= Fun for this artist.

After playing with my assignment for a good part of the morning (yesterday), I decided to play during the golden hour last evening.  And then again this morning.

I won’t go into the process of sharing all 4 photos of each object (like yesterday), but I would like to share some shots with shallow depth of field.  That means, the object I’m focused on will be in focus and everything else, blown out of focus.

When taking certain images, this has been my favorite way to shoot this past year.  That’s when I got my 50mm 1.4 lens and that’s what opened my shallow depth of field love.

After playing with the assignment this week, I have a great big wish for a really cool telephoto lens.  I can only dream of the shots I could take with that bad boy.

Onward and upward with my 50mm 1.4 experiment…

Forks Hold an Egg – I prayed the wind would not knock the egg off its rocker.  My prayers were answered.

The Money Spill

It was yesterday afternoon during one of my brainstorms, I got the notion to pop the lid on my ancient (20-year-old) bank.  I literally broke the brittle bank lid doing it.  It started cracking the moment I began tugging.  But I didn’t care, I wanted the money spill shot.

After taking a few shots from the angle as seen above, I wasn’t happy at all.  There was  something lacking and the angle was all wrong.

So I made this adjustment last evening.

This was focused on the spill, as you can clearly see the coins on the counter and everything else is thrown out of focus.

This next shot was focused more on the money in the bank.  It’s like your eye reaches way into the bank.  See how the foreground and the background are blurred?  The coins on the counter are no longer in focus.

Here we are working playing with the same subject during the golden hour last evening.

One more golden hour shot.

And back at it again this morning.  Focused on the coins inside the bank.

Focused on the spill (coins) scattered about the counter.

The same thing with this vase filled with flowers.  I was not happy with my shots yesterday morning.  I didn’t care for the angle or the way the roses were placed.  At the time I thought it would be cool to kinda have the flowers spilling over the one side.  But after criticizing it, things had to change.

So I played during the golden hour last evening, as my subject was backlit with the sun.  I love the soft light this time of day.

We played again this morning.  Isn’t this a cheerful hour?

While all the experimenting is not part of the lesson,  I can’t help myself.  The perk was getting to stay around the house such that I didn’t have to do a lot of running around this week.

Cheers to getting to stay home + I nailed my assignment.  Bring on the weekend with the hubs!

Blessings – Debbie