I really like this photo. I like the crisp dark shapes of the leaves and trees in the foreground and the colors and clouds in the sky. I took this around 6:30 on my walk home from work tonight... The changing seasons definitely change the light, as in when the sunsets and the intensity of light. We all know the earth leans away from the earth but moves closer to the sun in the winter and that changes the light that I am working with in taking photos. I'm glad that it's changed the time of sunset in that I can get these pictures on my way home, but I am sad that the sun is setting so early since I like to walk home.
Til tomorrow -
This isn't the greatest picture ever, but I didn't take that many pictures yesterday out of frustration. I do, however, like the pattern of the shadows from the light posts on the left side of the picture. I wish I had focused my lens on that and that the shadows were filling the frame. In other news, I ordered a 'gorilla pod' on wednesday. It think it will help and encourage my night photography, which I have always been interested in. When I feel more confident with my photos I'll get out the 35mm and do some night color photos and play with reciprocity failure and see what colors I get... I'm excited.
This is from a wedding I went to last night. It was a beautiful ceremony and a wonderful party and I think this captures the party portion of the night... everyone was having a wonderful time and just enjoying the evening. I like that I was able to capture the movement of the people, but the tent and light are static, but crisp. I had some other great shots, but they were of people and I didn't really feel comfortable posting those pictures up on the blog for privacy reasons. Plus the ceremony itself was a small and intimate gathering and I didn't feel that putting up those pictures for critique was something I wanted to do.
I took this on my way home tonight... I took a different route today. I really like this photo. The quality of light is nice as is the as is what I captured in the frame. I do like the photo a lot, but I am not happy with the angle the building takes within the frame... unfortunately I don't have photoshop to fix this. I guess not having photoshop is good because I am forced to work on capturing exactly what I want and actually getting the composition in the time the shutter is open... not fixing and tweaking it after... Anyway ... I like this and the twilight lighting.
Next Step: I need to find a theme.
I took this on my walk home from work today... The sun is setting earlier and it's getting cooler, fall is coming! I'm excited about it. I'm also excited to be employed in a job where I have weekends to myself and I am not in school... it's the first time this has happened in my life and I am enjoying it. Anyway, this is a park I pass by on the walk between work and home. I took pictures my whole way home and I have to say it made me notice a lot of little things... a lot of great little things. I think the picture taking on the walk home is a gonna be a good them, but theme is another thing I'll have to talk about in a later entry...
