Alphabet Photo Challenge - B

[Michele]

  On 1/18/2025 at 4:59 PM, Ann Seeber said:

I tried to read Black Beauty but stopped because the horse was abused and I couldn't read about that.

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That was one of my favorite books as a child. Just so you know, Beauty's life makes a full turnaround. 🙂

[Michele]

  On 1/20/2025 at 3:49 PM, Julie Magerka said:

There's no story here for my B layout. Again, it was first thing that popped into my head for that letter....my baby stuff. Not much has survived the decades but, for some reason, I still have these two items. Looking at the footprints they took in the hospital, my tiny baby feet don't look that tiny! It's been the same my whole life. (Size 10 🙂)

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This layout IS the story.

[Ann Seeber]

  On 1/25/2025 at 11:59 AM, Michele said:

Beauty's life makes a full turnaround.

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I assumed so but couldn't get past the abuse; I was too young for it, I suppose, thinking about it. Maybe I'll try a re-read now...

[Donna Sillia]

B is for Berries

There were some beautiful berry bushes outside our condo in the Outer Banks. I took a few photos to use for decorations. The background is a grunge with some lines and a graphic from Adobe Express. All the background layers are a combination of blends and opacity reductions. One frame is a mask from my PSP masks, the other is just a selection. The scatter is from a brush. The font is Adoleon from CF and edited with the cass dimension script 2.

[Susan Ewart]

  On 1/25/2025 at 7:08 PM, Donna Sillia said:

B is for Berries

There were some beautiful berry bushes outside our condo in the Outer Banks. I took a few photos to use for decorations. The background is a grunge with some lines and a graphic from Adobe Express. All the background layers are a combination of blends and opacity reductions. One frame is a mask from my PSP masks, the other is just a selection. The scatter is from a brush. The font is Adoleon from CF and edited with the cass dimension script 2.

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This is striking Donna!

 

[Daniel Hess]

  On 1/18/2025 at 4:59 PM, Ann Seeber said:

The Black Stallion

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Great Book.  One of the first full novels I read as a very young child.

[Jannette Nieuwboer]

Mijn gouden tas. Ik was schoenen aan het kopen in de herfst en zag daar die prachtige tas staan. Ik werd opslag verliefd en toen ik hoorde dat het die week 40% afgeprijsd was was ik verkocht. Zomaar mijn eigen mee verwent. Had ik het nodig. Nee. Gebruik ik het vaak, Nee ook al niet. 

[Susan Ewart]

  On 1/26/2025 at 4:06 PM, Jannette Nieuwboer said:

My golden bag. I was buying shoes in the fall and saw that beautiful bag there. I fell in love immediately and when I heard that it was 40% off that week I was sold. Just spoiled myself. Did I need it? No. Do I use it often? No, not either. 

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Oh Wow!  I love this.  Who doesnt love shiny things.  I know I sure do.  I'm glad you spoiled yourself.  We all need to do that now and then.

[Anne Lamp]

B is for Breakfast.  Sometimes healthy and sometimes not so healthy but tasty.

[Susan Ewart]

  On 1/31/2025 at 8:21 PM, Anne Lamp said:

B is for Breakfast.  Sometimes healthy and sometimes not so healthy but tasty.

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Yummy to each and every item!

[Cassel]

I finally found my B-word.

In 2020, my daughter was pregnant and since everything was mostly shut down (including my work), I did some sewing. I have a LOT of fabric left over from my years of sewing for my kids and for the rhythmic gymnastics club. We didn't know the gender of the baby so I thought I could do some bears with what I had. In the end, I made two bears: one was beige and brown, using fleece, but the other used some not-so-stretchy metallic lycra with some pink fleece for the accent.

After Xavier was born, I gave him the beige bear (which is slightly larger), and kept the pink shiny one here for when he visits.

I actually had to work at replicating the color because no matter where I would take the picture, the bear looked blue! 

 

[Corrie Kinkel]

  On 2/1/2025 at 3:17 PM, Cassel said:

I finally found my B-word.

In 2020, my daughter was pregnant and since everything was mostly shut down (including my work), I did some sewing. I have a LOT of fabric left over from my years of sewing for my kids and for the rhythmic gymnastics club. We didn't know the gender of the baby so I thought I could do some bears with what I had. In the end, I made two bears: one was beige and brown, using fleece, but the other used some not-so-stretchy metallic lycra with some pink fleece for the accent.

After Xavier was born, I gave him the beige bear (which is slightly larger), and kept the pink shiny one here for when he visits.

I actually had to work at replicating the color because no matter where I would take the picture, the bear looked blue! 

 

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Sometimes when you want to take a photo it can be very tricky with the colors. I'm trying to take a photo from a little plate for my letter D and whatever I try, it still has a reflection on its surface. The glaze is so shiny, but I keep trying in different light conditions until I got something I'm happy with. I'm glad I am taking photos way ahead, so I have time enough to experiment.

[Rene Marker]

  On 2/1/2025 at 8:36 PM, Corrie Kinkel said:

Sometimes when you want to take a photo it can be very tricky with the colors. I'm trying to take a photo from a little plate for my letter D and whatever I try, it still has a reflection on its surface. The glaze is so shiny, but I keep trying in different light conditions until I got something I'm happy with. I'm glad I am taking photos way ahead, so I have time enough to experiment.

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I have this problem for the letter "M". It is something in a frame and unfortunately non-glare glass was not used for it when Dad had it made. And, my silhouette shows in the glass no matter what I try!

[Susan Ewart]

  On 2/1/2025 at 8:36 PM, Corrie Kinkel said:

Sometimes when you want to take a photo it can be very tricky with the colors. I'm trying to take a photo from a little plate for my letter D and whatever I try, it still has a reflection on its surface. The glaze is so shiny, but I keep trying in different light conditions until I got something I'm happy with. I'm glad I am taking photos way ahead, so I have time enough to experiment.

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I too was fighting reflections today.  the gist of reflections is the angle of incidence (that angle it hits the subject/surface) equals the angle of reflection(the angle it bounces off the subject/surface).  You want to be outside that angle and sometimes it just seems impossible or the angle is so crazy your subject would look terrible and mishapen.  Other times are giving it something to reflect.  Like a a huge white reflector so that all it sees is white; good for silver.  Or a huge black reflector depending on what it is you are lighting. Often i have to cut a hole for my lens to poke through a black foam core sheet but mostly I just get the best I can and hope no one notices.  Other things to consider is shiny black, if you don't give it something to reflect (ie. a white reflector ) then you wont see it, and glass on white background often needs a black reflector so you can see the edges of the glass (and white reflector if the glass is against a black background).  It's so hard, believe me, I love that stuff and I still am very bad at it.  

[Corrie Kinkel]

  On 2/2/2025 at 12:15 AM, Susan Ewart said:

I too was fighting reflections today.  the gist of reflections is the angle of incidence (that angle it hits the subject/surface) equals the angle of reflection(the angle it bounces off the subject/surface).  You want to be outside that angle and sometimes it just seems impossible or the angle is so crazy your subject would look terrible and mishapen.  Other times are giving it something to reflect.  Like a a huge white reflector so that all it sees is white; good for silver.  Or a huge black reflector depending on what it is you are lighting. Often i have to cut a hole for my lens to poke through a black foam core sheet but mostly I just get the best I can and hope no one notices.  Other things to consider is shiny black, if you don't give it something to reflect (ie. a white reflector ) then you wont see it, and glass on white background often needs a black reflector so you can see the edges of the glass (and white reflector if the glass is against a black background).  It's so hard, believe me, I love that stuff and I still am very bad at it.  

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I know the theory but I don't have anything that comes near to a makeshift studio or lighting options . Luckily today I still managed to get a more or less decent photo of my item (with the letter D), but I was almost lying on the floor because that was the only option to get almost no reflection. My husband found it hilarious!🤣 There will be more items were I have to be very aware of that annoying reflection!

[Julie Magerka]

  On 2/2/2025 at 12:15 AM, Susan Ewart said:

I too was fighting reflections today.  the gist of reflections is the angle of incidence (that angle it hits the subject/surface) equals the angle of reflection(the angle it bounces off the subject/surface).  You want to be outside that angle and sometimes it just seems impossible or the angle is so crazy your subject would look terrible and mishapen.  Other times are giving it something to reflect.  Like a a huge white reflector so that all it sees is white; good for silver.  Or a huge black reflector depending on what it is you are lighting. Often i have to cut a hole for my lens to poke through a black foam core sheet but mostly I just get the best I can and hope no one notices.  Other things to consider is shiny black, if you don't give it something to reflect (ie. a white reflector ) then you wont see it, and glass on white background often needs a black reflector so you can see the edges of the glass (and white reflector if the glass is against a black background).  It's so hard, believe me, I love that stuff and I still am very bad at it.  

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This sounds too much like physics to me! You must have a math brain.

[Susan Ewart]

  On 2/2/2025 at 3:28 PM, Corrie Kinkel said:

I know the theory but I don't have anything that comes near to a makeshift studio or lighting options . Luckily today I still managed to get a more or less decent photo of my item (with the letter D), but I was almost lying on the floor because that was the only option to get almost no reflection. My husband found it hilarious!🤣 There will be more items were I have to be very aware of that annoying reflection!

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You husband should have taken a picture of you...you could have used it for the letter P = Photographer.    My equipment is pretty cheap and makeshift.  Dont be envisioning this high tech studio cause it's just a in a tiny room ( a bedroom with no bed) in the house and some constant lights we won at a auction.  I used to use desk lamps with scrims made out of foam frame with white parachute type fabric for the light to shine through.  I dont have a lot of money to spend on this so I had to learn to make do with what I have.  I was so excited when I bought lights that you'd have in chicken coops, they have  silver dish around them and I put the material over that.  I mean it was really a makeshift set up.  I have a little better stuff now, but not flashes or strobes that I really would love to have.  It's on the wish list.  

[Susan Ewart]

  On 2/2/2025 at 4:46 PM, Julie Magerka said:

This sounds too much like physics to me! You must have a math brain.

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I am horrible at math.  I've just read some books.  And I guess a lot about the angles and you'd laugh at me rubber-necking to see where the best spot is to shoot from.  The set up is so much longer than the actual taking of the photos.  But I do enjoy trying to achieve what I want (more often I am unsuccessful, but learning how not to do it also teaches me something).  

[Corrie Kinkel]

  On 2/4/2025 at 1:58 AM, Susan Ewart said:

I am horrible at math.  I've just read some books.  And I guess a lot about the angles and you'd laugh at me rubber-necking to see where the best spot is to shoot from.  The set up is so much longer than the actual taking of the photos.  But I do enjoy trying to achieve what I want (more often I am unsuccessful, but learning how not to do it also teaches me something).  

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At least you were not lying flat on the floor like me LOL. But I agree about learning what will and what won't work!  This alphabet photo challenge learns me more about how to make a set up for a photo so the result is near to what I had in mind.

[Susan Ewart]

  On 2/4/2025 at 10:47 AM, Corrie Kinkel said:

At least you were not lying flat on the floor like me LOL. But I agree about learning what will and what won't work!  This alphabet photo challenge learns me more about how to make a set up for a photo so the result is near to what I had in mind.

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The results of you taking time to think about the set up/lighting resulted in really beautiful photos that are elevated above everyday casual photography.  It's a nice feeling when you take time and get a good shot and think, hey, I really like what I just did.