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Reflections.
Going to try to take some "random" shots more often. Not necessarily specific outings or trips, but just of random things.
If you've asked the question "what am I trying to say with this photo" then you'll know it's not exactly an easy question to answer sometimes.
Sometimes you just pick up a camera because...you feel like you need to. A bad day, a bad week. Frustrated or angry. Or just plain bored.
The point being, sometimes it's not about what you want to say, sometimes it's not your voice, sometimes it's not about showing OTHER people something.
Sometimes it's a way to peer in on the world around you, with an alien set of eyes that don't see the same way we do, don't take for granted what we take for granted (which is nearly everything), sometimes it's just a way to change your own perspective, or discover things that are right in front of your face but you can't see them.
I don't crop my photos, I don't manipulate them (other than VERY basic L/H&S type stuff), I keep everything I shoot, but only post the ones I like. I don't care about the technicalities of whether or not shot Y conforms to rule X. I laugh when people send in their photos to be criticized by a pro in those photography magazines and they say things like "I see from the EXIF you shot at f/14, I'd suggest f/8 for the crispest possible image."
What is the point?
What is the point in MAKING anything if you don't enjoy it? It's like baking off a recipe, sure it tastes good but you miss all that character, a little too much salt, not quite enough flower. Tiny variations on the technically correct that make or break a meal.
Anyway.
Things I'm pleasantly surprised by:
The focus on the left hand side of the picture frame is all soft, but the picture frame itself tends to lead towards the background, which gives the effect of the left half of the frame being blurry, while the right side is in focus.
The wood grain in the reflection blends better than I thought it would with the picture in the frame, where the picture is dark, it is obvious, where it is light, it fades.
Reflections.
Going to try to take some "random" shots more often. Not necessarily specific outings or trips, but just of random things.
If you've asked the question "what am I trying to say with this photo" then you'll know it's not exactly an easy question to answer sometimes.
Sometimes you just pick up a camera because...you feel like you need to. A bad day, a bad week. Frustrated or angry. Or just plain bored.
The point being, sometimes it's not about what you want to say, sometimes it's not your voice, sometimes it's not about showing OTHER people something.
Sometimes it's a way to peer in on the world around you, with an alien set of eyes that don't see the same way we do, don't take for granted what we take for granted (which is nearly everything), sometimes it's just a way to change your own perspective, or discover things that are right in front of your face but you can't see them.
I don't crop my photos, I don't manipulate them (other than VERY basic L/H&S type stuff), I keep everything I shoot, but only post the ones I like. I don't care about the technicalities of whether or not shot Y conforms to rule X. I laugh when people send in their photos to be criticized by a pro in those photography magazines and they say things like "I see from the EXIF you shot at f/14, I'd suggest f/8 for the crispest possible image."
What is the point?
What is the point in MAKING anything if you don't enjoy it? It's like baking off a recipe, sure it tastes good but you miss all that character, a little too much salt, not quite enough flower. Tiny variations on the technically correct that make or break a meal.
Anyway.
Things I'm pleasantly surprised by:
The focus on the left hand side of the picture frame is all soft, but the picture frame itself tends to lead towards the background, which gives the effect of the left half of the frame being blurry, while the right side is in focus.
The wood grain in the reflection blends better than I thought it would with the picture in the frame, where the picture is dark, it is obvious, where it is light, it fades.