Quote of the day: “Draw up a list of some photographic rules; then go out and break them.” ~ Freeman Patterson Photography and the Art of Seeing
Macro of droopy, drying hydrangea blossoms
I’ve been reading Photography and the Art of Seeing by Freeman Patterson and I’ve decided to challenge myself each week with an idea from the book as a photo shoot assignment. I’d love for you to join me on my once a week explorations. Send me a link to your most interesting results by Friday each week and I’ll pick some to post the next week in my blog.
Yesterday, I used the quote above to list a couple of the “rules” that I follow – take only photos of fresh new flowers and make sure the focal area of the photo is in focus – and I challenged myself to photograph the drooping, shriveling, drying flower bouquets that I would have ignored in the past, and to do some out of focus shots intentionally (don’t laugh, I do plenty unintentionally). Here are some of my more interesting results.
Hyacinths
Dreamy out-of-focus hydrangea
Look at the interesting colors of the stems on the flowers
Black and White Hyacinths
Aging Flowers Wrinkle Just Like People Do
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