Day 4. January 7th 2011

So, a triptych, this one was a bit of a headache trying to find a theme. Work's been a bit hectic so haven't had my creative brain strapped in, it's been watching from the sidelines sat in a pickle jar. But i did get a few moments on one of our brief breaks to take some more pictures.

I took inspiration from a picture I took yesterday whilst trying to do my arty shot of the thingy-me-doodle and I noticed how round it was in this photo. Then I noticed how many round objects there where just in the kitchen area alone. These pictures where taken in a 20 break, imagine if i'd spent longer, i wonder how many picture opportunities I would have found, with my snap happy fingers I recon I probably could have used up a hole memory card just on objects found at work.

I highly recommend anyone reading this to take a day or a walk or just a 5 minute coffee break and snap as many pictures as you can solely on a single theme. Be that theme a shape like I did, or street signs, or fences or clouds or anything blue or something reflective. I really enjoyed the clarity which came from pushing everything else out of my search but my one specific subject.

I used a variety of Photoshop tweaks (which, by the way, I still use CS3 if anyone cares) The first image I simply turned it black and white using the green filter and burnt the edges to vignette it, the second one I upped the colours a bit and boosted the contrast, and the last image I lowered the saturation, upped the contrast.

If I had more time I would have used Photoshop to warp and resize each image so that the circles where all exactly the same size and position with in the individual composition.

So tomorrow I'm hopefully meeting up with a few of my old Uni Pals in London and I'm going to take an action shot of a person doing something wacky. Which shouldn't be too hard knowing my friends.

Till next time,
Gordon

ps: just so it's noted if the meet up doesn't happen my back up idea is to take a photo which involves reflection.