Week 18: Silhouettes and Toys

Assignment: "Silhouette" We all know what a silhouette is, a darkened featureless person or object in a picture. With the proper use of light, they can make striking images.
Here is a how to: http://www.digital-photography-school.com/how-to-photograph-silhouettes

I struggled with this one as I was looking to get a nice picture with a sunset/rise in the back ground... but now a days in this hemisphere it is either too late or too early for me... so here is what I came up with in the park:

Just walking with the spray of water illuminating the back

Reading in the park - sun at high noon

Sun behind book

Challenge: Toys.Your challenge this week is to take and share an image on the theme of ‘TOYS’.
While not everyone might have access to kids toys in their home – feel free to interpret the topic more broadly and photograph anything you consider to be your ‘toy’ – it might be a gadget, hobby or maybe you have a toy from your own childhood in the attic that you could dig out and photograph. Alternatively you might like to photograph some kids playing with their own toys. Just have fun with the topic – toys are for playing and so I hope to see some playful and fun images.

I had fun with this one… my daughter is 6 and I knew I could find some toys to play with… but just as I did, I realized most of the toys are in boxes – we are about to move and there are more boxes with toys. I first thought to incorporate some water and toys as my daughter love bath time (once she gets in – to get her in it’s a different story). But I was not getting any cooperation so I took a few “safari” shots”:

Food for the animals?

Going to get some more food

Then I found a bag full of birds… and decided to have some fun outside, as I remembered that our fire escape stairs are very rusty and could potentially have a nice effect on the pictures… so I played, but not having a tripod hindered me here and what I wanted to do, so here it is:

Bird on a wire?


with a friend


the whole crew

Then as I was walking to put them back in the bag, I saw the light from the window lighting up my daughters processes house and thought of some great captures:

Getting ready for the party

awaiting her prince by the rear window

while her prince shows up at the back door, her friends are ready for the party in the front

Then my daughter came in and brought all the princesses out, so we decided to line them up for a dance, but we don’t have a prince, so we satire it with an ogre


The lineup

we know who he is choosing, but what about the rest... well we found them a suitor as well

Going for Shilgee (snow white)?

He looks happy, and hungry

so happy he brought a friend

To top it all off – by this time my daughter fell of the chair, as she wanted to look at the line up and it was on top of tall boxes (to get the light right from the window)… so I had to give the ogar a chance at being a prince as he stuckout with the ladies: