Butterflies

This picture draws you in because the orange is very attractive but the purple is also very contrasting.  This was taking in a butterfly garden.  the pattern of the flowers all being parallel and upward also adds to it. 

The red flowers in the background here are slightly distracting but the contrast of the red on the butterfly and the purple on the flowers is attractive, especially since the red in the middle of the purple flowers matches the red on the wings of the butterfly. 

This picture could easily be cropped to eliminate the distracting elements of teh edges of the photo and i think it would be a fantastic photo of the butterfly. the soft lighting helped alot here. 

This guy really just wanted to pose for me, which was great.  i chased him all over the place.  i like that the tree is all green and then the center of interest is right in the middle with lots of detail. 

This butterfly was really hard to capture because he was so quick and didnt want to hold still.  the side profile is pretty although i wish i could have gotten an arial view of him.  ill work on that...

-KEE

Horses

I like this picture because i has the fence which leads you through the picture and the horses are all lined up in a diagonal pattern.  also the pretty mountains in the background add alot.  i might zoom out slightly if i had the chance to take this picture again just to get more skyline in it.  this picture gives you a feeling of country.

-KEE

FLOWERS

FLOWERS 

These were at a flower gallery and i think this turned out well with three flowers being the main subject instead of just one flower.  Also i am pleased with myself having focused pretty well.  The color could have been a bit better though. 

 This picture has pretty colors although a polarizing filter would have been helpful on the ends of the petals.  i like how the flowers focused and the back blurred.

 i dont think this picture is especially fantastic i just like the way the colors are so bright on top of the green.  i would really like to work on my pictures being more focused up close and very blurred in the background.

 i love the color in this flower.  and if you notice-the hole in the bottom center one is heart shaped.  small details like this look great on computer screens.

 this flower is so simple but has perfect lines and great yellow details sticking out from the middle.  a little more green in the background would have been better because the background is very distracting in this photo.

i dont know that this picture is as focused as it could be however i still love it.  the color red is so alluring and this pops with pretty curves that swirl into the middle drawing the eyes to follow to the middle. 

This picture is of some gorgeous daisies or something and they are yellow onthe outside and purple on the inside.  i changed it to black and white to illustrate the colors contrasting eachother without the distraction of the actual colors being in the picture.  i think each flower pops more this way because the white in the middle draws your attention.  also nothing is really the center of interest which brings you through the photo.  rule of thirds... 

These contrasting colors do a great job of making each other pop.  green pink and yellow all are very good together and attractive.  the two yellow and pink flowers could draw away from each other because the focus is split between two but i think the two plain pink flowers balance this out and almost cancel that split attention effect.

This picture was taken with just a sliver of light left of the day and therefore the picture quality is subdued slightly.   however i like this because it makes all the colors softer and more focused on the red inthe center.  also the back is very dark and doesnt have much it can do to distract which is good.

-KEE

Montana Continued...At Wild Bill Lake by Red Lodge

This picture is at Wild Bill Lake in Red Lodge by the campgrounds. it is pretty much the same as the other picture but i stepped back. now the picture has an extra dock on the right and the front of the dock im standing on. the colors on the water are also slightly more saturated. i love these pictures so much it was so fantastic to see this and the photos turned out great.

This was while fishing the friday before school started. i love that the sky is so blue and the logs in the foreground are interesting. the mountain is the main subject but the rest of the photo is great too.

-KEE

I love Montana

These are some pictures that remind me that i love living in montana because it is so gorgeous and you can only go a little ways and get great pics of mountains or go in your backyard and find fantastic views.

I'm not sure which mountains these are but i love that you get a sense of the vastness of montana and the clouds are at the top of the mountains which make it mysterious. i think this pic maybe could use some small lightening touches but otherwise im pleased.

This picture is at red lodge by the campgrounds or East Rose Bud and when i first saw this picture i thought i should have zoomed out to get a mirroring effect.  while i do wish i had another picture with the full wide angle view, i still love this one and keep going back to it for some reason. i think the upside down illusion is alluring to the eye especially since the top is missing somewhat.

 This is also at East Rose Bud i believe and i love this picture with the pretty blues and the mountain just looks massive.  it's humbling to see how small we really are.

 This picture was in East Rose Bud from the backyard of the cabin we were staying in.  This is what i mean when i say i love montana because look at what we get just outside our doors.  This picture i think is a good rule of thirds example because the main focus of the picture is in the top with the mountain but you also have the water in the bottom which is most interesting at the most foreground since it is lighter there.  the picture is also cut vertically into thirds as well but the channel that the water follows goes around a bend in almost the center of the photo.  all of these characteristics make this picture very interesting to look at. 

East Rose Bud again.  this also is cut into thirds with water, mountains, and sky horizontally, and mountains, light on sky and water, and mountains vertically.  the green plays in nicely with the blues and the light plays in nicely with the darks and the mountains opposite of each other draw to the center of the photo which draws the viewer in. 

East Rose Bud...This place is so gorgeous with so many fantastic different views.  I like how this picture has so much foreground and then awesome mountains in the background with great blue on the sky and water.  the touch of clouds in the sky adds a bit of personality too in my opinion. 

East Rose Bud.  i wish the sky was blue here but you cant have everything right?  i love the diagonal lines here.  the two mountains cross each other for a great effect.

I dont know where this was...some moutain pass somewhere in montana is my best guess from my recollection.  i like this because it is so big with a little bit of interest inthe foreground, middle ground and background.  blue sky is nice but oh well.   

I love this picture which is right across the street from my dads house.  the clouds being so interesting and colorful is a great attribute plus the fence in the middle is very interesting.  and when you look into the plains you see farming and horses with green and tan grasses as well as a little bit of some hills on the horizon.  all together i love this picture and i am so pleased with how the angle of the fence added to it. 

This is at Wild Bill Lake in Red Lodge Outside of the campgrounds.  i love that the mountain looks so huge here.  the clouds being so low is a great reason it looks so big and they add so much to the pretty blue sky.  the blue in the sky is more bright than the blue on the water which is not usually my problem so its nice to have that reversed for once.   

East Rose Bud.  It was getting very dark when i took this picture so its not of the greatest quality.  what i love about this one is the composition of it.  blue in the sky, and blue one the water.  snow in the mountains and clouds in the sky.  diagonal angles and mountain ranges...all great attributes to make this picture one of my favorites. 

This is one of the pictures i was trying to find from Wild Bill Lake at the Red Lodge campgrounds.  we made it to the lake super early in the morning. (so the trick about getting to your shoot before the sun rises works.)  The fog had not yet risen and it was traveling onto the lake from the mountains the whole time we were there.  if you look at the picture two above this one you will see just how dense this fog was because it is hiding this massive mountain right behind it.  it was so majestic.  i hope i get to capture another picture like this one some day and get more vivid colors since this was taken with my Canon point and shoot. 

This picture is a few years ago driving to Shepherd i believe.  The cumulous clouds were fantastic and the perpendicular lines added a great contrast in green. im very happy with this photo that i was moving so fast while taking and it turned out great still.

-KEE

More Things I Need To Work On

I love the color of the sky on the water and i really wish the sky matched on the top.  also i seemed to have gone through a phase where i thought it was super cool to take pictures of fantastic photos of reflections and not get the whole picture but only the reflection.  this is driving me crazy cuz so many photos could have been so much better if i would have just zoomed out and gotten the image and its reflection...lesson learned

I like this but i blew out the back of it with too much light.

once again the sky is fantastic on the water and not in the sky itself.  how can i fix this. light is really a challenge for me.

what a cute puppy.  her name is coconut.  i love this adorable pictue and she posed just perfectly for me and the grass had to be in the way of course and reflect like crazy.  i really wish i had a polarized filter for this example.

This picture is great and the reflection is cool and all but seriously the reflection is not so cool without seeing what it is reflecting.  what was i thinking?  i think ill work on getting a more wide angle for sure.

I think this cow picture is fantastic from Cody, WY.  The background was fantastic too but it got blown out because my camera has a mind of its own.  darn it!

I love this country feel here and the black and white makes it very dramatic.  i would like to figure out how to adjust the sky so it doesnt look just white because there are some clouds going on there that i think will add alot to this.

Great picture...terrible exposure and focus.  I love this idea and i guess i just didnt understand how to make the camera represent what i was seeing like i wanted it to.  I will make up for this in Yellowstone :).

Rainbows are a massive challenge for me.  They never seem to come through on the film the way you see their magnificence in real life.  I need to work on how to get better color saturation although i think the lighting here is good.

Another rainbow that i wish was more colorful like in real life.

This was taken behind Skyview High School in Billings and i dont particularly like anything about this picture besides the idea i had in my head for it to look like.  I want my sun pictures to turn out fabulous and they never do....i dont even know how this ended up red.  light is fighting me and I am going to focus my efforts on beating it.

-KEE

Things I Want To Improve On

Ok guys so here are some things I want to improve on as far as photography. 

This picture i feel like has some serious potential. The deer are positioned very nicely with nice foliage to fram the picture and I just didn't make it happen.  If given this opportunity again I would zoom in a bit more and make sure that everything was in focus.  If you look closely, you can see that there is light in the deers' eyes from my flash which ruins the whole thing;  I would definently use no flash for this moment and adjust aperature, shutter speed and ISO accordingly to make this a great picture to hang on my wall.

I like the idea of this picture but the sky isnt blue enough for me and the water is too shiny.  So for improvement suggestions i think i would use a polarizing filter as well as a density filter to balance the sky from the water and the sun's rays.  also i think i should have been more patient and gotten some clouds in this picture to spice it up a bit because i get bored looking at it with such a bland sky.

This one was pretty cool, although i blew out the entire bottom.  I can't really remember taking this picture because it was such a long time ago but maybe i could have shaded it somehow or used a filter to make it not so harsh and gotten a good photo of a spider web that got all tattered and caught up.  It could have been a picture that was cool cuz it isnt the average perfect dew covered spider web you are expecting to see in a picture.

The idea behind this picture was good i think but i would have liked to have gotten a better balance between the light and dark which i really have no idea how to do.  The color i am pleased with because the saturation of the foliage is great and really pops i just wish it didnt look like the sky is white behind it.

This photo was so good in my camera in Cody when i took it and reviewed it and fantastic in real life.  i wanted to do it justice and get a great photo but when i got it on my computer it wasnt as great as i thought.  Im really struggling with getting the sun to look good in pictures because wasted pictures like this one drive me crazy.  it would have been such a fabulous shadow effect with the nest and clouds and blue white and black.  I think this is gonna be a theme for my final presentation content...

This picture i feel like i had the right idea and it almost worked.  The angle of the picture is pleasing to me and i like the colors and how saturated they are and how they pop out.  once again the problem is the light in the back and making it balance but not losing the fantastic colors.  Someone help me.

The deer is super cute from a cabin we were staying in.  i love the idea of this photo.  a little deer poking out of the woods just hanging out with very conveniently placed trees to frame his pretty face.  i sure hope this photo can be fixed up cuz i like it alot, i just dont like the light much.  If i could take this again i would probably start out by slowing the shutter speed and changing the ISO lower and then accordingly adjust the aperature and go from there.

This picture is from the same place as the last one at the cabin.  i like everything about it except that it is blurry and the sky is blown out.  there is no reason the sky should have been blown out because it was almost dark...i have no idea what happened but i sure am willing to try again.

-KEE

Pics from Erin Burns

i love this picture because the color focuses your eyes right away to the yellow arrows but from there you wander to the road.  the winding of the road takes you through the whole photo.  this still life did a great job of stopping you in your tracks.

i like the focus of this photo.  the peaceful nature image in the back and the broken rotting pipe in the front reminds you that life is ever changing.  its great contrast is what keeps you interested, as well as the fact that there is no focus on anything in the center of the photo.

This photo is pretty much the same as the last but there is a lot more color behind this one since the point of perspective is changed.  i think this makes it very smooth through the whole photo.

 I dont really have anything i can point out on this picture but i love it.  maybe its the focus of this picture that is why i love it. 

the way that this photo focuses is why i like this picture.  it shows the details of life that you usually dont stop to see which is a great way to focus your photography.

photos by Erin Burns

 

 

-KEE