Check one more off the New Year’s Resolution list. I completed my 365 today. Yep. 365. One picture each day for the past year. Why the end of February, you ask? Isn’t that kind of random? Well, yes, it IS random. Last year on February 28, I happened to read about the site shuttercal.com. I [...]
All posts for the month February, 2012
365 – Check!
Posted by Barbara on February 27, 2012
http://photoaspire.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/365-check/
Made from concentrate
In the class I took last fall, one of the techniques mentioned for making a photo stand out was to include a concentrated amount of one color. Fast forward 5 months, and the theme for the “Creatively Challenged” group on Flickr this week is just that – concentrated color. Well, in the fall it wasn’t [...]
Posted by Barbara on February 25, 2012
http://photoaspire.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/made-from-concentrate/
READ THE MANUAL!
One of the responsibilities of my day job is to write instructions for people who don’t want to read manuals. The stuff I write tends to be in the form of step 1, step 2, etc., and I am always sure to use little words and include a lot of white space. I understand why [...]
Posted by Barbara on February 19, 2012
http://photoaspire.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/read-the-manual/
Triangles, snow, and band-aids
This morning – for the first time in ages – I found myself with a full day ahead, and no responsibilities other than to take photos for this week’s theme of “triangles” (for the Creatively Challenged Flickr group.) The fact that I waited until the last day of the challenge was both a blessing and [...]
Posted by Barbara on February 18, 2012
http://photoaspire.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/triangles/
Resolutions
Right around New Years, several of my blogging buddies posted articles that laid out their photography resolutions for 2012. Even though I had some goals in mind, I chose not to post them, because I knew that the moon would need to be in the correct phase and the planets would need to be aligned [...]
Posted by Barbara on February 11, 2012
http://photoaspire.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/resolutions/
Portraits of the Bouquet family
It’s been a week since I bought the flowers that I used for my foray into negative space, and I noticed today that they’ve held up quite well. I decided that these hardy stems deserved to be given star treatment for being so cheerful day after day in the middle of winter, so I made [...]
Posted by Barbara on February 7, 2012
http://photoaspire.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/portraits-of-the-bouquet-family/
Negative negative space
Earlier this week, it seemed that the planets were aligned to devote this week’s blog post to the subject of negative space. It was listed as one of the elements of composition in the class I’m taking, and coincidentally was this week’s topic in the Creatively Challenged group on Flickr. Unfortunately, I am still grappling [...]
Posted by Barbara on February 5, 2012
http://photoaspire.wordpress.com/2012/02/05/negative/
