Color Series - Blue

This week we are exploring the color blue! I was heavily inspired by a variety of blue flowers I found in my yard. 

This flower was part of a wildflower seed pack that sprouted up - so far this is the only blue flower I have seen from this plant.

The three photographs above are all from the same plant, just shot in a different way.

 Part of the American Flag that was in my front yard.

 A blue frog hiding amongst green leaves at Mystic Aquarium. 

These last two photographs are a Bombay bottle and a wine bottle that I posed in still life fashion.

Color Series - Green

This week we are exploring the color green! With this color I was obviously mainly inspired by all the green foliage outside (leaves and grass) among a few other things I found.

 I saw this grass growing around the drain and thought it looked interesting how it surrounded the drain like that. 

 Some green moss I found on a summer hike.

 A close up of green leaves.

 Some clovers I found in the yard.

 A green garden hose spread out on a bed of rocks. 

 A green lizard that lives at Mystic Aquarium.

 A different view of the clovers from above. 

And lastly, a different variety of green leaves from a tree in my back yard. 

Color Series - Yellow

This post is the first in a photo series of color photography that I am doing throughout the year. With these photographs, I won't be sharing tips with them because that would obviously be a bit redundant. Instead, I will share what I was inspired by and what I looked for with each of the colors I do this year.

I found this flower by itself in my yard and decided it would be perfect, I ended up placing it a few different places to see what location looked the best with it and loved the way it looked on my sketchbook - as shown above. 

 Since lemons are yellow, I also figured those would be a good choice. With this photograph, I placed them randomly on top of each other on a cutting board. 

 A yellow color pencil was next, although I wish I had found a few more and thrown them in there as well. 

 This pooh cup was also a good choice, and was the focus of a lot of my photographs. 

 Yellows complementary color is purple, so I used this purple pillow with yellow flowers to show how well these colors work together. 

This is another lemon photograph, but with this one I lined them up and ended up really liking the way this looks. 

Fashion Photography

Fashion photography is used to showcase items such as clothing and accessories like hats, sunglasses, and jewelry. With the fashion photography that we often see in magazines, the photographs tend to be more high fashion than the ones that I chose to show below. The photographs I chose to display show the simpler side of fashion photography - simply showcasing an every day article of clothing. The photographs below showcase a dance costume, a hat, a hat and sunglasses, a pair of boots, a romper, a scarf, a pair of sunglasses, and a pearl earring.

Here are my top 3 tips for taking fashion photography-

1) Experiment with both simple fashion photographs and more complex ones, find what works for you!

2) Don't be afraid to have your subject pose in a more uncommon way, as this can showcase the piece in a different way.

3) Lastly, you can edit your photographs in a way that showcases the fashion piece even more. An example of this is the scarf photograph, I turned this black and white so that the emphasis was on the white scarf.