Foto Friday: Old Paint and a Tenth Blog-o-versary
Friday, August 21st, 2015Hi everyone! Happy Friday! It is, according to my calendar, my TENTH anniversary of blogging? How the heck did that happen, ten YEARS? So I’m celebrating with TWO posts today. The first is my Foto Friday from my 52-Week Photography Challenge class with Ricky Tims, and later today I’ll post about my Dinner@8 interview.
So this week’s challenge was Old Paint. Here are my top three choices:
![This is the photo I submitted as my class assignment. A picturesque (means falling apart) buidling on our property. LOVED this shot but it needed some work. Deepend the leaf shadows, then dodged the shadows on the left part of the hinge so it was more visible. Reduced highlights a tiny bit. Selected the cracked windowpane and lightened as it was too dark—overpowered the rest of the door. Summer in Maine!](https://www.sarahannsmith.com/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SarahAnnSmith.OldPaint.Wk32.DoorHinge.3202-664x1024.jpg)
This is the photo I submitted as my class assignment. A picturesque (means falling apart) buidling on our property. LOVED this shot but it needed some work. Deepend the leaf shadows, then dodged the shadows on the left part of the hinge so it was more visible. Reduced highlights a tiny bit. Selected the cracked windowpane and lightened as it was too dark—overpowered the rest of the door. Summer in Maine!
Here are a couple more:
![This might have been my choice but once I was home (and didn't want to drive 22 miles back into town round trip). Had high hopes for this one, but disappointed in the depth of field…f/13 not enough. Would have been better with flowers and siding crisp. May try to head into town and try again.](https://www.sarahannsmith.com/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SarahAnnSmith.OldPaint.Wk32.Porch_.3159-680x1024.jpg)
This might have been my choice but once I was home (and didn’t want to drive 22 miles back into town round trip) I saw on my laptop that it wasn’t crisp. Had high hopes for this one, but disappointed in the depth of field…f/13 not enough. Would have been better with flowers and siding crisp. May try again the next time I’m in town with my camera.
![Another shot of the picturesque (aka decrepit) building on our property. Why no door on the right? Because it LITERALLY came apart into a crumpled heap. And the plywood that has covered up the opening blew down late last winter. Need to fix. Soon. Autumn is trying really hard to begin! Decreased shadows a tiny bit, knocked back highlights a bit more. Punched up contrast.](https://www.sarahannsmith.com/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SarahAnnSmith.OldPaint.Wk32.Latch-3208-680x1024.jpg)
Another shot of the picturesque (aka decrepit) building on our property. Why no door on the right? Because it LITERALLY came apart into a crumpled heap. And the plywood that has covered up the opening blew down late last winter. Need to fix. Soon. Autumn is trying really hard to begin!
Decreased shadows a tiny bit, knocked back highlights a bit more. Punched up contrast.
Other photos from this week are on my Flickr site, here. Happy Blogoversary everyone!