Change your prespective (Part 2)

In the first post, I combined vacation photography with just changing your perspective.  In this post, I wanted to take a picture of the same item within a few minutes while changing the perspective and backgrounds to change the feel of the image.

This is a yuca plant near Big Mac lake in Nebraska.

This image is what I would call boring.  There is a lot in the background, there really is no definitive subject (and it is centered which is another no-no).  To get a little different prespective on the plant, I dropped down and put the sky in the background:

I thnk this is a little better because now the sky adds some feeling to the picture.  The plant stands tall against the background.  I still feel that there is too much distraction with the rest of the grasses.

This one is a lot closer to what I think is a good picture.  The plant is more isolated and the 'clutter' in this case adds to the picture because it is isolated along the bottom third of the picture.  Overall, not to bad, and if you compare the pictures above, you can see how changing your prospective can change the image greatly - these pictures are all of the same plant and all the pictures were within three minutes of each other.

The last image changes the dynamics - just get in close and focus on what is interesting about the plant.

Out of all the pictures I took of the plant for this demonstration, this is the one I like the best.  It has the grain in the seed pod, the background is completely blurred and the colors are rich in the golds.  Still the same plant and still within the three minute window.  The moral of this lesson/post is to look for that shot that you will want to put on the wall.

There is one more thing I should mention - keep an eye out for hazards when shooting.  I sometimes get lost in the moment and don't notice things I should, like this little girl - She posed for me, and was just a young rattlesnake, but I would have hated to lay down on the ground to get some of the above shots only to find her sticking her tongue out and shaking her rattle at me...

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