Here’s a fun photo project…and an idea I stole from my wife (I explained to her that I was improving on her idea – it didn’t go over well). Go find a green space and see how many flowers you can discover. Or bugs. Or whatever. And then make a photo collage out of them.
I went in our back yard here in Chennai, India – which is filled with both green things and bugs – and I didn’t realize how many different flowers there would be. I was hoping for 16 if I really worked at it. I ended up with 21, but then realized I would need 25 to make a perfect square. So I went back out and actually found 5 more within about 10 minutes – often tiny overlooked ones. Which was good, because one of the previous 21 had been a duplicate.
I took all the pictures with a wide-open aperture, in RAW format. f/1.8 ended up making parts of the flowers blurry, so I switched it to f/2.2, which was much better. Then I did a bit of fixing and cropping in lightroom, and then dragged them all into photoshop. I cropped each photo square, changed the canvas size to 10 by 10 inches, and then changed each image size to 2 inches square, and copied them in as individual layers. You can also do it in photoshop, and save the whole thing as a jpeg.
And then, if you’re bored, you can play around with different effects for fun. Like this “grunge” effect.
Or this “brocade” texture.
Anyway, it was a fun way to spend a few hours. My wife wasn’t too upset that I “stole” her idea. She ended up finding 27 kinds of flowers to my 25….
