Still thinkin' "minimal" thoughts

[wholenewlight]

Shot this shot on Sat but didn't get it in the challenge (seems kind of minimal to me). Liked it after I got looking at it closer.

http://cs-pics.smugmug.com/photos/18003557-M.jpg

and simply . . .

http://cs-pics.smugmug.com/photos/18003559-M.jpg

Opinions welcome.
:smile6

[gus]

This is kind of hard to explain because you have to be in my head to see it (& thats a weird place believe me)

This is how i photograph...not how anyone else does it...its a personal thing & mine may well not be your idea of a photograph either.

If you want 'punch' in your shots you have to get right out of your comfort zone..& i dont mean find something dangerous but do stuff with your camera that you would/shoud never do. Hell i have floated mine in plastic bags...hung it from in trees...set the timer & suspended it from my motorbike handlebar underway...taped it to a stick & used it as a 10 foot extension tripod to get a bug in a tree.

Its all such an individual thing. I really find objects in the house boring beyond belief. I dont have the experience to offer anything tech on a photo other than the obvious but i know what i see that is mundane & i know what i see & think 'holey smoking duckshit batman...look at that !!!!'

Remember this is just an opinion from someone whom has really only got 18 months dig experience...take it with a grain of salt & maybe wait till one of the pro's dial in with something that may hold more substance.

Good luck.

[wholenewlight]

Interesting thoughts. Not normally a still-life, around-the-house-shooter. And yet for the purposes of a "photo challenge", my sensitivity switch gets turned on and I start looking at objects differently (in my daughters home in this case). With this shot (1st one), I saw the ball on a "lego" table and thought hmmm . . . after playing around with light, camera angle, etc, I was sufficiently amused.

20 years ago I used to have a small studio and my shots were so mundane (weddings, boring portraits, etc) that I eventually got more interested in other adventures. Now I'm packing a slr around with me again. :wink

This is kind of hard to explain because you have to be in my head to see it (& thats a weird place believe me)

Viewed your site (wandering "into your head"??) - interesting stuff - especially like this one:

http://wadjelaphotography.smugmug.com/photos/13875992-S.jpg


Thanks for your observations.