These are some of the photo's i took yesterday. i will definitely be using the top three photos ( not my contact sheet ) on board and the last is yet to be confirmed as i am not sure how it will fit with the rest of my photos. i like how the beads give a really cool looking shadow and i used the cold ones because my nana loved gold, pretty much all of her jewelry was gold, i might bring in some of her jewelry soon like her Mona Lisa broach

Centre of interest

I have circled roughly where I personally think the centre of interest is in each of the photos. In the picture of the beads and the shadow the first place look is where the light catches the beads with the bright colours.

So far

These are the first few photos of my board of my new still life objects. I am happy with the light and how the shadows work. I also like how the red stands out alot. Next I am going to get an older photo of my nana and put the photo and my other objects together.

I've decided to change what im doing completly from the travel theme to being about my nana and how our relationship was before she died. using the shadows to show how much of a presence she had in my life and how close we were. When she died we were able to go into her room at the rest home and take the things that we wanted and the things that are special to us, i got to take her teddies and and some items of jewelry. For my still life i am going to take photos of those things. I will also use some really old photos of her. I have one already and its a photo of her when she was about 18 months old.... that is nearly a hundred years ago.

I'm not 100% sure where my photos are going from here... I think im going to try find an old map of banks peninsula or even little river and akaroa and maybe make the shadows on the map. Then maybe even find a map of the places I have been or want to go. I have thought about getting the travel tags and using them in a way that I have not yet confirmed. I guess im sort of leaning towards the travel side of things, but always being reminded of the things at and from home. Ill see where it takes me and what Mrs says :L

Lines are in my photos but they weren't meant to be there for any specific reason and they kind of annoy not having a purpose. Although in my first photo it kind of breaks up the photo and makes it look interesting with the two tones. 

* In all of my photos so far I have tried using a low view point by resting the camera on the desk with the objects.

* And I used my phone torch to create the light and shadows.

I tried using rule of thirds with the shadows of the monkeys and and my necklace. It is in the middle vertical third. and the lines of the wall are almost on a third.