Friday, 17 October 2008, 4:52 pm
Oxbow Bend probably was my favorite place to photograph the Teton Mountains. The last two photographs are exactly the same photograph; however, one is color and the other is mixed using monochrome.
Farook Khan
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Teton National Park
Friday, 17 October 2008, 4:35 pm
Teton National Park is probably one of my most favorite national parks. It is stunningly beautiful and the grander of the mountains just blows me away. I spent hours photographing these mountains from different locations. Although I didn’t not document my locations, I hope that I have approximately located these photographs for the turnouts that I took them at.
Elk Ranch Flats Turnout: The fence and the colors were just amazing at his location.
Elk Ranch Flats Turnout: This photograph was taken when it was a little more cloudy. This photograph has so much more meaning to me because of the horses that were roaming the ranch. There were about six horses. My mom inspired the love that I have for horses.
Teton Point Turnout: This was a great photograph that just looked stunning in black and white (a monochome mixture using a red filter).
Willow Flats Overlook: This photograph is taken on a small butte that overlooks Jackson Lake and also the Teton Range. There was a moose about fifty feet away from where I was taking this photograph.
Farook Khan
Fall Break 2008
Friday, 17 October 2008, 4:21 pm
Every fall the University of Utah has a fall break which is much like a traditional spring break. I had a whole week off of school and also decided to take a week off of work to enjoy the time. It was amazing. I decided to do a little bit of traveling and decided to go to Yellowstone National Park and also to Teton National Park.
Over the course of a few days, I amassed about two thousand photographs. Many of these photographs did not turn out too good but some of the other ones were excellent. I have a few photographs that I want to share and they will be broken up into different articles on my blog.
Please enjoy the photographs. Don’t exploit them. If you really like the photographs, please let me know or feel free to leave a comment.
Art 2060 – Flash Assignment
The flash photography assignment had two photographs we had to submit. One had to be a fill flash that was taken during the day or in a location that required the flash but where one would probably not immediately notice that a flash went off. The second photograph for this assignment was a creative flash. The use of strobe lights, flashlights, and laser pointers were allowed. My photographs tend to be more conservative and more “traditional” photographs.
This second photograph was really fun to capture. I went up the Mill Creek Canyon and went up to one of my favorite trails and set the camera up on a tripod and walked down the path and triggered my strobe flash that I had in my hand. The camera was in bulb mode and ended up having about a minute exposure which helped capture the stars, clouds and the natural lights.
Art 2060 – Long Exposure Assignment
The long exposure assignment was an assignment to explore these functions with our cameras. I purchased a remote shutter release to be able to take these photographs. These photographs were some of the most enjoyable shots to capture.
Art 2060 – Composition Assignment
My third assignment was to capture the same subject with different compositions. I somewhat struggled with this assignment as I couldn’t determine what would be a substantially different composition. There are many rules that one must consider when composing a photograph such as the rule of thirds, properly framing a subject, the noise and distractions, and just story behind the photograph.
Art 2060 – Aperture Assignment
The aperture assignment was fun because I had a few different angles and locations that I used to get some different examples of how your aperture can drastically change a photograph.
This was a very fun assignment.
Art 2060 – Shutter Speed Assignment
To balance my heavy engineering and math classes this fall, I decided to take a digital photography class. My class has been lots of fun and probably will end up being one of the most enjoyable classes that I have taken in college. I will be posting a collection of photographs that I have taken for this class.
My first assignment was a shutter speed assignment. Two photographs with different shutter speeds.
Blog Relocation
Saturday, 11 October 2008, 12:14 pm
Over the last few weeks I have been working on moving my blog over to my farookkhan.com domain. It finally has happened. It took some time to get everything working and functioning properly, but finally, I can announce that my blog is now located at www.farookkhan.com. I have been toying with some different styles of handling my blog and we’ll see how they turn out. I hope to post a little more frequently, especially sharing my photographs. I plan on posting a few photographs in the next few days.
Fall has finally started and the weather has gotten very cold here in Utah. School has been going for a few weeks and I have the first round of midterms under my belt. This week is fall break which is basically a spring break but in October. To celebrate having no school, I also took the whole week off of work too!
Farook Khan
www.farookkhan.com
My New Email Address!
Sunday, 14 September 2008, 7:12 am
It has been an exciting few weeks for me with many things going on. But before I jump into all those other things, I wanted to share the results from my survey that you probably participated in. The survey was to find out which email address appeared more professional or easier to understand with the goal to determine which email address I should use going forward.
A few weeks went by and literally dozens of people participated and shared their thoughts, comments and opinions which were very insightful. I prepared a few graphs below so you can see how close of a race it was for some of the candidates. There are three graphs which are show a percentile of each question.
Question Number 1: Which email address appears most professional?
As you can see many people thought that the utah.edu address was very professional and important when working with recruiters and potential employers. However, many people also thought that the farookkhan.com was also pretty professional, which won by actually just a few votes.
Question Number 2: Which email address appears easier to understand?
The second question was pretty interesting because I don’t think I shared the full explanation or purpose of this question. With my gmail.com account, I was always trying to explain over the phone or in person that it is “farook” with an “i”, “u”, and “m” at the end. It was difficult to get this clear. After experimenting with the different options I had, all the addresses would be difficult to some degree because of the nature of my name. Most people have never heard of “farook,” much less know how to spell it and and my last name often ends up looking like “con” or “kahn.” On a side note, the most interesting rendition of my first name looks like “farhook”.
Question Number 3: Which email address would you recommend?
The third questions was really what I wanted to know because it was a combination of what was professional, easier to understand and what email address would be best suited going forward. The results from this one were really interesting also. However, there was a clear winner when it came to the overall recommendation and that was for farookkhan.com address.
So, after contemplating, calculating and reviewing the data I have decided to go with farook@farookkhan.com as my new email address.
The results hopefully you can see how close and pretty interesting the results are from this survey. I am really glad that so many people participated and that the results were really compelling for either side. An email address that showed up several times under the other category that I would like to give honorable mention to is farook.khan (at) gmail (dot) com. Many people commented that they would prefer to see a farook.khan combination at some domain.
There are some other things that you probably didn’t know about my new decision. My farookkhan.com email account is actually a gmail account; however, I have it through Google Apps for Your Domain. After selecting my new address I started transferring dozens of accounts and subscriptions to my new address. I also was able to copy every single email that I have ever received* over to my new account. It took about three weeks to accomplish the whole goal, especially when you think about the fourteen thousand emails I had to bring over. Having everything on gmail is really nice because it is completely searchable and also “backed-up.” I’ll follow up one day with my extensive back-up system.
Thanks for participating and I’ll send an update on how school at the University of Utah is and my promotion at work and just life in general in the next few days, hopefully.
Farook Khan
farook@farookkhan.com
www.khanfire.com/blog