Indoor Photo Challenge
On Saturday, day 31 of social-distancing, I challenged Violet to an indoor timed photo exercise. We made a list of 10 ideas to photograph, set Alexa for a 20-minute timer, and headed off to search the house for snaps. Our only rules were:
Stop taking photos in 20 minutes
Stay in the house
iPhone-only (no fancy cameras)
Here’s what we came up with. Violet’s photos are first in each instance:
Look Down
Funnily, we both did the same thing on different floors of the house! Stand a chair, point down.
Look Up
Violet eyed the seashell Xmas lights we keep in the kitchen, while I tried to induce some reverse vertigo looking up the stairs.
Tiny
I love Violet’s take here. Look for the head of a little green pin in the beige carpet. I took a closeup of a pop-up Valentine’s Day card.
Liquid
In our house, you’re never more than an arm’s reach from a mostly-empty cup or bottle. Violet found twins. I tried shooting through a bottle of olive oil.
Low-Light
Tough to get the iPhone to take a dark shot. Here the phone’s insistence to meter stole Violet’s darkness. It took me a few tries as well to convince my phone that I wanted a poorly lit scene in the basement.
Super-Bright
And in reverse, the iPhone toned Violet’s pic of Emily’s sewing lamp way down. I tried to capture some lens flares under Violet’s bunkbed.
Angles
Violet found a bunch of angles in Emily’s sewing machine. I dug into Emily’s sewing project storage to find a jumble of curtain rods.
Curves
Star charts provided Violet a curvy view. I opted for the curves of a clock face (from Gwen).
Shiny
I love all the reflections Big V found in her tinsel. I spied a shiny bracket on a ceiling fan.
Black and White
My Van’s provided some good black/whit contrast for V. I switched to B&W mode on the phone and stole a shot of Emily’s thread spools.
