Image 1)
I love nature photography, not only nature but flowers. This is so beautifully put together with the colors cheme that I love so much. It’s warm, and welcoming, Additionally I noticed this bloomed flower, but also a bud! This inspired me so much to not only focus on what’s in frame, but what it can portray, the message it sends. I noticed the use of a larger apeture, just perfectly capturing the flower and it’s leaves, but not the ground. I think that’s so beautiful.
Image 2)
This art is so beautifully composed, from the framining of the trees and the complementing bushes on the bottom. To the incredible bold and beautiful pops of colors from the flowers and the leaves. It inspires me to use more colors in my work! I saw that it was taken on your iPhone 12 Pro, which is impressive, And I’m not sure if it’s edited, but if it is it’s still wonderfully done!
Question)
After I took photography last year, I had so much fun! My biggest question is, I struggled a lot with composing inside and non-nature objects, do you have any tips for photographing things that aren’t leaves, or flowers, or trees? Especially indoors.
Thanks for your comments! Nature is almost always my favorite subject. However, I have photographed a lot elsewhere also. The BIG thing about indoor light is that it is often not enough light or “ugly” light. Also, often in our homes/other people’s homes there are lots of distracting items in the background. The best advice I have is to use the elements of art and principles of design in some way in EVERY photo you take – composing so that every square inch (millimeter, even!) will ensure that everything you have in the frame is purposeful – just like a painter would purposely place everything there. The other BEST advice I have – is to make the LIGHT is the way you want your subject to be “feeling” – flat light, sunny warm light, glowing light, side light, the angle that the light is changes everything – the time of day changes everything about the light. We will have an assignment about this again this year – and every time you photograph something seriously you will get better by seeing your mistakes and finding more successes as well!
also…. most of the photos on my 500px account are shot with my cell phone! After having my 2nd daughter and working full time, it is hard for me to always have my dlsr with me. However, everything I can control on my dslr – I try to control as much as possible on my cell phone. I like my work to feel painterly (as you noticed) …so, I am not missing too much quality using my cell phone most days. I usually edit my work a tiny bit or sometimes a lottt, to get the feeling of what I want to convey, or what I think a person, place or thing embodies.