Challenge #22 Old, New, Borrowed and Blue

Okay onto this week's challenge! As many of you know Wedding season is upon us. This week we have a wedding inspired challenge based on that old little rhyme that brides often stick to when planning the details of what they will wear. I'm sure you are all familiar with it:

Something Old,

Something New,

Something Borrowed,

Something Blue.

The Rules:

1.) Four images

2.) Let's steer away from images that actually have to do with weddings, use your imagination with this one. Let's get outside the box a little.

3.) B/w or colour

4.) Photo Submissions due by Sat. July 4th.




My take on the challenge
I was really excited to find something old, new and blue, but I had a really difficult time thinking of how to portray "borrowed" in a photograph. Then I realized that I borrowed books from the library. I enjoyed the book pictures from the library and decided to make it the wedding rhyme at the library.

Photo Challenge #21 Water!

WATER!

• Submit 5 photos of water- in any way, shape, or form
• Tweaking IS allowed.
• Have submissions in by Saturday, June 27th.

Since it was SO hot out on the day of my picture taking, I wanted to get pictures to feel cold. That's why I chose ice. I did two pictures sets for this challenge. The first set used ice in the pool in my back yard. I was excited to see how the photos looked and went to open my back door to check out the pictures on my TV. OOPS! I had locked myself out.

In the 45 minutes (on a 90 degree day) that I had outside, I was suddenly inspired by the blue bowl used to transport water to the outside and did a whole second shoot that I liked MUCH better. I did do some tweeking with contrast and saturation to make the ice look as COLD and REFRESHING as possible.

I present to you my series for the week:


Cool as Ice

Photo Challenge #19 Light

I tried to stay away from the Weekly Photo Challenge when my camera broke, but I just couldn't do it. I took the plunge and bought a Cannon Rebel DSLR and I love it! I have a ton to learn, but here is my first attempt at a photo challenge with the SLR.

The challenge:

Pick an object, pick a window in your place of residence and photograph that object at different times of the day at said window.

My Object: I chose an object that I've had for many years and have always cherished...No, wait. That's not true. I just went to Good Will and picked out something random.

Rules:

1. Your object can be anything really, someone's head, a glass jar...whatever you'd like, just make sure it's the same thing in every photo.

2. At the end of the week you will have to Submit 6 photos-three sets of two images.

3. Photograph your object at three different times of the day. * One photo is to be the same angle (so you'll have three total that look the same but that were taken at different times) and for the second photo of each set try and use the light available in the best possible way.

4. Please no tweaking since this is an exercise in light.

5. Submissions due between Friday, June 5 and Sat., June 6.

6. B/W or colour

7. If this is confusing leave a comment and I'll try and clarify!

Em will probably laugh when she reads this one since she knows I love the morning light that comes in through my windows. You'll find it's amazing what you can accomplish with just a little natural light!

Have fun!

*Since I teach all day, I really only had morning and night, but there is a dramatic change in light as the morning light comes and moves so I captured two different stages of the morning light and one from the evening.

Lighting 1: Full Light!
Since there was a bright beam of morning light on my subject, I decided to get close to one tiny detail and the illuminated glass beads would make for a nice blurry background.

Lighting #2: The morning light is going away and hitting the subject at a different angle. Since it did not have as much direct light, I decided to switch to B&W and get the detail of the beads of the necklace.



Lighting #3: Now the light has gone away. Since there was no light coming in from the window that I was shooting from, I changed the angle to get the light from a window in the next room.


I hope you like it! I had fun with the new camera, but I am looking forward to your experience and telling me what I'm doing wrong.