The Heart of the Flame

A coffee's best Date

suds

The Cacti Bottle

The wild Abe

the Lonely Hermit

Life of Thorns

A Red Sky at Night (re-do landscape)

A red sky at night is a sailors delight is a common saying that many people have heard, This image captures that red sky at night as spring starts to truly role in from the rough winter weather.

Easter sunday (re-do landscape)

A picture of church on easter sunday, alters lead eyes to the grand stained glass window in back of church

the Palms of summer (re-do landscape)

nice sculpture on the north-side of pittsburgh that offers a nice centering affect of the city

George washington

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Marissa Lutz

some edited images from underwater portraits

various coloration removed

Goggles oh goggles

taking pictures of people as they come in to the lobby with goggles, this being on of the most rad facial exspressions

lab in style

roommate using room lights, natural light plus the addition of the desk light for spot lighting

Self photo

The idea that started the series that i decided to do capturing the theme of "....Glasses....."

the more fun features of my camera portirts

The sister, water gives another element to work with of weightlessness, givng hair free flowing movement like in this image

Water also allows the ability to pose people in just about any way imaginable, because your not bound by gravity

Landscapes Around Town

After some editing to correct some issues with the photo's

image straightened out and heightened contrast

Black and white balanced adjusted for greater detail

Although this is not a typical landscape shot i feel when looked at in a different light it shows a wonderful landscape of the upmc building in a patriotic light

Just a classic picture of the city of pittsburgh at night, it is also noticeable that the lights of the area have casted a yellowish antique look onto the image making it almost eerie

Landscapes from Pittsburgh offer a big view into the historic past of the city of pittsburgh such as what is shown with this train track picture which leads the veiws eye out into the distance to a far off place

Lanscapes

this is the fist picture i took in the series on automatic which used a much higher ISO which showed to be affective in taking faster moving objects but it created a lot more noise in the image which i worked on different camera functions to create a clearer image with less of the "noise"/ fuzziness of the image

The photo was taken at a low ISO which i discovered will reduce the noise in a photo, it will also slightly darken an image but increase color contrast in the photo

The first blog post

The start of a new photography class

image by Ilkka Halso

The photo's by Ilkka Halso i find to be stunning works of art due to the use of principles of photography such as the rule of thirds to create a marvelous image that was able to capture the view's attention and keep it. The image also captures nature and human interaction at it's best taking a look at how wildlife and nature and work together for some truly amazing imagery