52 WoA: Week 30 - OOF (Purposely Out of Focus)

this week is a succinct overview of my personality. if you've ever met me, I think you'd understand.

it's honestly the reason behind this tattoo. I'm constantly OOF, but I love it.

I love that life has me pulled in every direction.

I love that I won't allow others to take me too seriously. I mean really, I stick my pinky out when I shoot...who does that?!

with all of my flaws, I love that my friends and family keep me focused. thank you, guys.

Shutter speed: 1/60
Aperture: f/1.8
ISO: 250
Processing: Adobe Lightroom 3

Sometimes, life just floats by while you are stationary and watch it pass you. Originally, I wanted to do a cool photo of cars driving by me and creating awesome streaks of light. After a few images, I realize that that was boring and so overdone. I decided to go in the complete opposite direction and freeze all of the traffic to slow life down a bit. Sometimes, slowing things down and unfocusing can help you refocus yourself again.

Shutter speed: 1/320th
Aperture: f/1.4
ISO: 6400
Processing: Adobe Lightroom 4 Beta

As a photographer, sometime you need to work on things outside of your normal purview and this project is going to help us (and you) challenge, grow and creatively develop your photography as a whole. Weekly for the next year, we will be sharing our images with you here!

For those of you interested in participating, PLEASE join us! The more the merrier! You definitely do not need to be a professional photographer, this is something you can easily do with your point and shoot, cell phone, ipad2, etc. You can comment with a link to your image here on our blog or on our La Brisa fan page or you can tag La Brisa Photography in your image on your own FB page or use the hashtag #52WoA on twitter that way we can share your efforts with everyone else! If you are interested in joining our La Brisa Aspiring Photographer Workshop group on FB, please request to join as we will also be sharing our images there too.

Next Thursday, March 1st, Week 31: “What I consider dessert” will be due. The image must be created between today and March 1st. Good luck!

Let me know if you have any questions!

Here is the full list of 52 Weeks of Awesomeness!

Week 1               Free for All

Week 2               Introduce yourself

Week 3               Show us your home

Week 4               Your Name

Week 5               Sports (anything related, teams, players, equipment, etc,)

Week 6               Guilty Pleasures

Week 7               ONE object shot at 5 different angels/distances

Week 8               One for the road (signs, streets, traffic, etc.)

Week 9               Objects that tell something about you

Week 10             Things that make your life easier

Week 11             Your favorite color

Week 12             Household item

Week 13             Foods

Week 14             Flashed (an image created using artificial light)

Week 15             Sun (sunlight, sunset, sunrise, etc)

Week 16             Emotion

Week 17             Lines

Week 18             What you do outside the world of photography

Week 19             Weather

Week 20             Emotional attachment (heirloom/special gift, etc.)

Week 21             Pets

Week 22             Things you couldn't live without

Week 23             Habits

Week 24             Fire (candle, fireplace, etc.)

Week 25             Hats

Week 26             Textures

Week 27             Hands

Week 28             Shoes

Week 29             Jewelry

Week 30             OOF (Out of Focus)…purposely OOF

Week 31             What I consider dessert

Week 32             Fill the Frame (close ups)

Week 33             A week in our lives

Week 34             Faith (what you believe)

Week 35             Dance (body in motion)

Week 36             Family & Friends

Week 37             SOOC (straight out of the camera)…before & after

Week 38             Patriotic

Week 39             Object: straight up shots and then straight down shots

Week 40             Something at night

Week 41             Something that gives you the feeling of warmth

Week 42             Smell

Week 43             Water

Week 44             Animals

Week 45             Music

Week 46             Reflections/Shadows

Week 47             Flowers

Week 48             Sleep

Week 49             Action Shots

Week 50             Circles

Week 51             Your car

Week 52             Self portrait