This group of photos shows some examples of up close -- always take another step closer to your subject -- and some distance shots and the unusual perspective shots. Play around with you phone or your camera and see what different locations do to help you images.
This is in the passenger seat driving to a dog show. I liked how the buildings and the sky were reflecting. It made me think that a city can be beautiful even with the concrete barricade from the highway.
This was a fun one to take. I saw the pretty flowers and lucked into the dog sticking her head in and smelling them when I shot the overhead of he blooms. Some days you get lucky!
Completely playing around with this one. It is an opaque blind with the wood from the window frame and the paint above. I did some in-phone editing on an application called "Awesomize" to see how it worked. Not sure what I will use this for, but perhaps it can be a background for an advertisement.
This image always makes people ask what was behind us on the trail. I think it was a coyote, but it could have been an ax murderer or zombies too. It does draw your eye to the back of the image down the trail and that makes it an interesting shot.
Another day to practice get close, and now get even closer. To help with your dog head shots, pay attention to where the eye is and go to that level. This image could be cropped even more -- and yes I believe in some dramatic cropping, but want you to learn about where to be first.
Lots of colors here -- and reflective surfaces too. The "Buffet" portion was so bright that it burned right through the image. This would be easier to correct in a regular camera, but you should see some of what happens so you can think about the best place to stand. Off to the side would have helped that some with the iPhone.
This is a park where I walk the dogs and it just had such a great pastoral feel to it. The shade creeping into the bottom makes it more interesting. There is a tree on the right hand side that I should have included more of in the image to add a natural framing -- but again learning with the iPhone.
This is the Westin hotel and condos. Another blue building and blue sky -- I seem to like that combo. Getting good shots of buildings can be a challenge -- and in this one you can see a neighboring building to the left, but cropping that out wouldn't have left enough blue sky on that side of the photo.
Out the bus window while going to tour the
IAMS factories in Ohio. I wish we could have shot photos inside so you could see how well the animals are treated in their feeding trials and how smooth their manufacturing lines run. It was a very enlightening trip!
This is a parking area near the farmer's market in Minneapolis. The road above is Interstate 94 -- a view that we probably don't think much about as we tear along the upper side. The frame is from the Instagram app and made it look all grungy and wonderful to my eye.
Yay, berries that are above male dog marking height. Again, get close, no closer, no even closer... now snap the shot!
A little in iPhone editing to make him black and white. It was a HOT day at dog class and this was the end of the evening when the dogs were playing. Even though this is an overhead, the dog isn't too distorted -- at least you can still tell it is a dog. I tried to get that flat, long tongue to the edge of the image so it looked even bigger.
This is a raw photo right off the iPhone with no editing or color adjustment. Lots of neat things could happen with this image or you could leave as-is. Just a different look at the tree -- try to find a new eye for day-to-day experiences.
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