All of this week’s assignment photos were taken lying in bed, as I had my final (hopefully!) surgery, and can’t move the leg a lot.  So, I had to Photoshop the backgrounds a bit more than normal.  My apologies!

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shiny!

I really liked how shiny this dog ended up looking.  You can see my reflection on the dog’s nose, holding the camera vertically.  Although I can’t control the depth of field manually on the Panasonic Lumix TZ3, the relatively shallowness helped give the dog depth.

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metaphoto

This week’s assignment sketched on my daughter’s “portable” DoodlePro, which we affectionately call her “PDA” :-)  In this photo, I didn’t really get the right point for the focus, I would have liked the “t” to be a bit more in focus.  Shot with the TZ3.

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crab eyes

This plush crab was given to me by some friends, as consolation of having missed a seafood geocaching event due to the accident.  It was shot on top of a pillow, and I maxed out the levels of the background, to give it that studio shot look.  Also taken with the Panasonic TZ3.

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off into the unknown!!

My daughter’s medium sized remote controled car, sitting on top of my protruding sheet covered belly (hey, who said a few beers once in a while aren’t useful?! ), with my friend Bruno holding a white piece of paper in the background to make disguising it easier.  I thought of making the white beneath sand colored and the background sky blue, but decided it would be a little too much Photoshopping for the concept of this project.  Also shot with the fantastic TizzyThree

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Toys might make us think of both either new, shiny and exciting, or old, worn and nostalgic.  I didn’t have much choice, and couldn’t ask my wife to bring all of our daughter’s toys to choose from… so I went for the shiny, clean new look, with that look of a studio shot - although I didn’t use any flashes, just the hospital room’s artificial and natural light, plus a bit of photoshopping to enhance the tones and make the backgrounds as white as possible.