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.
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.
Erica- GREAT series!!!
ReplyDeleteI just love your take on the different challenges- thinking outside the box :)
I honestly can't pick a favorite out of these- they work PERFECTLY as a series- they all seem to have athe same exposure, type of lighting- just really well thought out and executed :)
Great job~
Em
Hi, Erica, nice to "meet" you! I like the theme you had. I was trying for a while to do something with a theme, like cars or something, but the something borrowed I would have had to find a stolen car somehow...I digress... Overall I think this is a very nice series.
ReplyDeleteI definitely like the borrowed from the library thing. Not only the idea, but I think that's my favorite picture in the group, too, I like the angle and slant the books are laying on.
Good series... I almost did something along the same line (just use one book in pic) but forgot my camera when I went to the library and things did not come together on it. I like your translation better, very clever with the word play of the book titles!
ReplyDeleteMy favs are the Borrowed and New photos. The Borrowed books have the feeling of falling over and with the blurry background and reflections there are a lot of interesting details. The New photo is very clever and I love the unevenness of the stack along with the various colors of the books. The other two I enjoy since I love the look of old books.
WOW! Ok, so I love that you have a cohesive theme to your series and that it is in the library! My very favorite one is the "new". I like the arrangement of the books, the variety, the angle of the shot, and the lighting.
ReplyDeleteI love the color of the "blue", but I wonder what that might have looked like taken at a different angle.
Great job! =)
Erica your creative perspective on things really surprises me every week. I can count on you to see the challenge in a way I would never had thought of. Your photos, all of them, made me smile. Like I've mentioned before, your sense of humor and cheekiness come out in your pictures.
ReplyDeleteI too like the fact that you went deeper then just the image on this one...you made use of the words in the images. I've always been fascinated with the idea of making a word or words a part of the meaning or composition. This was an extremely successful series in that regard. Even the titles in the blue photo say, "Blue Book"...completely stating the obvious.
I like how with all the photos you changed up how the books were positioned...in two photos they are standing up as opposed to being stacked. That really allowed you to play a little more with perspective... The borrowed photo is my favorite. I like how we can see the spines of the book as well as the pages, this photo has the most movement of all four. It adds a lot of interest to the series as a whole because it breaks up the repetitive nature of the images.
My only criticism is that the old and blue photos seem a little too similar. It helps that the colours are different, but if they had been in B/W they would have looked like almost the same photo.
All in all, great job!
diana
Great idea! Great angles on these too - there's a quirky "stacked" feel to these books for sure.
ReplyDeleteNice lighting on these too - especially for a library - were there lots of windows? I especially like the lighting in the "borrowed" photo.
And the last one makes me smile - definitely blue! ;)