Composition
Happy May Day! I have been pouring over this material this week and getting some ideas in my mind of what I was going to photograph today...on my day off from work and when I had access to my grandchildren! We were going off to the park where I could think of color, textures, shapes, and lines. Well.....woke up today to snow and wind like you would not believe! It is downright raw outside. With that being said, I must confess that two of the following photos were taken last week when we had a day of spring...a day of new beginnings and hope for warmer weather. Hooray for photography so we can hang on to those memories and wait for all of it to return!
2.8 - 1/200 - ISO 400 100mm Lens
This was taken from a bouquet of flowers that I mentioned last week. I read in a book that if you spray flowers with water, it adds texture, as well as giving the idea that the morning dew is on them. This is where the use of the manual focus points comes in handy. Thank you, Brooke, for your tips on that in your focus discussion.
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| The Rose |
22 - 1/80 - ISO 250
Metered off of the sky to get the silhouette effect as well as the f22 to pick up the sun rays. You just don't know how much we miss the sun around here! I am excited to get this effect with other photos.
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| The Sunset |
2.5 - 1/1250 - ISO 100
Okay...not very exciting, but I drive by this everyday, and now instead of seeing it as a line of Hessco sandbags to protect our neighborhood, I see it as a line for photographing! I like how the use of aperture can lead you to believe that the bags go on forever (and it seems in reality that they do) They are our "designer" bags :) As you see they say Spirit of Fargo! (I am from Fargo, ND - and yes, they say I speak just like the movie!) I wish I would have dropped the shutter speed a bit and perhaps the sky would not have been so washed out?
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| The Line |
Oh, Karen, had to laugh! We have a lot of relatives in ND, and in the Fargo area. The first time we went to visit them, we visited a cousin at a grain silo up near there, and after being introduced to him, I sat back and watched (and silently giggled) as farmers came by, visited, had a cup of coffee . . . I have to admit I broke out laughing when we left, telling my husband, "IT'S JUST LIKE THE MOVIE!!" LOL!
ReplyDeleteOK, that being said . . . GREAT pictures this week!! The rose one is absolutely AMAZING. Great depth of field, singular theme, and rule of thirds!! Your other two are awesome, as well. I have one very similar to your second photo that I took this week, but decided to save it for next week -- I had others I wanted to share this week. That's good, right? When we take so many pictures that we think are good! :)
Hi Karen: Great pictures. My favorite is of the rose. Great idea of spraying with water.
ReplyDeleteI absolutly love your rose picture!! You did a SUPER job, and it is perfectly on the thirds' line. Sun rays are my favorite too! Yesterday, I walked to my neighbor's without a coat in bright sunshine, and an hour later, it was hailing and windy...what weather...Your neighborhood must have threats of flood...our are predicted still to come...Very fun photoshoots!
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