A Day In My Life.

Self-Portrait By Esther Michelle Photography
10-21-09
A classic, Canyon Country, Cali.

So, this week for my photography class, I had to do an individualized documentary on a day in my life. What first came to mind was the classic, in-the-mirror picture. In my head I pictured it with side lighting and quite dark. Since park of the assignment was I had to use natural light and no flash; I decided to wait till it got later in the evening. That way I could get out the Windex, clean my mirror, and use the little bit of sun-light that was shinning in my window. I probably shouldn't have waited as long as I ended up doing, because it almost didn't work. I had to set the aperture really low and I almost still had to have the shutter open for multiple seconds. But I managed to get by with 1/10 of a second and several tries at staying stable even that long. But I eventually happily pulled it off. :]
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Las Vegas.

Sign By Esther Michelle Photography
10-16-09
A random sign along the strip, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Went to Las Vegas with Adam and his dad for the weekend for a old friends wedding. Afterward, we walked along the strip and in different casinos. This is the only night photograph that came out in focus and without blury lights everywhere. Quite frankly, I like it a lot.
Hope you enjoy. :]

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A Decisive Moment

Adam By Esther Michelle Photography
10-15-09
The park, Canyon Country, Cali.

this assignment for my photography class is titled 'A Decisive Moment'. I have to go to an event and capture ten decisive moments. I ended up going to the park with my boyfriend and little sister, and it turned out to be the perfect event. My little sister went on the swings and I got a few pictures of that as well as some of the both of them playing basket ball.
I put more up on Flickr. Some of them are more 'decisive' then others; but there up there if you wanna take a look.
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Compositioin

Teddybear Photoshoot By Esther Michelle Photography
10-9-09
My teddybear, Canyon Country, Cali.

Another interesting assignment in my photography class was to take 100+ pictures of one subject with different locations/backgrounds, lighting, angles, perspectives, textures, shutter-speeds, f/stops, ect, ect, ect..
At first, I had no idea what that one subject should be. But it was Adam's birthday that weekend, and our one and a half year anniversary was coming up. Obviously, he was on my mind; and since he keeps rather busy with work and school--so I couldn't actually photograph him--I decided to photograph the teddybear he made me at Build-A-Bear on our three month. :]
More pictures with the different backgrounds, colors, textures, and angles are on Flickr.
See for yourself. :]

Scavenger Hunt

Terminal By Esther Michelle Photography
9-30-09
Dead End, Canyon Country, Cali.

I started a photography class at College Of the Canyons this semester and one of the assignment was called 'Scavenger Hunt'. The assignment was to take pictures that not only conveyed theses words three, timid, twist, tinsel,tow, tower, terminal, texture, trek, and tiger but that conveyed a concept or emotion that was beyond merely the definition of the word. The pictures all had to be using a camera on Manual[shutter-speed, aperture, and ISO] not using the flash, and had to be outdoors. There were other requirements too, but were a lot more detailed and more of using different techniques than anything else.
Anyways this is one of the ones I got, it's for the word Terminal. I think it portrays 'terminal' 'cause when you hear you have a terminal illness, it's like all you're faced with is a dead end and no one can help you. That's why chose to do it in black and white, because it's the loss of color along with everything else this girl is loosing.
I decided to post it here, and the rest of them are on Flickr.
Check them out. :]
Hope you enjoy.

Photography Adventure.

Adam By Esther Michelle Photography
8-12-09
The Vineyard, Acton, Cali

Went to The Vineyard and The Falls with Adam and Ruth Ann, uploaded more to Flickr.
Take a look!

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