Mitch Dobrowner

Looking at Mitch Dobrowner's photographs teaches me a little about framing, and a lot about reaching for full tonal ranges when shooting in black and white.

I'm a very big fan of nature, and I expect to shoot a lot of images outside, and this style gives me a lot of ideas and inspires me greatly.

I thoroughly enjoy his work, but when I first looked at the Urban section of his site, I was unimpressed. It's hard to tell sometimes where the city ends and the mountains and trees begin. However, I realized after a while that I like this. I like that you have to pay attention to the landscape and notice which structures are man-made and which are natural.

Overall, I really like the website and I like his work. It inspires me to be a better photographer.

Assignment #2 - Numbers

PRESET MADNESSSS

I look through presets,
They make things look like butt soup,
Lightroom betrayed me.

Assignment #1 - Scavenger Hunt

After the rain falls,
I look around for flowers,
All I find are rocks.





I like this flower,
Not from the rain dew, but it
Doesn't look like poop.





Turning down the lights,
The background doesn't exist.
Only it and me.

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Physics of small aperture focusing

Essentially, the reason that you get a more focused image when you decrease the size of the aperture is because the photons of light that are coming into the camera are forced into a smaller space. When your aperture is wide open, the light is allowed to be scattered across a broader area, making the image blurry. By increasing the aperture and decreasing the size, the light is forced into a smaller area, thus creating a sharper image.

Star Wars Image Test

This title contains five words.

The first sentence has six words.

One.

Word.

Sentences.

Then two.

I like mashed potatoes.