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Here's some of the photos from the volleyball game I took pictures of! To view all of them, click HERE.
I had such a great senior session with Blake and Austin! The sunset was beautiful that night, and it resulted in some awesome shots!
Here's a couple of the photos I took at the varsity football game last night! The sunset was perfect because it allowed me to get some really cool photos with lens flare! To view them all or download any of them click HERE.
I had such a great time taking senior photos for Charlie! We took some at the football field and around town but then headed out to the country.
I had such a fun session with Jacie, and we took some photos on a soccer field in Fargo, but then headed out to the countryside. I love how the photos turned out!
I had such a great exploring Downtown Fargo with Ivy for her senior shoot! We found a lot of hidden cool locations.
I had such a great time at a photography camp in Downtown Fargo, and I got so many interesting photos from the Downtown area. In the camp, we went on photo excursions and took photos that showed what the city of Fargo means to us. Some of the photos were then showcased at the MATBUS station Downtown.
I've always wanted to get a shot of a seashell on the beach at night, and I decided to try it! I cleared off a section of the beach and positioned a seashell there, and then I set down a towel to put my camera. I first took one picture of the seashell with the exposure pushed way up, and then I started shooting the star trails. I then combined the two exposures in Photoshop afterwards!
I decided to try something new by using a glass ball in my sunset photo! I positioned it so the sun was in the glass ball, and also on the side of it. Later, I photoshopped out my hand holding it up, and I flipped the image upside down so the sunset in the glass ball would be the right way.
I got some amazing photos in Vail, Colorado! We were there for my aunt's wedding, and we stayed there some extra days to do some fun things around the area. We hiked on the mountain, biked, and went to an amusement park on the top of Vail Mountain and an amusement park in Glenwood Springs. I got some star and mountain photos, and I also got some cool pictures on the plane of the sunrise! On the last night we were there, I hiked a little ways up the mountain in the middle of the night and set up my camera on a tripod with a remote shutter release. I set it to take continuous 30 second exposures for two hours of the stars. Two hours later, I went out and retrieved my camera. I combined all the photos together to form the beautiful star trails, and I also made a time-lapse of the stars, which you can view below. I absolutely love getting photos of the night sky, because it is such a challenge to it! Star trail photography is so interesting because it's something that you can't see with your eyes. Read more to learn how I make them! First, I go outside at around midnight when there's a new moon or it's close to a new moon and no clouds. I set up my camera (Canon 5d Mark iii) on a tripod and usually try to point it towards the north star, because that's where all the stars "rotate" around. If you point it east or west, the star trails will be more of lines, not circles, due to the earth's rotation. I use a Canon 24-105mm f/4 lens for these images, because I need a wide field of view. I usually use the settings of iso 1000 and my aperture is ALWAYS set to f/4. I then use a Vello Shutterboss II, which is a remote shutter release that lets me set it to take certain number of pictures automatically. I put my camera on Bulb mode and set it to RAW, and then plug in the remote shutter release and set it to take 200 30 second exposures. Once it starts, I go inside and do something to pass the time. Once the two hours is up, I go out and retrieve my camera. Next I transfer all my images to my MacBook through Lightroom CC. I do lens correction to all of them, change the white balance, sharpen and noise reduction it, and then change some of the other settings to make sure it looks nice. I then sync those edits to every one of the pictures. Next, I export all of them to a folder on my desktop, and then I import all of them into Photoshop CC as layers. Since I took 200 photos of the sky, and the earth rotates, the stars seem like they rotate around the earth. In Photoshop, you can layer all of these images on top of each other so you see the star trails. I then select all the photos and then change the blending mode to "Lighten". This causes the brightest parts in each image (the stars) to layer on top of each other. This makes the beautiful star trails! I then removed with the clone stamp tool all of the orange flags in the foreground, and then lighted the foreground a little more. I export it back to my desktop, and then import it back into Lightroom! Thanks for reading!
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