pewter pushpins
I had some trouble with this week's theme - I have quite a few special pushpin sets, and I wasn't sure which to choose. Finally I chose this garden set. I had trouble arranging them - since the challenge was "pushpins" I figured I should show the pin points themselves. But when I showed the points clearly, the fronts were hardly visible. I also tried many backgrounds, but most left too much empty space around the pins. The rattan kind of distracted from the pins, but overall I liked it better. I also had trouble getting a really sharp focus with camera or phone, but I countered that by my often used go-to focus fix -- post processing, in this case PSE colored pencil sketch. You can see that result in my previous image. I liked it it a lot, but the pins looked like brass and I wanted to show their pewter tones. I tried selective coloring variations, but ended up using the silvertone filter in iMac Photos, which I also liked a lot. I wasn't sure which image to post and add to the group, so I posted both, and added this one to the group because -- I would say it seemed more unique, but I then I would hear my journalism/english teacher dad's voice telling me that things can't be more (or less, for that matter) unique since by definition unique means "the only one of its kind." ...so [shrug], just because.
pewter pushpins
I had some trouble with this week's theme - I have quite a few special pushpin sets, and I wasn't sure which to choose. Finally I chose this garden set. I had trouble arranging them - since the challenge was "pushpins" I figured I should show the pin points themselves. But when I showed the points clearly, the fronts were hardly visible. I also tried many backgrounds, but most left too much empty space around the pins. The rattan kind of distracted from the pins, but overall I liked it better. I also had trouble getting a really sharp focus with camera or phone, but I countered that by my often used go-to focus fix -- post processing, in this case PSE colored pencil sketch. You can see that result in my previous image. I liked it it a lot, but the pins looked like brass and I wanted to show their pewter tones. I tried selective coloring variations, but ended up using the silvertone filter in iMac Photos, which I also liked a lot. I wasn't sure which image to post and add to the group, so I posted both, and added this one to the group because -- I would say it seemed more unique, but I then I would hear my journalism/english teacher dad's voice telling me that things can't be more (or less, for that matter) unique since by definition unique means "the only one of its kind." ...so [shrug], just because.