Courtney in Santorini: May 2013

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Greek Myth Shoot

Our large assignment for the week was to research a Greek myth and either modernize it, give it a twist, or represent it as it is seen in history. Having learned about a few myths in my philosophy class, and being in wine country, I thought that it was only fair to reincarnate the god, Dionysus and his portrayal of wine. My beautiful model and good sport was Kristi. She did anything and everything that I asked of her, including smoking a cigar, renting four-wheelers, and sitting in piles of garbage. I chose to represent Dionysus in the female form, showing the dark side of wine, and including and portraying a following of people who want to be just like her.

Metering

f/5.6
1/25
800
55 mm

f/5.6
1/50
800
55 mm

f/5.6
1/50
200
25 mm

f/5.6
1/8
1600
55 mm

f/11
1/200
100
25 mm

Reading Note Option 1

I chose this picture for week three reading note because I shot at night and obviously with low light. I had use a tripod in order to capture this image and expose it correctly. At first I tried to capture it without a tripod and it left the image very blurry and not recognizable. The contrast between the black of the background and the bright in the foreground really make the image pop and create a unique composition.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Lighting

f/5.6
1/160
800
55 mm

f/4
1/8
800
18 mm

f/6.3
1/20
800
85 mm

f/5.6
1/8
100
55 mm

f/5.6
1/250
200
27 mm

Monday, May 27, 2013

SAWA Dog Shelter

1/160
f/5.6
100
20 mm

1/500
f/5.6
100
33 mm

1/200
f/5.6
100
34 mm

1/500
f/5.6
100
55 mm

1/50
f/8
100
55 mm

Portrait Photos - Katie Pepera

1/60
f/29
800
55 mm

1/800
f/5.6
400
55 mm

1/200
f/5.6
400
55 mm

1/60
f/29
800
43 mm

1/50
f/29
800
45 mm

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Decisive Moment

Future Heartbreaker
f/29
1/50
400
55 mm

Surveying the Scene
f/8
1/30
200
55 mm

Luncheon Love
f/5.6
1/40
100
55 mm

Blind Date
f/5.6
1/40
100
155 mm

Hold My Hand
f/5.6
1/200
100
55 mm

Pondering the Day
f/13
1/250
800
55 mm

The Master
f/5.6
1/40
200
55 mm

Helper
f/5.6
1/20
100
50 mm

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Reading Note Week 2 Option 3

I chose to use portraiture as my reading note this week. This guy was amazing to shoot photos of. It was really difficult to choose a photo because I got a lot of good ones. He was very receptive to the idea of being photographed because he just finished some photography classes. I took some photos of him without his sunglasses but he stopped me so he could put them on and it changed the entire feeling of the photos. His glasses really helped bring out his natural personality.

It was difficult to get his face to be bright enough without completely blowing out the background. I had to bump up my ISO to 1600 in order to capture everything in a good light. The shutter speed was 1/800 and the aperture was f/13. I tried a few different shutter speeds and apertures but this seemed to get the images that I wanted.

Portraiture

f/9
1/125
200
55 mm

f/13
1/320
800
55 mm

f/13
1/60
400
46 mm

f/13
1/500
500
50 mm

f/13
1/800
1600
55 mm

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Panning

f/18
1/40
100
35 mm

f/18
1/40
100
24 mm

f/18
1/40
100
23 mm

f/18
1/50
100
18 mm

Monday, May 20, 2013

The Nightlife: Kamari Style

The assignment for today was to research one of four given websites on traveling, wine, food, or architecture and shoot photos that would go along with a story that was being written for that site. Since I have been living in a new place for a couple of weeks now, I chose to shoot for the traveling site, Conde Nast Traveler and portray the nightlife of Santorini. There is one main strip of bars, restaurants, and shops, in Kamari where all the tourists and locals seem to hang out. I wanted to portray the life and energy of the strip in the photos for the site.