Photo 365 - Day 169 (Floor)

Day 169 (December 19th, 2010)
Title: Floorboards

I know, I know, it's another stick photo!  I just couldn't help myself!  I really like this photo, it reminds me of old floorboards in a dark and spooky house.  Course, since these are tiny sticks, it would be a mighty small house.   I was going to try and photoshop some nails in each "board" to make it seem a bit more realistic, but since it took me like 2 hours to do one nail, I decided not so much. 

Enjoy!

Photo 365 - Day 168 - Planks

Day 168 (December 18th, 2010)
Title: Planks

This is the second of my "sticks" photos, and probably last of the sticks photos.  I was trying to do some "forced perspective" with these, and I think this is about the best I'm going to get.  I realized that forced perspective (basically, making the viewer look where you want them to look, subconsciously) isn't a very 'friendly' type of composition.  Normally forced focus is more passive (such as converging lines or a horizon), but I feel these last two pictures aren't being very subtle about it and as much as I'm forcing the viewer to look, I realized there really isn't anything to look AT in these shots. 

In the previous shot, the one short stick was directing the viewer to look at the shadow.  In this photo, both the shadows and the lines are directing you to look at the center-line of the photo, but there isn't really anything interesting there!  So, its like telling you to read a book full of blank pages (I'm sure that has some deep metaphysical thing going on, but that's not really what I'm going for).  So, we'll move on to something new tomorrow!

Enjoy!

Photo 365 - Day 167 (Intersecting Lines)

Day 167 (December 17th, 2010)
Title: Intersecting Lines


I'm finally done with the little plastic boxes (for now at least)!  Time to move on to something new and exciting... Its little wooden sticks!  Woo!!  I know, its almost too exciting to handle, but handle it I shall!  Unless I get a splinter or something, but I'm willing to take that chance for you! 


Even though I've changed subject matter, I'm still working within the whole "light/dark" experiment.  I enjoyed this shot, because it really shows off both high contrast/brightness on the wood, but at the same time, gives a nice shadow effect without either overpowering each other.  I also tried a little "forced focus" in making one of the 'wooden legs' point towards the shadows, so to direct your eyes away from the brightness of the wood.  Look at me being all tricky n' stuff! 


Enjoy!