It’s been a full year of Who We Become (though I actually have to catch up on a few posts that I missed – shhhh!), and we are looking back at the year and choosing a favorite image.  I have posted a few contenders below, but you will have to click HERE to see the post on Who We Become to find out which one was my very favorite.   😉  Thank you for visiting!  

I decided to play with multiple exposures again for our free for all.  It’s a tricky technique, but I am hoping that I won’t shy away from it anymore now that I’ve started playing with it.  Please click HERE to see all the creative images on Who We Become.

This week on Who We Become we are working on intentionally out of focus images.  This image of Avery moving in the water out of my frame reveals the way I’ve been feeling about summer drifting away.  Please click HERE to see all the out of focus images on Who We Become.

I’ve been slacking on my Who We Become posts, but I am trying to get back to them and catch up on the ones I have missed.  I picked a tricky but exciting week to return to, however, as we are exploring multiple exposures!  The last time I did a double exposure, it was because I was shooting on film and I screwed up and forgot to forward the roll.  I have known for some time that my digital camera was capable of doing this, but I’d never looked into it.  I think that I will need to play with this some more – it was a lot of fun, but definitely different, and I am not sure that my photo is a total success.  I am getting a kick out of my little wild thing, though!  Please click HERE to visit Who We Become and see everyone’s double exposure image.

We are working on layering this week on Who We Become.  Layering involves using foreground and background, in addition to your subject, to tell your story.  My images for this week come from our visit with cousins on Whidbey Island.  The girls were playing on the beach, in and out of the water, and my cousin Martha and I were trying to capture some of their craziness, becoming part of the action at times ourselves.  It was very fun, and as with all good play, there was a touch of chaos that I think this technique allowed me to capture.  Please click HERE to visit Who We Become and see everyone’s layered images.

We are working on subject separation this week on Who We Become – that is, compositional elements used to distinguish the subject from the environment or background.  This week’s image is from a trip to the beach (aka Lake Washington) that the girls and I took earlier this week.  Alexa, with her sandy bum and banana in hand, just cracked me up.  Please click HERE to visit Who We Become and see everyone’s image for this week.

This week on Who We Become we are focusing on depth of field.  Depth of field is the area of your photo that is in focus.  By keeping just your subject in focus, with the rest of the image out of focus, you direct the viewer’s eye where you would like it to go.  Here, the cow’s face is in focus and you can see the water dripping from it’s mouth, but the other cows and trees in the background are blurred so they do not detract from the subject.  Avery was very interested in petting a cow when we were in Switzerland, though the cows were not quite keen on this idea.  This cow is the one she got closest to, as you can see in the second image below.  😉  Please click HERE to see all the depth of field images over on Who We Become.

For our last week of portraiture, we are simply doing a photographer’s choice image.  This one was taken in Gruyere, Switzerland just outside the chocolate factory that we had toured.  We needed to burn off the sugar from our tasting, so Paul and the girls played a bit of tag.  You can see some of the beauty that surrounded us in the background; it is such a breathtaking place!  Please click HERE  to visit Who We Become and see everyone’s choice for this week.  

Continuing our theme of classical portraiture on Who We Become, this week we are working on photographing groups.  Check out my group of crazies and all the other groups by clicking HERE!