Someone close to me got on my case the other night about not having posted anything lately on this blog. So, today I decided to create a challenge for myself to get motivated to try something new.
I wanted to shoot in monochrome (I shot jpegs to save a bit of hassle, so there are no original colour versions), which I had done for the first time a week or two ago. We have a huge livingroom window that lets in a lot of light, so I assumed I'd look for things to shoot in the livingroom. I found myself wandering into the kitchen when I was looking for letters to shoot.
I turned on active D-lighting to the highest setting at one point (a function I briefly read a sentence about this afternoon while quickly looking up monochrome settings), and messed around with my ISO more than usual.
The challenge was written before I picked up my camera, and I went through the list in order to get it all done. My main two rules I made were to shoot only in monochrome and to use only natural light.
Here are the results of my self-created challenge.
If you are curious to know what I shot to make the word "love," I'll tell you. But only after you guess at least one guess per letter. The L is easy. You can see the whole object for the O, but you might not know what the item is. The V and the E are both parts of something, just like the L is. I had to be more inventive with finding a V (you'd think that would be an easy one, but it was hard!). I'll wait until there are a few guesses posted in the comments section of this post before telling you what the letters are made from. You can post your guesses anonymously if you like - makes no difference to me!
I have never shot letters before, but I've always thought it's kind of neat. I guess I thought it would be hard to be creative with finding angles that would work. It was much easier than I'd thought it would be. I chose my word first, though, so that I wasn't trying to make a word with random letters after uploading the files. I would consider shooting an entire alphabet in the near future...
Ps - Photoshop, you can't trick me. And don't ever switch to dpc ever again. Me-1, Photoshop-0.
