photo workshop week 1

I started taking a photography class at work. We shoot digital, but so far only in black and white with no cropping or post-processing. It's definitely a challenge. Here are my photos from the first week (last week, actually). Some friends were visiting with their 2 year old Lars, who made a very photogenic subject.

youngme / nowme

youngme / nowme
Originally uploaded by cignoh

for my photo.a.day today, i decided to participate in the youngme/nowme photo contest. the idea is to start with a photo of yourself as a young child and try to recreate the same photo, but of yourself now. the most important factors should be your pose and facial expression, but other things to consider are clothing, colors, lighting, environment, props, composition, etc.

i was unable to mimic my surroundings exactly since my patio looks nothing like the one from the original photograph and also couldn't recreate the composition of the original photo because my patio was too small to place the camera anywhere else and still fit myself in the photo. i also didn't have clothes that looked similar, so i just wore my current day choice of lounge/sleepwear. the colors were pretty different/distracting, so made both photos black and white, adjusted the levels a little, and added some grain to the new one to try to match the original better.

week of photos with focus on bcam

here's a week's worth of photos:

	subway
	mandarin fetus
	ganesh
	jars
	bike rack
	bcam
	date scones

and a focus on the broad contemporary art museum (bcam) at the lacma (more photos here):