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Black & White, WordPress Photo Challenge

Weekly Photo Challenge: Contrast

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I had a few ideas floating through my head for The Daily WordPress Photo Challenge for this week – Contrast. But this afternoon, when I was helping my son fix a giant Lego battleship that my other son had ruined earlier in the week, I found his white Ninjago Lego guy and a light in my head went on.

Rather than doing a Yin and Yang for contrast, I did a Cole and Zane photo (if you don’t get that reference, ask your Lego enthusiast).

031112 Contrast - Ninjago BW

Canon 60D | 50mm lens | 0″4 | f 3.5 | ISO 100

I used white and black Lego’s to make a backdrop (which was not easy feet, because my son had used almost all of his Legos for a large battleship). I thought the blurry nubs in the background would provide an interesting, and appropriate backdrop for the Legos. I was interested to see the black nubs didn’t show up as well as the white, but again, it worked for a nice contrast.

I took a few photos, and when I felt I had it right, I shot in RAW format so that I could adjust the white balance afterward. But since I changed it to Black & White, I guess shooting in RAW and adjusting white balance doesn’t really make a difference. Oh well.

~signed, Carltonaut

Alphabet Photo Challenge

CTE Weekly Photo Challenge – H is for Hands

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I’m a day late, but I still wanted to participate in the CTE Weekly Photo Challenge for the letter H. I tried doing Heart using some Bokeh photography with a romantic setting for two, but after an hour of trying, I wasn’t pleased with the outcome. I then thought it would be fun to do Handwriting, but I didn’t have the supplies I wanted for the photo idea I had in mind.

When I saw my son playing with his Ninjago guys on the table, I thought Hands would make a great letter H for the photo challenge. So after all the shots on Friday night for Heart, and then changing my subject to Hands a day after the photo challenge deadline, this is the photo I ended up with, and that I am pleased with.

022712 Hands Photo

Canon 60D | 50mm lens | 1/40 | f/1.8 | ISO 100

I must add that my son has so much fun playing with Legos. He spent about three hours of the beautiful Sunday afternoon sitting ON the table playing with Legos. He is passionate about his play, and it’s the funnest thing to hear him say, in his very serious voice “Ninjaaaaaa GO,” before spinning his guy and watching him take out this little snake guy.

~signed, Carltonaut