The First Portrait

This is the first portrait that I did with the 4x5 camera, I saw this man on the side of the rode and I had to take a picture of him, I am so glad that I did! I find so many details of this man so intriguing from his long white eyebrows, to his dirty hat and the oil stain on his clothes. I think my favorite part was how this man took this pose without any prompting from me, it is just so natural and I love it! I also learned a lot taking this picture, most importantly how much I love the zone system!!!

In the Beginning

These are some of the first Images that I took with the 4x5 camera, I guess when I got such a big and complex camera that I was totally uncomfortable with I took pictures of trees...and so did the rest of my class. The middle picture is one that I actually ended up never turning in but I thought I would still put it up anyways. If you really like trees, enjoy! If you are not such a big fan, don't worry I have more non tree pictures to come!

A Little of What's to Come

This semester I took a class where we used fully manual 4x5 film cameras and loved it!!! It was really nice to have to slow down and really think about every picture I took, I also had a lot of fun using the camera movements that a 4x5 can do that an SLR can't. This is my favorite image from the class, the rest of the photographs will be coming up soon!

Finals!!!

This photograph is a self portrait that I made earlier in the semester, during midterm week, for my digital imaging class. Now that it is time for finals my room is just about as messy, what can I say, when I get busy and stressed my room gets neglected, sometimes there are just more important things that need to get done!

A Couple Faces from Peru

I spent a couple of weeks this summer on a humanitarian trip to Peru. Here are two of the children that I photographed while I was there. I am sure that you will be seeing more photos from this trip over time. I loved my experience and hope to be able to photograph for humanitarian groups in the future!

Red Barn

I was up in Midway the other day photographing for a project and took this picture. I thought that this would be a good picture to start off my new Photography blog, so here it is! Oh and welcome to the blog for Allison Esther Photography!!!