“Center of Attention”
Today was an easy prompt for deciding the subject: “Today, pay attention to one subject that tends to keep showing up in your work – something that captures your eye, time and time again, and begs to be the center of attention for your creativity.”
It just so happens that I was going through about 8 months’ worth of photos yesterday to order prints. I like having photo albums to flip through and realized I hadn’t ordered any prints since May of last year. To help keep organized, I uploaded by season to Snapfish, creating 4 online “albums.” On the cover of the albums, it just so happened that Teddy showed up 3 out of 4 times! He certainly does beg to be the center of attention, quite literally. I did submit that photo of Teddy that is currently my header image to the gallery today, but I also worked on photographing another favorite subject; convinced my dear hubby to buy me some flowers!
When I say I “worked” on this subject, I really did! I read the chapter in Scott Kelby’s Digital Photography book on shooting flowers like a pro, and used some of his tips. I put the vase on the floor in front of my sliding glass door and draped a white sheet behind the flowers at a 90° angle to the door. I set my tripod at its lowest height and used the 2 second self timer for the shutter. I sat on the floor taking pictures of my bouquet for about 40 minutes I think! Here are some of my favorites:
That last one was taken with my macro converter attached to my 55-250mm lens.
My other centers of attention are busy hanging out in their pj’s and playing video games on this snow/ice day off from school. Decided not to force them into being my subject today – flowers are more cooperative anyway!
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