Friday 3 May 2013

focus on life–week 18- abstract

First an update on week 17 and the best shoes ever.  She totally loved them and couldn’t take her eyes off ‘em.  They’ve already seen a whole lot of action and are holding up just beautifully.  Happy child, happy mama!

two bears

She loves to tell me that there are two bears in the Octopod: one is Shellington, one is Barnacles.  This is not true, Shellington is a sea otter and she loves to have me argue that point with her.  She has found debate humorous since practically her first words (when she would insist the globe was a ball).  Sigh.

Here comes week 18, when Sally Russick of the Studio Sublime prompted us to look for and create an abstract with our lens.  She included some great instructions for capturing a light trail.  I had big plans and then the week just sucked the life right out of me (boring day job reasons).  So Friday afternoon I found myself searching for the app she mentioned may be one to try.  Try I did, it didn’t work – it saved white boxes instead of pictures.  Never mind, there were all sorts of others to try out.  I liked the one called “Slow Camera FREE – Shutter FX for Professional Photographers” catchy name huh?

lightsketches

I was taking pictures basically while shaking my phone at a variety of angles and then there are all manner of different effects you can add. the sample above starts with the view of my curtained window shaking north/south with aqua filter.  In the middle is a shot of the TV, drop your right ear to your shoulder and you should see his face.  On the right is through the screen looking at next door’s satellite. 

This one ended up being my favourite.  It has some filter on it too, don’t recall which one. I think there were 12 different ones in the free version, I didn’t take a look at what a purchase gets you.  I sure did have some fun though using the light to sketch out a picture. 

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Now it’s time to see what this creative group came up with right here, on Sally’s blog

17 comments:

  1. So love the picture of Averleigh checking her beautiful shoes :)

    As I do your interpretation of this week's prompt: you truly created some interesting in-motion photographs!

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  2. These photos are really cool. I love the light in each one.

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  3. Knew the sneakers would be a big hit, but what do you plan for an encore? LOL. This weeks prompt had you working hard, love the ear to the shoulder comment about the TV pic!

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  4. oh, what a really clever idea!! I like the greeny one best, I think, there's something will-o-the-wisp about it... just magical!!
    I knew the trainers would be a hit - still want an adult version :)

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  5. Glad she loved her shoes... Does she want to wear them to bed? It's interesting seeing what people did this week!

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  6. I like your experiments! I did not do well with some of mine! PicMonkey to the rescue!

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  7. Love the sneakers!!!! And clearly, she does too. Your abstracts are great.

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  8. You certainly excelled at this abstract assignment. Your photos are wonderful, and I love the different effects.

    I knew your girl would love those darling shoes!!! How cute that she can't stop looking at them.

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  9. It is always good to provide "the best shoes ever!"

    I like the color variations in your abstract shots

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  10. Wow. I love the effect you achieved.

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  11. What a cool app and amazing pictures you got out of it. Abstract indeed!! Excellent job.

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  12. Cool that she likes her shoes. You totally captured abstract. Good job Emma.

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  13. Very interesting photos- love the colors!

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  14. Wow, you did a great job. I was going to look at the apps, but the week just got away from me!

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  15. Avelrleigh sure loves those shoes - love the intensity she is looking at them with. Maybe she will be a lawyer. Your pictures are so vibrant and you got some cool effects this week.

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