The other day my boys played in the front yard. I took my iphone and a cheap macro lens outside with them. These are the photos I took.
These two images were taken inside the kitchen after I saw the spider. I decided to experiment with lighting with a torch. Not too bad really considering what was used.
The lightness of the setting and the colour of the leaf combine to make what feels to me like butter more than a leaf. If that made no sense just discard what you read and look at the detail in the leaf membranes!
Here is my entry for the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: illumination. All images were taken using an iPhone, $3 magnetic macro lens attachment, the leaf and flowers and a torch.
Cucumber plant leaf
Lettuce flower
I love the shape this leaf made. It was from a Wattle.
I sit here this morning out the front of my house eating breakfast. I came out here to try to soak up the sunlight and instead have realized that it is definitely Winter. The shadows are long and although the light is very bright my body struggles to feel any warmth from it. I am acutely aware of my poor, cold fingertips trying to hold a spoon. They had assumed a leisurely breakfast in the sun would be a pleasure. My breakfast cereal even has an unexpected visitor. My son is enjoying running around in the wind, flapping his arms, pretending to be a bird. I suppose that is what counts.
I just decided to check what the photography tips for composition Number 2 was (see below) – it can be found here in this list.
2. Draw attention to the subject. This can be done by simply getting closer, by using selective focus, by using color, by lighting just the subject, by framing the subject in a doorway or window, etc.
and I had taken a photo this morning after a windy night that fits the rule pretty well, so I have added it as my first No 2 composition photo.
This Maple leaf stood out to me when I went out to get some photos of the front yard completely covered with leaves from the Cedar tree. We don’t own a Maple tree. I have no idea where it came from, but it ended up nestled amongst the begonias and certainly stood out as not belonging to our garden if nothing else!
Learning the Light 