Sunday: June 8, 2008

Okay! This post is going to be full of pictures from the past couple days, 6/3 and 6/4. I’m going to blog again tomorrow and post the pictures from the World Trade Center site, so hold out for those.

1) On the 3rd we went down to the West Village to take pictures. At first I was just taking pictures of the area and some of the people I saw around.

I like this picture because it looks like the pigeons are having a conversation while fighting for the chicken wing on the ground. So goofy! I had my camera on portrait mode and I think it worked out because the pigeons themselves are in focus but the background gets is soft.

I like how the graffiti wall leads your eye into the rest of the picture. I’m a big fan of messing around with aperture priority so I like that only a part of the wall is in focus and the rest of the picture is soft.

See! I’m really into aperture priority. This picture is very abstract; it’s hard to figure out. If I hadn’t taken it, I probably would have no idea what it was of. I put my camera on a ramp and focused on the center of it, leaving the entire background (which has people from our class in it!) out of focus.

I noticed this kid looking at me from a distance and wanted to take a picture of him so I did! I tried to keep it interesting by positioning him at the very left side of the photo and keeping the eclectic side of the building, rather than the street, in it as well.

Here are a couple more from around the West Village worth sharing!

So, after we walked around for a while and class ended, I stumbled across a park full of little kids running around in a sprinkler. While I watched them and took pictures of them, I started thinking about how children are so cool. That sounds dumb, but seriously. None of them asked me why I was taking a picture or got offended by it either, they all just ran around and had a great time in the sprinklers.

I love this picture. The girl in the blue bathing-suit looks so sassy with her hand on her hip it makes me laugh. I’m glad I decided to focus on the water droplets rather than the two girls. If I had focused on them the picture would have been difficult to look at because of all the out of focus water droplets, but with the droplets in focus but the girls in the background still visible the picture works well. It’s one of the only pictures I’ve taken recently that I really love. And the rainbow was just so great, I had to make sure to fit it into the bottom of the picture.

Here are some more pictures of kids playing in the sprinklers! I like them because they have a sense of movement and life to them, just like the children in the park did. These pictures are definitely worth looking at if you have time.

Here are some more from the park also, but no sprinklers involved!

2) On the 4th I took pictures at Reverend Billy’s protest in Union Square. There was so much energy around while I watched him and some of his “church” members scream their hearts out for their cause! The portraits I took of Billy, his wife, and one of his followers (with his daughter) are very emotive. You can see the passion in their faces, but also notice how they seem to appear exhausted and worn out from it all.

This one below is also from the protest. It definitely fits the mood of the afternoon. You can see the sign, but it’s out of focus through the crisply in focus oppressive bars of the fence. It’s almost a disturbing shot to me.

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