Day 125 – Quickie

I didn’t realize my Friday was going to turn out so full but I had no opportunity to shoot “for myself” until late this evening. I actually did quite a bit of photography today, but it was for work. I was asked to shoot our site, inside and out. Here’s just one “non-identifying” shot.

The shoot went late and I left work about 6pm, the time I was supposed to be meeting Sweetie and our friends for dinner in Fernley (40 minutes away!). Dinner, enjoyable as it was, ran long and I just didn’t get much of a chance to shoot. By the time I got my camera out again, it was very late.

Day 114 – Heading Home

I shot these photos through my car window on the way home.

This photo looked best in black and white.

The overcast sky made an effective backdrop to John Ascuaga’s Nugget.

Light a Structure at Dusk – Assignment Re-Do

Our 10th assignment for our lighting class was to photograph a building at dusk with multiple flashes, taking care to show the texture and dimensions of the building. Once we’ve gone through critique night, we have the opportunity to re-shoot the assignment, if we wish.

My original shot. Really, I only was able to get off two flashes before the timer on the camera clicked off. Further, it was freezing when we were out shooting and I thought I’d done okay. The sun had been down for at least a half hour, but the clear sky stayed brighter than I would have liked. Exposure time: 20 seconds.

My instructor said he would have liked to see more detail on the right and in the area to far left, so I went out last night to re-shoot. Here is the result. The sky was overcast, I was dealing with a street lamp to camera left and I used a longer exposure time (about 45 seconds). In this shot I got six flashes off.

Hope he likes this one better.

Day 89 – Reflection

What is reflection and what is “real?” Taken around 7:00 this evening at Lawlor Events Center at the University of Nevada, Reno. I shot this looking into Lawlor, with the parking structure, stairs and just a tiny bit of Mackay Stadium reflected in Lawlor’s glass doors. Where does the interior end and the reflection begin?

And a bonus shot. Before I shot Lawlor, I had been shooting the Joe Crowley Student Union building and captured the photo below. Funny coincidence, the woman and small boy walking toward me happened to be a co-worker and her son, though I didn’t know it at the time I snapped the photo. It wasn’t until she said, “Hey there photography lady!” that I realized what had happened.