Nothing

Nothing can be of something that has no importance or something that is none existing. Most think of when nothing is said that means absolutely having not anything around like in possession or it can be that someone has nothing like in their personality. Nothing can either be an object or emotion. To photograph something of nothing I decided to shoot at my condo. The bedroom is the room where I decided to shoot for my nothing. I put my Olympus E-420 camera on a tripod at the door entrance of the room and pointed it towards the window that is in there. I had opened up the blinds just a little bit to get some light from the outside to come inside. I did this shoot around the time of 2am early morning or late night. The shutter speed that I used was at thirty seconds and the f-stop was set at 3.5 which is the most open aperture. For editing I only decided to desaturate the photo to make the light coming through the window looking more like a white color than the yellowish color that was originally in the shot. This photo has a very mysterious feel by making you want to know where you are looking in to. Also what is in the image and is there anyone possibly in the photo that might be staring at you. The feel is mysterious and also creepy at the same time because you never know what could be lurking in the darkness of the image. I also like how you can see the window because of the light coming through but like more how the light coming from the window shines to the adjacent wall and makes it look like there are two windows in the room that we are looking into. This photo makes me think about the paranormal activity stuff where I feel like if I were to look at this for long enough something odd would appear in the shot.

Week 10 EOC Financial Spreadsheet

During class we learned how to do a spreadsheet of the budget for a business. Using the Microsoft Excel program that they have for making spreadsheets is pretty simple to use. Once you get the hang of the program and know how everything works making a spreadsheet is easy. Basically all that you have to do is write the categories and tabs of all the stuff you need and plug in the first set of numbers then excel does the rest by doing the math calculations for you and when you change a number somewhere it affects the entire spreadsheet. The spreadsheet that I did today was for a photography business I plan on opening up years from now. All the products and services that I have made in the spreadsheet with the prices of what I could plan on doing during a period of three to four months my business wouldn't make a profit. For most small businesses that open up don't usually make money until a couple years of being open. Learned while putting everything into the spreadsheet that there is a lot that you have to count for and make sure you don't go over what you have. This is a very useful program that makes all the calculations on how much money is being spent and how much is being made. Either you do it yourself at first or have someone you hire to do all the accounting stuff for you this program is great to have.

Food

There are some many kinds of food out in the world with there being fruits, vegetables, meats, and more. There are foods for all ethnic groups as well like there is Chinese food, Mexican food, and many more.  Mostly all food can be eaten alone but people will combine different kinds of food to create a meal. Like someone may have a steak with some potatoes, mashed or baked, and some vegetables to go with it. Some of the food that is prepared all around the world can be appetizing or disgusting to different people. Everyone has different tastes to all the different kinds of food around. I am one of the people around that is super picky about what kind of food I eat and have. I don't like lots of foods and when I do like something I usually have to get it a special way because I don't like what they put with the dish. Cookies is one of my favorite foods and dessert. My favorite kind of cookie is chocolate chip and I love it when they are just made fresh because they are just so soft and just melt when in my mouth. I don't drink milk but I thought to add the glass of milk because many people who have cookies like them with milk. So I thought that the plate of cookies would look more appealing to others if the milk was in the photo. This was shot in a studio with two lights one on each side of the cookies and milk. I used a table mat and blue plate that I put the cookies on and then set everything on a small black table. I used a blue colored plate and glass because of the orange colored table mat which makes them greta opposite colors and go great together. The background in the photo I used was a white backdrop sheet and I used my Olympus E-420 camera on a tripod.

Week 9 EOC 40 Under 40 in Vegas

The In Business Las Vegas holds an event that celebrates the ones chosen for the list of 40 under 40 which is business leaders that are under the age of 40 years. This has people who are being successful in their business and have help and done stuff to help their community. When I am at the age of 40 years old, which is still quite a bit of time, I have some things that I would to be at in my life. In my personal life I want to be in my own house with my family maybe about two to three kids and married to my partner. Also being financially stable to be able to support us and pay all the bills. In my professional section at the age of 40, I plan to be thinking about open my own photography business or to have that started by just having it opened up or by getting it to almost being open like finding a location of where the business will be and getting the money needed to get started. For helping the community I plan helping the homeless people. Also help kids in the city that need help with being completely poor or with a very low income. Have it where they go to school and for the homeless, if they want, help them to get themselves back up on their feet by getting jobs for them.

Newsworthy

                                             "Killer Honeymoon"

Photographers always try to capture the photo that will sell big and have a great story behind the photo. Just like in the movie Roman Holiday where a reporter and his photographer friend go out one day in the city with the royal princess and take pictures of her without her knowing. With some of the photos it shows her doing the activities that people go do like going to the statue that will supposedly cut your hand off if you tell lies. Also there was a photo that they got of her fighting with the police and she bashed one of them in the head with a guitar. The photos that they took they put great captions with them to put if they were to of sold these images to like newspaper or magazines. So I decided to shoot my two dolls, Chucky and Tiffany, from the movie Chucky's Bride. The idea behind this photo is to shoot that she has been abusive to him or even murdered him on their honeymoon. The reason for them being on their honeymoon because she is in a wedding gown with the hair piece. I choose to have Tiffany be the violent one is first, Chucky has cuts and stitches all over his face like he has been beaten up and second, it seems to always be the men who are the bad ones when there are women who are just as bad as men or even worse. The location is inside at the front door at my place and I am using a floor lamp I have that has six separate lights on it. I set it to have only three of the lights shooting down on the dolls. Then in Photoshop I increased the contrast, increased the clarity, and brought down the exposure a little bit. After that I put a gradient with it going white to black starting from her face going far past the image so that Chucky's face can still be seen. I shoot this at late night around probably midnight with my Olympus E-420 camera on a tripod.

Week 8 EOC Is She Fair Game?

Roman Holiday is a movie starring Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, and Eddie Albert where Hepburn is a royal princess, Peck is a reporter, and Albert being his photographer friend. The princess, Hepburn, wants to experience the life outside of the palace that she has always been trapped in. One night she escapes the palace with no one catching her sneak out and goes into the city. Peck's character finds her and takes her to his place for the night. Then later the next morning after looking at a newspaper with the princess on the front cover he discovers that the young lady he brought home last night was the princess. Also he tells his boss that he will have a personal interview with the princess. All three of them, photographer, reporter, and princess, go an adventure in Rome for a whole day to do all the things that she has always wanted to do. The photographer takes photos of her during their day of fun and at the end of the day she goes back home. The reporter decides that he doesn't want to say anything about the princess and her day in the city because he decieved her and could ruin her name. The photographer wanted to make money off of the photos he got of the princess but decides to be like his friend, Peck, and give her the pictures he got printed. I think the way they went to not expose her fun day and all the activities she had done to the public or anyone else was a good choice. It is not a good thing to have your name ruin in society because of who you are especially when you go back to do what you are needed to do. Personally I believe the reporter went that route was because he fell for her and that doesn't seem like a good reason to give up something good for the person you like. Still I think not telling of the things the princess did was a good way to go. I believe I might of gone that way but it really may of depended on the money I would of made from that and see if it would of been worth degrading someone down.

Self Portrait-Eye

Seeing yourself in someones else eye can be a self portrait of you without getting a clear view of how you look. In the person's eye you can see yourself taking the photograph of their eye which is also taking a photograph of yourself. So I thought of taking a photo of my son's eye because he is a a part of me. Thought would be cool to shoot someone's eye who is blood related to me because it is like you are shooting into your own eye. It is like getting a self portrait of your eye and your body inside the eye to get a feel of a regular self portrait photograph of you facing towards the camera. Did get about one picture that was the best out of all of them but don't think it was the best choice to pick. So then I decided to shoot my younger brother's eye. We look a like of course because of being siblings so thought this would still work for my idea of shooting myself in my own eye. This worked out better than my son because my brother isn't a baby who likes to move all the time. Can view the picture with my son's eye in the gallery. I liked the one with my brother because you can see me in his eye great. Also like how the lens of my camera is right where his pupil is. To me this photo makes me feel like I am looking straight into my own eye. I feel like this is myself taking a photo of my own eye but of course it isn't. I shot this outside with the sun being my light and had the sun on his right side and it was around 5pm or 6pm in the late afternoon. I used manual focus because having it set to auto focus it wasn't taking the photos and I used my Olympus E-420 camera.