Kate and Ethan Austin

Balloon Release: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D04DGAc8mc4

Volcanic remains

"Volcanic Remains." This photograph here is a panoramic shot of many buttes in the distance. Central Oregon was once very active with volcanic activity. The famous "Crater Lake" was created by this volcanic activity, formed from the eruption of supervolcano Mt.Mazama, we were left a beautiful lake. Central Oregon has many lava tubes that connected to Mt.Mazama and buttes such as "Lava Butte" which can be visited in Bend Oregon. I myself have been to Lava Butte, you can actually go up to the top and overlook the surrounding area. However if you are feeling adventurous like me most of the time, there are many lave tubes that you can find out in the middle of nowhere and explore (WARNING, SOME OF THESE CAVES MAY BE DANGEROUS). Central Oregon has been known for its beauty and multitude of fun activities such as snowboarding on Mt.Bachelor,or canoeing/kayaking on the  Deschutes river, fishing, etc... If you are looking for a fun place to go, Central Oregon is definitely a good place to go!  

Half Skating

Hello again, this photo is so intriguing to me. The legs and long board featured in this photo belong to my girlfriend. We were out skating several nights ago to catch the sunset. I had brought along my camera to capture the sunset so my camera was handy as I was skating behind her. I thought that this would make for a great photo opportunity so I went for the shot...*camera clicking* and BAM!!! I got this amazing photograph. I opened the photo up in Lightroom and adjusted the tone and hue/saturation among many other things (too many to list). I decided upon manually creating this sort of a sepia effect resulting in the image seen. I must say too that I primarily focus on landscape photography and inspired by John Clement, a well known landscape photographer from my community, and although landscape is my main focus, I like to venture off into different categories such as this. I titled this photo "Half Skating" because you are only viewing half of her body. I still don't know what intrigues me so very much about this photo. I am considering  getting a small print of this and matting and framing it. And if you are reading this Rachael, yes I would love to get one matted and framed for you! hmmmmm.......birthday present maybe? guess you will have to wait and find out. Please leave comments if you would like! I would love to here some feedback, criticism is a good thing from my perspective. P.S. I have school finals next week so I may have to slow down on the blogging so that I can study for finals.

Cable Bridge

"Cable Bridge"

The bridge seen in this photo is called the Cable Bridge, as you may be able to see why. It is in Kennewick Washington. I have always wanted to get a photo of it at night and I finally captured one several nights ago. I edited it in adobe lightroom...which by the way in case you are wondering it is an awesome editing product, I will not tell you to get it over Photoshop, in fact I would recommend getting both adobe lightroom and adobe Photoshop because they do different things, I will start with Photoshop. First Photoshop is great for photo manipulation, things such as cloning out an unwanted object. Though Photoshop can adjust the levels, brightness/contrast, curves etc...It does not do as great of a job as Lightroom.
         Lightroom is made primarily for the purpose of making those adjustments and does an excellent job of it. Also, lightroom does a fantastic job of  reducing noise in a picture. Even light room can still clone out unwanted objects in a photo, though I prefer to use Photoshop for the manipulation because I find the cloning tool in Lightroom more confusing and difficult to use than in Photoshop. Anyway, I love how this photo turned out and especially the colors in it. I hope you enjoyed this!

About Me

Hello, I have created this blog because i want to share my photography work. I will be a senior in high school in the class of 2015. I have entered a photograph of Mt.Jefferson into a Washington state art contest and received a regional winner award for it. I also plan to pursue my dream of becoming a professional photographer, my plan after high school is to attend my local community college and earn a degree in business. Afterwards, I plan to attend a visual arts school so that I can learn even more and get my degree in photography as well. I currently shoot my photos using a Nikon D3200. I love to go out and photograph whenever I see an opportunity. I am 18 years old and am really hoping to sell some prints of my photos this summer. Thank you and I hope that you all enjoy my blogs! You may also check out my facebook page "Erhart Photography" by clicking the link below
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