Introduction to Digital Photography Assignments

Playing around in Photoshop with an overexposed picture of my cat

Brainstorming another idea for my Introduction to Digital Photography final project. I returned to Papago Park at Dusk and picked my favorite shots that aren't so literal about the events of "The Great Papago Escape" but more about the feeling of escaping

Last Night's Homework: My favorite of last night's experiments with different settings and techniques for Night Photography. This time I went back to Papago Park to see what it was like at night.

More Homework: Another of my favorites of last night's experiments with different settings and techniques for Night Photography. This time playing with framing

Tonight Homework: I went out to experiment with different settings and techniques for Night Photography. I was intentionally making the lights out of focus and it looked like two groups in an argument so I added some cartoon eyes in Photoshop.

Brainstorming an idea for my Introduction to Digital Photography final project. I went out and shot the three remaining pieces of evidence of Camp Papago Park (the marker, officers club and guard tower footings).

More homework: Another Photographic Narrative exercise. This time I wanted to try to make a Photographic Comic Strip.

More homework: So of my other favorite results from the Photographic Narrative exercise today. Trying to tell a story with more photos.

Today's homework: My favorite results from the Photographic Narrative exercise today. Trying to tell a story with just 3 photos

More homework: Another favorite result from the Photographic abstraction exercise today. Some peeling paint and wood

Today's homework: My favorite result from the Photographic abstraction exercise today. Some peeling paint and metal

Today's homework: My favorite results for the photographic typology exercise today. This time I photographed my classmates with their phones covering there eyes.

More homework: My favorite results for the photographic typology exercise today. This time the grouping the headstones.

Today's homework: My favorite results for the photographic typology exercise today. A photographic typology is a collection of photographs that shares a high level of consistency. In this exercise I photographed cross grave markers.

Today's homework: My favorite results for the composition exercise today 1) Rule of Thirds, 2) Symmetrical, 3) Asymmetrical, 4) Center, 5) Lines, 6) Framing.

Tonight's homework: My favorite result shooting action at a shutter speed of 2 seconds.

More homework: My favorite result stopping action at a shutter speed of 1/1600.

My favorite photo from the belt test today

Playing around in Photoshop with some results shooting action at a shutter speed of 2 seconds.

More homework: My favorite result panning with the action at a shutter speed at a slow shutter speed.

Tonight's homework: My favorite result of shooting smoke with a 1/125 sec shutter speed.

Tonight's homework: My favorite result of shooting a punch coming towards the lens and opening the hand at a shutter speed of 2 seconds.

More homework: My results of shooting the same subject at F-stops: F/22, F/16, F/11, F/8, F/5.6. I picked my favorite for each F-stop setup.

Today's homework: My favorite result of shooting the same image at F-stops: F/22, F/16 ,F/11, F/8, F/5.6. I liked F/22 for the deeper Depth of Field.

Tonight's homework: My favorite result of shooting the same image at F-stops: F/22, F/16 ,F/11, F/8, F/5.6. I liked F/5.6 in this light.

More Homework - Playing around in photoshop with an overexposed picture of the desert

More Homework - Playing around in photoshop with an image shot with the highest ISO (25600) of my camera using only candle light

My favorite "Bad Photographs" from my first assignment for my "Introduction to digital Photography" class. The assignment was to take intentionally bad photographs that are underexposed, overexposed, out of focus, and using incorrect white balance