Flowers

I used a Canon EOS Rebel XT to take my pictures. This is my fiancé’s camera and I hadn’t really used it before. It’s an SLR camera, which means it has lots of features, but unfortunately, I don’t know how to use most of them, and the book is, for the moment, lost in the depths of our still-messy-after-moving house. The bottom line is that, despite having an incredibly fancy camera, I spent most of my time in point-and-shoot mode. However, doing this project has inspired me to dig up the book and learn more about the camera. All of the pictures for this project were taken at my parents’ house. They live at the end of a dead-end road in the middle of nowhere, so there’s a lot of nature in the background. The first set of pictures is of my mom’s hanging flower basket. It appealed to me because the flowers are bright and because it allowed for many different angles. These are the raw pictures, with the exception of the size, which I scaled down. The first four pictures are taken from different distances. For the long-distance photo, I took a landscape and a portrait shot from approximately the same place to get a feel for the differences between the two angles.





The next picture was again taken from approximately the same location as the other long-distance pictures, but it was taken from the perspective of a very tall person. I held the camera over my head and kept making adjustments in what I was getting with my shot until I got the shot I wanted. I got this next shot by lying down underneath the flower basket and shooting straight up. I love the way the sun shines through the petals to make them look like they’re glowing, and the shadows of the flowers on the leaves. Last but not least, I just liked the way this picture came out. The way the sun is shining on the petals makes them look soft, almost velvety.