Week 4's work

I have been taking mostly pictures of the little one so I thought it about time to take some of the hubby. I remember as a girl I used to like my dad shaving. Little one is no different and so I thought I would take some photos of hubby shaving.
Now in our bathroom we have horrible lights with not much natural light either (we also need our roof repainted but we won't talk about that.). 

The self portrait I found hard.  I used the timer mode on the camera for the photos. I had trouble focusing where I wanted it to be then running up into the shot. What I did learn was I need heaps of practise and I don't look great at the end of the day when I still have washing to do, morning tea to make for play group and my own dinner to eat!

Week 3's work

This week I chose to do  light vs dark. I shot Anthea while she was playing with her light box. I had trouble this week with photographing her playing and the movement. A number of the shots had blurring in them due to her moving while she was playing. Looking at the last shot it would have been nice to take the container out but as Anthea was still playing I left it there.

This one I found so hard, three shots! I had several practise shots just around the house. As hubby is over your way in NY I had to find something to shot when Anthea was happy and I did not need the extra pair of hands, so we went to the park. I over exposed this shot, should I have shaded the lens? It is good to practise not just shooting and shooting but I am not really happy with this.

Week 2's assignment

Point of view.
This week I chose to take pictures of Anthea having her afternoon tea on my husbands and my bed. This is a semi regular thing she does after her nap time. I did this shoot twice I have to admit. The first time I did it there were some really lovely shots and I was so happy until I realised that the bar from the bed head was head height in every shot so it looked like she had a bar coming out of her head. Argg!

The second time I struggled a bit with the lighting and also getting to focus on the right spot for the shot. Sometimes the focus was just a little off or she moved.
I am not happy that I left a hairband in the corner of the bedhead though : -(



Deatails

I struggled with this one this week as I did a bit last week. This week when I had planned to go out during Anthea's sleep time either my husband need to go out or it was raining. I then came up with another plan but the littlest one was grumpy and clinging to me as I tried to do the shot. What I had planned to do in my head did not turn out that well. I wanted to document Anthea's room. We painted it ourselves and thought it would be nice to have. I did not do my idea justice. I struggled again with the lighting, and focusing on what I wanted to get on the shot. Oh well practise, practise and more practise.

Week 1's assignment

The first part of the assignment I found rather hard. I found it hard for several reasons; one being narrowing down my daughters interests to just 3 details and another being how to present the details. I chose to group all the details together without her in the picture. I then focused on the main part of the photo on her big interest at the moment which is planes. I chose to then have the other two details a little blurred in the background. As a novice to this whole process I am not sure how it turned out really but it was good to think about taking photos in this way for her to look at in the future.

The second part of the assignment I found easier. As most 18mth olds, Anthea is always on the go so taking a shot of her doing something is not too hard. I took these shots out the back when she was just playing as normal. We had been had been having bad weather ( in fact I think this was one of the only times last week it was not raining very much). I therfore had to content with light rain outside, dark clouds, and also watching Anthea play on the swing set. Some of the shots I took were not focused properly because I was also paying attention to her safety or just not quick enough for the shot I wanted. I did remember Brooke saying in one of the videos that you don't have to take a million shots and sometimes you just need to sit and wait.


I hope everyone has a good week. Happy photographing everyone
Gemma