and it was all yellow

This activity you did is fun to examine closely. Your eye for composition, color and content or subject matter is very good. I especially like the angle-of-view in many of the photos. Those photos are most dynamic.

(My comments come from my film background.) Editors of film or video have to be aware of “match editing” between scenes or locations. Since you have made a photo montage, I’d like to point out the differences I’ve noticed in lighting between the groupings of your photos.

When outdoor light is diffuse, it can wash away your subject. It helps to crop the part that looks washed away out, as you did with the lemon tree. Diffuse or bright light rarely matches indoor lighting–so one usually needs a flash or an additional source of lighting for indoor shots to match the two.

You can see this in the 4-some with the guitar. The 3 indoor photos look great together. The 4th, your adorable shed, is a great angle and interesting subject, and that photo could stand alone, but the diffuse outdoor light at the top of the photo doesn’t match the color saturation or lighting of the indoor photos.

The following foursome with the egg works, even though the lighting in the egg shot is very different than the bright light of the 3 outdoor photos. In this foursome, the color saturation of all 4 works together. The repeated use of black lines in all four photos and yellow also unifies them. The black in the photo of your Charming Husband and son’s coats and the darkness of the lodge adds a strong line element, which compliments the black lines of the window–then there is a touch of black in the railing behind the lemon tree. The simple black line of the spoon looks so delicate.

Thanks for sharing.

I’m sorry. I should keep my big mouth shut. I like to examine photos though and I thought that was part of the exercise, but I didn’t refer to the other site you mentioned to see the specifics.

You have a wonderful eye for photography as evident by your blog and I wouldn’t say that if I didn’t think it true.

But I’ve been thinking a lot about color saturation and lighting in photographs because I’ve noticed in people’s blogs that there isn’t always a consistency between the indoor and outdoor lighting which seems to effect the look as a whole in the blog.

In my own blog I fear I may run into problems using photographs with lots of light in them because the very first photo I used in my header is so dark and subdued. I keep selecting images that match the color saturation and lighting so it all looks like it goes together. I get stuck on visual details like that when it sounds like I should probably be focusing more on my writing style.

Anyway, I will most certainly benefit from hearing your comments. Please leave a few.

I love how something that anyone might have in their home, like a stack of National Geographics, suddenly becomes interesting in a photograph. I particularly like the wet tetherball and Mr. T’s sun. Oh, and the flour and egg is wonderful You inspired us to try yellow photos, too. Clementine took 185 photos. Three cheers for digital cameras!

I couldn’t really even pretend to analyze the composition of any of those photos because I think I have fallen in love with your kitchen counters!!!! Are they really yellow tile? They look fantastic! And, for the record, I have absolutely never complimented anyone on their kitchen countertops before!

Great resolution! Great photos! Hope there’s more to come!

I love your backyard! My eyes are missing some green these days (and yellow) I love your pictures too; I’m just a novice myself. But I did get the book Nikon D40 for Dummies…