First shooting experience

During this Tuesday's workday i experienced my first day of shooting with my new topic finally solidified in my mind. For the first time in a while i feel like i have broken out of my funk and i am ready, excited, and determined to start experimenting. While this shooting session my not have been extremely successful as far a ending up with images that i was happy with, i think it was very informative and helpful to show me very basic things that worked (or that could work eventually with a little more experimentation) and things that did not work. Where as with my old topic when i came up with something that didn't work i felt stuck at a dead end, this topic is allowing me to learn from techniques that might not work so well and tailor them to be more appropriate to what i am trying to depict. The major problem that i ran into with this set of images was that although i came up with some images that really popped, were visually appealing, and esthetically pleasing the objects within them were still somewhat identifiable. I need to find ways to come up with the same attention getting images while also finding a way to completely abstract the subject matter. Although i do feel like this will present somewhat of a challenge i am definitely excited and ready to dive in.

Below are a selection of images that i shot during this session:







Again while i was happy about the framing and depth of field in these images i don't think that most of them reach the level of abstraction i am going for.