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Foto Friday, Week 36: Re-Do #3

Um yes… things are out of order.  That’s what happens when you try to blog away from home, using an iPad to blog, grabbing images from your Flickr feed instead of photo files on the laptop and generally not paying attention.  So LAST week I posted Week 37’s challenge, calling it Week 36, when it was in fact NOT Week 36.  So now, following Week 37, we are going back to Week 36 which was “Re-Do.”   Got that?  Moving on!

Re-do of footwear.  Wasn’t a successful week for photography.  Tried to re-do several weeks:  Footwear, Power of One, Silhouette.  Sigh.  This was the best of the bunch.  Used magnetic lasso (for the first time, successfully) to isolate shoe on duplicate layer.  Converted base layer to monochromatic.  Slight crop retaining proportions.

Re-do of footwear. Wasn’t a successful week for photography. Tried to re-do several weeks: Footwear, Power of One, Silhouette. Sigh. This was the best of the bunch. Used magnetic lasso (for the first time, successfully) to isolate shoe on duplicate layer. Converted base layer to monochromatic. Slight crop retaining proportions.

This is our third and, apparently (sigh) final “re-do” of the year.   The timing was good…Ricky was traveling and teaching in Europe, his dad died, his mom asked him to take care of things and do the eulogy, and all in all it was time for Ricky to take a break with all our encouragement to do so.   I had several things I wanted to re-do, and not much time.  And then the weather didn’t cooperate.  So I ended up re-doing “Footwear” which was from before I started sharing these photos here.

These photos are from the heap of stuff the kids left on the edge of the Cross Country course when up at Belfast Area High School.  In the photo above, the jacket was pink, the bag handle dark magenta.  And red?  Ick!  Photoshop to the rescue! Then for the “toe print” shoe soles I couldn’t decide which framing I preferred.  Clearly I was having a “dithering” kind of week!

Not a successful photograhy week.  Weather didn’t cooperate for the silhouette I wanted (night shot of the stars), and the dark skies at the cross country meet meant I couldn’t get a fast enough shutter speed AND depth of field to get non-blurry runners.  Saw the piles of shoes at the end and decided maybe I’d re-do footwear!

Not a successful photograhy week. Weather didn’t cooperate for the silhouette I wanted (night shot of the stars), and the dark skies at the cross country meet meant I couldn’t get a fast enough shutter speed AND depth of field to get non-blurry runners. Saw the piles of shoes at the end and decided maybe I’d re-do footwear!

Slightly different framing on the green shoes.  Not sure which I prefer.   Despite the aperture, I think the depth of field is probably too shallow for this shot.

Slightly different framing on the green shoes. Not sure which I prefer. Despite the aperture, I think the depth of field is probably too shallow for this shot.

OK, I am now going to prepare NEXT week’s blog so that it is DONE, properly, on time.  What a concept.  Harrumph! (and grin)

One Response to “Foto Friday, Week 36: Re-Do #3”

  1. Whiskers Says:

    I like the red shoe. Very striking.

    I think it is time to “breathe”. You are being too hard on yourself.