HOW TO DESCRIBE IMAGE TONAL VALUES 
 SHADOW- area where direct light from a light source cannot reach due to obstruction by an object
 MIDT-ONE- the colors in between
 HIGHLIGHT- highest area of an image
 EXPOSURE- the amount of light allowed to fall on each area
 CONTRAST- the difference in luminance that makes an object (or representation in an image) distinguishable

HOW TO DESCRIBE LIGHTING TONAL VALUES 
 HIGH KEY- aims to reduce the lighting ratio present in the scene
 LOW KEY-term used in describing paintings or photographs
 SOFT SHADOWS- not too dark area of an object
 HARD SHADOWS- darker area of on object
 HARD LIGHT- when the light source is large relative to the subject
 SOFT LIGHT- light that tends to "wrap" around objects, casting diffuse shadows with soft edges; when a light source is large relative to the subject
 COMPOSITION-arrangement of visual elements
 FOREGROUND- elements of an image which lie closest to the picture plane
 BACKGROUND- part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear
 SUBJECT- the main topic
 FRAME (FILLING THE FRAME)- technique used to focus the viewer's attention upon the subject

   “Photography is what I love,” says Brooke Mayo founder of the Brooke Mayo Photographers, “ What we love. It is who we are. Bmp is my business and my second child even though it came first by 7 years.” Magazines, display at stores, movies... lightning and stories. Dance, modern, hip-hop, ballet; the movement and how the light hits their bodies, is some creative influence she receives as she watches live performance.

   Brooke Mayo is a professional wedding photographer that has had the honor to have winning photographs. She studied photography at the Appalachian State University and the University of Western Sydney in Australia. She moved to NYC and worked with portrait and dance photographers and photographed headshots for dancers of the Dance Theater of Harlem and Alvin Ailey. Then Mayo moved back to the Outer Banks and started the Brooke Mayo Photographers in 2003.

   Brooke Mayo Photography has been featured in international publications such as Grace Ormonde, The Knot, Destination Weddings, Honeymoons, and Bride Magazine were named the #7 Creative Wedding Photojournalists in 2009 the World by the Artistic Guild of Wedding Photographers. In 2011 they were chosen as one of Destination Weddings and Honeymoons A List Photographers.

   Mayo began her career in film, photographed weddings with film and used to develop all of it herself, in a color and/or black and white darkroom. Making prints, adding cyan, adding yellow, dodging and burning and spending hours on the perfect print. Her first camera was a Pentax K1000 and her favorite film was 3200 speed Tmax. Film has become “vintage” but it was only 8 years ago that she began to use a digital camera.

   Mayo has a fun, creative journalistic type of style. Many people want these type of pictures taken at their weddings, or as families. So they call Brooke Mayo in to do the job. How amazing it would be to have this professional photographer take fun, realistic, creative pictures.

 I have only learned just a few things about the cameras and photography. I can say where most of the buttons are at on the camera. I am also able to explain a bit of the buttons jobs. Learning about the materials that we used to do cyanotypes was a bit confusing for me.
   I need to study more about the back part of the camera in order to understand what on earth I'll be doing. I cannot keep in mind to study about the back parts of the camera that we will be using to take pictures. So, i must work hard on learning about these buttons and their jobs. Also, some other things i could not get right were the colors. I understood the primary and secondary colors but I get confused with which colors are used in photography.