Continuing my HDR project...

I wanted to redo this photo at night for my HDR project (..which was an old class assignment but I decided to keep working on it).. I still have problems with this photo that I'm working on fixing, which are mainly the really wacky color issues that went on when I merged the 5 images.. I've never done an HDR photo at night, but I feel like this is pretty decent for my first try.

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Peterswood Park

Today is my last day of the quarter and then I'm off until.. October 4th I think. YAY! and only 9 days until I am 20 years old! Aw yeeeeah.

Claire

Gemstones

I haven't updated this in a while..for several reasons. and I don't feel like explaining right now.

I shot some gems.. Here are two...

Claire's dad, Don Laufer, makes awesome gemstones! He let me borrow a few to practice lighting.

http://www.headwaterslapidary.com/index.html

Go check out his website. He makes some pretty amazing stuff and teaches a class for cutting stones, too... (which I also photographed..but will put those up soon)


At the moment, I am wondering why I am still awake at 3:48am when I have to be up at 6:00am.
My final portfolio is done, besides one photo.. so I'm not worried about being productive in class today. YAWN.

iRUN

Today I was so angry, that I got up and walked out of my class.
Heh.

Too bad my teacher didnt even notice I was missing for an hour.

I walked around Pittsburgh for almost an hour just so I could chill out.. and let me point out how awesome it is that Pittsburgh is FLIPPIN GOTHAM CITY!!! I was walking near all the sets.. and walked on the snowy set.. It is SOOOO NEEEEAT. I am going back tomorrow to take pictures.. because the photography student did not have her camera today... TUH!

Ok.. well here are my not-creative portraits.

Here are more from the cosplay shoot

And here are some photos I was just playing around with..

you can make anything new

"i dont have every answer in life but i'm trusting you one day at a time, cause you can make a weak heart stay alive forever."

Me

I do not like speaking. I am not a speaker. I will never be a speaker. I do not have very good social skills and consider myself socially awkward. I have horrible telephone anxiety. I am not good at starting conversations with people, so I normally don't. I am not asocial or anti-social, whatever you want to call it. I just don't have anything to say most of the time.. unless you are really close to me.. or as socially awkward as I am...

What's funny about this is.. I'm a photographer.. and that involves talking to people... and I don't talk very well.

I'm probably going to get a C in my speech class...which I quite honestly don't care about that much.
I'll be happy to pass the class..because I've been struggling to care about it or keep up in it.. and I've been dreading speech since I started school and knew it was going to come up eventually.. at least I'm done with it next week. I took it online so I could actually video record myself instead of standing in front of people (because I am that afraid of speaking), and I'm still doing a crappy job.

...actually...sometimes I wonder if my teacher is reading the responses.. because I've noticed that she copies and pastes the same response to everyone..and I feel like I did my last assignment right but apparently it's wrong along with everyone else's........OH WELL.


This was from a cosplay shoot. It turned out pretty neat.