A11 Love

For this prompt I didn’t want to do the usually two people or two things together that I was see everywhere when looking for ideas. So instead I went with more of a self love and things that I loved/love to do. I like the sun, plants, hot chocolate, and reading.

I chose a plant with the most vines so it would have lots of interesting shadows and light refection's. I went with a while cup because I didn’t want to bring in or take away from the colors that were already there, I do like the texture design on it and that brings some texture to the photo. For the book I used a poem book that has poems all about different parts of life and I thought that went well with the self love/help vibe I was going for. Then lastly I put all the subjects on a tray table and put a simple place mate on it to add a little more color with the subjects.

For the lighting it was direct sun from the left side from a window, I wanted there to be hard light because I love to sit in the sun and read or relax.

I had my camera on a tripod for this that way I could move the subjects around and not have to worry about the framing or anything, I was also using a slower shutter speed.

I edited it in Lightroom to lighten up the darker spots and make the detail more defined.

I really like this photo and how it almost had a "dreamy" look to it. My favorite part to look at is the shadows on the book cover from the plant, I think that’s really neat.

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