1-18-07

Day 160 of 365 days.

Last week I joined a flickr community created by fellow 365er, daverexwood. Dave is taking a photography class and has challenged others to do his weekly assignments with him. I thought it’d be a fine set of exercises to work on improving my photography. There were four assignments for the first week. I gave myself a little mini challenge. I wanted to try to take one pic covering all four assignments for the first week. I actually tried to come up with stuff a few times earlier in the week and failed miserably. So today, I decided I’d just junk the idea and do them separately (I actually had some shots from the earlier in the week that I could have used that fulfilled some requirements).

Then I decided to cook hamburgers for dinner for me and Steph, and the idea was born. I knew a shot that could fulfill each assignment as well as work for a 365 shot for today. So rather than cook the burgers in a frying pan, I grabbed my trusty indoor grill and this shot was born.

The assignments:

1. Use selective focus to emphasize your subject in a photo. (tag with cwd11)

2. Hands are the subject. (tag with cwd12)

3. Tells a story. (tag with cwd13)

4. Lines and Curves. (tag with cwd14)

I don’t know that I will continue trying to do all the exercises in one photo. In fact, I’m pretty sure I won’t, since it’s really difficult and I think I could get four much better shots if I separate them out and don’t focus on trying to mash them together. But it was an interesting challenge for one week.

365 days