So this was the week of Main South Celebrates....and I tried to focus on more people. However, I ran into a lot of problems with time of day and wanting to take pictures during the middle of the day when there was more going on. (Side Note: the blog dilutes the colors in some of these photos, and washes them out a bit). I noticed a theme for the week: eyes and the way they reflect light (once again with the light theme). I'm starting to grasp photoshop a little more and I'm becoming less frustrated. However, when I went back over my photos for the week I noticed that they were just all over the place. I was completely frazzled, and I felt like I was trying too hard to capture, rather than allowing the photo to come to me. I feel like because of this I missed out on a lot of opportunities for great pictures. My problem is that I just have way too many ideas and I sporadically move from one to other, without mastering one before I move on. This just allows for a bunch of mediocre photos...which isn't really what I'm going for. Oh well, I just need to slow down my pace and focus on one thing at a time.
I wasn't as interested in the quality of this photo than the story behind it. This man was talking to my friend and I on the bus (my first time ever riding), about life, and college, and when he was in war. I think that part that I was so drawn to was the way he seemed so isolated from everything. I sat on the steps of city hall and literally watched him walk by 5 or 6 times by himself, just going back and forth with his crutch to help him walk.
This photo is a little hard for me to look at. I don't want to give away personal information, but her story was moving. You can see the wear and tear of life if the wrinkles and lines on her face. Earlier in the day I had painted her face and she came back and she had cried, so the paint around her right eye had ran down her face a little.
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