Round Robin Challenge: Nature

The challenge this week is "Nature". I'm a bit late this week, sorry!


Winter: Snowy day in Meredith NH
Spring: Forsythia is always my first sign of spring!
Summer: Summer solstice moon, right before my birthday
Autumn: My favorite season!

Photography Class: Portraits

I recently took a photography class, Digital Photography II. The class description goes like this:

This course will explore the world of digital photography and how it differs from (and is sometimes the same as) film photography. The class will get photo assignments each week. Bring in digital photos which we will view on our projector, and discuss the merits and problems of the work. The class will be much like the film photography classes we have, but the medium here is digital. Since photo enhancing, adjusting, and retouching are part of the kit of tools available to the digital photographer, we will be using Adobe Photoshop and its magical kit of tools to help correct and adjust our photos where needed. However, the primary thrust of the class will be photographic techniques, with mechanical enhancements as an added, but secondary, attraction.

Last night was our second class, and the first where we had homework. Our assignment was to bring in no more than 8 portrait shots and he would critique them.

As it happened, my shots were up first. He loaded them onto the projection screen, looked at the first one (I think it was the one of Dad), looked at me and said: "What are you doing in this class?" I took it as a complement :-)

He had a criticism on only one picture, the one of the woman holding the orange. He said that as she seems to be offering the orange to the viewer, it needed to be in focus, too. I agree!

Wordless Wednesday #2

Wordless Wednesday

Round Robin Challenge: Hand

The challenge this week is "The Hand". When I first heard this challenge, I thought "Talk to the hand" LOL! I was really looking forward to this one, because I love hands. Love to look at 'em, touch SOME of 'em, take pictures of 'em. So...here are some hands:


Then I read the directions...and saw I didn't follow them correctly :-( I'm bad like that and I apologize to Brad for not paying better attention! I didn't want to disappoint the folks who contributed to this "hand" project, they were so excited about having their hands online!