Month: May 2020

Sometimes the weekly 52 Frames challenges are easy, like High Key or Self-Portrait. Other weeks, it’s something weird, like last week’s subject: Not What You See. The idea is to make an image, by whatever means you want, that isn’t actually real. I had zero ideas on this all week long, and figured I would be submitting a consistency shot (one that keeps your streak alive but doesn’t really meet the challenge criteria). And then I went looking through all the photos I’d taken since the previous Sunday and this one kind of stuck out as a possibility. I got…

Last week’s challenge was “Roll of Film” or something like that, harkening back to the days when I had a Minolta camera, scraped to buy rolls of Kodachrome film, and then scraped more money together to develop that roll and see what turned out OK. The time between taking the shot and seeing how it came out could be anywhere from a few days to a month or more, depending on the state of my finances and where I sent the roll to be developed. Mail order was cheaper, even though took longer, so most of the time, I had…

Last week’s challenge for the 52 Frames community was “low key.” That doesn’t actually mean mellow or easy-going, as it a low-key personality. Rather, it’s a photography term that means an image that contains mostly dark tones and colors. Not my usual choice of form when it comes to images, so I struggled with it a lot. Honestly, things feel dark enough without my photography going there. I played with turning this pink blooms into black and white and then playing with them. They looked kind of cool but not really low key, from what I could gather after watching…