The Sculpture Garden

The last session of our photography class was a the Sculpture Garden in Minneapolis.    I loved our instructor and look forward to taking more of his classes in the future.  He even offered to help me take some more senior photos of Kelly's daughter, Brenna. I'm so excited about that! And check out this lens he let me try out. . .

(photo courtesy of Kelly!)

Holy crap, this lens cost more than my car!  I was so afraid of dropping it so I only took a couple of photos.  If I ever win the lottery. . .

 And here are a random slew of the photos that I took on our last night.

 

We tried to do some funny poses around the cherry.  Our lovely model was such a good sport! :)

And here are a couple of shots of the cherry/spoon sculpture at night.  I got a billion when it was light out, but the ones we took after the sun went down are definitely my favorite.

Stone Arch Bridge and Stuff

I have many more photos to go through from class tonight, but here are some of the Stone Arch Bridge and a few other random pics from the evening.  I did get some slightly different angles of the bridge, but I need to go back when it's not packed with tripods so I can get a little more creative.  I was too scared I would trip over a leg or mess up someone's shot, so I didn't get to move around as much as I wanted to. It was nice to get similar shots in different light, though.   And check out my gorgeous models!

linking this photo up for SOFT over at LEM.  Go check out her awesome blog and play along!

I love this view of Minneapolis!

Homework

A friend and I are taking the class "Best Places to Shoot in Minneapolis" and our homework assignment for this week was to shoot a stop light so the red/yellow/green lights were all illuminated at once.  To achieve this shot we had our cameras on AV mode, ISO 100, and the shutter speed at 15 seconds.  We had to time it just right and it took a couple of tries, but we got our shot!  WooHoo! 

And this, as Bob Ross would say, was just a happy little mistake.

 This week we are headed to the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis for some night shots of the bridge and downtown.  I can't wait!