Lets take some photos

I have a limited knowledge on anything photography. I like to think I can take super cool photos but honestly I have no idea what I'm doing when my camera leave AUTO. I have always been interested in photography, especially nature photography, but have never taken the time to learn how to take awesome photos the correct way. One main thing I want to accomplish is improve my skills in taking and editing pictures.

I quickly looked over most of the pictures I have taken in the last few years and have posted the best below. I want to use them as a benchmark so I can see how I will improve throughout the semester. The photos are taken from an assortment of cameras. Some are from my DSLR, some are from my GoPro and the rest are from my phone.

This picture had no planning or thought put into it. I was on a hike and thought this log jam at the end of the lake looked cool so I just very quickly snapped a photo and I personally love the result. I think I edited it but I had no idea what I was doing and just pressed buttons until it looked cool.

This is one the thousands of GoPro photos I've snapped. My strategy with GoPro photography is that I will literally take thousands of random pictures and just hope I get a few good looking ones. This is one of my good looking ones! I was riding my bike with my GoPro faced straight up and it was taking pictures I think every 5 seconds. This is picture is attributed to luck.

Another GoPro picture. I used the same strategy as above. I was hiking the Rims in Billings and just taking pictures of everything in sight.

I'm not sure if nature photography can include people but since I don't know I'm including this photo for my first blog post. Again another random GoPro photo while I was running around the Oregon coast. I do not know what makes a picture better than another picture in the technical photography sense but I hope this one is qualified as good because it may be my favorite picture I have ever taken.

I hope to include some very cool pictures from planes. I am in the aviation program at Rocky and want to include the perspective from the air. I took this while flying to Bozeman from Billings.

One of my favorite types of pictures is the panorama. With my phone, I probably take an unhealthy amount of panoramas. This is one of my favorites though. This was taken from my dock back at my parents house. Things I like are the reflection on the lake and the clouds. The wierd part of this picture is that the far left of the picture is looking a bit Northwest while the right side of the picture is looking South. This makes it not accurately represent what a person would see while looking out in the same spot but I still like the picture quite a bit.