While fishing with my son last weekend at Heritage Park, I got some great shots of the surroundings, which included some birds, flowers and these curling bark macros. The tree itself is full of 'curling bark' like this and I'm sure I could have gotten enough to actually create some type of interesting font! Now that would be a project in itself for sure! But I've taken a great deal of interest lately in photography again and in particular the macro shots, which I've always admired in other photographer's work. My subjects seem to be in the category of nature for the most part, shooting trees, animals, creatures, sealife, and nice thick cloud patterns when they arrive. And my schooling and experience in graphic design has helped tremendously in both my composition and in color correcting and effects of various kinds, although I keep my 'effects' to a minimum in my photos unless I'm doing some digital art or commercial photography, which, for the time being is really only portfolio or personal work. But I'm working on building that more to open up more opportunities for myself to see where it might lead.
My current project is creating an AD for a fishing lure made by Blue Fox. I got the idea when I started snapping macro shots of the lure on my own fishing pole, which came out great, considering the wind factor at the time, but I got a great shot with the lake and hills behind and got the effect I was going for! Now it just needs a few clean shots of the lures themselves and the logo and text placed in and voilà! A great fishing lure AD for the portfolio! That's next time. :)
