@jocasta is my partner this week for the get pushed challenge and her challenge is for me to take a high key portrait (and it doesn't have to be a face).
also, in conjunction with katie's
@archaeofrog book club challenge for august, we are tackling the barriers to seeing in everyday things and learning to observe.
i sat on the floor for about 15 minutes (gheez, didn't i just mopped the floor monday night?), looking around. heavens! my living room is boring. however, my eyes kept going back to the pink anthurium protruding from the rest of the almost withered bouquet by the window. i have been meaning to take a photo of the bouquet but never gotten around to doing it (for three weekends i picked on the arrangements in our reception and never took a pic and they've all withered into nothingness) so i grabbed the camera and started shooting. after several shots, i looked at what i got and to my horror the camera's setting was screwed up. that's because at lunchtime i was trying to take high key pics and i forgot to put the settings back to normal. my shots of the pink anthurium therefore were all overexposed.
but isn't it funny how innovative we have become with photography? when once we discard the overexposed or underexposed or blurred photographs, somewhere sometime somehow someone developed different genres for such thing.
but wait a minute, wasn't i trying to get some high key photos for the challenge? then it dawned on me, i actually got a double whammy in my hand, er...my camera.
so, there you have it, a high key pink anthurium. the plus is that with a 'normal shot' all i could see is a pretty pink anthurium but in high key, its texture, the ridges and the indentations on the pink leaf, are a lot more noticeable. oh, who am i kidding? i overexposed the shot, 'tis all!
i commend you for getting this far in my narrative. i on the other hand am am quite bored with my gibberish.
thank you for your kind views and comments; know that they are so much appreciated.
