There’s a reason I really like taking pictures of children, its not the smooth skin or in any way the way they are built, but its completely based on personality. For a child, life is free and innocent, they’ll stick out there tongue at you and make faces the entire night if you ask them to. What happened to us as adults that we lost this playfulness? This innocence? Its sad really, we build up shells and walls, afraid of accidentally showing a bad side so much that we don’t show the good or fun side ether. So here’s to innocence:

Paul Rohde

Black and White.

Its one of those mediums that can be both a pain and a joy to work with. For most people, black and white is simply desaturating the picture to zero, but theres much more to black and white than that. In film photography black ans white film reacts differently to different colors meaning that if you took the exact same scene with both color and black and white film, desaturated the color film and printed them both out in black and white the images would look quite different. The reason for this is that the black and white film will expose faster or slower to different wavelengths of light, so your yellow might expose fast while the blue will expose slower giving you a higher contrast between blue and yellow than you would in color film. If you want more check out this site on converting color photos to black and white, as it explains it much better than I could myself.

Paul

In a recent revelation, I’ve begun to realize how much where you meter you picture from matters, for instance, in order for the night scene to appear well lit, you need to meter the image off of a spot you want “normally” exposed and lock the exposure to that point. A lot of times in the past I’ve metered off of the light source itself and ended up with horribly underexposed photos. Not what I wanted, but I didn’t completely know it at the time or really think about it until I noticed that I was always pulling up the exposure. Its one of the hardest things I’ve come to, shooting in a way that normally gives slightly over exposed pictures, because its much easier to pull down an over exposed picture than it is to pull up an underexposed one. Its a lot of trial and error, but over time, you get better.

Good luck,

Paul

As some of you know, or maybe none of you know, Neumont University opened a campus in west Virginia this last quarter, accepted students and had started classes. Yesterday it was announced that the east coast campus would be closing because of zoning and permit problems the construction company that was building the new facility had been having. All the people that went there have the option of coming to utah at the end of the quarter or being reimbursed for the quarter the just completed and going somewhere else. Assuming that most of them decide to come to Utah, that means we’ll be adding about 50 new people to our cohort… Anyways, things go up, and things go down, somethings work and some things don’t… so here’s pictures… what else?

Later,

Paul

Well, finally I’m done with a rather large project at Neumont for my Topics in Software Development Class… and that is a load off my shoulders, but heres some pictures of work, and play from CRU (Campus Crusade for Christ).

Not much more than that, I’m tired, and I’m going to finish off some Sets and Number systems homework and go to bed…

Paul