March Photo Challenge [Day Five]

March Photo Challenge [Day Four]

I've decided to add a little description to the pictures I post.  Especially on days like today when I want to show an interesting effect with two images.  The objects in these pictures were not moved between shots, showing the effect focal length has on compression.  

Here I had the camera a few feet away from the table and used a focal length of 55, focusing on the yellow pitcher and with a shallow depth of field blurring out the foreground.  Notice how the three objects look close together.

Now I moved in close to the table shortening my focal length to 24, still focusing on the pitcher and keeping the shallow depth of field.  This time the space between the objects is longer giving a different feel to the image.

March Photo Challenge [Day Three]

March Photo Challenge [Day Two]

March Photo Challenge [Day One]

In order to put into practice all of the ideas I have been learning, I need to take more pictures, a lot more pictures.  So I've issued myself a challenge to post once a day an image or set of images, unedited and without words so as to have motivation and a reference to my work for the month of March. 

Paper Clipped Snippet

I found such joy in watching her work through it all.  From chopping the vegetables and meat just so, to figuring out how much peas to add (not too many, Dad's not a huge fan!) and then tasting to make sure it had just the right amount of salt.  She made dinner!!  And she carried that pride with her for days.

Paper Clipped Snippet

There are so many "last times" all of a sudden...when did life shift from first's to last's?