Familiar objects, hmm, well lately I have taken literally thousands of shots of my baby grand daughter who recently turned 1. These aren't the sort of picture I really love to shoot though. Don't get me wrong of course I love taking these pictures of her, she is so adorable, but I love taking shots of other things as well. so my inspiration file is not filled with photos of Elle. No it has doors, and window boxes another favourite thing for me to photograph and flowers and odds and ends.
Todays lesson on photographing the one subject was interesting. I began taking shots of my new hydrangea bush, with it's pretty pink flowers and realised I wanted to actually catch the water droplets on the flowers, as much as the flower itself. I love snapping water droplets, catching the light, clinging on as hard as they can before they splash to the ground. I think it's kind of magical, like a little world caught in those tiny droplets.
I get really excited when I find things like this to shoot, raindrops after a shower, dew on flowers, that sort of thing. I love coming into my computer at the end of a shoot and looking at what I have caught, editing a little or a lot. I get really frustrated when trying to catch something and I can't get my camera to focus on it, I am too close or too far away to get the effect I want. I have a zoom lens with a macro setting on it and my everyday lens also has a macro setting, but I don't have a whizz bang macro lens so I can't always get the really up close shots I want. I was interested to realise that though I started wanting to photograph the flowers that did change, like I said to catching the water droplets. I love the bokeh too, that beautiful blur of light in the background.
