Free Choice - Erin
This weekend I traveled down to the Skagit River Delta, once
of a field trip and once with my parents because they were visiting. We also
went for a hike up Fragrance lake. This was where I got these photos. I wasn't
sure what it was I wanted to do with my free choice photos so I stuck with what
caught my eye while also trying to challenge myself. There were bushes and
bushes of rose hips covered in these vibrant yellow lichens and so I worked to
capture these lichens. I am still working on improving my macro photography. I
struggle with the composition of macro photography because it tends to be so
abstract with an absence of foreground and background. Instead macro
photography is a smattering of up close textures and colors that seem almost
alien because we so rarely look at it. My hope with macro photography is to
instill a kind of awe in the exciting vibrancy and diversity of life you can
find at a small scale. My hope is to expand this concept and skill throughout
my class. If I could redo the pictures I have here I would spend more time
trying to get as zoomed in on the lichen to get a detail picture of it. I hope
to learn more about how macro photographers compose their works. As for the
bird wing photograph I felt conflicted about taking a picture, I wanted to
respect the bird and also to appreciate it’s beauty and it’s life. I want to do
more research into the ethics and issues around photography like this. I
struggled to capture the frozen over lake, I wanted to show the trees but not
over expose the ice. I would have spent more time working on the settings if I
could have.
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