Black and White Photo 5-day Challenge: Day 4

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art, black and white, candid, photoaday, Photography, portraits

Afternoon sherry

Merry Hearts Medicine recently challenged me to participate in the “Black and White Photo Five-day Challenge.”  It has taken me a while to respond but obviously, I have accepted, as I love black and white! 😉

What is this challenge? Well, the goal is to post one B&W photo each day for five days………Part of the fun is to nominate another blogger, one on each day…There is no pressure to accept this challenge after all it’s just for fun! 🙂 

Today, I nominate Vanessa of Petal & Mortar who shares recipes, crafts and photos on her wonderful blog.

Feel free to ignore this challenge if you do not wish to participate.  If you dodecide to join in, I look forward to viewing your photos!   😀

Dreaming

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art, backlighting, blogging101, Light, Photography, portraits

“We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

Well I am already on week 6 of my Light project and in this my second week of backlighting I have decided to look at portraits. One thing you must be careful of in general is lens flare. When you are shooting into the light, as you do with backlighting, you may get flare. This occurs when strong light rays go directly into your lens, hit the front element, scatter inside it and cause excessive lens refraction. The quality of the glass and the lens width contribute to the degree of flare. You can use your lens hood to help prevent such flare. Sometimes though flare can be a great advantage. It can dress up a photo, like the one above, which adds warmth and atmosphere.

Todays task for Blogging 101 is “develop a regular feature for your blog.” Which is quite apt considering Friday is the day I have been posting my year long project posts on “light sources”. It mentions creating a menu item or widget to highlight it, well I had this in hand already, so will be making this page live too now.

Until next week……….