My Best Photo of the Week (MBPOTW) – week 8
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LAST WEEK’S ENTRIES: My Best Photo of the Week (MBPOTW) Challenge – WEEK 7 (02 – 09 Oct)
Pictures are cropped, please visit the original post (links below) to view the full pictures with the photographer’s original thoughts on them :)
Clockwise from top left:
Top Left: i,Robot, completedisappear.wordpress.com
Top center: Torrey, roxythetravellingdog.com
Top Right: Adrift on the wind, teepee12.com
Bottom Right: Busted!, 1stworlddog.wordpress.com
Bottom center: Backseat, weliveinaflat.com
Bottom Left: Clamming, phallphotos.wordpress.com
We’ve got a good mix of indoor and outdoor photography this week. The common thread among them being life and living and our endeavour to capture this in images, with very different results.
Both Completely Disappear and Marilyn (teepee12.com) shot many frames and shared what they felt was the best out of the batch of photos they had taken of the subject. Completely Disappear sought to convey human emotions via still life photography. Marilyn sought to share the beauty of leaves adrift in the breeze. Meanwhile Patti (Phall Photos) told the story of a family clamming excursion using silhouettes in the warm glow of the setting sun.
Come indoors again, and you’ll find 1st world dog Bodhi busted for counter surfing (imagine that!), Torrey (Roxy the Travelling Dog blog) totally relaxed on Mom’s lap and Donna chilling out at the backseat of her car. All dogs, quite distinct and different from each other. And that is what pet photography tries to show, the character that is unique and personal to the dog and its human.
What we end up with is a gallery of our emotions and thoughts towards our external environment – people, family dogs, nature and of course, each individual’s approach to photography. Different people, different geography, living this thing called life and showing you the little bits we see, one picture at a time. I appreciate the variety and the richness in your photos and for sharing them with this challenge :)
Please do visit and read more about each picture by clicking on the links above. The photographers have provided a little description of the pictures and why it is special for them :)
The other day my mom wanted to visit me but I was taking Donna out to the dog run.
And what does she do there, my mother wanted to know.
Oh, she runs around with the other dogs… you chase me… I chase you … like children.
There is a rather child-like quality about dogs that gets endearing, isn’t there?
This white husky looks bigger than Donna but she is only 7 mths old to Donna’s 4 years :P
Phoneography Monday Challenge: Macro
Apps used: Camera+, Snapseed, Instagram
Sometimes one doesn’t see something until after the fact. A close shot of the side of a mug of coffee at the local hawker centre, shows it unexpectedly clad with sugar.
Are you going to watch TV the whole night???
This is a regular black and white.
Donna is not too impressed by moving visuals… She thinks we should spend the time playing with her rather than watching TV or pointing the phone at her to make cinemagraphs :P
Donna finds it hard to see beautiful if we are just going to sit here and do nothing D:
A new phone app that I downloaded today. It’s pretty fun, if exasperating to get to work.
I love her sleepy, expressive eyes :P
If you like me, live on this earth, shadows will be cast. It’s the law of nature. But what if you really want a bright white floor or an even coloured floor in your picture?
First thing first, plan to take your picture against a white or plain coloured background. You may remember these recent examples:
The previous how-I-did-it photo editing post dealt with overall brightening of the image, and how I converted the image to high contrast black and white with few shades of grey in between. I got a harder image with a more graphic quality that way.
In this post, we will look at how to brighten or even out specific areas of the photo, rather than the whole photo.
Here’s how I did it on my iPhone for the picture used in Look what I found hiding in the study!
LAST WEEK’S ENTRIES: My Best Photo of the Week (MBPOTW) Challenge – WEEK 6 (25 Sep – 02 Oct)
Pictures are cropped, please visit the original post (links below) to view the full pictures with the photographer’s original thoughts on them :)
Clockwise from top left:
Top Left: Charlotte 16, http://looneyatoms.com
Top Right: More than a decade, completelydisappear.wordpress.com
Bottom Right: Busy paws, 1stworlddog.wordpress.com
Bottom Left: Headlong into you, www.weliveinaflat.com
The thing about photography is that it is such a good way to start to get to know something about a person. They say a picture speaks a thousand words, but a lot of times, there is also a lot of hidden meaning behind the picture that you wouldn’t know about. Not until you speak with the person who took the picture.
But since we are all so dispersed across the globe, blogging takes the place of one-to-one conversation. I’m very happy that we have representation from London, Thailand, Australia and Singapore today. :D
Barbara and Completely Disappear took very different pictures while focusing on just one particular subject for the image. And while Barbara took portrait of her daughter and Completely Disappear a photo of an orchid, both are symbolic of the close relationships they have with their families. And that’s what made these pictures beautiful to me, beyond the fact that they are nicely taken.
And then we have two shots of dogs, Donna and Bodhi. Bodhi’s human and I were experimenting with different apps for the shots we took. I love this picture of Bodhi, the warm, vibrant hue, unique angle and just the ruff joy of digging in the mud :D It is a happy picture, golden happy.
Please do visit and read more about each picture by clicking on the links above. The photographers have provided a little description of the pictures and why it is special for them :)
