Wednesday's Assignment

Make a photograph of something circular and crop it within a square frame.

Okay- so this is boring but it is round and it is within a square.  And I actually used my manual settings to take this picture.  The most interesting thing is that the ? which usually appears in my viewfinder did not appear this time.  Not sure if it was because there was enough light reflecting off the white of the bowl to enable a decent shot.  On a sad note though....my Sony point and shoot camera died.  It's a few years old but had been working up until recently, but it appears the CCD (which has something to do with the squiggily lines running up and down in the LCD panel) chip has died.  Sony was replacing them up until March as I guess they were defective but their free repair is no longer in effect.  It's nice to have something else to use when I don't want to be carrying around a clunky 35 mm so I guess I'll be doing some shopping via amazon.com.

Shot with manual setting today.

Tuesday's Assignment

What's your favorite device to access the internet?  Make a photograph of it today.

When I took this picture using the automatic setting the keyboard came out awfully dark.  For whatever reason I couldn't get the flash to go off.  Guess I should have found a darker room to shoot in.  I uploaded it into photoshop and used the auto fix to lighten it up a little.  Must be the silver against the white that disables the flash.  Haven't spent much time fooling around with manual settings.  Where I thought I would have all the time in the summer that's not the case.  Too many things to do and little time to do them all.  I do like coming up with the shots- just the process that eludes me.  And perhaps the next time this assignment comes up I'll have an ipad to shoot instead of this laptop.  Just dreaming.....

Shot with automatic setting today.

Monday's Assignment

Go high key today.  Make a photograph that's all bright tones or dominated by white.

I kind of drew a blank on this one today even though I may have mentioned that I wished my house was all white- walls, carpet, tile, etc etc.  So I resorted to dragging a few items out of the cupboard that were white and attempted to stage them- unfortunately, I'm not getting the stark white that I was looking for.  What is that brown tone at the bottom of the picture?  And how come the cup has a darker hue to it?  Even though I was using automatic setting the color of the picture would change the closer or further I got from the cups.  Finally decided to add some water to the coffee cup and for whatever reason the flash went off.  Moving around the cups didn't seem to make any difference.  Not exactly the kind of picture I wanted to take today but I waited too long and was somewhat mentally exhausted by the end of the day.

Shot with automatic setting today.

Friday's Assignment

Weekend whimsy.  Make a photograph of something that tickles your funny bone.  Caption it accordingly.

Have lots of butterflies flitting around our yard this summer.  Yesterday we had three flying in and out and between our cars for several minutes.  Of course, when they'd land they'd close up their wings and the beauty of their colors were hidden.  For whatever reason I was able to get close enough to motivate the butterfly to open it's wings.  It actually stayed there long enough for me to get several shots.  This is truly one of nature's gems.

Shot with automatic focus today.