Spice Up Your Life
December 4, 2009
All You Need Is Love
This is a photo of a leaf off the Poinsettia plant that my grandma got my mom for Thanksgiving. I was experimenting with my depth of field. The end result brings to my mind a heart. The shadows and creases in the leaf are quite beautiful.
Hall Of Mirrors
I was inspired to do some experimenting with light painting after my photography teacher, Bruce Twitchell, opened our class with some terrific examples of painting with light. Of course the images we saw mostly used an LED light to outline the subject or to add drawings to the image. I only had a flashlight at my disposal. I set my shutter speed for thirty seconds and shined the light on myself in a few different locations in my hallway. The end result is nice and eerie, though I may have to experiment with this some more.
On The Surface
I began this photo session whild tthe sun was rising. I wanted to get a beautiful sunrise shot, but it was much to cold out side and I was still in my pajamas. I ended up taking picture through my back door. That early in the morning there is a nice layer of dew on the inside of the window.
Wake Up And Smile
The inspiration for this picture came from http://www.graphicmania.net/stunning-conceptual-photography-ideas/. I was attempting to re-create an image from that website. Is this legal? Once I began I realized just how hard it was to make cereal into a smilie face. I think the image is cute. Though, the drop of milk off to the side off the bowl is quite distracting, I enjoy the color sceme of the image.
Contact Sheets
Now this is the kind of post that I have been missing from you. Cami is back.
Leaf shot- very nice close detail. Always great to look at things different, to get in close on things and really examine what they look like.
Painting with light- Not sure how much I am digging the photoshop work on it, I am a bigger fan of how it looks originally as well as the other shots that you have on your contact sheet.
On the surface- Great shot.Took me a while to figure out what it was, then I finally did that crazy thing called reading and then I knew. Once again, great eye on this shot.
Wake up and smile- Great site with cool photos that you link on. The photo- a little dark for my liking, especially for something like wake up it seems that it should be nice and bright, otherwise great image. I think it is okay to use other images for inspiration. If you copy and image this close, might be a good idea to make sure to credit the original- as you did- and to make sure not to try and sell it as your own idea. Nice photos this week