Monthly Archives: January 2016

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Dogwood52: Week 3: Artistic: Red

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Topic of the week: Shoot whatever inspires you. Make red the focus of the image. Don’t be afraid to be creative.

I’ve had this red playground in mind for a while since I bike past it every day. When I saw this week’s challenge, I hoped they wouldn’t remove the red lights, and they didn’t 😉 Also added a few other candidates for the challenge, all related to red and winter, as it decided to show up.

Playground at night

And the other candidates are:
Lit snowman Snowman sitting on a bench Snowman sitting on a bench A playground at night A playground at night A playground at night A playground at night

I really had a hard time choosing only one photo from the last ones.

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Dogwood52: week 2: Traditional Landscape

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This may not seem traditional, but I’ve been riding through those landscapes on my bike for years. I had originally planned to bike to Little Switzerland, but work was hectic, and the weather had been chaotic. This was the only evening it wasn’t raining or windy, and I didn’t wear adequate clothes to step into the tracks (covered with a layer of mud and another layer of water on top).

I chose this photo not because I had no real choice, but because after fiddling with bracketing and HDR processing, it captured my state of mind when I finally saw the stars after several days of fog, wind, and rain.

The colour could have been a candidate for week 3 challenge, but I have something else in mind 😉 My camera aperture was locked at f/1.4 because the aperture ring was blocked, and I didn’t dare fix it in the darkness and humidity.

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Other shots for the challenge:
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Dogwood52: Portait: Self Portrait

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The description was:

Start things off right with a “selfie”! Explore the self-timer setting on your camera

Oh no! I hate shooting myself; that’s why I always stay behind the camera, but let me try anyway… Add to that the humid grass and the damp air. I used my remote shutter to shoot the pictures. My original plan was to lie on the grass and shoot myself in different positions, but from the second I was set in position, I did feel the humidity going through my clothes. As soon as I got in front of the lens, I couldn’t keep a natural smile, and it got worse over the shots.

Since I love the outdoors, I thought going somewhere green and wearing something green would be appropriate. I tried different poses, holding still or being active; then I didn’t qualify jumping as a portrait photo, but it was a good exercise.

Selected photo:
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My favourite photo:
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But I did not qualify it as a portrait.

All candidates:
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