Final Image and Some Creative Prompts

Here is the final Egg Cup image:

EGG CUP

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Today I may do some shooting outside comparing Manual with various Auto modes and using the compensation button for my own information. I suggest you experiment and take notes thoroughout your photography experience. This is how we learn what works and what doesn't. Go for it folks.

Suggestion: Try all sorts of different things. You never know what effect you might accidentally stumble across.

Photo Notes for Me, Myself and I

Here we are again and I realize that I have been neglecting my blog. Back in the days when AOL had Journals, I wrote every single day. Anything interesting was fair game for an article. Today I feel like getting back on track. Would I be able to keep up an entry a day again? Well, there is only one way to find out.

Surprisingly, with all the cameras out there many don't know how to take good pictures. Let me tell you, I am so sick of bad, uninteresting landscapes, etc., I could scream. So, what to do? First off, let me suggest looking at good photographs. Get thee to a library...remember those? They are buildings filled with words (and pictures). Check out books containing images by Steiglitz, Walker Evans, Dorthea Lange and my favorite Irving Penn. Ask yourself, "How did they do that?" Pay attention to lighting and composition. Without light you have nothing and without an interesting subject and composition...well...all I can say is, "yuk."

When you are ready to snap that shot...zero in on something interesting in the viewfinder. A good photograph starts with seeing. Look for the unusual, the interesting, the exciting. Without a subject, you don't have a story and without a story, well...you get the idea. A photograph is a story in an instant. You need a subject and a predicate (writing terms)...an action...something going on, or something imagined as happening nearby.

One friend says, "It's easy" and easy it is once you get the hang of it. Pointing and shooting randomly doesn't cut it. You have to get involved. You have to show an interest in what you are doing or....you produce B-O-R-I-N-G pictures. Chances are if you find something interesting to shoot, it will be interesting to someone else. So....go for it.

And...above all else, get involved--put a part of you (your spirit) in your images.

To get good images you have to work at it...then, it becomes easy. One of the main ingredients in good photography is thought. THINK!
Today: Do a shoot using camera settings and another using manual settings...compare subtleties.
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©elisabeth bacon 2011
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Lost and Found

Last night I spent two hours looking for THE BOOK's Table of Contents. Saving files on disks and external hard drives, etc., is usually a good thing. That is...until you can't find the right disk or external hard drive. Finally. I found it (in the last place I looked--2009-External Hard Drive #2). Hooray!

This morning returned to working on THE BOOK. Changed the subtitle on cover again. Added to the Table of Contents and added notes on thoughts and ideas (Who Are You?).

Hopefully, now that I am focused on writing, all will go smoothly without any disastrous interruptions. In the past, every time I would dive into THE BOOK, something happened...i.e.. Bob in hospital, and/or a Dad emergency.

CROSSING FINGERS and KNOCKING ON WOOD.

Good Morning

A new day...hooray!

This journal is a fresh start. I have decided to let the old go out and to bring in the new. How else can we grow and get new ideas. The fall season is a perfect time for cleaning out. A good example is cleaning out around the house. Clean out a closet and toss, or give away, anything you are not wearing. It feels so good. Once emptied out, you will have room for some new things to come in.

The same is true in life and also with creativity. Letting go of resentments, sets us free...we take a load off our shoulders. With creativity, by letting go of old ideas, patterns and routines, we free ourselves up to be receptive of new and fresh approaches.

After letting go, pay attention. Begin seeing in a new and different way. Become childlike when looking at the world. How amazing things are when seen with a child's eyes. What do we see that we have missed in the past? Make a list. Take notes. These notes and observances may be fodder for new projects.

Affirmation: I am willing to let go.
Remember: Be good, Do Good, Strive To Be Better