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For my makeup blog, I decided to do another fly fisherman who also does photography. This blog's individual is Matt Jones from Dallas, Texas. He moved to Fort Collins, Colorado after high school which is where a couple of my uncles who also love to fly fish live. Mr. Jones loves to take pictures of "something fishy" while fishing. He guides tours in Alaska and is an employee of Tailwaters Fly Fishing Co.


http://midcurrent.com/photography/matt-jones/

Final 30 Pictures

 

All Pictures were taken with the Nikon Coolpix P90 without flash. All pictures were taken with aperture priority. If I wanted more of the picture in focus, I would increase the AV value. This in turn would force a slower shutter speed (and visa-versa). A slower shutter speed works well when I used a tripod, but not as well when hand holding the camera.

 

ISO 200    f/3.2    1/1200    7.3mm

 

ISO 400    f/3.5    1/530    8.2mm

 

ISO 400    f/7.1    1/50    15.1mm

 

ISO 400    f/8.0    1/40    110.4mm

ISO 200    f/7.1    1/115    15.1mm



 

ISO 200    f/8.0    1/80   25.7mm

 

ISO 200    f/6.3    1/70    10.3mm

 

ISO 200    f/8    1/40    23mm

 

ISO 400    f/7.1    1/140    16.9mm

 

ISO 400    f/5.0    1/560    4.6mm

 ISO 400    f/8.0    1/100    23mm

ISO 400    f/7.1    1/55    13.4mm

ISO 400    f/6.3    1/230    9.2mm

 

ISO 400    f/5.0    1/380    5.2mm

 

ISO 400    f/8.0    1/130    15.1mm

ISO 400    f/8.0    1/60    37.7mm

 

ISO 400    f/5.0    1/1250    4.6mm

 

ISO 400    f/5.0    1/100    110.4mm

 

ISO 100    f/8.0    1/40    16.9mm

 

ISO 100    f/4.0    1/160    16.9mm

 

ISO 100    f/7.1    1/40    7.3mm

 

ISO 200    f/8.0    1/50    15.1mm

 

ISO 200    f/8.0    1/65    15.1mm

 

ISO 400    f/4.0    1/2000    16.9mm

 

ISO 400    f/4.5    1/2000    16.9mm

 

ISO 400    f/4.5    1/2000    16.9mm

 

ISO 400    f/4.5    1/2000    37.7mm

 

ISO 400    f/4.0    1/2000    18.8mm

 

ISO 400    f/4.5    1/2000    23mm

 

ISO 400    f/4.5    1/1200    28.8mm

Collin Carlson

I decided to continue my theme of fly fishing and photography for this week's blog. I discovered a fly fisherman and photographer named Collin Carlson. Carlson is an avid trout fisherman who started his addiction with a Nikon FG in Yellowstone. This is parallel with my experience because I also started taking pictures of nature with a Nikon in Yellowstone a couple weeks ago.

finpusher.com

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Pictures Taken in Yellowstone

 

ISO 400, f/3.5, 1/530 sec

 

ISO 400, f/7.1, 1/50 sec

JC Forest

I chose to do another fly fishing photographer. JC Forest is from Denver, Colorado and works from there to the Pacific Northwest trying to capture pictures. He tries to make these pictures "connect his audience with the culture and spirit of angling more than in capturing the quantity and size of fish caught." However, I bet that the size of the fish isn't always overlooked.

www.jcforestphotography.com/

or the tab from
http://midcurrent.com/photography/jason-forest/

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ISO 200     f/8.0     1/40 sec

 

ISO 400     f/8.0     1/100 sec

Adam Barker

I still really like fly fishing and the mountains. Therefore I did another blog about a fly fishing mountain man. Adam Barker is an avid fisherman who tries to recapture the sense of place, time, and emotion of fly fishing with his camera. He has taken photos for magazines such as The Flyfish Journal, USA Today, The Drake, Adventure Fishing, and others.

http://midcurrent.com/photography/adam-barker/

Professional verus Amateur Photography

I consider myself to be an amateur photographer (if that). I started thinking what actually distinguishes a person from being an amateur photographer and a professional photographer. I consider a professional photographer to be someone who can make a profit off of their work. I looked at an article online and the web page agreed with me. However, they also presented arguments in the ability to take excellent photography makes an individual a professional photographer. An argument that they posted was "the hallmark of a true professional photographer is the ability to deliver a great photograph anytime, anywhere." To support this, they brought up examples of amateur photographers creating great photos and professional photographers producing poor quality photographs.  Although I don't support this argument, it is still something to think about.

http://www.diyphotography.net/pros-vs-joes-difference-between-amateur-and-professional-photographers/

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ISO 200, F 3.5, 1/925.9

ISO 200, F 3.2, 1/1182

 

ISO 200, F 3.5, 1/925.9

Ben Bolden

On Saturday, I am planning of going fly fishing in the Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming. Therefor, I did some research on fly fishing photography in the mountains. That's when I stumbled upon a photographer named Ben Bolden. Bolden reminded me a lot of myself. He goes on annual fishing trips throughout Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming (to name a few) and takes pictures of what he sees. He reminds me of myself because we both like to fly fish in the mountains, and we both started out with Nikon cameras. However, I am new to both fly fishing and photography so my pictures probably won't turn out as well.

http://midcurrent.com/photography/ben-bolden/

Dominican Republic

In class, we have been working on our trips around the world. My group has been working on a trip to the Caribbean. This made me think of some of my personal trips to this region. When I was in high school, I went on three one week mission trips to the Dominican Republic. The landscape was very different to what I was accustomed to seeing in Wyoming.

This is what the entire environment looks like. All the plants are green and luscious. I think the crosses make for an interesting focusing point (especially if the contrast was increased).

This is me eating sugar cane for the first time. My red shirt really draws the attention of the eyes. The character on the far right should be cropped out and possibly the lady in the brown shirt be cloned into the background to make for a better picture.

This is a cool picture of wild tomatoes. Once again the red really draws the focus. I think that the picture would be better if there wasn't that glare on the tomatoes and plant.

This is a neat picture of a "wild" vaca looking left in the picture. I am not sure what could be done to make this picture better apart from cropping.

Pictures of Outside during Class

These are the pictures that I captured when we were instructed to take pictures last Thursday.

I shot this one with the following settings: 200, 1/32.5, and 8.0. I chose the 8.0 so that the foreground would be in focus and the background would be blurry to put an emphasis on the pretty leaves.

 

I shot this picture with the following settings: 200, 1/282.9, and 4.0. I initially thought that this would be a cool picture with the sun coming through the tree. However, it didn't turn out how I wanted it to so.....

 

I took the same picture with these settings: 200, 1/130, and 8.0. The increase of the focal value allowed for a better sun star. This was the photo that I desired.

 

The Color Red

One of the rules for designing the picture space that we talked about in class was that red attracts more attention than other colors. This intrigued me when I heard it so I did some research on this matter. It turns out that there is a natural and subconscious response to this color as shown by the experiments done on this web page.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-social-thinker/201008/seeing-red-does-wearing-red-make-you-sexy

Danny Steyn

I was thinking if I were to be a professional photographer, what kind of photographer would I like to be. At first I thought of Sports Illustrated and Eastman's Hunting Journal would be cool jobs. Then I thought a little bit harder and decided that I would want to be like Danny Steyn. Steyn is a professional bikini photographer in Florida. I would like to do this because I would have set light and not have to worry about taking pictures during dusk or dawn.
 http://www.dannysteyn.com/swimsuit-photographer-swimsuit-model-photographer-florida.htm


This is a picture that he took of a girl in a purple bikini with brown hair.


This is a picture of a girl in a white bikini with brown hair. I like how the background in the left picture is more blurry than that of the right picture.

Olivia Hobby

Because I still haven't taken any pictures, I decided to do another photographer. This amateur photographer is Olivia Hobby. She is a family friend and I think that she did my sister's senior pictures this year.

This is a picture of my sister, Emily, in black and white. She is sitting on a chair overlooking a body of water.


This is also a picture of my sister. I don't like it as much in color because it appears that she is wearing too much makeup.

This is another picture of my sister by the log cabin that my family has been staying at while building our new house.

Greg Wise

Greg Wise is a local photographer in my hometown of Powell, Wyoming. He takes pictures of our high school sport teams and then some. When I was in high school, he captured a few photos of myself on the field. Even though I started varsity since the start of my sophomore year and my team won two state championships, my football career was filled with a lot of sorrow.



This is a photo that Greg took of me (white #66) during our state championship game that we won against Douglas on 11/11/2011. That Douglas player was lucky that I was nursing a shoulder injury or else he probably would have wound up on his backside.


This was taken during my senior year of high school. One week before the season started, I suffered a career ending knee injury where I tore my MCL, ACL, and PCL in my right knee. I spent the majority of the season on crutches feeling helpless.