Friday, February 24, 2012

Project 52 -- Cabin Fever

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I'm linking up with Darcy for Project 52.
Click her Project 52 button above to see what it's all about!



This week's challengeCabin Fever


My photo:



My thoughts:

After family devotions on Wednesday night, my husband started ordering our guys to "clean up this mess!"  He was flabbergasted when I stopped him.  After all, I'm the organized, neat, and tidy one in the family.  Unbeknownst to him, I already had this photo in my mind.


The setup:

Although I envisioned both Thomas (my 15yo, above) and his brother Danny (18 and loves to make the goofiest faces imaginable for the camera) in my image, Thomas would work in a pinch.  Danny was too busy that morning writing a short essay in Spanish.  I cajoled Thomas into sitting down on the floor in the middle of the mess, and I stood on the computer desk chair to snap the image.  The above is the first picture I took, and I chose it because it didn't get any better than that.  I had wanted him to make a pull-your-hair-out-while-screaming face, but he was not in a good mood (see the picture below).  Of course, not being in a good mood was good for the theme!

Note--nothing else in the photo was staged; the clutter (mostly three guys' school stuff) appears as it actually lay from the night before.  Half an hour after I took the shots, my living room was back to its beautiful, tidy self.


Camera settings:
  • ISO 1600
  • Manual mode
  • 17-85mm lens at 17mm
  • Aperture at f4
  • 1/50 second shutter speed

Because the photo was just what I envisioned, post-edit was simple and quick.  This week's image was all about composition--what I was actually going to shoot--not changing the image significantly with editing.  In Lightroom3, I increased the contrast, brightened the image a tiny bit, and added some grain, which I think works well with both high ISO and lots of busy-ness in an image.

 Toldja he wasn't in a good mood!

Don't worry; he's partially "faking" the above.  He soon became his sweet self (breakfast helped).  I mean--how many 15-year-olds give their moms random hugs throughout the day?  :)


Treasuring life's moments,
Christine

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13 comments:

  1. Sweet! Is that new home school curriculum? I love new books!

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    1. Kim, that's just all their schoolbooks--my 15yo in homeschool high school, and my two older boys' college books, assignments, and various paperwork that found its way all over the family room floor. :)

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  2. Too funny! That's how my daughter acts when I ask her to clean up!

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  3. love the perspective on this shot. great photo!

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  4. I love the setup. This shot is great and represents cabin fever so well.

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  5. I think we have the same sort of boys !!!

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  6. Great shots. Very nice of your son to humor you by being your model. He did it perfectly. I love the perspective too.

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  7. Love the perspective and your interpretation. And my living room looks like that too, only substitute legos and puzzle pieces for the books and papers.

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  8. love the perspective on these! great pictures!

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