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When I first started taking pictures I didn’t use many portrait photographs, now it seems that I have too many of them!? So I wanted to add in a decent looking landscape. Lighting really interest me, and I like to play with them. Bottles provide an amazing opportunity to distort light and this is about the third time I had taken them out just simply to try and photograph. This picture turned out good because of contrast. Although the entire photograph appears as an amber glow, different shades ranging from dark black to bright orange-reds. I realize now that I like to leave a lot of dark in my photographs, It seems to give room for interpretation. I like the second photograph for originality purposes. I really don’t see many, or don’t notice many pictures where it starts blurry at the bottom and as it works up it becomes clearer. The angle was pretty odd as well. Another thing I have realized is I like to try and lead the viewers eyes. If you can lead the person viewing to something, be it the main focus ( and it usually is ) or something of some other importance you have probably taken a successful photograph. Having that much control, I feel would be a useful talent. I like the third because it incorporates two of the techniques I have been trying to get better at. I used contrast and focus again for this picture. The lighting was low, and I was focused on just a couple of words, so the others that trail of into the distance become blurry. The contrast was kind of unique in this photograph and mostly appears in the mirror above the text, the lights really reflect and work well as a background.

~ by waramongststars on April 24, 2008.