Clovishound
Senior Member
Not to belabor the point, but right now I have to stay around the house, to take care of my wife. She is improving well, but it will likely be a few months before I am free to go spend time on outings. I have recently gotten back into photography, and want to take pictures, I have lots of time on my hands, but am, for the most part tied to the house. I am comfortable with going out in the yard for 15 to 20 minutes at a time, but longer trips have to be coordinated with my daughter, and right now I am saving those for necessary trips.
Anyway, I was watching some Youtube videos from the Photographic Eye. The ones I watched yesterday talked about looking at everyday objects that most would completely ignore as subjects. His approach is to look at them in new ways and find striking images based upon shape, texture and color. This is something I have been learning from my daughter, as she has a natural tendency to shoot like this. I've always been a more conventional photographer, and so my pictures have usually been more run of the mill. This is what led me to give up the hobby, years ago.
So I went out in the back yard and started looking at some objects with an eye towards making some interesting images from mundane subjects close to hand. I had some limited success, and thought it might make an interesting discussion and exercise here on the forum. I will post the three best of the handful of images I took and invite honest criticism, good, bad, indifferent. The point is to learn and grow, not stroke egos.
I would also encourage some of you to try this exercise for yourself and report back, and post your own results. Here is the link to one of the videos, if you want to watch that before trying it out, or just for your information.
This is an old cast iron lapping plate. It came first to mind when thinking about this exercise. I like the shapes and textures. Thinking about scattering some leaves around it to change the background. I find the image somewhat appealing, but not quite there. I probably aught to try some different compositions as well to see if that will increase appeal.
Like a lot of images, I'm not sure if I like the color or B&W version better.
This is not necessarily outside the box thinking. I have a similar, but better picture I took last week. My biggest issue with it is comparing it to that one. A macro lens to close in on the seed head would also have been helpful. My daughter should be getting her 105 this week, and I will be able to borrow it from time to time.
I hesitated to post this one, as I'm not sure it works all that well. Thinking about reshooting it at a smaller F stop to increase depth of field. It has a mood, but seems to lack something.
I am not holding these up as good images, but merely as jumping off points for discussion.
Anyway, I was watching some Youtube videos from the Photographic Eye. The ones I watched yesterday talked about looking at everyday objects that most would completely ignore as subjects. His approach is to look at them in new ways and find striking images based upon shape, texture and color. This is something I have been learning from my daughter, as she has a natural tendency to shoot like this. I've always been a more conventional photographer, and so my pictures have usually been more run of the mill. This is what led me to give up the hobby, years ago.
So I went out in the back yard and started looking at some objects with an eye towards making some interesting images from mundane subjects close to hand. I had some limited success, and thought it might make an interesting discussion and exercise here on the forum. I will post the three best of the handful of images I took and invite honest criticism, good, bad, indifferent. The point is to learn and grow, not stroke egos.
I would also encourage some of you to try this exercise for yourself and report back, and post your own results. Here is the link to one of the videos, if you want to watch that before trying it out, or just for your information.
This is an old cast iron lapping plate. It came first to mind when thinking about this exercise. I like the shapes and textures. Thinking about scattering some leaves around it to change the background. I find the image somewhat appealing, but not quite there. I probably aught to try some different compositions as well to see if that will increase appeal.
Like a lot of images, I'm not sure if I like the color or B&W version better.
This is not necessarily outside the box thinking. I have a similar, but better picture I took last week. My biggest issue with it is comparing it to that one. A macro lens to close in on the seed head would also have been helpful. My daughter should be getting her 105 this week, and I will be able to borrow it from time to time.
I hesitated to post this one, as I'm not sure it works all that well. Thinking about reshooting it at a smaller F stop to increase depth of field. It has a mood, but seems to lack something.
I am not holding these up as good images, but merely as jumping off points for discussion.