Photographic Challenges

I’ve been working on the last three prompts for Think Spring. The first one for April 6th is one of my all-time least favorite “assignments:”  a self-portrait. Tracy gave me a remote controller for my RebelXsi for Christmas so really, I have no excuse. I put the camera on my gorilla pod at one end of the dining room table and sat at the other end. I’m relatively satisfied with the photo, and did some photo editing techniques I learned in Jessica Sprague’s Wacom Tablet course.

The prompt for April 7th was pastels. I really wanted some Easter M&Ms, but couldn’t find any. I settled on some malted chocolate balls.

Then I saw a bottle of Papertrey Ink buttons sitting right in front of me so I scattered them for a photo.

The Pioneer Woman’s actions have just been converted for PSE. I got them uploaded this week so I spent some time playing with them. Here’s the Soft & Faded action.

And the Colorize action:

Today’s prompt was to capture the sparkle of spring. It rained last night, and I found water droplets hanging from leaves on our holly bush. I quickly took a couple of photos before I left for my volunteer job. Unfortunately, I took them quickly and wasn’t happy with the focus on any of them. Tonight at dinner, Matt and I were talking about it. He suggested taking a photo of some water droplets in our old washer tub in the basement. The photo certainly doesn’t qualify for the “sparkle of spring” prompt, but it was fun to do. We’re supposed to get rain again tonight so perhaps tomorrow I will have another chance outside. (Of course to get sparkle, we will also need sunshine. That may take a couple of days if the mete0rologists are correct.)

And the Sephia action from Pioneer Woman: