My Eighth Weekly Assignment

This week is an oddly timed one. Self Portraits. What could be a better time than when focusing on self portraits. I am sure I will have plenty to do for this. Here is to me.

My Seventh Weekly Assignment Results

This is the result for my Rhythm assignment. I really like the repeating images in a line. I think it works well and leads you through the image.

My Seventh Weekly Assignment

My seventh weekly assignment will be photographing Rhythm. I think this will be very interesting. I am looking forward to it. I like repeating objects. I think something musical might work out perfectly. I have a few ideas but I will have to try them.

My Sixth Weekly Assignment

This weeks photo assignment is Rule of Thirds. This will be easy because I often use the rule of thirds but I might try to make it a subject somehow rather than purely a technique. The rule of thirds is an amazingly useful compositional guideline. Digital Photography School has an excellent resource on the rule of thirds here.

My Fifth Weekly Assignment Results

My assignment was Negative Space. I am not quite happy with this image as I feel I should be. I did not have time to perfect it. I liked my concept of the light just illuminating a little area around it and having the negative space pushing in around it. I did not have a light meter on me and it came out a little dark. When pushing it brighter in camera raw I got to much noise in the image though. 

My Fifth Weekly Assignment

My Fifth Weekly Assignment is using negative space. I am really looking forward to doing this assignment because I think it will be interesting. Negative space has so many uses and is used so often but to try and make it an integral part of the image will be the fun part.

My Fourth Weekly Assignment

The fourth weekly assignment is going to be painful for me and I was thinking about skipping it but I need to do it. The fourth assignment is using a high ISO. I really hate using a high ISO but I am going to put a lot of effort into thinking about how to make it work with the image.

My Third Weekly Assignment Results

I am unhappy with my results this week. Going back to school has been keeping me busy and I didn;t have nay luck with the shots I wanted to do.

Even though my dog is not sleeping, she sure was trying. She kept looking at me every time the camera made noise. But I think it fit with my sleep habits anyways because sometimes you can just lay there with your eyes open waiting to sleep.

My Third Weekly Assignment

Well the Digital Photography School website is down for maintenance at this time. I do know that the next assignment is sleep which sort of makes me regret my last weeks assignment. I already have a new idea though and now I just need to get it in motion to do. I will update this post with the link to the assignment after the website comes back online.

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My Second Weekly Assignment

This week I will be doing Dreams. A lot of leeway with this assignment so I will have to think a lot about what I am going to do. Hopefully I will have an amazing shot up on next Wednesday.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.  ~Ansel Adams

My First Weekly Assignment Results

This is the follow up to My First Assignment, I decided to continue with the product photography and do a sample of a food photography for the shoot. I have not tried photographing food before so it was a new experience. I think the white background actually take away from the image. I should have used a plate and maybe a dinner setting to get a better background. The tomato looks mostly appealing. I think I need to spend a lot more time getting a perfect cut on the tomato. The jagged edge really takes away from the image. Tomato's are a food I think of when I think fresh. 

I had another idea I was not able to do which was to have someone hold juice in their mouth and bite a fruit so the juice would all rush out and down their chin. The shot would be a close-up of the lower face so it would look like the juice was squirting from the fruit.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.  ~Dorothea Lange

My First Weekly Assignment

I have decided to assign myself a weekly assignment to help improve my photography. The wonderful website Digital Photography School does a weekly assignment contest. I know I need to greatly improve my work before entering contests but they keep an archive of the past assignments. I am going to begin working through these assignments and posting the results one week later. Every Wednesday will be a post showing what I did for last weeks assignment and introducing the next assignment.

The first assignment was titled Fresh. Next Wednesday the first resulting image will appear.