Progress Post for Assignment #2
Hi everyone! Here is my progress so far for Assignment #2. I'm really enjoying it so far, though I have had a little confusion with my camera.
My first photograph/edit is of a rose from Valentine's Day that's starting to die. I really wanted the background to fade and show depth. So, in this one, I focused on the rose. This caused some issues with the lighting, but overall, I'm happy with this one.
This is my second one using a rose. I thought it would be interesting to use the aperture to really focus on the background and make the closer things really dark. I am very undecided about whether or not I like this one.
The one of the paintbrushes is by far my favorite! I have a storage case that holds a lot of my brushes and some pens, and I really think it made for an interesting composition. I wanted to have lots of variation in focus, because there is so much going on with texture also. I love how the brushes in front and the pens in back are out of focus.
Okay, so this one, of the stairs was a weird one. I knew I'd wanna include them, but I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with them. So I pointed my camera and messed around with it until I got the DOF and the aperture like this. The railing being out of focus was very eye-catching for me. I like the way that it leads the eye to that bright spot. It almost is beckoning for you to come toward it! Don't go into the light! Lol, anyway, I like this one also.
I haven't taken any pictures that I feel showcase motion yet. I've had lots of ideas, but I've had trouble getting my camera to cooperate. Hopefully I will soon though!
These are some good experiments. I am also really digging the paintbrushes image. The levels of lens blur increasing by steps as our eyes move backward in space is nice. The stairway is also nice and for the same reasons you mentioned. I'm not sure the silhouette of the rose in front of the trees is working compositionally. If the rose were better lit so that we could see better that it is out-of-focus, that could be interesting, perhaps. In your first photo. I'm not sure if we can do anything with that hot area in the upper left corner ("hot" is a photography term for an area that is so overexposed that it is pure white without any details), but if you bring in the original, unedited photo, we can give it a try.
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