Month: July 2015

I find that the context often tells a more interesting story than the nominal subject.

This week’s OTP assignment was stack. Given our girl’s recent development, I thought it would be a slam dunk since she now does actually stack stuff instead of running around and knocking things over. By was I wrong. Given the indoor light, I was running the shutter slow and just had a bad run of manual focusing last night. But in the end I was able to get two decent images, but only by going black and white and totally cranking on the contrast.

This second photo was also heavily cropped. Playing with these images brought back memories of my first architecture studio, ED11a with Joe Slusky and Chip Sullivan. It wasn’t really even an architecture studio but a drawing and visual studies class and we started with a lot of abstract studies which these photos start veering towards when you push and pull on them so hard in the computer.

It seems that a lot of these podcasts are playing with assignments. For June TWiP family had “water” as their assignment and more specifically playing with different shitter speeds. We don’t do much with water around here, the baby is a bit young and the summer a bit hot for water parks, and it didn’t seem right to hit up bath photos. But I did get a couple shots of her while grandpa was watering the plants.

This week’s On Taking Picture’s assignment was #change. This was such an open ended word, I ended up going with the erased chalk board because I liked its almost abstract composition.

However a close second for the assignment was just down the block on the door of a furniture store that is slowly being remodeled.

Its been brutally hot out here.