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White on White

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Photography assignment: White on White.

Not as easy as it sounds. Sure, I found lots of white things around the house: light switches, ceiling fans, ceramic pitchers. But getting them to look decent in a photo was difficult. I think the lighting was my problem.

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I finally settled on the inset of our pantry door. I photographed it several times and reviewed the photos on my computer. That’s when I noticed the dirt on the door. How did it get there, all the way up near the top? I have no idea. I interrupted my photography session to clean the door. Or at least, that one part. No need to get carried away, now is there?

More photos followed; more reviews on the computer. I went back to the pantry door, this time angling my camera. I still had to adjust the angle a tiny bit with software and soften the clarity just a tad with software. This is was the photograph I thought managed to meet the White on White requirement.

 

Vantage Point

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Assignment: Pick a vantage point (with a one-step radius), stay there for at least an hour, and photograph. Find or make interesting views out of ordinary or usually-ignored items.

I took close to 100 photographs and decided 6 were good enough to keep (with one being the photograph of my tripod to show my vantage point).

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This is where I stood.

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Weeds with yellow flowers, panned.

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The side vent of the grill.

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Where the driveway segments meet.

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A composite montage of sunflowers and the hurricane fence.

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A lily pad with rain drops. The yellow lily is in a plastic barrel and was still closed at that time of the morning.

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Impressionistic Flowers

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And yet another way to blur photos on purpose. The irony is I had to delete several photos from this set where I tried to take a standard photograph but they were out of focus: not clear enough, not blurry enough. Huh.
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Sunflowers.
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These ox eye flowers sort of look as if they were suspended in mid air.

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A bottlebrush.

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Firewheels.

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Purple heart plant.

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Sunflowers, almost look three dimensional. Well, actually, they are, but photos aren’t.

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Sunflowers, going somewhere in a hurry.

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Dreamscapes

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One photography homework was dreamscapes: intentionally and artistically blurring the photo. I can’t tell you how ironic this is to me, as I work really hard using my photography time trying to get crisp, clear photos. Still, I was very happy to learn that my camera will take multiple exposures and overlay them to get this effect. I failed when trying to do this technique using software. Learning something new everyday.

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Multiple exposures done in camera. So happy to learn this technique. No edits.

After I took the first set of photos of the Sully doll, I cut him away from the cardboard thinking it would make a better photograph without it in the background. Unfortunately, without the cardboard box Sully won’t sit up straight; he just flops over. Not a good photography model. So the joke’s on me for cutting him away from his packaging. Sometimes I learn more than one thing a day.