Hi 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!
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) 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.
Other photos from this week are on my Flickr site, here. Happy Blogoversary everyone!
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August 21st, 2015 at 8:52 am
AS I scrolled down your photos, I stopped on the second one (with flowers) just above the flowers and was admiring the gingerbread scroll work. If you crop this photo there, I find it very pleasing.
Am loving your photo journey. Come on back to the Pacific NW. We have old paint too (and lots of smokey sunsets at present).
August 21st, 2015 at 9:50 am
Ten years blogging — and we were acquainted before that by almost five years! It has been lovely to follow your growth as a quilt artist during that time and to watch your boys grow up. Can’t wait for our next all-too-rare in- person get together.
August 21st, 2015 at 11:37 am
Love the photo of the reflection of the trees and clouds in the cracked window and the rusty hinge with the shadows of leaves and crackled paint!