Lighting

Since I either had rain and/or clouds, and no breaks of sun, I decided to use these photos from last week using my flash indoors with the same shot, and noticed how badly I need to dust : - )

The photo above I used the flash straight on and I actually really liked the colors, but do not like how the flash was too hot on the left side, which is were it was since I had the camera turned sideways.

 

The only difference in the photo above is that I bounced the flash off the ceiling, and seems to almost give the photo a surreal or vintage look to it.  The ceiling isn't high, but this is right next to an open staircase so I lost some of light. 

The photo above , and the lighting that is seen on the left is the light coming from the flash.  I had the flash on, but angled away from the subject so it just barely grazed the left side and barely reflected any light towards the right.

Week 4

Analogous

I was trying to shoot the leaves that were in the trees and was only slightly happy and then as I was walking instead of looking up I looked down at the ground, there were all these leaves.  It dawned on me that if I took a few of them, as I did above, I would have an analogous photo.  I also had photographed these leaves (same set up) in the grass, but the green of the grass really took away from the leaves colors, so I went with the ones I took on my driveway.  I did have one other analogous photo of leaves changing from green to yellow, with the green-yellow in between color, but I like the above photo better.  It was hard finding things around my house, but was very pleased when I realized later that I had taken 74 photos, which I had no idea I had taken that many at the time.

Complementary

This is my lone Pansy, that is still in one of my pots that are on my deck railing from the summer.  Just when it was about time to empty them for the season, this one popped up, and has been there for quite some time now, and even survived several frosts.  I had bought several new varieties this year, one was called fireworks, and I think this was one of them. 

Macro Photos

Okay, I think I found a way to get the photos loaded, but without using the Blogger's photo upload.  IF this really works, I will post what I did in the discussion board incase anyone else has the problem in the future, and it also seems to be a lot quicker.  

There are two of my favorite photos, which did make it into my collage.  I really got lucky with the bee on the flower and had thought how ironic since I had just turned around from shooting something else and the bee had just landed.  So I snapped away, but when I took the photo the amount of detail was not visible as it is in the actual photo. 

I love on the beads how the sun made a good sized star-shaped glimmer (silver beads) and a smaller one on the light pink beads (near the blue one).  I had taken my photos on two different days, and I am not sure why but the second day I was definitely in a creative mood, and all of my photos that were in my collage were from the second day.  So mood can also definitely play a role in how a shoot transpires into what you think you might get and what you really got.

Week 3

Macro Collage 

This was created on collagr.com so I unfortunately did not have many options to try out and use like some of the really neat ones I have already viewed.  Collagr.com is neat but very limited.  I also only used about 18 of the 29 photos I had originally selected for my collage to allow for more of my photos to actually be in the collage.  But I do think it still came out neat looking despite the limitations.  

First, just picking two photos was challenging since there were many that spoke to me, but these two photos spoke the loudest.  My favorite out of these two is the bottom photo (full shot of front).  If I had been thinking I should have removed the license plates before shooting, but didn't.  I feel in some respect it takes away from the alluring features of the car, but at the same time it makes a statement that the car is from Vermont.  The reason I like this one the best is that the car really seems to be alive, that life is just running through the car.  I really like the how the photos captured the lines and curves of the car.  They are clean, sophisticated and sexy.  I feel like both photos draw the viewer in, making them want more the fantasy (and of what is up to each individual).  I noticed afterwards that the sunlight shifts from the right side of the hood in the full view to the left side of the hood in the front view. In the front view I was able to fill almost 100% of the photo with the car itself, whereas with the full view I could only take it in so far before I would loose some part of the car.  In the full view I also see more shadows on the ground from the car.  In the full view I am able to clearly make out the left front tire, but in the front view it is lost in the darkness. Both shoots were taken while I sat on the ground, but to me the front view makes the car seem or look bigger/wider than the the full view.  From this angle both photos give me the sensation that they are moving, rather than just being parked.