52 Picture Project/Week 2

Okay so I really tried to think outside the box this week and try some different things when it came to subject matter. I played with food coloring and water and I tried doing bokeh shots of toys and decorations. I was mostly trying to look for fun creative things that I could take pictures of around the house. Anyway last night I started editing all the pictures and some of them where really kind of cool and I was having a hard time deciding what I was going to post this week. Well the decision was made for me when the main computer that I have most my pictures on crashed. So I looked on my lap top and I found two pictures that where a little different that I think I will post this week. Not exactly what I was planning for but they will work.

This one is different for me because #1 it of a cat and not my kids. #2 it is in black and white. I have been reading about all the different ways to create black and white images in photoshop, and this one was created using a gradient map. Granted I had no idea what I was doing or even if I used the gradient map right but I tried something different and that is the whole reason behind this picture project for me, to do and try different things. I also posted this picture so that I can compare the crop to the picture below.


I have also been thinking about the cropping of my pictures. A lot of my pictures have the subject dead center(like the above picture). I think that has kind of got ingrained in my thoughts that everything needs to be centered and perfect in a photograph. So I intentionally cropped this one different than I normally would. I wanted Cleo's cute face to stand out more, and I think that this crop helped do that.

I know that I have a lot to learn about photography, and it is fun having this picture project each week to try new and different things. I hope that some of you readers out there will do this with me.