Upde Designs

I will post a few more images from my stroll about the neighborhood last Sunday.  One thing that stuck in my mind is that we have lived here for 19 years and I have never just walked around the neighborhood looking at things from the perspective of something to shoot.  My tendency is to load equipment in the car and take off for parts unknown.

It was fun to see what all I could find in a very short amount of time. This image just does not do justice to the moon I saw.  It was massive and such a soft pale color.  I had a hard time focusing on it because it was so soft, I suppose because of the hazy sky.

Having sat through several hours of lessons looking for geometric shapes and repeating patterns I couldn’t help but shoot this swing set.  One of the lessons dealt with the rule of threes.  It suggested that you look for groupings of objects or patterns in groups of three.  Unfortunately this swing set had four swings but at least it had only three metal supports and I liked the repeating pattern.

One of my biggest (at least in my mind) faults is I don’t “look around the frame” before pressing the shutter.  That causes me to cut off things that should be in the image and have things in the image that should not be there.   I get so focused on my subject that I forget to look around the edges to detect and evaluate proper composition.  Above is a good example of that.  I cut off the top of the swing set.  It probably is okay, but it would have just been a better image if I had not done that.  Would you have noticed if I hadn’t said anything?

I have mixed feelings about this image.  I have seen many photos shot through a fence.  Some very artistic.  I liked this when I first looked at it but the more I look at it the more distracting I find the fence.  I saw a brilliant image once of a young man playing basketball in an urban setting.  He was shot through a chain link fence and that made the image even more compelling.

Nothing compelling about this image but again I just can’t decide if I like it.  Thank you for stopping by.  Enjoy your day and be careful.