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The sky and shutter speed. Learning with Love Your Photos, Love Your Pages.

I almost always have my camera set to aperture priority. Prompt 8 pushed me to move the dial to shutter priority. I probably took 30 or so photos with different shutter speeds. Not only was the exposure difference surprising with only the slightest adjustment. It also clicked. It made sense in my head. As I took more photos I was able to determine a shutter speed to capture the image I wanted. More practice ( a lot more) and then play with getting shutter speed and aperture to work together...manually!

 

 Very cool!

Prompt 12 from Shimelle's class, Love Your Pictures Love Your Pages, is to experiment with textures. More specifically, bokeh. Google bokeh textures or search Flickr for shared textures to download and photo samples.

Texture created and shared by Asja

 

Used texture from 30 Free Bokeh Textures at Lost and Taken dot com.  

 

Texture created and shared by Shadowhouse Creations. A great source for textures of all types. 

A few great texture resources:

Little Box of Ideas
dezign Musings
deviantArt
Media Militia 
Flickr (search bokeh textures for shared textures and photo samples.)

If the weather cooperates I'd like to experiment with "from the ground", Prompt 9, this afternoon. 
 
 
 

 
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PROMPT FIVE

The prompt was to use one of the provided sketches to create a layout. Each sketch focused on a different design concept.

I easily chose a simple is striking design concept and knew exactly which photo would work perfectly. The focus is simply a few words and a photo.

 

 Supplies: Ali Edwards, Anna Aspnes

Journaling: Remembering the little boy. Seeing the young man you have become. Seabrook Island, June 2010

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Learning. Prompts. Challenges. Inspiration.
 

PROMPT FOUR

Today's prompt was to create a layout with the photos taken for the previous prompts (or any photos waiting to be scrapped) using Shimelle's sketches. 

I picked a sketch and made a few changes to make it my own. The photos quickly reminded me that I  haven't created any AAM layouts this year. This was the perfect opportunity to remedy that with an AAM "Favorites" focus. 

 

 Supplies: Paislee Press, TaylorMade, Ali Edwards

For today, create another layout from Prompt Four and move on to Prompt Five.

 

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Continuing the Love Your Photos... class with Shimelle. Taking hundreds of pictures. Using each prompt to focus on one aspect of photography (and playing with actions).

PROMPT TWO:

Today's photo assignment focuses on a floral setting and composition. Playing with different angles. 

    

 

   

PROMPT THREE:

Today's photo assignment again focuses on composition but this time using three items. This was easier to accomplish in a visually appealing manner with some items more than others. I played with composition using 3 of my favorites: running, photography and creating. I used Shimelle's composition sketches (with a bit of tweaking) as a starting point for creating a composition of three.

 

 

 

 

And to give you an idea of how the running and creating theme compositions turned out:

 For today, Prompt Four :)
 

   
 

 

 

 
 

 

Creative photography. Learning. Prompts. Challenges. Inspiration. A new photography class at Shimelle dot com.

 CHALLENGE ONE

Share a photo you have already taken that makes you smile.

A favorite photo or a recent photo or a photo you were proud to have taken or a photo that is fabulous because it captured a great moment or a photo that makes you think twice and look at just a little bit longer.

 

This is one of those random unexpected shots that stood out among 100s of photos taken that day. This is one of those photos that embraces imperfections. This is a photo that makes me smile because it captures a shot of my son who is growing up to be this amazing young man. This is a photo that reflects so much of who Alec is at this time in his life.

CHALLENGE TWO

It's a spontaneous picture.

Grab your camera now and take a picture of something in the next five minutes. 

 

This photo could have been taken almost any morning in my house. This is my early morning 7 days/week.

For today, exploring and playing with prompts one and two.