week 4
WEEK 4 COTTAGE, MUSKOKA, ONTARIO
The summer has started and my husband and I will be at the cottage for several weeks. This week we're getting it ready for the summer...a big job. I finally took a break from the hard work and was sitting at the dock thinking I'd better shoot something for this week's project, but I was tired and not at all in the mood for photography. Then I glanced up and saw the scalloped flap from the boathouse awning waving slowly in the breeze. I had my camera with me, but not my tripod, and was too lazy to climb the steps to the cottage, so I shot it handheld. I needed to shoot with a wide open aperture to get a fast enough shutter speed to stop the movement of the flap. I found I actually liked the resultant soft focus at the far end of the flap. Because the sky was overcast and bare, in Photoshop, I made it pure white and cropped out the top part of the awning, creating a panoramic shape, and then concentrated on making an image with two triangular shapes, separated by the wavy line. Conversion to black and white, and a few other adjustments put the finishing touches on this graphic.
The summer has started and my husband and I will be at the cottage for several weeks. This week we're getting it ready for the summer...a big job. I finally took a break from the hard work and was sitting at the dock thinking I'd better shoot something for this week's project, but I was tired and not at all in the mood for photography. Then I glanced up and saw the scalloped flap from the boathouse awning waving slowly in the breeze. I had my camera with me, but not my tripod, and was too lazy to climb the steps to the cottage, so I shot it handheld. I needed to shoot with a wide open aperture to get a fast enough shutter speed to stop the movement of the flap. I found I actually liked the resultant soft focus at the far end of the flap. Because the sky was overcast and bare, in Photoshop, I made it pure white and cropped out the top part of the awning, creating a panoramic shape, and then concentrated on making an image with two triangular shapes, separated by the wavy line. Conversion to black and white, and a few other adjustments put the finishing touches on this graphic.
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