Passion for Photos

In the park I saw this group of palm trees. It was an overcast day and still the shot was worth it. I basically shot from the ground up using a 15mm wide angle lens an a full frame camera.

Enjoy and happy exercising

There are few playgrounds On my daily exercise walk (with a camera of course). I usually overlook them but they are wonderful to photograph and offer great opportunities to study the light. I photographed this image underneath a slide. I had the camera close to the ground and shot straight up. Enjoy and happy photographing!

Look straight up and photograph what you see. You may also lay on your back and photograph the world around you. This simple exercise opens your eye to see things around you that you normally overlook! Again, have fun with this exercise!

Example: I photographed this eucalyptus tree with a 24mm lens looking straight up. Enjoy!

The lid and straw from my soft drink got my attention. I thought I could get a very nice high key image out of it. I separated the lid from the cup and cut the straw underneath the lid. Then I put the lid on my light table to get some good background light. I tried several f stops to get the  right depth of field. Enjoy and have a great week-end

My son got new headphones as a birthday gift. I liked the combination of round and square forms and photographed them from different angles. I also moved my light source around to observe the different kind of reflection. At the end I was quite happy with this shot. Enjoy and have fun with your photographic imagination!

After my first round of shots yesterday I decided to do it all over again. This time I changed the light setting from a barn door to a snoot. I kept the light source behind the boxes and used a snoot instead of a barn door. I did not use a gel. The red in background comes from the reflection of on of the boxes.

Enjoy and happy exercising with your camera!

I decided to take yesterday’s statement about creativity seriously and built a skyline out of packaging blocks. I used a door as a backdrop, nothing fancy in other words. I decided to go for a silhouette and tried different lightning scenarios. At the end I used two strobe lights, one with a barn door and a blue gel and the other with white light. In a way it felt awkward to do things that you have done as a child on the other side it was a lot of fun to do this. I am curious where else this exercise will lead me. Have fun with your creativity!

Creativity means to connect with the kid in you!  Children are incredibly creative. When I was a child (before electronic toys, computers ….) I built all kinds of things out of packaging material. I remember that my parents gave us once big boxes that we used as cars. We cut out windows etc. This week I ask you to collect all kinds of packaging material and create a composition that you photograph.

I collected candy wrappers that I folded and put into a chocolate box to create some sort of “flower” where the chocolate box is the stem and the wrapping material the flower petals. I admit, it takes a lot of fantasy and goodwill to see the flower but I liked the idea.

Don’t forget to have fun with this exercise!

There was a paper clip right besides an air can in my office. That started the creative process for this image. I bend the clip and pushed it into the straw of the can. Then I had to find something light and I found this button in the kitchen. My composition was born. I decided to open up my lens to put the emphasis on the button and use the blue of the can as a backdrop for the button.

Enjoy and happy experimenting! Never forget, with the help of a little bit of creativity and imagination you can create great compositions and interesting images.

This exercise grew on me quite a bit this week. I am constantly looking for things that don’t belong together. Yesterday I found a box of old shotgun shells and an old rechargeable battery. The primer and the positive tip of the battery caught my attention, one is sticking out the other is not. They yellow colors don’t match. They have in common that both have somewhat stored energy. Then I discovered the clamp and I got my composition together in no-time.

Enjoy and have fun with ideas.