Saturday, March 27, 2010

Saturday Morning Photoshoot ... Just Me and My Egg.

Camilla (from Bloom) and Carolyn (from Rose Notes) are at it again.  We all had so much fun with their photo workshop last fall, that we're signed up for another round.

Assignment #1, play with exposure and make a supermodel out of an egg.

Hmmm.  Okay.

My egg and I burned a lot of pixels trying to do something imaginative.  Here's the part of the assignment where we were supposed to play with light and black and white backgrounds.


I put a sun flare on this in PhotoShop, to spice it up a bit.

I liked playing with the harsh shadows in my south-facing dining room window.  It started to remind me of going on a school field trip to the planetarium.

Then the egg and I went outside to see what was blooming ... this is mostly a garden blog, after all.


The grass is certainly greening up ... and those old-fashioned Butter and Eggs daffodils are my absolute favorites.

I took this last photo in direct sunshine, with the egg at the bottom of a round crystal vase.  I love how the reflections and shadows blur the boundaries of the egg.


If you want to see some really creative people playing with their own eggs, head over to C & C Photography.  I'm going there myself right now, to see what everyone else has done.

24 comments:

  1. The egg in the crystal looks so cool!

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  2. That one daffodil & the egg - very nice! It's definitely spring out there :-) And the egg & crystal - the lines & light are beautiful

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  3. Huh?...
    .. The egg on the bottom of the cristal vase is WONDERFUL!

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  4. I like the lines that the crystal makes on the egg, I could imagine tracing them in pencil and watching as the sun moved.

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  5. the pattern on the egg in the last photo is really cool.
    love your black and white grid too.

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  6. I like the crystal egg photo very much very original.

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  7. I love your black and white shots...the shadows are great and I know that's hard to get right but you sure did. Your daffodils are beautiful, the egg fit right in. But your last shot...now that is really creative, beautiful, unique! I'm stunned by the variety everyone has in their egg shots.

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  8. That last shot is so cool - sort of modern art, abstract. Really wonderful.

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  9. It is a garden blog, after all... I found this comment very relevant to my own blog. Not sure how many want to see eggs,, but there it is! I enjoyed all your shots, and envied the daffodils!

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  10. Connie, I think you're right...the first series does have a wonderful extraterrestrial feel. And the last one is a pretty amazing light show!

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  11. The egg in the crystal vase is awesome! Great idea! Isn't interesting to watch the play of light through glass like that? Very nice!

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  12. ...Looks like you had a lot of fun playing with the egg!...Love the garden shots as well as the unique last pic...beautiful!

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  13. I love these wonderful egg pictures! Your are too creative!

    Kat :)

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  14. how creative~ the egg in crystal vase. i love it!

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  15. love the crystal one...
    great first assignment~~

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  16. eggs and daffodils....it must be spring! this assignment was so fun, and i really am amazed of the variety of compositions. nice job.

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  17. I really love that last photo in the vase. What a creative way to abstact your subject and bend our perception a bit.

    :)Lisa

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  18. really cool... all really fabulous!!

    so well done!!

    such fun! kim

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  19. Love the one in the vase! This is going to be a lot of fun! Nice to meet you!

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  20. I love the one with the crystal.

    http://leafgreenknits.wordpress.com/

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  21. I love the bottom photo of the egg with all the interesting lines. Wow.

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  22. Well hello to someone in my neck of the woods. I am in Maryland, but lived in NoVa up until last year. I love your shots, especially the last one. I had to look at it for a while to see the egg. The lighting is amazing in that shot.

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  23. Hi Connie,
    All the first photos led you to the crystal palace. Very nice!

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