A Little Bit of Fall

    Last weekend my brother and his girlfriend were visiting, so my sister and I went up to Carter Mountain Apple Orchard with them to pick some apples. It is gorgeous up there this time of the year; all the leaves are turning, there are apples everywhere, and the view looking out over Charlottesville is amazing. I took a ton of photos, but here are some of my favorite ones.

It takes teamwork to pick apples!

Photo by Alice 

Photo by Laura

It's cool how the drab surroundings really makes the color of the leave pop.

Some variety of berries

Framed by the leaves

Pumpkins!

Beautiful Sunset

Amicis Italian Bistro

    For our most recent assignment, our class took a field trip over to the little town of Scottsville for the day. Our task was to find a business, and do a photojournalism project based on what we photographed and found out about the place. I chose to photograph Amicis Italian Bistro, on Valley Street in Downtown Scottsville. I went in a little before they opened to ask if I could take pictures. The employees were incredibly friendly and let me take pictures of them setting up for the day. Using the pictures we took, we put together a photo story. So, here are some of my photographs that I used to make my photo story.

Karen Taylor (left) and Maggie Hawkins record customers' orders.

William Lara chops mushrooms in preparation for the day ahead.

Amicis Italian Bistro is located on Valley Street in Downtown Scottsville.

Karen Taylor takes a customer's order.

Employees make salads to accompany orders.

Creative Devices

    For our first at home assignment, we practiced using different creative devices in out photographs. Some creative devices include: rule of thirds, silhouette, reflection, selective focus, juxtaposition, and decisive moment. I focused on using silhouettes and rule of thirds. I used my younger sister as my model, and here are my favorites...

I love the circles caused by the sun 

In this photo and in the next, I really like how her hair is outlined by the sun, and has a golden edge.

Depth of Field and Shutter Speed

    Our first assignment of the school year was an in-class assignment exploring how shutter speed and depth of field affect a photograph. By slowing down or speeding up the shutter speed, you can add motion blur to a photo, or make it so the action is frozen. We also experimented with not changing any settings, but taking a few steps backward for each photo, to see how it affected the depth of field. By using a small aperture number, you can make it so that only a portion of the photo is in focus, or by using a large aperture number, you can put the whole photo into focus. These are some of my better photos from the assignment!

Shutter Speed Photos

Aperture: 29.0 , Shutter Speed: 1/15, ISO: 100

Aperture: 6.3, Shutter Speed: 1/1000, ISO: 100

Depth of Field Photos

Changing Camera to Subject Distance