One tip I found was to find a focal point and to think about where you place the focal point in the frame. As I was coming back off the mountain I hiked today, I found this one lone birch among all the other darker trees. I couldn't help but keep thinking, "Why be the same when you can be beautiful?"
This one caught my eye because of the color and lighting. I also captured it because last week I had read about how pictures are more interesting when the subject is odd in number. So these trees had the odd number factor down.
I like the following photo because of the quilt like pattern of the fields. It took a bit of editing to try to fix the colors and hide the haze but it was still an interesting photo.
Another tip was to capture movement. The first place I stopped to take photos was this little waterfall that I pass by on the way to pick up my son from school. I would've liked to get a better angle without the leaves in the way but that would've meant traveling onto someone else's property. So this was the best angle I could get out of many attempts.
This was quite a challenging assignment this week. I left my house around 3:00 and got back about 8:30. I hiked a mountain, traveled through at least 7 towns, went to the now empty lot of land that I grew up on, and got lost chasing the sunset! But it was a great day getting out into nature and having some photos to share.
Great range of pictures, the third one is my favorite. It not only has lighting but it has symmetry which I am slightly obsessed with at times! Even the soft effects you did add character to the image.
ReplyDeleteLooking at your first photo it gave me an idea of a place to go to get trees lined up perfectly without all the other trees surrounding. As well as with the third photo it makes me want to go take photos at an apple orchard!
I was tempted to take photos of Christmas trees lined up but that would be a great winter photo. I did find that there was a winery up on that same hill and I thought about getting some pictures of the vineyard but they were closing up for the day and from the road it there would've been many obstacles in the photo. Maybe some other time.
DeleteI really like the one with the three trees, there is a cool balance with the three objects throughout the image. Did you modify the image to give it the black frame?
ReplyDeleteI just put a vignette around it to help the colors pop. I really like having frames to give a clean edge to photos so the vignette does that for me. It just seems to make it look more complete in my opinion rather than just having the edges of the photo.
DeleteI too enjoyed this image!! I also am a huge fan of the vignette as a frame to make the colors more vibrant and express more focus on the image itself!! Nice job on all your photos!!!
DeleteI like how you chose many different subjects to photograph. My favorite is the three trees. It looks like you deliberately did not follow the rule of thirds and it works very well here. Nice job doing extra research, it was interesting to read.
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