Friday's Assignment

Illustrate the idea of time in a photograph today.  Be as literal or abstract as you want to be with your interpretation.

Decided to place this timer on the oven so that the white wouldn't look washed out on the counter.  Funny how the white of the timer looked brighter in the viewfinder than it does in this picture.  I experimented with exposure composition but I still don't understand what I'm trying to accomplish.  I guess that's another question for the next photography class.  I set the camera for florescent lighting and no flash but not quite the effect that I was hoping to get.  I tried to focus on the actual time but the numbers look clearer than the time does.   That happens a lot and I'm not sure if I move the camera while I am focusing or not thinking about what I am looking at.

Shot with manual setting today using P.

Thursday's Assignment

Double your art today.  Make a photo of something you've created or crafted.

I'm backkkkkkk.  Returned to work in August and my desire to use my camera has been non-existent.  No energy to do much of anything once I get home.  But a friend of mine hooked us up with this great photography teacher and once again I am motivated.  We had our first class on Tuesday.  This is our fourth attempt at trying to learn our way around our 35mm cameras.  The first three times we had "instructors" who stood in front of us and power pointed us to death.  This time we actually have someone who will work hands on with the two of us.  I truly am a novice- even after an hour and a half I can't remember half of what she told us to do.  This is actually yesterday's assignment but I thought it was today's so will keep this picture.  When I looked through my view finder I thought the picture was light enough but now I can see it is pretty dark.  I have the camera set on P for program.  The light was coming from my sliding glass doors- think it was around 5 or so.  Not cloudy but obviously dusk.  I am hoping she can look at it and tell me in first grader language what I need to do to improve on this photo.

Shot with P today- I've graduated from automatic!