Thursday, March 11, 2010

A photographer’s eye

(very photo heavy post)

Saturday evening I took some photos in the kitchen and absentmindedly left the camera on the table.

Sunday morning, around 8am, Havoc comes in the bedroom and informs me he’d been taking some pictures and the camera wasn’t working any more because it was full.

I had taken maybe a dozen photos. The card holds 351. What did Havoc feel he needed to take over 300 photos of?

Mostly he was perfecting his composition studies of “Cat with Bowl”

First selecting the right angle for the shots

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Then getting in close

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Followed by some experimenting with the rule of thirds composition

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and centering

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There was also “Cat Wishing for a Bowl”

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“Cat Relaxing”

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And the popular “Cat Among the Stuff” series

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Cat photos accounted for more than 200 of the photos.

Then there was “Clone Trooper Parking”

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(everyone thinks I pose the toys in my 365 photos, but 95% of the time I just photograph what I find, though probably I would have called these Sunbathing Troopers or Clones at the Drive In)

Finally there is the obligatory self-portrait

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There were also about 75 photos of Mayhem that I can’t share because Mayhem had removed his pajamas when he woke up.