Absence from class

Sadly my brother passed away suddenly and mom and I have had to withdraw from the photo class. Mom and I will hopefully be able to take the class over at another time. I wish you all well.

Mj's Week 3 Collage Assignment

I changed the title to get this on top so everyone could more easily see the collage I posted for the assignment Wed night. Sorry for the confusion. I had some difficulty with Picasa.

I blended the different themes of my photos and I hope you enjoy the results.

Picasa Collages

Okay I think I finally got down the how of making a collage in Picasa. I am not going to say how many hours it took me to "get" it though. Suffice it to say it was a process. It is ADDICTING though. The hardest part was culling photos from the over 600 I had. I have no idea how we are to "blog" on the technical elements of our photos-not that it all makes sense to me yet, but hey I am having fun with it. If any one knows how I can get closer to an object without getting blurry I would appreciate it. I do plan to stay a healthy and respectful distance from all spiders though.

Shapes Collage

Shape Collage

In The Garden Collage

In The Garden

Knitting Art Collage

Knitting Collage

Fabric Art Collage

Here are the "Fabric Art" related photo collage I made of all the fabric photos that I took on Macro Mode.

Some did not make the final cut as they were blurry. A recurring issue for me in this mode.

Compare and Contrast: In the top photo I was trying to get close enough to the spider that had been tormenting me all day. I thought the red pot and pink in the bottles and the pink string were complimented by the greens in the photo. I thought the green and red added a crispness to the photograph that I found overall appealing. In the bottom photograph I moved the camera lens down a little bit and zoomed in. Still on auto focus and without flash, I did notice the ISO setting had changed to 400, I took a close up of the corner where the spider had scurried off to. I am drawn to this photo as I find it has an earthy but homey appeal to me. I thought the sharpness of the image and the colors of the grouping worked harmoniously together.

Attack of the Spider

My camera was on auto focus and I had turned the flash off. 
The lens Focal was 30 mm
Exposure was 1/125
Aperture was  f/5.6
ISO was 160.

The books are home

In the bottom photograph here are the settings
Camera was on auto focus and the flash was off
The Lens Focal was 55
Exposure was 1/60
Aperture was f/5.6
ISO was 400 

Week 2 Photo Class: Since living this week either in the garden, playing with my cameras (both old and now a new one), on the computer dealing with the technology side of the class, I thought I would combine them for this weeks assignment.

Spider Attacks

Books Are Home