Lavender

It's the last week of digital photography and I don't even know how we got here. 

The assignment (assignments?) for this week was to take more "specialty" photographs. So I decided to take pictures of my other BJD Lavender, as well as some scale props and put the macro settings on my camera to use. Although at this point in the class when is my camera not on macro?

Most of the pictures I took inside, and they turned out a little grainy because my ISO was up so high. I never was able to figure out a decent DIY lighting configuration from lamps and bulbs around the house, so mostly I used light from the window.

I only took a few pictures of Lavender outside because she's floppy and needs restringing (and her wig has a tendency to pop off at inopportune times) so I didn't really want to battle with posing her in wet grass. For the outside pictures she's safely in her stand on the deck.

This picture was me actually trying to recreate the one above that I took inside, to see if I could get the image quality sharper at all. But really the difference isn't as much as I was expecting. Also I was dumb and wasn't paying attention to how I had her head positioned so in the end I still like the original better.

This one is basically the first image but without the vintage color quality.

I have some really old pictures of Lavender with these same props that I took a million years ago. If I can find them I'll put them at the end for a comparison.

Here are the old pictures from 2013.

Ok, the last one has nothing to do with the props I used today and five years ago, but it's one of the best pictures I remember ever taking at that time of life. This has the potential to become a huge tangent so before I get way off topic I'm going to end here.