camp. I learned a lot and I would like to share with you a couple things that I learned. Today I'll be posting about the Macro setting.

mac·ro

–noun

3.

anything very large in scale, scope, or capability.

4.

Photography . a macro lens.

1)When you are shooting in Macro, get close. Like REALLY close!! 2)Remember to use different angles, angles, angles! A picture is more exciting when you use different angles. 3)Focus is key. The focus should be on the main "subject" of the picture. 4)Use your zoom and watch your settings. You don't necessarily need to get physically close to an object, the focus might get off. Use your zoom to get close to an object. What it means by watching your settings is making sure there isn't a person in the backround or a dead leaf that you don't want in the picture. Maybe even a bug that you don't want. Here are some of my macro pictures:

I am in love with this picture! The frog is SO cute!

I hope you learned something and be looking forward to more photography tips!

People in my cabin

If you didn't read THIS post, you probably don't know that I was at camp! I just wanted to share with you who was in my cabin. There were 12 people total. Sadly, one girl broke her arm on the second day, so we "recruited" the nurse's daughter to stay with us. There were seven on my side of the cabin, three (the counselors) in the middle, and two on the other side of the cabin. The two were alone because they were apart of a different camp, sailing camp. So... here they are!

 This is Ella, I have a lot of pictures of her because we went to camp together.

 Kajsa and Amber. They were in the Sailing Camp.

 This is Grace with her face paint on.

 This is the nurse's daughter that stayed with us for a few nights.

 This is Kalie. She was SO nice!

 This is a {horrible} picture my side of the cabin. The girl right next to me is Sophie. She didn't want any other picture taken of her. The one with her head down is Mary... she absolutely hated pictures! 

 This is my main counselor and I. Her name is Rachel. She was SO nice! She would randomly come up to me and give me a nice, heartwarming hug. She was always with us.

This was my other counselor, Ashley. She was also really nice. I didn't get to see her as much as Rachel though because she was with the sailors, sailing.

This was my YSL (Youth Servant Leader). YSL's come to camp a total of 2 weeks. One week for training and one week to see what it's like to be counselor. Her name is Sarah and she was amazing. She had a TON of crazy stories to tell us... wow. :-)

Well, I hope you enjoyed these pictures of my new friends! :-) Have you ever gone to camp? Have you ever heard of Camp Omega?

The amazing Camp Omega

Well, if you didn't know, I was just at camp. It was the first time I was at camp for a week! I had SO much fun, I can not explain how much fun I had! Here are some pictures! :-) This is just a brief overview of what we did! I will post some more pictures.

 This is me on my kayak.

 I just love this picture! It is the top of the kayak and I think it looks really cool with the water on top and everything.

 We did TONS of swimming. We went swimming 5 times; one day we went twice. The one day that we went twice, we went for a night swim with all of the cabins/people. It was pretty crazy!

 Archery... fun, but not my favorite.

And we played LOTS of games everyday! To tell the teams apart, we had to wear face paint like everyday to know who was on what team.