I had a very tough (for me) get pushed challenge this week where I was asked to encapsulate the meaning of change.
Wow - change to me is something in motion but photography captures a moment in time - no motion.
The thought of how we all grow (and change) as people - from babies to adults and beyond - kept going through my head. So, here is my interpretation of change!
@365anne Please do not apologize, Anne! I really enjoy challenges that get me thinking and have me ruminating on them throughout the week. This one had me looking at things so much differently than I usually do. The other possibility - and I may do yet - is photo of an ice cube melting.
This is beautiful and so touching. That sweet expression is just perfect. I love how it looks like an old film photo, well loved for years and scanned onto the computer.
So beautifully composed and that "grainy" look is such added value. Really like how you have that beautiful child's face and only the hand of the adult. All potential...You always rise to these challenges in such an inspiring way!.
@granagringa Thank you for your compliments, but not totally deserved I think. I would rather be lucky (which I am sometimes) than good. The grainy look was the result of being forced to push my ISO setting all the way to 1600 because of very low light situation in a dark room. I do not usually like the grainy look (sometimes called noise) but I think it worked here - hence I call it luck.
As for composition - this was the one and only chance I had to snap the picture because it was the only time Oliver cooperated to give Dad a high five - so again lucky enough to snap a slow speed shot with recalcitrant model!
Again - I would rather be lucky than good any day!
Hello Wendy @farmreporter I looked over your albums and I really enjoyed what I saw - so many 'natural' photographs and the everyday which I really enjoyed. Reading your profile, I see that you like photos without a great deal of processing and so I thought that for this week I would have you step out of your comfort zone and explore the technique of 'selective color' as your challenge. Some helpful tips can be found here - http://masteringphoto.com/tips-on-using-selective-color/
I certainly hope that one of these are acceptable and that you find it challenging (but not difficult). They were foreign to me when I first explored the options but I came to really enjoy each of them for what they are and their place in this big world of photography.
Technique ... luck ... serendipity ... call it what you will, but you need the eye to see it and the courage to go for that something a little bit different - which you did ... and it worked!
As for composition - this was the one and only chance I had to snap the picture because it was the only time Oliver cooperated to give Dad a high five - so again lucky enough to snap a slow speed shot with recalcitrant model!
Again - I would rather be lucky than good any day!
Alternately, if you would prefer, you can choose to do something else your second option will be 'negative space' technique. Examples and a tutorial can be found here - http://www.photographymad.com/pages/view/understanding-and-using-negative-space-in-photography
I certainly hope that one of these are acceptable and that you find it challenging (but not difficult). They were foreign to me when I first explored the options but I came to really enjoy each of them for what they are and their place in this big world of photography.