Week 3 BOC: Sports Photography

I wanted to capture the moment at view that a bowler would see it and at an angle so that one can see the motion put into the sport. I used the lighting in the bowling alley to make the game pop out and the people look dark to make it look like it is the sport that they are focusing on. The blue bowling ball seemed perfect against the yellow floors because it popped out better. I wanted to get the bowling ball in action as the bowler is still watching but still in motion from his shot. It was taken at 11:15pm at the Sunset Station on February 3rd on a Thursday night. It was on off time for the bowling alley because on Fridays are Cosmic Bowling during the late night hours. There were many pink bowling balls (the lightest balls) available that night. Because on busy nights like Friday there are next to none pink balls around available. It was only about ten alleys that were filled with bowlers. Most of them were high school to junior high aged kids bowling their free time away. One girl did a little dance and made her friends laugh. There were a couple of families enjoying and spending family time together. They have a snack bar open for bowlers if they need something to snack on for example, chicken fingers, fries, hotdog, nachos, and beverages such as sodas and juices. If one ever gets too bored, they have music playing and some sports on television sets above them to watch while waiting to bowl. For the more gregarious type, there is a bar behind them for some favorite alcoholic drink. There is also a pool table in the bar area for those that want a different sport to play.

Week 3 EOC Where Are you and Where Are You Going?

Where I am now financially is rough. Every time I try to save up or get a new account, I have another thing coming. It gets repetitive like the third party knew I had some set aside. I just sit and say well that was for that situation and know that I was able to pay it off. I have only enough to handle my small personal emergencies. I have enough to get my projects done that’s how I am now. I have always had medical insurance. In the past, I have been doing a retirement with saving some for bigger goals. I have had problems keeping track of what I had in my account in the past because I relied on the computer instead of my own calculations. In the past I was able to have enough to take little trips and invest in a business I was growing. It was a worth while investment because I had learned a lot about how to educate yourself in the business world. I am on my third new car and my first one was paid off so then I got a new one. The second one got messed up from reasons I would not mention so now I am on my third. In the future, I would like to be able to take little trips, save for retirement and save more for later. I want to have enough where I can have a family, nice home, two cars, couple cameras and insurance for each. I would like to have business insurance for my business also so that I can keep it afloat in bad situations that may come up. I still spend on things I should not because I think I would be fine in the end. And next thing I know it is gone and I am barely scrapping by to get some gas. I have to keep myself on that road to financial stability so that it is stable and sit back and say it has and will always be a good rough road to travel.

Week 2 BOC: Crime Scene

The crime scene where a woman has been stabbed and left to die on the computer desk after attempting to log onto the computer. We do not know what the intentions were only to find that there were divorce envelope left on the desk already opened. I used the lamp to show the scene as if it just happened. I had the knife blobbed with color dyed apple sauce and wrote "Divorce Settlement" to make the story. I used the lamp as my lighting to show where the crime was done. I wanted to give it that office look and the darkness around it to give it that dark feel also. It was done during the day even so I left the curtains closed to make it look like it was done at night. I made myself the subject because I think I can give a good dead person appeal on a shot. I posed myself enough to make myself look like I am dead. I had to pose in a way that I was dangling that my jaw bone hurt laying hard on the desk. I put my camera on a timer taking about five shots per frame. In each shot, I posed with my arm on the desk, with my arm off the desk, with my glasses on or with my glasses off. I did one without any notes, but it didn’t create much of a story or drama so with a note seemed better. I even did some with a scary note on it. I thought it looked too horror type so I put the divorce envelope to make it more modern and real. The red blood I wanted to look like it was real and thick so I used apple sauce to thickin my fake blood.

Week 2 EOC Sacrifices

I would give up everything including my health to be in my career. I like to be in the eye of the storm and be in the midst of poverty to make my photography be valuable. It is in my intuition to make a news of anything I see. My family comes second with my career because without my camera where or how do I support my family. I would live in anywhere and eat next to nothing because that is what it is about. It is about getting yourself in the situation to be understanding and grossed into the culture and be vulnerable to my surroundings. I love to be in the most dangerous situations such as bombings and battles to capture the actions out there.

“The bullets tore holes in the water around me, and I made for the nearest steel obstacle.' said Robert Capa after capturing the 1947 war invasion on the beaches of France."

1 Like Capa I want it to be the most riveting events that makes one’s skin want to jump out with shock. It is my duty to make the best of every moment. I drive on action and no action causes no reaction. I would sacrifice my time with my life partner to be able to capture the most beautiful scenes and fall in love. I love to make my scene my partner and my camera my love to be in that moment of peace. Those moments are the most timing places that makes me me. It makes me find peace and harmony and craziness and chaos all in one lifetime. I crave the situations where there is politics and culture clashing in everyone’s faces and know that it will be resolved later when there is peace. I like seeing the change after a big event because that is where I learn and we learn that life is about life.

BOC Week 1 About Me

The photo here was taken on a foggy night of the Las Vegas town and strip. The town is where I grew up and most of my life believed it to be a dull and bland town. But after seeing the city for what it was I grew to appreciate the beauty of it. I say it is the beauty that becomes more interesting. I grew up to be more open and look more interesting as I live my life. I took this on Friday night in December at 10:30 pm out on the east side of Boulder Highway up on the hill. On that hill is just a protected park just for horses mostly and for running, biking and walking. But this night was a very mysterious night because Las Vegas is known for its hot weather and dry climate and cloudless days. The area I was at only had cactus and desert plants and bushes. It is all flat and treeless. I am so appreciative because with trees, one would have a hard time seeing the town. Most nights it is glittering lights along the horizon on the city line. It is still pretty. I took this with a slow shutter speed and high ISO to capture the lights and the lights reflecting off the fog around and above the city. It took me about over 50 shots to get the perfect shot because it was windy enough to move me and cold enough to be in that shiver state. It has been foggy for the passed few days and this one was an opportunity I could not miss. The next night was barely any fog at all. I wanted the night sky above to be a gradual phase from the fog to make it look mysterious and wintery.

Week 1 EOC: Haute Couture

Haute Couture is what every woman wants.It is a Haute Couture is a

"French phrase for high fashion."

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It is that feeling of high fashion but only fits the few because of its size that fits her form. We want to be like them. Their style is our style because we want the best and first design that makes us the essence of epiphany and envy of everyone looking. The glance of the eyes wanting to be like us. We are the ones that are important. It is a moment of the feeling like a queen. We all want to be center of attention and marvel at our form and stature once we hit the red carpet. It is the woman's job or duty to dress as the best in crowd. The clicking of the paparazzi flashing their eyes at us as we pose the pretty or we say sexy pose to gain the media's coverage of high fashion. And the other side, the masters of the sewing room want their models to be fitted for their first piece finished. Who wears it in public will be their first customer that was on time from their first model. Who wears it first will be the one that everyone looks at. The fashion makers want their piece to be the best piece they have made. So that fit it to their model to portray their artwork. And for the photographer shooting the high in fashion wants the audience to see their work look like the first true version of that style. We capture the body work and make the audience see what we did not see before. We choose that character to portray the person wearing the fashion. It is that woman who wears this. She is the one that portrays haute couture of this outfit.

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EOC Week 1: My Voice

Rachel is a creative photography who wants to capture what she sees in the world around her.. She has been doing four types of photos; therefore, they are portrait, fashion, architecture, and events. In portrait she has done different lighting to fit the mood for each. She made sure that they were lighted perfectly to convey a thought. In fashion, she did a Audrey Hepburn in her classic "Tiffany" wardrobe with the model acting the part. Another was a cowboy version that was fashioned with high style watch. The model posed the part with his flashy watch. In architecture, she had taken the strip, Brain Institute, Allure, Rhyolite and Nelson. On the new strip she captured the lights of the buildings to give it that HDR look. Each building taken from below to give it that vast and tall perspective. At the Brain Institute she took photos of the colors changing that contrasted against the metallic exterior for a off the wall type of architecture. At the old strip she showed her work to look like it reflected another building. The one building had mirror windows so you could see the colors of the other building. At Allure, she found that the interior had more interests. The inside had a certain glow and the windows had the outside making it a warm look. Rhyolite is an old runned down town from back in the 1800s. It was more of a museum type ghost town because of the statues around the area. There was a building that looked very ghostly but she took it with the sun just over the horizon to make it look alive. At night the she took it with different spots that made it stand out like it was ghostly against the dark night. At Nelson she saw old wooden buildings. She captured the old western style and the colors of farm and country in the old desert.As you can see she has done many types of photography that has laid the grounds of what she is and what she will be in the future.