Progress and Planning

     Hello out there. Sorry I haven't updated in a while. So my progress for this week has been pretty good I think. I finally got my collage planned and sketched out so that is one thing off my list. So yesterday I went down to sunset park to take pictures of the sunset. It was an ok day to shoot, there were a lot of clouds on the horizon so I couldn't get the actual sunset which was disappointing. Later I went outside and took some pictures of the moon, which was supposedly at its largest in a very long time. I did long exposure pictures. Long exposure pictures is when you keep the shutter open for a much longer amount of time than is normal ie. 30 seconds. When this is done in a low light setting it creates the illusion that the picture was taken during the day. To do this you need a tripod however because any movement will be reflected in the photo. I was hoping to wake up early and go back to sunset park to take long exposures of the moon setting because you can really tell that the moon is huge when it is close to the horizon. Unfortunately I didn't wake up so I wasn't able to get pictures; however I am planning on taking more tonight and I might plan to get up early and take pictures tomorrow before class. I am pretty happy with the photos I did get. This long exposure mini-project has made me want to take more and get better at it. I will be continuing to do this throughout the rest of the year. I am also thinking of playing around with super imposing a horse picture on to a picture of the moon. We did an assignment similar to this in Photo last year and I really liked it. I think I will try it again.