The theme for this week’s 52Frames was Abstract, and I really liked the texture of this rock, found during a walk along the beach front. Not much to say here – this is basically reframing and moving a few cursors in Google Photos of a picture I took with my phone, but there wasn’t much thought around it (I like the colors, though!).
As you may have noticed, I already broke my previous streak − I did take some pictures for the Negative Space theme, but I forgot to post one in time. Still, get a negative space, as a treat:
Another “let’s get back into 52Frames and into the habit of blogging a bit more” shot for this week’s 52Frames with the theme Distortion. My initial goal was to get the crystal ball out and to get a few shots with it, but that didn’t happen 😛 Instead, we were in Graubünden this week-end, and I saw that traffic mirror – I like traffic mirrors 😉 This one isn’t particularly spectacular, but it does have the nice feature of showing the incoming menacing sky against the blue one!
Of note, there was another mirror visible from the first one, but the resulting shot was meh-er.
It’s been a while since I’ve submitted anything to 52Frames, and it’s been a while since I’ve picked up a camera with the objective of “photography” rather than just “remembering something” or “showing something”, and I also want to have more posts on this blog, and and and – anyway, here’s a non-optimal 52Frames shot, for the theme “In The Center“.
The wasp is kind of accidental – I was aiming for a flower picture – but now I do have a wasp in the center of the picture and I thunk that’s actually nice. The picture itself is not great – it’s a phone picture, taken with my hands up while coming back from the gym, it’s not super sharp and I’m not super happy with it. But, it’s a picture, it’s an attempt at getting back into something, and it exists.
I want to pick up photography again − I haven’t touched my camera in a while for Reasons (I’ve done other things! It’s fine!) and it’s at a point where I miss it. I have no idea if it’s going to stick − right now, I had a call with a bunch of photographers last night and I’m super motivated, we’ll see how that goes in the next few weeks 🙂 In the meantime, have some flowers (which are, apparently, trumpet vines). And a wasp. (Fuck wasps, but they are pretty.)
The theme for last week’s 52Frames was “Shoot from Below”. We set up the Christmas tree a couple of weeks ago, and it felt like a good subject to shoot from below – from the perspective of a Christmas gift, maybe?
Last week’s theme was “Wabi-sabi” – I had been procrastinating removing the dried flower from my bromeliad; I finally did it, and I immortalized it in this picture. It’s taken on my kitchen countertop, which has the nice idea of being black enough; there was a reflection that I tried to use, but to no avail; so I went for the fully black background instead.
2022-48 – Animals
And the theme for this week was “Animals”. There was a clear expectation of, well, live animals, but that was not happening on a Sunday evening at 21:00. But, thankfully, I have board games. Somehow I went for a Noah’s Ark theme – because that made me smile. And, interestingly enough, I got two pictures in a row with opposite backgrounds and opposite diagonals!
The theme for this week’s 52Frames was “Food”. I knew that what we’d order on Friday night would probably be the most appetizing/colorful food of the week, so I took a few pictures, despite not having any kind of natural light, and being too hungry to set up proper lighting. In all fairness, I had setup some Lume cubes on my Platypod, and then I saw I hadn’t put them in the right holes to be able to raise the Platypod, and I ended up shooting holding my camera by hand.
Despite the dire lack of proper light, I’m not too grumpy with this picture – I think I did a reasonable job with colors in post and, while it’s not great, it’s… decent. And that was some very tasty food too 🙂
I haven’t been the most inspired for 52Frames lately, but I still haven’t broken my streak. So, here are my latest submissions. I’m too lazy to add comments, but I made the alt text more visible as captions too to compensate.
2022-40 – Rule of Odds
Three spatulas in a metallic pot over a wooden counter
2022-41 – Shoot through something
Distorted piano keys, seen through a crystal ball that makes them look curved, with black&white processing. The image is very symmetrical.
2022-43 – Black&White Minimalism
Black and white picture of hands in fingerless gloves over a Typematrix BÉPO keyboard, on a black background. The keyboard shows some wear and tear.
2022-43 – Details
Brown and orange butterfly on a white flower, with a blurry green background.
2022-44 – Chaos
Reflections of large trees in calm water ; the blue sky and the bottom of the water interact visually in somewhat eerie way.
2022-45 – Street Photography
A man wearing a hat and a woman sitting on a bench facing the lake. Two covered boats with red buoys are visible on the lake; the city and some trees are visible in the background of the lake. Two cranes surplomb the city.
The theme for this week’s 52Frames was “Letters”. I started grumbling because the weather was pretty bad early in the afternoon; it finally cleared up, so I went for a walk with my camera (and my husband 😉 ). My initial goal was to take pictures of Bahnhof Enge, but there’s repair/cleaning works ongoing, so that was not what I wanted for that picture. I took a few more pictures around – I have at least a backup for this image, and we made way to the lake. On the way, I remembered this facade – those are better letters!
I first grumbled because of the tram stop, but the picture I got feels a bit more alive/story-telling that way, so I like it. And when coming home, I realized the “extra credit” for this week was “Cinematic” – I processed a bit more in that direction, and claimed it 🙂
The theme for week 36 was “Golden Hour”, with an extra credit for “Indoor Studio Lighting”. Which was pretty good, because I shot this at a very late hour on Sunday evening 😉 I tried to reproduce the idea of golden hour with long, soft shadows and a yellower tint than I would typically use. This was a very lazy shot, but it did the job. Sad I don’t have a golden-colored watch – it would have been a better pun!
2022-37 – Portrait of a Stranger
The “Portrait of a Stranger” theme is a common one on 52Frames, and probably the one where I’m the most likely to break my streak when it happens on a given year (we got a two-year reprieve in the previous years 😉 ), and I was fully prepared to “cheat” (I’ve done that before!). But, we went to the Hauptbahnhof on that Saturday, and that train just arrived on the track where we surfaced from the underground tunnels. Kismet it was – I took some pictures of the train, and decided to submit this one for that week.
52Frames – 2022-38 – One Light Source
Another lightbox/studio shot for the “One Light Source” theme – but this time I took the time to refresh my paper background (compare with the first picture – it’s much better 😉 I did a bit of origami last week, and learnt that delightful lotus fold; I plopped it in my lightbox and played with a Lume cube until I was happy with the shadow, which I wanted soft, but visible.
This week, 52Frames’ theme was “Edited by someone else” – we had a spreadsheet to sign up, and we could ask other Framers to edit our pictures. I was in Stoos at the beginning of this week, and I was lucky enough to have a few pretty days, during which I captured that image. I sent it to Caleb Levy, who edited the above picture.
I did do more pictures around that area – if you’re interested (with my edits, though, not Caleb’s 😉 ), they’re here: Stoos – August 2022.
