Aces

So I don't always have ideas of subjects to photograph but feel I should push myself to take more pictures and one idea I have seen people use is to go through the alphabet. You start at A and find a subject that starts with A and photograph it, working on composition ideas with that subject till you get a picture you like. After one letter is done you move on to the next letter and so on. So I am going to start today at the beginning and my idea for the letter A was, obviously, Aces. I actually had a hard time coming up with things that started with A and as we have no aardvarks around here I settled on the idea of photographing a poker hand with 4 Aces. I have never had this hand in poker but it would be a nice one to have!! Now to think up ideas for B.

Apple Me

2 blog posts in one day! You may have seen this on my facebook page as well but I figured I should post it here also since I did some setup for this photo. This was something my kids decided to make me to show their appreciation of their teach, who is me as I home school them. So Beth helped them make this wonderful likeness of me, well maybe a little to much hair on the head! For this photo the apple was sitting on a piece of white foam core and another piece standing up behind for the background. The flash was pointed straight up with a diffuser dome on it, so you get some light from the side, and their was a reflector above it and the apple to bounce light back down from above.