New Glasses

So I was thinking of doing some more self portraits now that I have New glasses and then I realized New would work for N, score! (or cop-out since this was not specifically started for N but hey it works) So we finally went to get our eyes checked the other day so I could finally get some new glasses. It has been probably over 4 years and my old glasses were falling apart. The new ones are a bit different in style but I think I am used to them and am almost used to the new prescription.

LEGO Man

LEGO man was nice enough to make a second appearance here on my blog. Today he is helping me create my photo based off the letter M by holding a Match as he walks around in the dark and we all know that a match is like a torch too a LEGO man. (For a while he really thought he was Indiana Jones) I used up an entire book of matches taking pictures and working on getting something I liked and found out that it can be a bit hard to light the match, trigger the camera and shine the flashlight I was using for the main source of light on him. Now we will have to see what projects LEGO man might help out with in the future.

Lines

In ways everything has lines so I thought that Line would be a good subject for L. At first I was thinking more of some architecture that had straight long lines to emphasize the subject, however I came up with this idea of taking a couple of the kitchen utensils that have good lines to them instead. I liked using these as the metal finish on these have no distracting color and so without shooting in black and white I get that simplified image that focuses more on the form than anything. I also wanted to work on blowing out the background and give the image more of a look similar to "high-key" photography.

Knees

Took me a while to come up with an idea for K that I somewhat liked. Then I came up with this idea of using scrabble pieces but I did not want to just photograph the letter K for this and be done, so I had this idea of spelling out the word knees with the scrabble letters and then having someone in the background (ended up being me yet again) with mainly their knees showing. I also liked the idea of the person being out of the focus area and blurred out slightly, for me this makes the word the focus with the background helping to reinforce the idea (also my knees being blurred out hopefully does not scare anyone away). I also felt a black and white conversion would bring more to the picture than leaving it in color.

Self Portrait

I did some portrait photos of a guy recently who needed a photo for his web site, so before hand over a few days I did several self portraits to practice and have down what I could do for him. I probably took 50 self portraits, most of which I deleted, figuring out the best way to light and pose it with the tools I have. These are a few I had taken during that process, minus the two horizontal shots at the bottom as those were taken today and I think were influenced by me spending too much time being harassed by the kids!