Got Love????

saurora

Hi all...I've decided to attempt the unofficial "Photo-A-Day" club. It might be what I need to fuel some much needed inspiration. Here is my very first day's shot taken yesterday. The pressure was on...I dashed out on my lunch hour. Found a nice, trashy-looking old asphalt truck in a parking lot. Powered up my camera...glanced at the display...message: "No Media Card". :rofl Grrreaaaat!!! So I dashed to Office Depot and bought a new one (needed a spare anyway). By then lunch was over, so headed back to the office where I searched my desk for ideas. Found this box of Valentine candy....inspiration! No tripod, no lightbox, just up-close on my desk with a yellow file folder as my backdrop! One good thing...I took lots of shots, but have decide that time-wize I will only work on the best shot each day and save the others for those rainy days when you get sick of working on the same old stuff!

Awais Yaqub

well thats very nice
isn't very much space left in bottom ?

Scott_Quier

saurora wrote:

Hi all...I've decided to attempt the unofficial "Photo-A-Day" club. It might be what I need to fuel some much needed inspiration.

saurora,

I love the idea of the Photo-A-Day thing. I have seen other photographers with web-sites with similar theme. Hope you don't mind if I steal your thought and run with it.

I've set up a gallary here on my smugmug site for this. We'll see how well it goes. I am not permitted to bring a camera to my work-site. If the PTB get wind of a camera on site, they will take it and actually destroy it with a sledgehammer before disposing of it. You don't get to keep the CF card, the lens, nothing! So, that will limit me a bit.

Here is the first

I've been threatening Matthew (my son) with capturing a shot of him in his natural environment. I was finally successful!



C&C is welcome, though I don't think it's much worth it. This is just a snapshot that does a pretty good job of portraying Matt in the environment where he is most comfortable. Hmmm, maybe this qualifies as a portrait? I dunno, "I am just an egg."

saurora

Scott, take it and run! Afterall, I took it from someone else! Sounds like you may be in for a little night photography if you can't bring your camera work. Your son looks a lot like you! Taking an environmental portrait makes your subject look comfortable and to me makes for an honest portrait. In fact, I think I'm going to take YOUR idea and do one of my son. I did take one of him last Sunday on the jetty across the street from where he lives. Neighborhood sucks, doesn't it?

Scott_Quier

saurora wrote:

In fact, I think I'm going to take YOUR idea and do one of my son. I did take one of him last Sunday on the jetty across the street from where he lives. Neighborhood sucks, doesn't it?

Yeah, sucks. I don't know how he can live there. I might be willing to trade locations with him.