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The weekend photograph challenge at DPS right now is titled Less is More.
I decided to participate.
Anyway, here's my submission:
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Aperture: f/2.8
Shutter Speed: 1/8
ISO: 100
Focal Length: 100 mm
Tripod
I took this as simply as possible. Just a white background (paper), a very simple subject, a small depth of field, black and white with no tint, no crop, no vignette, and centered composition. And I'm now completely convinced that Less really is More. I prefer taking and looking at simpler photos in general. Perhaps that's why I like macro so much; it tends to exclude noisy or busy details and really focus in on just one thing.
I rarely participate in these, because they're usually something kind of obscure that would be hard for my to photograph. But this one worked out perfectly. I remembered it while working on my guitar yesterday, and what do you know? The fretboard inlays I was working on were heart-shaped.
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Aperture: f/3.2
Shutter Speed: 1/80
ISO: 80
Gorilla Pod
I felt it was appropriate not only because of the heart theme, but because of how much I love my guitar, even if it's not finished yet.
In other news, even though I couldn't get a photo of this, my parents are buying me an early graduation present: A Canon Digital Rebel XSi! I'm so pumped!
One of the blogs I follow is the Digital Photography School (or DPS). I've never really bumped them before, although they've been on my links for some time.
Anyway, they have a photography challenge every weekend. The theme this time around is self-portraits in the mirror. Now, if you're like me, the first thing you thought of after hearing that was, "Crap. The world is being taken over my MySpace pictures." But after a few examples, I was converted. It IS possible to do creative photography using mirrored surfaces, even self-portraits. Just... try to avoid holding the camera on a 45 degree angle.
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