July Blog Circle - Interesting Perspectives

Well.

The blog circle "challenge"/topic this month was on Interesting Perspectives. I must admit I wasn't overly thrilled with that choice when I first read it for several reasons, mainly because I knew I'd have to use my brain and think outside of the box. I thought about doing a dog's perspective and following my dogs around, shooting from their level whatever they were looking at... but in my house that amounted to chair legs and dustbunnies. Not super interesting.

So, I tried the technique of the vanishing lines as shown in these examples (stealing the link from Kenzi who sent it to the group for inspiration).
http://www.photographyblogger.net/25-pictures-with-an-amazing-vanishing-point-perspective/

And, that didn't go so well for me, as shown in my example.

Then I thought I'd try to do the forced perspective as shown in Kenzi's link again,
http://list25.com/25-awesome-examples-of-forced-perspective-photography/
However, when you have an 8 year old who is just dying to actually shoot hoops rather than pretend it doesn't always work to your advantage!! As seen here...

You see where I was going with that, right??? Close, but not close enough!!




So, I decided to go with the last inspiration point of shooting with a wide angle (http://pixelcurse.com/photography/20-stunning-shots-taken-with-wide-angle-lens). This is something I almost never do... I tend to fill the frame with my subject and go in close. 

I'm not overly impressed with what I ended up with -- but I'm very happy that I chose to go in the direction I went. I'm drawn to the last two images, grouped together of my son and his friend at either end of the court. I like that the viewer can see the surroundings and get a feel for the day, the neighborhood, the park and the action taking place by using a wide angle. If I would have done what I normally do you would have seen my son taking a shot at the hoop and not anything else. You would have seen some of the detail shots of the moment, his shoes, his hands on the ball, etc.

I'm anxious to see what the other ladies ended up with. Remember, click on the link to Amy's blog: (www.paynduo.blogspot.com) and from there keep clicking through to see what everyone else did this month.

Cheers!