It's another beautiful Monday morning and Vicki and and I are excited to share our week long adventure capturing the color orange.
The images above were taken by the very talented Vicki and here is what she had to say..
For this week's topic (the color orange) I enlisted the help of the
kids. They're good at "I Spy" so why not incorporate a little family
fun into Mommy's weekly challenge. And as you can imagine, asking
someone to spy the color orange this time of year usually begins with a
pumpkin. They are everywhere so it's an easy target. Hence my first
picture, the pumpkin. :) Remembering my lesson from last week I
decided to shoot from a low perspective. You know, it's just a large
piece of fruit. Yes that right, fruit. I had to google this but since
pumpkins grow on a vine and have seeds, they are fruit. You really can
learn something new every day. Back to the picture. So I like the low
angle of this picture. It looks like you can actually feel the warm
afternoon sun beating down. My f2.8 lens is still fairly new to me so I
also wanted to practice with depth of field. For this I focused on the
top of the pumpkin's skin hoping to blur out my over grown grass in
front and my neighbor's house in back. For the second picture I wanted
something a little less obvious. So I had the kids walk around and try
to find something that was a smaller representation of the color
orange. Leaves, no. Flowers, no. Neighbor's pumpkin, no. Car
headlights, YES! The littlest Hautop brought this to my attention as
being the color "lellow". He's still working on his color
recognition and pronunciation of most words. Cute, but hopefully a
stage he moves through quickly. My days are like a never ending game of
20 questions. So picture #2. I liked his idea of of the headlight.
It gave me a different shape to photograph and it was a bit of a
challenge to not see a reflection of my camera in the glass. I like the
detail in the light and his tiny little fingers. Again I kept a f2.8
focus to bring your eyes straight to the point at which he is touching
the light. Certainly not the coolest picture I've ever taken but I like
the way it turned out.
The above images were taken by Erin, and here is what I have to say...
This week is actually an exercise in selfishness rather than one in
creativity. I spent the week trying to take that fun and creative shot
but in the end decided that what I wanted more than anything were some
pictures of my children in this beautiful fall weather, wearing orange of course! My decision was
influenced by a conversation I had with the wife of a very talented
photographer. She told me that her husband stays so busy with his
clients that he has very little time to photograph their children and
most often she resorts to using her iPhone to capture their precious
moments. I was surprised, but at the same time I could understand how
easily that can happen. So, once again I am subjecting you to seeing
pictures of my children :-) Both shots were taken in the evening in our
backyard. I love the way that early morning and late afternoon light
glows.
Thanks for spending a few minutes ignoring work and checking out the
blog! Next week's topic is chairs. Inside, outside,
upside-down....said in my best Dr. Seuss rhyming voice. Until next
time, if anyone out there has a weekly challenge suggestion or
wants to submit a photo just send us an email. hautopblog@gmail.com. We would love to hear from you!
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