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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.
Project 52: Playing with Shadows (4)
Today’s post is for a long-term collaborative photo project I am participating in with several other talented photographers whom I have come to know and admire over the past year. This project concentrates on light and learning to master its many dynamic forms. We spend several weeks at at time exploring a common overarching theme so we can really dig in deep, have fun, and take creative risks. Here is my final take on our first theme, shadows:
My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;
And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow–
Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow;
For he sometimes shoots up taller like an india-rubber ball,
And he sometimes goes so little that there’s none of him at all.He hasn’t got a notion of how children ought to play,
And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.
He stays so close behind me, he’s a coward you can see;
I’d think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!One morning, very early, before the sun was up,
I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup;
But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head,
Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.
And I would like to say goodbye to shadows with one quick extra picture:
Next up in our creative blog circle is the creative and talented Lisa Rigazio. Please take a moment to check out Lisa’s creative play on shadows.
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