Fairhaven Environmental Photography

Goldeneye Aloft  || f/4.5 || 1/640s || ISO 400 || 135mm   Shrieking of the Marsh  || ISO 200 [only the ISO is in the metadata for this shot for some reason]   Solitary Flight   || f/5.6 || 1/320s || ISO 100 || 135mm      Sunset on the Flats  || f/4.5|| 1/640s || ISO 100 || 135mm   Wingspan  || f/4.5 || 1/640s || ISO 800 || 135mm  

                                                                                              Ready to Pounce SS: 1/100s, aperture f2.8 , and ISO 1300 Blank Stare SS: 1/100s, aperture f2.8 , and ISO 1600 Playing Games    SS: 1/100s, aperture f2.4 , and ISO 1300 Unfortunately in the moment, the most accessible animals were my neighbors cats. One of them, (chip), (photographed twice), was more photogenic and open to being photographed.. It took me many tries to get (charlie), (only photographed once) to both sit still and look at the camera. I was then attacked by her shortly after. In terms of what I feel I could do better with these--There is a constant shadow of my camera in all of the pictures I took...

"The Beast" Iso 40, F 1.6 "The Tiny Lurker" Iso 64, F 1.6 "100 Legs"      Iso 50, F 1.6 My first and favorite picture “The Beast,” is a picture of my cat Zora. I wish there were less shadows on her, as it would make her pop a little more in the sun. I also think that the removal of the leash would make the photo a little cleaner, but she would go chasing after some animal. It was also hard to get her to pose and look at the camera, but I also think that it is interesting to have her looking at something off screen. My second photo, “The Tiny Lurker” was an underside picture of a spider sitting in a box outside. I wish the background was less distracting and so is all of the little leaves and needles stuck within the web. Also centering of the spider against a clean background would give a really cool silhouette. The last photo I have is “100 Legs”, which is a picture of a centipede I saw crawling around earlier today. It was rather fast, which paired with ...

  Dos Amigos shutter speed: 1/40 aperture: 4.0 Tres Amigos  shutter speed: 1/40 aperture: 4.0 Muchos Amigos shutter speed: 1/40 aperture: 4.0 Amigo shutter speed: 1/40 aperture: 4.0 These photos were all taken on our Thursday field trip to the Skagit river mouth. The car I was in went to the wrong place at first, and on our way to meet up with the rest of class we drove past a field of Snow Geese- the source of all these photos. For all of the flying photos I should have made my shutter speed faster to capture the movement in more detail. I like the layering that is happening in most of these photos, with the clouds, mountains, trees, birds, and the field. The last photo needs better focus on the flying goose so it is more clear to the viewer what the subject of the photo is, since the background is all out of focus. I think the brightness of the lighting in the first photo is nice; it was not recreated when I pointed the camera a slightly different direction to capture Muchos...

I'm not sure if my photos are coming out blurry because of my lenses having fuzz inside them, my manual capture settings, the camera's resolution settings, if the bluetooth transfer to iPhone cuts the image quality, or what. Perhaps it is a compounding situation, but they all look so clear on the camera's LCD!  I like the composition of each of these, though I think the lighting could be brighter in the corvid and water shots. I haven't messed with ISO manually for any of my shots, nor have I used any of the recommended settings from the book for aperture priority (though I think that was specific to landscape photos). Another thing I could try would be burst shots. I haven't done that for any amount of time on purpose yet.  I love that you can see a slight reflection of the blue sky in the shot of the heron, as well as 3-4 different species of birds all in the same shot. I also really loved that Yoshi came and looked at me when I was taking the photo of the sun shi...

  When we went on our field trip to Skagit, we went to capture photos of different types of birds because the region is known for a multitude of different bird species. My shutter speed to capture photos of most of these animals was set high on 1/600-800. The reason it is set this way is because most of the birds were either in the sky or water and the sun was setting, so the light was making it so that my shutter speed had to be higher. I set my settings on day time and changed them to cloud time when the sun was almost set, because the lighting change affected the amount of light going through the shutter. My aperture was set at the lowest at f4.0 because it allowed me to catch the best shots with the least blur in movement. I also set my ISO to auto so my photos were not grainy. I did see a plethora of birds, but they were hard to capture, mainly because my zoom lens could not reach the distance of the birds to capture the best detail of them. I would have to be able to get abou...

  These pictures were taken at Clarks Point. It was around sunset, very cold but beautiful. I do like these pictures a lot; however, I feel that there are a lot in frame. Which inevitably draws attention away from the sunset. It also makes it harder to focus on one thing, given that there is much to look at. From the lighting to the colors, there is a lot going on in this picture. I feel that I should have messed with the exposure more because these pictures, although vibrant, are very bright. Same for the shutter, I feel that if I messed with the settings more, I could've focused down on singular objects. Despite the different variables in this picture being busy, I feel that you can see the details clearly. Even when you focus on the greenery around, you can see the details on the leaves. Going back to the sun, the off-centerness of the sun was purposeful because it somewhat forces the viewer to look at the lighting that the sun gives rather than just the sun. I do really like th...

       For my favorite landscape photos, I chose one from our recent class trip and one taken from the VU PAC plaza.  I am really happy with both, although I wish I had a zoom lens for the latter. They take on very different color pallets, and I quite enjoy the contrast.      In my photo of the field of cattails, I really enjoy the all-over grey tones. It captures our foggy day well, I think. I am delighted with the focus I got on the cattails themselves and the misty silhouettes of the trees in the background. I put the horizon line in the center of the photo, and I wonder if it would've been more intriguing if I had put the horizon line in the bottom third.       My second photo has such vibrant blues! Between the bay, crane, the mountain range, and the train cars, I got similar blues across all levels of the photo. I did my best to line up each level of depth with the photo thirds, which turned out well. The plants in the fo...

  The first photo was taken at around 12:00 and the settings were 1/20 f/11 and ISO320 The second photo was taken around 2:00 and the settings were 1/250 f/3.5 and ISO 320 The third photo was taken around 4:00 and the settings were 1/200 f/3.5 and ISO 320 and the fourth photo was taken around 6:00 and the settings were 1/200 f.3.5 and 1/25 f.3.5 and ISO 6400 I couldn’t get out very far to do this assignment, so I found a tree that I liked right next to my house. I figured that it would be a good subject for this because it’s close and even in the winter it still looks beautiful with all its needles intact. I wanted all the photos to have a different feel to them as much as I could, so I tried to bring out the colors that seemed more prominent with the time. The first one midday was Bright white overcast, so I went with a grey look. The second one started to clear up, and I brought out a bit more of that yellow light. The third one around sunset time has more of a warm golde...

                                                              Photo 1 - Shutterspeed: 1/500, ISO: 640, f/11 Photo 2 - Shutterspeed: 1/500, ISO: 250, f/5.6 Attempting to take dynamic and interesting landscape photos was difficult for me because I much prefer taking photos with a close-up subject in focus and I've found it hard to take a landscape photo that doesn’t appear flat or bland.  I’ve been unintentionally including a more dynamic depth of field in my images through taking photos with subjects in the foreground and background, mostly because I prefer the look of focusing on something up close rather than a flat image that looks like a default computer wallpaper, but I did struggle with making sure everything was in focus. The images I decided to include in this post were taken at Tenant park fr...

  This isn't exactly the best "landscape" but I had too much fun with this not to use it. (I also didn't have a way to get the photo onto my computer this time so I had to take a phone picture of them) I think the photos are fine- they don't stand out as anything good but nothing's necessarily bad. The first photo could have been pointed upwards a little more, and I could have stepped forward to make the trees less prominent. This is just my balcony, which I wouldn't usually have chosen for the location, but I wasn't sure how quickly the atmosphere would change. The reason I chose these photos is because of the fog. I could barely see anything myself- the second photo is accurate to my vision at the time. I saw the vague outline of a nextdoor building, and maybe a little mountain, but that was it. This shot was adjusted to be as accurate to what I saw as possible. The second photo was what my camera could see when I adjusted things. It was almost off-p...

     For my spot, I chose Boulevard Park. I love this spot because it is beautiful in the evenings as the sun sets over Lummi Island and Mount Constitution. Here on the bay, it reminds me how close we are to the San Juans. The weather at the bay was cloudy, but the sun shined through the clouds and scattered the light across the sky. Though sunsets during clear skies are always nice, I think today's weather really captured the moody feeling of a cloudy winter day. I decided to try to make the vibe of the photos moody and dark, with splashes of light. I tried to keep the foreground dark in order to draw the eye to the sky, using leading lines with the coast in the second to frame the water and aim towards the landscape in the background. To me, the darkness of the landscape is a purposeful contrast against the colors of the cloudy sky. I tried with letting in more light, but ultimately it felt a little too washed out and less purposeful.       In my sec...

 I chose to focus on three photographs I took from our visit to Clayton Beach. I remember trying to work on framing these and figuring out what I wanted the photo to focus on. All three photographs are from the same spot, but all focus on different things in the foreground. I played around with my settings and the angle at which I was taking the photos. The first photo has plants focused in the foreground, with the waves and beach in the background. In the second, I have some of the plants, but also the tips of trees in the foreground, but the focus is on the beach. In the third, I have only one tree limb focused, with only the sky and ocean in the background. I think that for all of these, they could use more light, and if I had a tripod, I would have lowered the shutter speed, but it was very windy that day, so I didn't want to risk lowering it. I think that the photos would look better with more contrast between the sky and ocean, so either going again on a sunny day or boosting...

  For my location, I chose a spot that holds many memories for me. Each time the sunset draws us outside, my fellow residents of North Campus flock west as fast as we can to get an uninterrupted view of the sun and clouds over the water and mountains. The chase proves fruitful when we find ourselves with "For Handel" in the Performing Arts Center Plaza, or like tonight, on the stairs near the Viking Commons building. Today, the sun covered gloomy Bellingham in warmth and exited with a gentle sunset. All day, I watched the light move behind my computer screen at my job. When I was freed from my post, I raced to the stairs and caught the sky at 5pm. My two favorite photos from this shoot, the first one being ISO 640, f10, 1/250, and the second being ISO 5000, f6.3, 1/2000, show the beginning of the sunset with clouds over the mountains and Bellingham. I like the first photo for its focus on the sky's vibrance and the gentle coloring, and it's the one I prefer out of all...

  I like the colors in this image, but I would have liked it to be less blurry. I also would want to have a main focus of the image and follow the rule of thirds more closely. I chose this skyline because it is my view from campus before I go into my student Senate meetings. It is lovely seeing the colors of the sky and the lights of the city just before the sun sets. The foreground is dark and not as warm as I would have like.  I love the colors and the gradient. It is a darker image but I think it it looks nice. I would try to make the foreground less of a focus or try to use them the frame the land more. There is also the slightest cloud in the sky that irks me.  I took this picture before taking the one above it. I liked the hallway as a path in theory, but my execution of it was not as flattering as I'd like. the sign hanging from the ceiling is distracting from the skyline and I would have liked to use the hallway to frame the skyline a lot more intentionally. There...

  Both of the photos I chose were taken on our field trip to Tennant Lake. Although the conditions were quite cloudy for most of the day, I actually really enjoyed how some of my landscape photos came out later in the evening when the fog was starting to clear. I think the combination of the sunset and the weather conditions made for a really calm, gloomy atmosphere for the photographs. In the first photo, I was really focused on capturing the reflection of the sky in the water. I really like the way the sunlight is shining through the clouds and how this is reflected in the water creating a mirrored effect. I also really like the way the trees are fading into the fog in the background. However, I think I could have used a slower shutter speed and higher ISO to let a little more light into the photo since it is quite dark. I also think a more colorful sky would make the photo much more compelling, especially with the reflection in the water. Although the second photo is also quite ...