Photo a Day #4

Well, day four of photo-a-day is going strong. Technically, I could refrain from uploading a photo 'till Tuesday and be okay. This is the first day I actually ventured out of Gabe's apartment, by myself, with my camera. There's an overwhelming feeling of conspicuousness skulking all around an object trying to frame it. Particularly when that object is on someone else's private property. Oh well, they can deal with it and so can I. I think my composition is coming along nicely. I went out today thinking that I wanted to get something with a more unified color palette, and this one hits that pretty well. I want to eventually move into more surreal stuff, but now I think I ought to just focus on the basics: framing, color, movement, genre. I find myself desaturating a bit in Photoshop. I don't know if that's just to do something different than the "auto color" option or not, but I think I like how it looks.

This second picture looks to me like a wizard's entourage that was ambushed by another wizard who turned them all into plants, that all whithered come winter. It's actually the plants outside a brownstone near Gabe's house. I might come back to this one later and try to put in some old people's faces on the plants, as a venture into surreal. But for now I like it how it is.

The test earlier today went well. We never find out our scores, which is upsetting, but I'm confident. We hear back in mid-March about whether or not we got in. Which, for me, means nothing but more photography practice for the next month or so. Hopefully I'll be able to get some writing done as well.