Artsy Christmas Photos
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I have been recently inspired to try to take better photos of stationary objects, mainly through the photographic work of my blogger friend Cyndi from Pictilimitude who has been doing a “Christmas Photo Project” during the month of December. She has been taking awesome photographs and editing them in great ways. I love looking at her before and after pictures to see which ones I like better.
So a few weeks ago when we went to a festival “down town” in our small town, I started looking at the surroundings with different eyes. Normally I don’t bother with trying to take night time photography because it’s too hard to get the camera angle steady enough to avoid blur. But these turned out surprisingly well!
I kept being drawn to these light fixtures:
Identical photo, edited differently:
And yet another angle and editing set:
I’ve also been looking for inspiration around the house and neighborhood since then. These are pictures of leaves frozen in ice (rain) water in the folding chairs that sit in front of our house that I’ve been meaning to put in the shed for weeks:
Trees in our neighborhood that I snapped photos of while taking a walk with Ezra. I took these with my iPhone:
And more frozen leaves in a bird bath in the front yard of someone in our neighborhood. I hope they weren’t home wondering what that crazy lady was doing taking pictures of their bird bath:
It felt really great to be creative and artsy and do a little something for myself. I really am happy with how these photos turned out. Thanks Cyndi for the inspiration.
10 Comments
livvy30
The frozen leaves shots are beautiful.
pictimilitude
Love, LoVe, LOVE these! I’m am THRILLED that I can inspire you! You should totally put them on Flickr – you would get RAVE reviews! 🙂 Thanks for sharing these and I’m going to share this post all over!!
Aprille
Thanks for the sharing! I want to take a bunch more. I’m struggling with photography. I even went through my manual again and it was all just so overwhelming, like a new language…totally greek to me. I shoot on manual as much as I can, except in low-light. But I don’t mess with any settings like white balance and ISO and keep my aperture at the widest. I still want to take a class because I think it would help.
And get a better lens…and get better photo editing softward (right now I just use picasa3)
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LIsa D
These are great!!!
Aprille
Thanks!
Angie
Thanks so much for sharing at Wednesday’s Adorned From Above Blog Hop!
Debi @ Adorned From Above
Angie @ God’s Growing garden
Koala Bear Writer
Wow, those are beautiful pictures! 🙂
Aprille
Thanks!