Project 52: Playing with Backlight (4)
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul.
And sings the tune
Without the words,
and never stops at all.
– Emily Dickinson
Today’s post is for Project 52, a weekly blog project that I am working on with several other talented photographers. In this project, we concentrate on light and spend several weeks exploring an overarching theme. Today is our last post that focuses on backlighting, which is when the main light source is located behind the subject.
For some inexplicable reason, I’ve been absolutely obsessed with this wire that regularly attracts all these pigeons. When I finally went to shoot it, I had to aim directly into the sun, so I couldn’t really see the details of what I was capturing until I downloaded the files back at home. I have to admit that I was really excited about the detail in the pigeons who were flying toward the wire.
Please continue along in our creative blog circle to see the gorgeous work of my friend Kelly Roth Patton. Click HERE to see Kelly’s creative play on backlighting.
Project 52: Playing with Backlight (3)
Moonlight is sculpture. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
My apologies for the lame pun. I couldn’t resist.
Today’s post is for Project 52, a weekly blog project that I am working on with several other talented photographers. In this project, we concentrate on light and spend several weeks exploring an overarching theme. We are currently focusing on backlighting, which is when the main light source is located behind the subject. Here is my Alexa, who turns 1 on Monday, and has begun exploring the world on her own little feet:
Please continue along in our creative blog circle to see the beautiful work of my friend Kim DuPree. Click HERE to see Kim’s creative play on backlighting.
A Modern Day Princess?
I try to take pictures of Alexa each month of her first year, just as I did for Avery. This month, when I was taking her picture, she kept wandering away from the light I was trying to shoot in, so I lured her back with my iPhone. She is obsessed with it, of course. Unfortunately, once she was back in the light, the only shots I could get of her where either with her playing with it or with her crying that I’d taken it away. Sigh. She does look awfully cute anyway, though, doesn’t she?
Project 52: Playing with Backlight (2)
“To love beauty is to see light. ” – Victor Hugo
Today’s post is for Project 52, a weekly blog project that I am working on with several other talented photographers. In this project, we concentrate on light and spend several weeks exploring an overarching theme. We are currently focusing on backlighting, which is when the main light source is located behind the subject. I love taking backlit photos, both indoors and out, and love that backlighting can create an “otherworldly” effect in a photo. Today’s play on backlighting is of Avery playing dress-up in my clothes, posing for me in front of a large glass door:
Please continue along in our creative blog circle to see the fantastic work of my friend Julie Kiernan. Click HERE to see Julie’s creative play on backlighting.
Octopus Insanity
The other day I asked Avery what she wanted to do and she shouted out, “Aquarium!” We’ve been to the aquarium a number of times and I’ve always been a fan of the octopus, but it’s usually just jammed into a corner somewhere and hard to see. Not this week! This big guy put on quite a show! It’s really very hard to get a decent picture of him, since there is almost no light in the area where he’s located and shooting through the curved glass leads to some weird optics, but he was so cool that I just had to share.
Project 52: Playing with Backlight (1)
Today’s post is for Project 52, a weekly blog project that I am working on with several other talented photographers. In this project, we concentrate on light and spend several weeks exploring an overarching theme. Beginning today, we will embark on our second theme, backlighting. Simply put backlighting is when the main light source is behind the subject. Backlighting is a favorite method of mine and it can be used to create some incredibly beautiful effects, including rim lighting, silhouettes, haze and others. Here is my first play on backlighting:
Please continue along in our creative blog circle to see the beautiful work of Linda Hooper. Click HERE to see Linda’s creative play on backlighting.
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