Day 144- Frank

6PM and totally at a loss at what to photograph, I looked at my Flickr group topic.

SCALE.  I already (of course) had photographed my bathroom scale, and I recently gave my Weight Watchers scale to Goodwill as part of my decluttering efforts.  But then I thought of another meaning of scale- as in size.

Looking around the room, the answer was obvious- Frankenstein!  Frank has unfortunately not survived my decluttering project and is currently sitting in my family room waiting to be taken to Goodwill, since none of my teacher friends want him.  He is an outsized Halloween decoration made by my friend, Lynne, who gave him to me when she moved away.  I used him to decorate my classroom a few times at Halloween, but he has lived most of his life at our house stuffed into a closet.  I’m hoping he will find a good home.

Although he would be classified in my photography class as a cooperative subject, this photo would not pass the scrutiny of the instructor.  Although it was properly exposed and white balanced, it had distracting elements in the background (shadows and electrical outlet).  I was too lazy too move him around to find the correct composition, so I lightened and blurred the background in Photoshop. I’m thinking now, I should have darkened it instead.