Week 2: Hunting With My Camera

For my day out with my camera, my family and I went out to the city to walk around one of my favorite locations, which is High Falls in Rochester NY. (Nothing is edited; I only changed the setting on my camera i.e. monochromatic, soft, warm etc)

My first photograph is my view down from the top of a parking garage. I took it in black and white; I order to see what kind of shadows and contrasts that I might be able to find. Everything looks almost flawless and to me it almost looks like either a miniature set or a movie set. I am really happy with how it looks. I wonder how this scene would look at say sunset or sunrise and how the shadows would look.

My second photograph is of an old water mill. I used the sephia setting, because the tones in the bricks and wood of the mill are all red and brown tones, and I like the antique feeling.

My third photograph is a picture of the Falls themselves in color.  It is a crisp color filled photo that displays the falls and the city around and behind it. I had a hard time finding a strong contrast which I seem to be searching for, so maybe if I take the photo at a different time of day then I may be able to capture a different definition.

The fourth photograph is of this brilliantly red door to this restaurant. I love the contrast of the vivid red to the gray painted bricks. I can see the deep shadowing between the area of the door and wall and also the bricks. I should have used a grid in the view finder so it could have been a little straighter, but non-the-less I am happy with it.

For the fifth photo, I set my camera to the sephia mode and took an upward shot of this cool aged building, with the afternoon sun coming through the clouds cascading from the top corner of the building. I like that you can see the beams of the light.