Weekly Photo Challenge: Color

Photos here are taken with my Nikon D3100, Kodak Easy Share C713, and my Sony Ericsson Xperia E10i.

This post is to join Weekly Photo Challenge: Color

Weekly Photo Challenge: Kiss

Sunset is a time when the sun kisses the horizon and the time when he gives a kiss goodbye to the daytime. Enough for today.

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Kissing its own shadow

When the cloud passes by

Reflection

Nearly there

Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight,

Red sky in morning, shepherd’s warning.

This is my entry for Weekly Photo Challenge: Kiss

Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique

This week theme of Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique, is a little bit difficult to me but the show must go on!

So here my entry for this week theme:

Black Hole

Water Galaxy 2

Water Galaxy 1

Can you guess what they are?

For the ones that I called Black Hole and Water Galaxy, they were the mist on my window.

The pattern one is the reflection of the sunlight on the rippled water, while the rest ones (the smokey bell and the blue heart) are part of my experiment in learning and doing Light Painting photograph.

Hope you like it and enjoy your Friday, everyone!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Love

I love baking and I love photography as well.

Ice Lemon Curd Layer Cake, anyone?

This is my entry for Weekly Photo Challenge: LOVE

Have a great weekend!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Illumination

Aha! It seems like I am the last blogger to submit my entry for this week of Weekly Photo Challenge: Illumination? Oh, never mind. Last but not least. .

Apparently illumination is the new theme for this week. It was my fault didn’t check the post date. I got mixed up since I’ve been absent this photo challenge activity for quite long time. I am sorry for my mistake and big thanks to SimplySage for the correction.

Based on its theme this time so I wanted to share what I’ve been learning and shooting recently, Bokeh.

Few weeks ago I had little discussions about creating bokeh photos with an online friend of mine, Campanulla Della Anna. In that our discussions she’s shared some technique of creating bokeh photos yet how to create them with different shapes such as love, smiley face, butterfly, and so on. The good thing about that was she taught me how to create our own bokeh shapes kit which you can check the links here, Creatief: DIY Bokeh Kit or How To Make Custom Bokeh Shape. I chosen to follow the steps from Vink Academy instead.

In this experiment I used two lenses: a telephoto lens and a kit lens. That means I created two different size of the custom bokeh shape. I had some difficulty in creating bokeh shape for the kit lens since the hole that I had to make is too small, 1cm x 1cm. That’s why the shape is not quite neat. In order to make the shapes I used die cut shapes that used to make a card or a scrapbook instead of drawing them by myself because I am not good at it.

I also used the bokeh shapes for the telephoto lens to the kit lens because it could create abstract shapes apparently by moving the custom kit in circular way in front of the lens, just like using a CPL filter.

Here they are:

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So, what do you think? It’s cool, isn’t it? I still need to practice more anyway.

Have a good weekend!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Delicate

This is part of my experiment which I got inspired from here, Early Christmas by Sue Richardson.

I’ve tried many different shots outdoor and indoor following her technique and so far this is the best that I could get from.

Could you guess what they are? .

Axis Mundi

They are some tealights that I arranged in circular form. I did some editing in Picassa from its RAW file by increasing its shadow and applied filtered BW plus soft focus. The grainy that looks apparent in this photo after I increased its shadow has created such a different dimension from the original objects. It looks like white sand or snowflakes fall down and creating snowballs. That’s my interpretation anyway. A friend of mine called this picture as Axis Mundi.

So for that reason I submit this picture for Weekly Photo Challenge with Delicate in theme!

Have a Good Friday and have a great weekend ahead to everybody! Christmas is just round the corner!

 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette

I’m back for a challenge! It’s been a while I haven’t yet posted my entry for Weekly Photo Challenge. Below are my entry for this week theme that would be finished this Friday: Silhouette.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Solitary

Those pictures are to participate in Weekly Photo Challenge: Solitary

Weekly Photo Challenge: Near and Far

Near and Far. That’s the theme of Weekly Photo Challenge that would end this Friday.

When I read the post at first I thought it is an easy theme especially when I saw the example of the picture. But then the more I read it carefully I found myself lost in somewhere. So I asked for a help from a friend of mine to help me understand what it is about. After a short period of discussion with him so I came up to a conclusion that this theme, Near and Far, is about to create a space in the scene like it is a three-dimensional picture by including the foreground, middle-ground, and the background. Also using features like diagonal lines can help to create this effect as stated by Brian Cooney.

I hope my entry below fits the theme:

Locations: Rivington, Bala, and West Kirkby.

Hope you enjoyed them.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban

This week Weekly Photo Challenge takes Urban in theme and below is my entry for this week theme.

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