Week Five Task

My inky fingers after completing a project where I was experimenting with a new technique - you may notice something amiss here. No index finger! Where is it? Who knows! Gone - but not forgotten!

• object of interest in foreground
• shadows
• repetition in shape (fingers)
• not a good photo - not in focus, but was taken left handed 
• amusing

The context:

Photo was taken inside with lamp on at night. Camera would have been set on Auto. 

There is an embossing tray, pen and powder (in jar); embossing ink and a stencil.

The paper was smooched with a delicious new paints in those strong colours prior to being overlayed with black embossing. This was achieved by laying the stencil over the coloured paper, and applying embossing ink then powder to the page. Then the embossing powder would have been heated and melted to the card. That was just for the sentiment. The tower was another stencil and some black paint applied carefully - hence the fingers!

• Covered with an acetate overlay and made into a box top.
• I have used a sheet of white paper behind the box to photograph it with the light coming from above (lamp)
• the light is bouncing from the acetate against the white paper behind

Answers to the Optional Activity: Digital Journaling

Which images?

Judy Davey

• I love the use of colour with the flowers - the yellow vs the blue (opposite, primary and complimentary on colour wheel) 
• the vertical lines of stems reflected in the water tumbling down the mirror
• the obscuring of the face while not covering it - secrets?
• the way it is framed with little negative space - fills the space

Rachel Johnson

• the direction of the water drops from the fingers
• the skill of the camera operator! To catch droplets!! One handed too.
• simplicity of shot
• line diagonally across the image from hand to water
• use of negative space

Clare Combey

• speaks of family life, love, fun
• neatness of placement and repetition 
• lines and rule of thirds demonstrated in tiles themselves
• light and dark, softness - goes with the sizeof shoes/feet; softness of a child's skin
• the plant brings in the idea of life and growing and living, while the mat introduces the idea of the circle of life and life lines as well as reflecting the roundness of the toes on the shoes

Sarah Bishop

• my areas - or similar - so empathy
• softness of light
• use of stash to brand
• pop of blues
• delicacy of lace each end against harness of shapes in middle
• repetition of swirls in lace and rectangles and straight lines in middle bit

Wish I was as clever.......