My grandmother, Gerry Wood, lives in a home that was built in the 50's. She has managed to add her own country theme and incorporate it with all of her old collectibles and furniture from the 50's 60's and 70's. So the home has a retro yet country look to it. As I was wandering around her large home I noticed how pretty the light from her bathroom looked as it shown through her old white curtains into the powder room and living room. I believe that this photo hold good composition because the lighting goes diagonal with the rest of the photo making the eye go directly into the doorway which is the main focus of the photo.
I took this photo shortly after I took the photo above. Even though I during the time I took photos for this collection, the other photos may have been more colorful or have more detail. Yet, I have never taken a photo quite like this one. I really enjoy playing with lighting and I feel that this photo is interesting because not too many homes these days have doors into their sun room like these. Also I love how the reflecting light coming through the windows here is reflecting on to the right wall. I feel that with out the scattered shadows that these windows created for this photo it would look like they where floating in air but these shadows create composition to balance the image out.
On Saturday, my grandma took my sister, Julie (19) and I too her local Catholic Church. My religion is very important to me and my grandma has always insisted that we keep our faith and go to church every time we visit with her. There have been a few changes in the Catholic Church now after one receives communion. At one time, after communion everyone would kneel down and pray, today everyone stands. My grandma still kneels. Growing up I have always watched her pray while I was praying and I love the intensity that always shows through in her face while she is doing this. The composition in this photo is created by having two taller objects (people) with one shorter object (grandma) in the middle so the focus is directly on the shorter object.
This next extremely loud photo was taken in my grandpy's old bed room. My grandma and grandpy shared separate rooms. Since my grandpy passed away in '96 my grandma kept his room exactly the same. As a matter of fact she obviously has kept the room the same since the 50s . I really don't think there are too many house holds left in America with bright red shag carpeting and paisley curtains with matching upholstery and wood panelling throughout the entire room! The room is divided by half of a wall and his large king sized bed. There is a door in this wall that takes you around to the other side of the bed. This wall created a great composition for this photo because it framed the photo along with the large chair to focus in on the colorful curtains that made my granpys closet.
This is Kira, Julie's new German Shepard/Akita puppy who is three months old. I really love this photo because you can see all of the beautiful little details in her fur and markings. I actually didn't do too much editing with this photo except up the contrast a bit. This is the actual color tone that was going on in the back seat of my sisters, boyfriends car on Sunday and I think it contrasts beautifully next to Kira's jet black fur. I believe the composition in this photo would be the focus on Kira's eye. Though the photo doesn't show her entire face I think it is obvious that this is a photo of a puppy. I also love how when you look at this photo, you can see some sort of emotion going on in Kira's eyes (she missed her mom and dad who just left her alone with me in the car and my camera).
