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I don't want to whine and complain, but I am tired of the frigid cold. A whole whooping 0 degrees this morning in the car on my way to work. I am so ready for some warm sunshine.
Saturday Self Challenge
This challenge will be about "forced perspective", or creating an illusion using different distance for two subjects.
I knew this challenge was going to be a problem because I’ve failed miserably on a previous occasion.
I spotted the empty blue plant pot in the garden and had an idea that it might look nice with a tree coming out of it. I set the pot up on the garden wall and positioned myself so that a large sycamore tree in a neighbours garden had the appearance of growing out of it. The result was almost perfect, pot in focus, tree in focus, wall in focus, the only problem was that the tree was so huge, all I’d managed to get in the frame was a small area of the trunk so the result looked a little hideous. Images went in the trash.
Later in the day myself and my husband decided to take a walk to the nearby reservoir, along with the pot, a hammer, a screwdriver and a clamp, the latter items just in case anything else caught our eye.
The reservoir wall walk is closed for maintenance work, but the picnic site is still open. We emptied our collection of goodies onto one of the tables, by this time a dog walker and the men employed by Yorkshire Water to work on the wall were looking a little confused.
Anyway, we managed to find one fence post that wasn’t wonky to put the pot on. I’d have ideally liked to have been further away from the subject, a large Rowan tree, but the big dip behind me prevented that. I took around 20 shots on various settings, all looked pretty good on the camera screen. The holly bush was in the way, but with the presence of the men from the water company who own the land, we didn’t think it prudent to prune it - so it had to stay.
Next we tried another idea, my husband balancing on the stonework of the reservoir wall, holding a hammer as though he was hammering a distant telegraph pole into the ground (more funny looks) I took a few images from a crouching position in some mud, they too all looked good on the screen.
Job done we packed up the tools, put them back in the car and went for a walk in the woods.
Next task was to transfer the shots to the iPad. This was where it all went horribly wrong. Firstly the shots of the hammer and telegraph pole, a great idea, looked really well against a blue sky, the hammer and my husbands hand were pin sharp, the telegraph pole just slightly out of focus - the lot went in the trash bin.
The rowan tree shots were next, another disaster, some shots the pot was in focus, the trees not. Others the trees were in focus the pot not. Some everything was nicely in focus, but I was just slightly in the wrong place and the tree wasn’t in the pot.
So we have this image. The only one that I could salvage from the lot of them, I’m not happy with it, there’s too much going on in the background, the holly bush is still intruding, and I’m not entirely happy with the focus.
I will remember this challenge for a long time, it was fun trying, but the challenge itself was very trying :)
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While cruising around the farm roads near the south shore of Lake Manitoba, we came across a stretch of fenceline near St. Ambroise that was loaded up with Wilson's Snipes and Upland Sandpipers. Shooting from the "rolling blind" we were able to get some great close-up images. While fenceposts certainly aren't my favourite perch, ~95% of the time I see this species perched off the ground it is on a fencepost...