Foto Friday . . . Tip toe through the tulips, in low key

I love the light,

but sometimes the lack of it . . .  is just as mystifying.

Reduce the lighting and it just intensifies the contrast of an image and when used in a selective way

it can certainly create a little drama.

And a little drama, photographically speaking, was in order to tame the young immobile and the restless.

I bought myself some tulips, one of my favorite Spring flowers and parked myself under my covered front porch. I went out early in the morning in order to catch the light of the sun and didn't initially set out to make

these kind of images, but ooooh the light was just right for it. And since the sun was just rising over the rooftops it was at an angle and perfect for back lighting and creating nice shadowed areas and highlights of the tulips. With my camera in manual mode I completely ignored what it told me was a correct exposure and underexposed in order to get the background dark while still keeping some of the highlights. I did have to correct some of the shadows in some of the images in editing in order to get that nice rich black toned background, but not much. Slight cropping and a little sharpening was then all that was needed. I can't wait to try this again, maybe with some red roses....and my mind wanders on the other things I could try. Oh the possibilities! A drama queen might have been unleashed.....

"Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality

with which we create our own private world."

- Arnold Newman

  

40mm macro - 1/320s, f 9.0, ISO 160

40mm Macro, 1/250s, f3.5, ISO 160

40mm Macro - 1/250s, f 16.0, ISO 160

40mm Macro - 1/250s, f 16.0 ISO 160

In the next two images the colors are slightly different - they were taken the day after and on this day it was more overcast.

18-135mm lens - 1/160s, f5.6, ISO 400

{Shoot, edit, submit and Oh Snap! Shots of the week}

{Photo Art Friday}

18-135mm lens - 1/320s, f 5.6, ISO 400

{P52 Project}

Sometimes, when you aren't able to get around as well, you are forced to do something different.

In my case, it was being more still, haha! Not that I like being busy all the time, but I do like having the freedom to choose when and where I might go. And as soon as you aren't able to, well suddenly things you don't normally do even seem enticing! (yes, even housework and laundry) But happily I have been able to ditch the crutches, the knee is better but not great and STILL waiting for the results of my MRI.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend with enough still moments to try something different!

Love, Kim

XO

P.S. And if you do, let me know as I would love to check it out!

Also sharing with Share the Shot - this week, purple.