I am playing with Prairie Jill and Miriam. We are working our way through Steve Sonheim’s photography book(Creative-Photography-Lab-Self-Expression-Mixed-Media), lab by lab.
The objective of this lab was to create a sharp graphic image. A fun lab to do…the difficult thing was finding something to SPLAT…I thought about a lot of things that would be safe to SPLAT…paint tubes, chocolate chips, cookies for example. No good. I tried carrots..they were too soft. So I broke down and tried glass…a small piece of some foil-wrapped glass less than 1 inch across(I didn’t want to get shards all over my carpet!).
It splatted great!! But tiny, tiny, tiny little splinters…I would need a good macro.
My DSLR..couldn’t get close enough…no good! Need macro lens or extensions…
My point and shoot camera…ditto even in macro mode!
My Samsung galaxy phone: Bingo!
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I love the result of the broken class. And who would think a cell phone would catch a better photo that your cameras? (My cell phone camera takes good photos only outdoors.)
I’ll have to see if the library has this book. I don’t want to go through the entire book, but I might pick and choose some of the ideas for future use.
Often I get great ideas from other photographers on Flickr. While I’m listening to an audio book, I scroll through hundreds of photos using a sketch pad to make a quick sketch of an idea I’d like to try.
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I love the image!! I have lots of pieces of broken glass, but ones that I have picked up, so not the tiny bits. I love the shadows!!!
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I also love the colour!!
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Great result!! I love the colours in the shadows. Interesting that the phone was able to get the shot that the cameras couldn’t.
I wasn’t brave enough to smash anything, so I skipped this lab. Hope to get back to it next week.
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Beautiful capture! I might have to try this… I have a macro lens for my iPhone which is on a rubber band and slips over it easily. Loved his silly photography class online. Have fun with it.
Diane
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