Exercise 2: Pictures from your own back yard.

The assignment here was as follows:

Part 1: Have someone (other than yourself) choose three seemingly unrelated items/objects for you to photograph together. Don't expect masterpieces, expect a struggle. Minimum requirement: 20 pictures.

Part 2: Pick up your camera, a 35-50mm lens, and your tripod, and go to the front (or back) door of your home. Take 19 steps. Mark the spot. Take seven more steps from that point. The seven steps from your original 19 mark the radius of a circle, in which you should shoot at least 20 images. You should feel desperation during the exercise. You will only start to make visual break throughs when you have run out of the obvious picture possibilities.

I skipped part 1 for the moment because I was home alone. But I just bought a Canon 2xII extender and was wanting to try it out. So I threw it in front of my 70-200 2.8 and then zoomed all the way out to 200mm and tried to find anything I could within about a 7 foot radius that was worthy of a picture.

Here are some of the images I found. Most of them are "within" the radius (with a couple of obvious exceptions where I stood within the radius but shot outside the radius).