Lab 10: Maple Line Farm

I waited on the dust road for the tour guide to appear, and after 15 minutes he finally arrived. I wanted to take pictures with my camera but I unfortunately left it in the dorm. Rich West, the tour guide, explained that the farm has been around for 105 years planting tobacco and vegetable until 25 years ago where it moved away from that business and into the dairy farming.

The registered Jersey cows are rich in butterfat which helps makes their products more creamy. The demand for their milk is so high that they must rent out land nearby to supply their demand. The farm not only produces milk in different flavors but they also make heavy cream, and 5% of their business is selling beef.

The 10 employees there must work through 125 acres of land and an extra 60 acres that they rented from neighboring land. Each day the cows are milked twice a day at 8am and then at 3pm. Those 4 1/2 year old cows are pleasant to be with, the calf I was playing with kept on sucking on my finger as if it was a teat.

I could not run back to my dorm to get my camera, but I did bring back a quart of milk. I saw this project online that I wanted to try, it's making a light tent. So the milk bottle will be my subject. I had to substitute the light bulb with a florescent one which gave the picture the orange tint. I made this project so that I could experiment with lighting. If I photoshop the picture I could get the colored tint to disappear but it would also wash out the current white that appears in the photo. The overexposure would make the text on the bottle hard to see. When I redo this photoshop I have to replace the bulb but I also have to alight the paper to better hide the brown box lining on the corner. I will also have to get the t-shirt to be fitted around the box so that there aren't any wrinkes/waves in the photo.

Wild Horses in a Field of Wildflowers

At the Hadley Barn there are also horses, but I dont't usually hang out there. So I picked this photo because Mr. Gehman has captured something wonderful. He shows horses running in a field of flowers, below the horses feet lays wildflowers that seem to stretch for miles. The horses' hair is flying in the wind, in this family scene. I say family scene because there is a fowl, baby horse, in the scene along with a masculine black stallion larger then both the horses. You can also see the deep blue in the sky without a puff of cloud floating around.

Solace as Surprise Creek

Pictures

Close-Up of a Chicken

Michael Calderon took a close-up of a chicken. If you notice the background the other chickens are blurred and the edges of the background chicken are soften, this puts the audiences' attention to the chicken up front. This image is not a soft focus because the edges of the subject's feather is smooth while the detail of the body is still detailed.

Woman With Cow

Sarah Leen took this shot to express how many barrel of fuel it takes to raise a steer. It takes 283 gallons of oil to raise this 1,250 pounds of a beast.

Pig and Piglet, Africa

Amanda Kopp took this great photo of a piglet kissing her mother.

Lab 8: Foxbard Farm

Mr. John Payne gave the group a tour of the Foxbard Farm. The farm has been around since the 1700's which was bought by John Payne's father of 1,150 acres of land, at the time it was a tabacco farm but it wasn't until 1943 that the owner switched over to be a dairy farm, filling their pastures with milking short-horns. After passing away Payne's son, John, took ownership of his father's land in 1998 and ever since then the farm has been run by John. Currently the farm has 100 - 130 heads of cows, most of them were bred naturally.

These pictures were shot with my 1.8 mega pixel camera. Now a days, a regular point-and-shoot camera has about 7.1 mega pixel. Mega pixels are one of the features to look for when purchasing a camera. The mega pixels indicate how much pixels are in a inch of a photo. Since my camera has such a low resolution of 1.8 mega pixel, you can notice that blocks are used to make up the photo. The higher the mega pixel the smoother and crisp the image comes out to be and no amount of photoshopping can make this photo look like it was taken from a 7.1 mega pixel camera.

Sources: The Pixels Underneath Your Photo