Photographic Reflection

The past few months have not been my first time playing around with a dslr camera, but it has been the most focused time where I have gotten to play around with my camera and understand it better. I have become a lot more comfortable using my camera and am able to more clearly understand and articulate how to produce the photographs that I want to take.

In the past I have mostly taken portraits of people, but over the last several weeks I have discovered that I enjoy taking close up shots on inanimate objects. This has allowed me to play with the composition and taking photos of objects at angles we don’t normally see. I have though struggled with light this quarter, whether there being not enough or to little. I have learned how to balance this and to plan out better when and where I’m going to take photos.

Something I always come back to is how light effects my living room. I have a film on my window for privacy but also it creates a pattern of rainbows when strong sunlight comes though. They reflect off of surfaces and create more and slowly move across the room during a sunny day. It’s also a light source that I have semi-control over with my blackout curtains. When I take photos in my living room on a sunny day I have to decide how to balance the natural colorful light with the unnatural to take the photos that I want.