Photographic Challenges

First of all, our Team-up Thursday post. The prompt this week was Where We Live. Nancy and my interpretations couldn’t have been much different. I considered the house, the front door, the new light and house number, but finally decided on the mailbox. I liked it with the Vintage action from Pioneer Woman so settled on it. Nancy’s bright, summery photo taken on her deck is about as opposite as it could be!

During Picture Spring, one of the prompts was “The Grass at Your Feet.” I took a photo I liked a lot of tiny blue flowers, but I wanted one of the grass with dew on it like Cheri took during the class. Yesterday’s prompt from Shimelle for Love Your Photos, Love Your Pages was pretty much the same. So off I went again. I started out with my DSRL set on aperture priority mode. This is the setting I used for nearly two years, but for the last year I’ve shot in full manual almost all the time. I also wanted a shallow depth of field. Let me just say with a sunny sky, it’s a very bad combination. However I took two of the shots into PSE and used the Pioneer Woman’s Dim the Lights action on them. I ran the action twice and although these were certainly not the photos I intended to take, I find them pretty interesting.

Then I pulled out the trusty point and shoot and got what I was looking for during Picture Spring.