Photography Challenge from Dogwood Photography, Week 1

Dogwood Photography presents a year-long challenge every year. I missed it last year and i was late getting in on it this year. I’m trying to catch up but I’m having trouble finding opportunities to just take pictures. Nevertheless, I’m doing photography. I have a goal to print five of my photos, and this is one that I did print. Unfortunately I printed it on a consumer-grade home printer, and the color wasn’t true.

Week 1 Photography Challenge

Week 1 was New Year, New Beginning. I selected the image below because it represents my determination to more fully engage with my scriptures this year, as well as with my photography. It looks simple but it was actually pretty difficult to set up and capture so that it said what I wanted it to say.

 

Tech specs:

Canon

Eos REbel t5

May 7, 2018

Lens EF-S55-250 f/4-5.6 IS II

1/30

F/4.0

Iso 800

Getting the shot

It didn’t occur to me to use my tripod and just adjust the legs to the right height. At that time i had two tripods. One is easy to use but not very stable, the other is nice and firm but difficult to use. This image was staged in my dining room, on the dining table, and I positioned the items several different ways and photographed from several different positions.  Ultimately I was scrunched down in a dining chair with a throw pillow on my chest supporting the camera. It worked, but I’ll try the tripod first next time. Photography is often about doing what it takes to get the shot you want, but it’s also about using the right tools to get the job done.

Printing the image

I mentioned in the first paragraph that the color wasn’t true, and some of that I attribute to the printer. It’s an okay printer, an Epson XP-310, which does a fine job on most of what I want it to do.  It’s evident that it’s not able to read the information about the picture when it receives the print information, so I will have to see if there are adjustments I can make to fix that. The colors looked grayer, but not monochrome.

I’m looking forward to the rest of the year, and I can’t wait to see what I shoot, and to see my photography improve over the year.