naturally reflected

Ever since Steven showed Lee Friedlander's work in Intro. to Photography my freshman year, I have been in total awe of what he archives with his camera. The photos that I love most from that intro. class are the ones I took after looking at Freidlander's work. I still try to think about his photo's when I am out shooting, especially when I see interesting shadows and reflections. The building in this photo is Clark's Library. I loved the mirror image of cloud and tree reflected in the window and seen straight ahead. It was a wonderfully sunny day and the colors caught my eye. I have a feeling that this image would also look nice in black and white, I have just not had the opportunity to try that yet.

I had a much easier time editing and working with photoshop this week. I don't think I have saving my images as .jpeg's down just yet (when I look at this one big, it looks a bit washed out and not as vibrant as I would like it) but I am feeling much more confident that I have at least a tiny idea of what to do when I sit down at the computer.

I also worked on cropping some of the photos I had on my contact sheet this week after hearing a bunch of comments recommending I trim some of the photos down a little bit...

I really like how this blue light turned out as a crop. It's not that I didn't like the full photography, but I do find it more appealing when taken out of the context of "on a wall with cloud in sky behind" and made a bit more abstract. I am going to try to retake this picture at a different time of day when the sky has a different color and will hopefully get some interesting results.

I am totally stoked to use the tripod I borrowed and will hopefully get some nice shots of my little sister in her new city! I am going to try to work on portraits this week and see what I come up with... not so many buildings and shapes this time!! I need to get comfortable with people pictures too :)
Thanks for reading! Have a great weekend!