For the elements, I honestly ended up pretty lost and the only thing that I could think of was to use flowing water. Though this is a bit of a simple idea, I thought that the form of the water was still interesting and it came out okay- though it was pretty bland in general.
For the rule of odds, I wanted to use this picture. Despite it being mundane, I think the composition has a lot of layers to it, which separate themselves in a clear fore/mid/back grounds. I aimed to follow odds with the main two vertical lines, with the concrete pillar and the foreground tree.
For the seasons, I decided to take a picture of a dead tree to show winter (considering that we don’t have snow around here). In execution, I found this set of leaves that I thought looked really nice and showed an exceptionally “dead” quality (with a neat color).
This is a prompt inspired by Thanksgiving, and for me, I knew I wanted to do something food related. I am grateful for the economic position my family has, which allows me to eat everyday, and a variety and excess at that- and I hoped the eclectic set of kitchen supplies would help show that. In thinking about it, kitchen equipment is something I take for granted- they are tools, but they are a luxury in that some tools are meant only for specific styles of food, which though they help make the food more varied, are not a necessity by any means.
For this, I decided to take a picture of this telephone line- the fact that it stands up above everything around it I think shows a neat solitary nature, or a loneliness. The lack of natural color, and the thin qualities also help highlight the gaunt, frail aspects of this looming structure.
The prompt was to tell a colorful story in black and white, which I found to be quite challenging. The concept here is a look into my family’s life, in which we always forget to pick up lemons along the side of our house.
I post a lot of oboe-related pictures for these photoblogs, but for this picture, I decided that oboe was a fitting (and obvious) answer for this, as my oboe teacher is a pretty stalwart driving force for my life. So I think that this knife, which I’m borrowing right now, is a good subject for the photo- especially with the leopard-pattern sheath which is very characteristic of her.
I tried to fill the frame using this flower, because I had the macro lens on the camera and wanted to make used of it. I think the effect it gave was kind of lackluster- It’s not a super crisp photo, so I think it would help to have a better light situation and a bigger subject…
My brother makes computers, so I thought it would be interesting to take a photo inside one of them. That being said, it proved more difficult than I hoped- the lighting was weird, and the large windows that let viewers see inside for the parts would take a lot of glare- which I wasn’t really able to get rid of in an analog fashion…
For this picture, I thought I would like to highlight my bad organizational habits with my reeds, having them not being put in the right spots and such. I also used a kit (zoom) lens, instead of prime lens, and it worked a lot better than I thought- though I should also work on managing my lighting much better.
