Day 81 - Rule of Thirds

Today's assignment was to illustrate the rule of thirds in a photograph today. I decided to go back into my archive and retrieve the dinosaur picture I snapped at learning buddies earlier this month. It seemed a bit bright so I used a preset to make it look more 'dramatic'. Well, that's the word Peg used. I then decided it was too dark so I went back to the brighter version.

Now that I'm caught on my posting my next goal is to go visit all of you and see the great pics you've been taking.

Day 58 - And the winner is . . .

The theme is to make a photograph of something that is glowing today. Use any meaning of the word you like. I thought with the Oscars on this evening I would take out my own and snap some shots. I felt a little like a paparazzi :-). One of my students gave me this statuette last year. She told me it was a teacher Oscar. It's not made of real gold but the sentiment behind it is priceless.

Once I took the picture I did some processing in Lightroom. I used the Dark Horse preset and did some playing with exposure. In Photoshop I copied it and put a smaller version up in the right corner but I didn't like it so I took it out. I have to remind myself that sometimes less is more.

Canon XSi
Lens: 100 mm
Focal Length: 100
F/stop: 2.8
Exposure: 1/500
ISO: 200

Day 40 - Follow the Line

I'll begin this post by letting you know the next few pictures are going to be cheats. It's been a VERY busy week and one of those days our school went sliding for the day. I took MANY pictures that day so I've decided to follow The Daily Shoot themes using photos from the outing for Days 40 - 43.
Today's assignment is to make a photograph that features a leading line through it today. Draw the viewers eye through the image. This is picture of the bottom of the hill. You can see the winding path curve and then disappear behind the tree. I used the snow scape preset in Lightroom.