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You Are My Sunshine

Photo by: Andrea Moody
I took this picture while riding around with my best friend Christina and my boyfriend Justin. I was sitting in the backseat & snapped this right as the sun was shining directly in front of us. I edited the picture by adjusting the brightness. I also adjusted the hue & saturation since the colors turned out a little dull.

Paint It Black

Photo By: TJ Hart
I was in Tacoma with my brother Joel when we came across this really cool looking church so I did some close ups and did minor editing to make it B&W and I did a little spot burning to bring out the grain.

Rhiannon Hughes

Photo by: Julia Serva-Del Monte
This was for our still life/portraits assignment. This photo was taken of one of my best friends in our photography studio we have set up at our school. This was the first time I’ve ever taken portraits indoors with lights set up all around my subject. This shot was one of my favorites of Rhiannon because of the lighting and the clear focus on her facial features. Plus, she has a shy personality, so I was very happy with how cooperative she was to be my model.

Five-O

Photo By: Bre Smith
This is a picture I took of a friend’s dog. He was continuously following me around trying to get me to pet him so I took pictures instead. He seemed to like the camera. I think the picture turned out pretty good.

Want a Ride?

Photo By: Colleen Nguyen
I took this picture last year in December when I went vacationing in Vietnam. The picture didn’t turn out the way I wanted to because I was using a regular camera. I like this picture because it shows us that people in Vietnam use boats more then cars to transport them from one place to another. I didn’t like the background of it though, I wanted it to be brighter but I couldn’t do that with my camera. I picked this picture because I had some very wonderful experiences on the boat and awesome memories. I didn’t do much I just adjusted the levels.

Loner

Photo By: Rob Drake
I took this picture on a trip down to beaver pond with a marine resources class. The tree really caught my eye because it was branchless and standing alone in the pond. The only editing I did was a little bit of curves adjustment.

Untitled

Photo By: Andrea Moody
I took this picture a couple weeks ago while the sun was starting to rise. I used a tripod and a prolonged shutter speed to fully capture the color of the sky. I didn’t use any sort of editing for this picture. The colors of the sky are natural. I really like the different colors of the sky because it isn’t your average sunrise. I also really like how good the trees silhouetted against the sky.

Oh The Drama

Photo By: Ashley Vincent
I took this photo at dress rehearsal for our school’s fall play. It was difficult to get images to turn out because the entire play was done with spotlights which gave me a lot of shadows on people’s faces. I ended up using a manual setting and a shutter speed of about 1/50 which resulted in a lot of hand blur and other small motion. I really love this image because these are the two main characters and both of them have great expression on their faces. Also the lighting worked well, and I didn’t have the shadow problem I mentioned earlier. All I did was a simple white balance adjustment in Photoshop. The only thing I would change is maybe to get a little bit more of her arm in the frame because it cuts off awkwardly.

The Reef

Photographed by: Brittany Knieriem
I took this photo because I love the colors of the ocean in this picture. The water looks especially good when it hits the rock and turns into a white tint. I took this picture when I was at the beach. It was difficult taking this photo because I had to get the exact timing right in order for the waves to look good and for the water to not get sucked back into the open water.

Scott Woodruff

Photo By: TJ Hart
I took this photo on the day of this posting, with my friend Scott, I needed a model to shoot and he reluctantly offered his body to me. So I played with the lighting to get his eyes illuminated and made 3 different lights in the studio a single point of light, with a fill light over head. So here is the one, the only; scoooooootttt woodruff!

Blue Eyes

Photo by: Kasey Smith
I was working on a macro assignment and my sister kept trying to play with the camera. So I decided to get up close and get her eyes, but as everyone knows babies don’t stay still very long. I didn’t do anything to it because I like it the way it is. If I had to do it again I would like to have captured more of her face.

Starbucks Frenzy

Photo by: Kristin Memovich
While shooting this, my main focus was to shoot a good close up. I love Starbucks and drinking there Passion tea lemonades so I though that it would make a good close up photograph. I edited the photo a little bit in Photoshop, I brightened the lighting to make the condensation of the water from the cup stand out.

Colors Of Life

Photo by: Gabby Moulden
In this photo, I placed some pastels and chalk together because I like the colors. As I kept fooling around with the items and trying to build things, it hit me that this was a good picture moment. So I just started clicking away and came out with some really neat shots. This one is my favorite.

Lonley Tracks

Photo by Erin Craven
I took this picture in downtown Puyallup. I wanted to see what kind of effects I could get with different shutter speeds. I like how this turned out because it shows the solitude of the tracks as well as the life and movement around it. I also like the symmetry in this photo. It was my first time taking night pictures, so let me know if you have any suggestions.

What Was That?

Photo by: James Murphy
When I was laying on the floor taking pictures, my dog KC came up on wanted to play. When I took a picture she was curious about the sounds that the camera made. So I just took this picture for fun, just messing a round with my dog. It turned out better then I thought.

Corn On The Cob

Photo By: Callie Hyman
I recently went to the pumpkin patch with my family during the Halloween season, and I decided to bring along my camera. I was taking pictures for fall and also close ups. I saw the corn and I thought it represented both. I like that you can see the divots in-between cornels and the simple imperfection of nature. I did not use too much Photoshop with this picture; I just adjusted the colors and levels; which made the yellow of the corn much brighter. I am all around pretty happy with the way this picture came out.

Bright And Early

Photo by: Landon Cross
I took this picture over in Covington while we were on choir retreat. When I saw the sun was coming up I thought it would a cool picture to take because of how the sun came through the trees. So tell me what you think.

Chow Down

Photo By: Colleen Nguyen
I snapped a few shots of this spider one day when I was fooling around with my camera. I was trying to see the different settings of the camera when I saw this spider. I just started to take pictures of it from far away and close up. When I load the pictures on the computer I was surprised to see that the spider was eating something while I was taking its picture. I was really happy with the result. I didn’t do anything special to the picture I just adjusted the level of it because I thought it was too dark, so I tweaked it a little.

Golden Delight

Photo by Erin Craven
I took this picture a while ago. I was shooting close ups with color accent on the flower when the bee landed right in front of my lens. It was a perfect coincidence. I had to be really careful not to bump the flower or the bee since I was so close. I wish the bottom part of the pollen was more in focus, but I think it works in this composition since the focus is directed higher due to the bee’s placement.

Ravaged Intentions

Photo By: Brittni Roberts
I was taking pictures for my close up assignment and this one really caught my eye. I love how the pink and black go together and how in focus it is.

The Flames

Photo by: Matt Hayes
I took this picture during a power outage that we had a few weeks ago. My houses power was out for a while, so I got bored and started taking pictures of the candles around the house. I like this photo because it captures the first flame right in front of you, and then you see the other flame focused in the back of the photo. I also like how everything around the flames was dark; it makes the little part of the candle and the flame just pop out in this picture.

Use Protection

Photo by: Layci Moore
I like this photograph because you can see the dust on it. Also, I find close up pictures more interesting.

Tree Of Life

Photo by: Kevin Espino
I took this picture while I was wandering around outside one day and I thought I would get a different angle and shoot from the ground up, it actually turned out pretty well. I actually took a couple more shots like this but I chose this one because it catches the eye a little more!

Anthophobia

Photo by: Heather Munson
I took this photo of a sunflower I saw at the pumpkin patch. We were working on close ups at the time so I wanted to get in as close as possible but the plant was much taller than me so I could only get part of it. Despite my trouble, the picture turned out very nice.

Llama

Photo by: Layci Moore

I chose this photograph because I love animals and I like how it filled the frame. The animal was fairly far from me so I had to zoom in and try and focus. I like this photograph but I would do some things differently. For instance, I would have its whole head in it.

Got The Beat

Photo By: Ashley Vincent
I took this photo of my sister’s drum for the macro assignment. I like the angle of the drum and the depth of field with the background. I took it on the manual setting and the macro setting on my lens and used a tripod to get rid of camera shake. I wish a little bit more of the drum was in focus, but other than that I like this image. It was a challenge for me to take macro pictures because I’m used to photojournalism, so I really liked how this one turned out.

Meow

Photo by: Baylee Strickland

This picture was taken while doing the close up assignment. I was going around trying to find something to take a picture of and my cat kept following me so I got real close and snapped a picture of him. It turned out good I thought, and I am really surprised that he didn’t try to run away.

David Had No Title Either

Photo by: David Wicklund

This picture is of some flowers with trees and the blue sky in the back ground. I really like this picture a lot because I think it looks cool with the flowers in focus and the back ground kind of out of focus but in focus enough to tell what is there. The lighting in this picture is perfect with the sun out it really helped me pull everything together in the frame. The chose this frame because I love how the background looks with the blue sky and clouds.

Bre Didn't Have A Title

Photo by: Bre Smith
I took this picture while I was playing with my kitten. She was running around attacking the packing nuts so I threw some at her and started snapping pictures. I took about 100 pictures but I like this one the most because she’s in the box hiding from everything.

Fair Munchies

Photo by: Brittni Roberts
I took this picture at the Puyallup fair. I took this picture because it’s really bright and colorful, I thought it would make a pretty picture. It turned out pretty good. I wish the whole background would have been blue instead of the stage and the signs.

Ball Of Light

Photo by: Gerry LeConte III
This is a photo of a ride at the Puyallup Fair called El Nino. I wanted to catch the way a person feels when they are on the ride in a single photo. To get this effect, I set my shutter speed to f/22 and my aperture to f/3.5. I was really happy with the result, since it accurately represents how it feels to experience this ride.

Lonely Shoes

Photo by Matt Hayes
I took this photo of my friend and her shoes. She was sitting on a table and I noticed writing on her shoes, her shoes were also a little bit worn and getting dirty so it just had a cool feel to it. In my head I thought it was a pretty cool idea to capture the writing and the condition the shoes were in. I had way to much room on the left side of the picture so I cropped out the stuff I did not want, so the picture would look a little more focused on the shoes and the writing on them.

Life's Good

Photo By: Gabby Moulden
I took this picture on my front porch. I guess you can say my mind was wondering as usual so I dropped a rock in a glass of water and the reaction became my inspiration. So I did it again this time with the correct shutter speed and perfect angle of light and correct aperture. If only life really looked this pleasant all the time.

The Ending of the New Beginning

Photographed by Brittany Knieriem
I took this photo when I was at Long Beach visiting my grandpa for the weekend. I like this picture because I love sunsets and sunrises. I think they’re really pretty and the colors are amazing. I didn’t do much to my camera when taking this photo besides making sure it was in focus. I decided to take a picture of the sunset because its a really romantic scene and it sets off a good mood to whoever is looking at the picture.

Spring Dog

Photo By Gabe Weber
This picture is of a neighbor dog that was out one day. I used the plants on the sides as sort of a frame. Although there is a chain link fence I thought it would still come out nice. I took this on a decent day so the lighting I don’t think is an issue. I chose this one because it was a nice day and I liked the pose of the dog in the picture.

Wild Cat

Photo by: Callie Hyman
I wanted to create a image of the roller coaster, the Wild Cat sign with the sun rays shining behind it an with the clouds in the back ground because I thought it looked neat. I walked around for a while till I could find the right setting for a unique picture. I really think I was able to capture it in this image. I took lots of pictures of the same thing a moved the camera around to find the right position that would best fit for the image. I think that this photo is unique because it makes the sign of the roller coaster stand out with the sun rays in the back ground. I would wait a little longer for the sun to go down a little to see if I could capture a better shot if I were to do this differently.

Night Lights

Photo by Julia Serva-Del Monte
I took this photo at the Puyallup Fair around 9pm. While I was taking pictures of this ride moving, it stopped to unload a few passengers while I was looking through my lens. I mounted the camera on the metal fence separating me from the ride and zoomed in on the light bulbs that were on the ride’s long metal arms. The whole time I was there, I was trying to take different shots of rides that weren’t your typical cliché fair photo. I’m pretty happy with how clear this turned out, since my lighting was very low and I wasn’t equipped with a tripod. The only thing I manipulated was the levels, and I changed the edges of the metal over the red bulbs to a tint of purple.

Mutton Buster

Photo by Rob Drake
I took this photo at the sheep riding event during the fair, all the kids are under 6 years old and weigh less than 60 lbs. I like this photo because I was lucky enough to take it right as he fell off. The only adjust made to the photo was the color levels of the photo because I took it with the wrong whit balance setting

Morris on the Prowl

Photo by Michelle Lombard
I took this photo sometime ago during this past summer. This cat just came out of the blue so I started to snap away. It was difficult to take pictures of him, because he just wouldn’t hold still. What I was trying to do in this photo was having the cat at the rule of thirds with space in front of him. I was happy with this because I didn’t think I would get a good shot out of him anyways. What I would do differently would be to take the photograph from a different angle.

Kermit the Frog

Photo by: Andrea Moody
I was walking in my backyard and saw this little frog sitting on my sister’s flowers. I found him in that exact position and he looked pretty content with staying there. So I grabbed my camera and started shooting. I cropped the photo so the focus was more on the frog instead of the surrounding background and I adjusted the levels and contrast just a tad. I’m really happy with the way this picture turned out.

Blurry Red Swing (the best title Landon could come up with)

Photo by Landon Cross
I took this picture at the fair at night; it was the last ride on the swings. It was really hard to get this picture because I didn’t have a tripod so I had to hold the camera really still. I thought it was a good picture because of how I caught that one person.

High Tide

Photo by T.J. Hart

I was in Tacoma with my brother Joel and his dog at the waterfront and saw this mini beach I guess you could call it and decided to take a picture of the little slice of sand. I thought it was a little too light so I leveled it manually in photo shop, there is a trash can that was a bright blue that I edited so that it wasn’t so distracting, can you find it? And I metered the light from the sky which was cloudy that day.

New photos coming soon

School just started here in Puyallup, so expect more photos soon.

Space Needle

Photo by Samantha Fikilini, 5th Period

I took this photo when I was in Seattle. I really didn’t do much to the picture. I just turned up the contrast a bit. This is the last picture I took that day. The sky was very cool that day.

Twinkle Toes

Photo By Megan Mairs, 5th Period

I took this shot for my famous photographer assignment. My goal was to capture the art of dance. This shot was taken while the dancers at my studio were practicing there dance for an upcoming show. I love how I captured them just as they paused for a moment and I love the lighting on the picture. I am very pleased with how this turned out.

Photo by: Nick Glass, 5th period

This is one of the pictures I took for the Famous Photographer assignment. I really enjoyed taking these pictures because it was challenging to get certain shadows and making sure the contrast was just right. It was also challenging to make the depth of field how my famous photographer would have made it.

Washington Sunset

Photo by Caitie McKenzie, 6th Period

I took this picture from the construction site of the new Jr. High. It was almost 8:30 at night and I was driving home from work when I was the sun reflecting off the mountain. I really liked the way it looked with the clouds and the shadows. The picture is dark and most of the color that was there to begin with was gone once I got there. However, I still like the way it turned out.

Games

These photos were taken for the Photo I monthly theme: Games. There is NO digital enhancement, the lighting effects were accomplished with colored light bulbs and a glass chess set. The exposure time was between 8 and 20 seconds for the different light bulbs against a dark background. I have an idea about which I like the best, but want feedback with your thoughts.

UPDATE: The purple (black light) and red are really NOT blurry in the original photo - just when uploaded to Blogspot.

Simba

Photo By Nikki Woods, 5th Period
This is a picture that I took while I was at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle for a friend’s birthday. The weather that day was real crummy and I didn’t think that any of my pictures would turn out well, but this one kind of did. I like it because it reminds me of The Lion King and pride rock.