Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts

Friday, July 27, 2012

Accidental Still Life

I never knew how hard still life photography is until I tried it this week.
No, you can't see the shots that didn't turn out. They stink.
But Prudes pride themselves on persistence so I'll keep trying and if nothing turns
out and I never master the principles of design I'll just hope you forget I ever said anything.
In the meantime here are some still-lifeish photos that look that way only by accident.
Swing a camera around and snap wildly for long enough and something is bound to
look intentional.

My parents got this lamp as their wedding present. It goes downstairs with me during tornado warnings
No way to improve on these colors and textures

If I could paint I would paint these to look just like this
Cold stones and frosted flowers
This photo is all that we have to remember these glasses. They are now among the 4 dozen other pair my husband lost

How can hatboxes be so photogenic?
Flowers and a Mercedes. What's not to love?
I may have gotten a little photoshop-happy here
Hey! This sort of counts as deliberate. I did this for a shower invite.  For my potato-loving daughter-in-law.

What does one do when the bundt cake spills over in the oven and smoke wafts through the house? Grab the camera!
Enjoy the weekend! I plan to!

Friday, December 16, 2011

It's Christmastime in the City

Our series of photographic studies on Chicago ends today with
'It's Christmastime in the City'.
Thank you Jay Livingston and Ray Evans for composing the song 'Silver Bells' from which the Prude so shamelessly took this title.
Thank you Chicago, for the lavish lights and loveliness.
Thank you all, for taking time to peruse The Prude's photographic obsession.









Tuesday, August 30, 2011

The Prude Relinquishes her Camera

Today we have photos brought to you by The Prude's 8 year old twin nieces, Jasmine and Jessica.


At their cousin's recent high school football game they relieved The Prude of her photography duties. In less than a minute and a half they had the workings of the camera mastered and breezily snapped left and right.
They got their aunt
The ups and downs of the sidelines
A nice soft-focus of The Prude
Some cool curves
Some rabid female fans
A nifty shot of lights on helmets
Thanks girls! I'll be calling on you again!

Friday, August 26, 2011

Mug Shots: Couples, a Dog, and Cute Kids

If there is anything I like more than photographing folks in motion, it is taking pictures of faces.
Sometimes the subjects behave, sometimes, well, they behave like my husband.