Cutlery Hoard (Photo assignment)
I'm not sure if anyone still visits LJ... If so, I hope everyone had the festive season they needed and are looking forward to some hope and good things in the New Year,
I haven't been very sociable or creative for the last year. I've been concentrating on trying to manage my MH. As part of that, I signed up to some of the online activities at the Northumberland Recovery College.
Anyhow, one of the courses that I have been enjoying is Mindful Photography. After using photography principally to get out by distancing myself through it's lens, it's time to do the opposite and really concentrate on some of the images I take, or have taken in the past.
This week's assignment was 'cutlery, or red, or 'resolutions'. I couldn't think of any place that would fulfil it during a walk, so for the first time ever I decided that I needed to stage them. I set up one photo in the garden while I was working on 'rescued' tools which need some restoration. I wanted more color and better light for it but it's Northumberland in Winter and yeah, nothing to do. That one was a quick snap really, but it was part of the bigger picture, that I actually got out into the garden to do something useful which was good enough - the pot contains my winter onions (yummy in salads/omlettes/cheesy stuff and so easy to grow) so it was a plate of food.
Garden Cutlery
.
Then, I set up a deliberate indoor photo shoot. It was a fun hour or two to grab together a bunch of random stuff and stage it - found a little table lamp to provide light and tried different angles. In typical fashion, I found out that my main camera batteries had run out and I had no spares, so I ended up using the camera on my phone - lol, so professional (not). I was quite pleased with the result, especially after I applied a red filter to make the background a little more cave like. There's a lot more I wanted to do but I didn't have the spoons to keep repositioning everything or navigate the new Gimp format ( haha spoons - see what I did there?)
Anyhow, my first painstakingly staged photo is 'Cutlery Hoard'.
So that's me sharing my random stuff on LJ. It's about time I posted something.
I haven't been very sociable or creative for the last year. I've been concentrating on trying to manage my MH. As part of that, I signed up to some of the online activities at the Northumberland Recovery College.
Anyhow, one of the courses that I have been enjoying is Mindful Photography. After using photography principally to get out by distancing myself through it's lens, it's time to do the opposite and really concentrate on some of the images I take, or have taken in the past.
This week's assignment was 'cutlery, or red, or 'resolutions'. I couldn't think of any place that would fulfil it during a walk, so for the first time ever I decided that I needed to stage them. I set up one photo in the garden while I was working on 'rescued' tools which need some restoration. I wanted more color and better light for it but it's Northumberland in Winter and yeah, nothing to do. That one was a quick snap really, but it was part of the bigger picture, that I actually got out into the garden to do something useful which was good enough - the pot contains my winter onions (yummy in salads/omlettes/cheesy stuff and so easy to grow) so it was a plate of food.
Garden Cutlery
.
Then, I set up a deliberate indoor photo shoot. It was a fun hour or two to grab together a bunch of random stuff and stage it - found a little table lamp to provide light and tried different angles. In typical fashion, I found out that my main camera batteries had run out and I had no spares, so I ended up using the camera on my phone - lol, so professional (not). I was quite pleased with the result, especially after I applied a red filter to make the background a little more cave like. There's a lot more I wanted to do but I didn't have the spoons to keep repositioning everything or navigate the new Gimp format ( haha spoons - see what I did there?)
Anyhow, my first painstakingly staged photo is 'Cutlery Hoard'.
So that's me sharing my random stuff on LJ. It's about time I posted something.