Free Choice Photoshoot - Kendra




    I chose to use photos from our trip to Semiahmoo. I am going on a trip this weekend so I also just wasn’t able to take other photos. I am not super happy with how my photos turned out just because I get very confused how to use the point and shoot cameras versus the Canon 5D I usually get. It being smaller I thought it would be easier but it made it more confusing.

    Anyway, my first photo is on the left side of the beach if you’re looking at the water. I wanted to capture down the beach but also get the mountains in the distance. I am happy with how this turned out and what I was able to capture but I also think it could have been more clear and I think I could have gotten more of the mountains. Sometimes with the small camera it feels more shakey but that might just be my inexperience. I think if the photo was a little more clear it would be super cool. I like all the things I was able to catch in the frame.

    My second photo is of the octopus we saw on the beach. I honestly wasn't very satisfied by any of my photos so I kind of just put this one it because I liked the subject and not necessarily because I liked the photo. This was a very quick photo so I wasn't focused on how clear it was or what I was capturing in the frame. I am happy that I was able to capture the full octopus and get a photo of the little memorial some of our classmates made.

    And the last photo I took from the inside of a tree. I was standing insane this huge tree that had lots of big branches with so many little pine cones all over the tips of the branches. I chose this photo because I really liked the difference in light between the Branches and then the sunny snow. It almost looks like its a whole different place being in the tree versus not.

    I wish I had tried a little harder to get better photos, but I am still happy with the ones I got.







 

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