Hello Again. I wanted to share some of my recent photographs. As you may know from my previous posts, I am particulary interested in lighting at this point.
I want to thank everyone who has been so kind as to answer my posts - as a newbie, I hoped the board would be welcoming and I found it to be so. I should probably explain that as a teenager I studied photography in school. I learned to shoot on a Canon AE1, which was a film camera that was (IIRC) all manual. I learned to develop my own pictures in black and white and all that good stuff. I shot mostly equestrian photos during that time. I picked up more classes in college, and continued to shoot equestrian events.
I had a long dry spell after that, where my interest in photography was discouraged by others and I got "rusty" so to speak. I have always remembered some rules of composition and so on, but it is possible that I will get something wrong because as I said, I'm rusty.
I am retraining myself to take pictures and understand exactly what I'm doing and this board is part of that for me. Photography is more than a hobby to me, and I want to get as good at it as I can which, to me, means LEARN. So I'm here to do that.
Sorry if that's more than you ever wanted to know about me, but I wanted to explain where I'm coming from in case I ever sound stupid when I post here. I have been a photographer for a long time, but I am wanting to kick my skills up to a new level. Hence my questions about lighting, and camera bodies, and lenses and proof marks.
Now, some pictures! All were shot with a 28-105mm zoom lens at about 60mm.
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This is Betsy Ross. I love the expression on her face, and the blackness of the "hole" behind her. The round opening gives an intersting effect, I think, to her gracefulness. Maybe I'll start a projct involving cats inside circles.....
This is Lawyer.
This is Sparkle - another kitty in a round opening.
This pretty girl is Willow. I was going for more of a studio look with her.
Finally, this is Desiree. She is very, very shy, and her face was all I could get. However, I tried to use the composition to demonstrate her personality- her caution. I like how her black fur on her head blends into the blackness inside her box and her slightly downcast eyes.
Thanks, everybody!