Fundamentals of digital photography

All this week (monday-friday) creativelive is having a fundamentals of digital photography by John greengo. You can see the time for different places here! All of creative lives stuff is AMAZING! You can tune in any time!

How-to-do it.

Hey everyone! So the post i did a couple days ago i had a couple emails asking me "how did you do that?"

this is one of the pictures

  To tell the truth it is actually pretty simple. What you need: A camera and a tripod. Then at dusk you go out to a somewhat busy street (or a really busy street) and set up your tripod and camera on the side of the street, or on a bridge going over the street, or anywhere facing the street.





Then id say set your shutter speed to 8 seconds or longer (you could probably do shorter but then the streaks wont be as long and bright). Now point your camera towards the sky and set aperture till your meter says you have a correct exposure. Set your camera on your tripod and click away!  I would suggest using a self timer so that you don't bump the camera and get blurry pictures. I sadly didn't take any pictures of me doing it :P sorry! I tried to find a picture of someone doing it online but i could not :( Anyways all the pictures (except the very top) i got off of google :)

I am NOT AT ALL a  pro at this but i read a couple different posts and part of a book about this. And im just saying from what i did. If you want to know more you could google it (that what i did) or email me but this is pretty much all i know!  :).  My settings were: F-stop-22, Shutter speed-8 seconds, ISO-400

Early morning dew drops

So yesterday morning there was some amazingly perfect dew drops on the grass. It was so beautiful when you got up close. So i was like i HAVE to go get my camera. So ya!

(entering this photo in the contest below)

  

Long shutter speed

Today my mom took me to go take pictures at dusk! (iv been asking for like a month) And i left the shutter speed open for like 10 seconds and got the head lights and tail lights of cars to make red and white streaks across the picture! Anyways ya... :)

Entering in the contests below

what do you think is the best?

Candles

Acouple days ago i got to take some pictures of some candles! I put some glitter in the bowl cause i thought i would be cool :)

what do you think of it edited like this?

which do you like best?

Free lighroom class!

Today, tomorrow and saturday CreativeLive is having a free Fundamentals of lighroom 4 class! If you have lighroom 3 you can watch it to. Laura Shoe is the instructor. http://www.creativelive.com/live

Lightroom 4!

So yesterday i got lightroom 4! Im super excited! Im still trying to figure it all out (obviously), but here is one of the things i have done :)

before

after