I’ve decided to shoot the alphabet for my next 26 days of my 365 day project. Now I have a purpose! So today I’m on C and I didn’t have to look far to see the letter C. No further than my feet in fact and some flip flops I use to make quick visits into the garden.
Placed on a black background to avoid any distractions and shot on the Pentax K10D
The letter B…a Pentax wide-angle lens hood, cross processed to make it slightly more interesting. A bit of a cop out as I didn’t spot anything on my daily walk with a B shape, and time was running out this evening. The lens was on my desk and I suddenly spotted its potential.
I decided today that a series of shots showing the letters of the alphabet would be a good theme and help me through some days where I’m lacking inspiration. On such days I will go out and find the next letter of the alphabet.
We start with A – a free standing advertising board outside the opticians in the town centre.
I took this on a new camera App that I downloaded for the iPhone. It’s called the Little Orange Box – one of five styles in the Retro Camera Plus app. It’s free to download.
More details here: iPhone camera apps
The good thing about my photo365 project is I will post stuff that I wouldn’t normally post. I tend to post technically good pictures to be viewed by the gallery viewers, but with a blog I’ve pushed in more obscure directions. So you will get to view an alternative side to my photography. It’s this type I did in the early days, working with shadows and light, shapes and patterns.
This is a faint reflection of my in the LCD computer monitor. I noticed that one of the iphone apps enhanced the shadow and gave an almost posterised edge. I experimented with position, angle and framing and ended up with this version, straight out of the camera, using a retro camera app.
I like the noise that’s been added and the exaggerated fringing. My shape is on the right. It reminds me of an album cover of one of the industrial type bands I listened to in the early 80s. Not everyone’s cup of tea I imagine!
Today is my 100th photo365. It was taken on the patio this morning. At a certain height I could see the glistening trail of a snail, which disappeared when viewed from different directions or angles. I thought I’d shoot with the macro lens and at a wide aperture so that just a small cross section is sharp, letting the trail come in and out of focus.
Sometimes you may not be prepared. I’d gone on Stanage Edge today and took the Olympus EP2 with 17mm lens (about 35mm in 35mm format) I intended to do a few landscapes. I spotted a hot air balloon and wished I’d taken a long lens. Here’s my shot. The balloon is a dot in the sky so I’ve added an arrow. It would have still been a small dot even with a long lens. I’d love to have been in that balloon.
The title of the photo365 photo is courtesy of the indie band Artery.
Last week was Mothering Sunday, almost one week later the flowers are wilting. Time for a photo! It’s taken against an aluminium camera case backdrop and window lit.
This is what you get if you lay down on the floor and poke a macro lens (set to a wide aperture) through the grass. I moved around to find the most pleasing view. A single blade of grass with its companions totally out of focus thanks to the shallow depth of field.
It’s a technique I use often and you can have loads of fun poking the lens around.
I pointed the iphone straight up early this evening to record the tree branches filling the blue void. To the bottom left is a vapour trail.
Photographers often don’t like them in the shot. I think they add an extra element and purposely include them in many of my photographs.
It’s amazing when you open your eyes how fascinating the architecture looks on even the most mundane shop windows. Here in Worksop I have walked or driven past this carpet shop on Gateford Road hundreds of times, but never spotted the interesting detail on the upper areas, until today.
I took the photo using the iphone and hipstamatic, but will go back and shoot it again on the proper camera to add to my collection of architecture.
