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Minimal Monday
To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.~ Elliott Erwitt
Leaves in Autumn
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower ~ Albert Camus
On last Wednesday, we got some sunshine (raining at the same time) and hence I was out on a walk looking for autumn colours. The theme was “watching leaves”. Leaves in various sizes, shapes and colours. Here is a small gallery of what I enjoyed most. Hope you enjoy them too.
This is my entry for Jo’s Monday walk theme.
As suggested by Jo I am linking this post to a fantastic theme #festival of leaves 2018, hosted by Dawn from The Day after.
Thank you Jo. I am so happy for such challenge.
Sunday Trees: Autumn berries
Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn ~Elizabeth Lawrence
Inspired by Becca’s Sunday Trees!
Soft as
1.Water…
Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.~ Lao Tzu
2.Spring…
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts ~Charles Dickens
These are my choices for this week’s lens artists photo challenge:soft.
Point of departure and the difficulty!
I came across the phrase “point of departure” for the first time in a photo study post by Brenda with title “the photographer II“. In her post Brenda mentioned about Ralph Gibson (An American art photographer best known for his photographic books).
Point of departure according to Ralph Gibson, “to have a point of departure is not to go out and shoot. It’s to have a project in mind and going out looking for a shot that represents or showcases this emotion or concept that your project is about.”
“From now on, before I go shoot, I’ll consult internally to focus on one thing I want to capture, and have that point of departure. It’ll give purpose to my work and me being out there. The advantages are that I’ll learn patience, presence and a deeper sense of observation. This is a powerful and deep message…have a point of departure.” ~Ralph Gibson
I was caught up with the idea of point of departure and I started to look into my own philosophy about photography. A question I was asking myself, have I ever had a project in my mind? Tiny details of my photography tours. Gosh! I am such a bad learner. Of course I was not standing or sitting still to get my subject in my frame but my themes were quite broad. My only aim was to get an interesting photo either while walking up on a mountain for few hours or visiting an arboretum or a botanical garden. A very few times I had a fixed idea in my mind, a point of departure, like when I tried to capture moon from my kitchen window, capturing first fresh snow or capturing sunset sky after a rainy day. The duration of such projects were quite short.
Having a point of depature is not that easy. Aamateur photographer like me will always have a feeling of loosing some frames beacuse they do not fit in. Getting that matuarity is difficult than it seems.
There is so much so say but I donot want to bore my readers. I am happy to share that last Saturday I had my first proper photo tour with a point of departure, “low angle photography”. I am sharing some photos from that tour. Hope you will enjoy these and give me feedback.
I am sorry if I confuse some of you with my earlier post on “low angle photography: looking up“. Yes I shared pictures on low angle photography in there as well but the photographs were taken on difference occassions. This post is about having a fixed plan and trying to get some good shots.
A tree and a leaf in Winter!
Here is my post for Cee’s fun foto challenge: Leaves and Trees
I should have spent some time in picking up images but I am absolutely tired today. I was on a short hike after full day work. Though it was just 6 kms and height was 400m but still. Soon will post the fresh snow and frozen photos. For now hope you like the chosen ones.
Thanks Dahlia for inspiring me 🙂
Focussing right!
Another wonderful post by Raj@Xdrive inspired me to dig into my photo archives and share my thoughts/images with my fellow bloggers. Lesson no. 9 on Learn Photogrpahy is all about focus . Raj says “…our focus point is of greater importance as for as the final output is concerned.” OMG, this is what I learned in early days of photograpy. I was quite happy with this little finding 2 years ago. Presenting two images from the past:
Next is to show how things change when we crop a picture. The first picture looks OK but after cropping I ralized that it was not properly focussed. The image details are f/5.6, 1/125sek. and ISO 100
Below are some shots to illustrate “focus” with photo details.
Hope you all enjoy this post. Now it’s time to listen to Raj!
