Week 5 Aha moment

So my Aha moment for this week was regarding contrast.  The part that explained contrast the most to me was "High contrast conveys a sense of hardness, characteristics of strength and power.  Low contrast conveys a sense of softness, characteristics of  gentleness and mildness."  In previous parts of reading about contrast I thought it was just the opposite.  Could have been just me confused.  I had thought that low contrast was more bold.

Slideshow

Two of these photos are old, but I really liked them for this assignment.  I really liked the framing assignment this week.  I took a lot of photos, but I ended up picking my favorite ones.  Obviously the palm tree one is an old one, and the pond picture is an old one.

Week 4

                                                
The first picture I chose represents the Analogous color scheme with the orange, red and yellows in it.  This was with a Macro setting and no flash.

The second picture I chose of my son and I was not a very good picture, but it represent the Monochromatic color scheme with red and green being on opposite sides of the color wheel, as well as the picture below of the trees and the moonlight, and the dark sky.

Macro Photo's week 3

So the hardest part of this assignement was only picking 20 pictures to post.  So I chose some random ones but they all have to do with my daily life.  I have a sunglass fetish, my son of course, stupid batteries that I have to keep changing in my camera, lol, work stuff, animals, my sons, toys, stuff around my house, and time of course (never enough of it).  I took so many pictures of the things that were important to me and this is what I came up with.  Except one random one on the bottom left which was just a shadow on the wall that I thought was cool.  I tried to get all different angles of stuff.  I hope that you enjoy.

Jamie's photo blog

The pictures I chose to use are my Jade plant at home.  They are not the greatest pictures I have taken, but they give the most comparison between them.  The other ones were of my son, and I am sure you will all be sick of looking at him, lol.  This this is the side view of my Jade plant, and it shows that it is fairly tall, but does not look that big.  I do think I used too much flash now that I am looking at it here.

This is a shot from underneath the plants (don't look at the spider webs, this is my back room).  From the first shot you cannot tell that this plant is as wide as it is.  I think it shows a totally different color and perception of the plant.