"Learning To See Creatively" exercise

I picked up a couple of Bryan Peterson's books from Amazon and honestly, I wish I would have done it earlier in the summer so I could have been setting the information in my mind by using it.

Here are my results from the first exercise (around page 16) I'm wishing I would have used my graycard to set my exposure, I was aperture priority from shooting in different light from earlier and just didn't think (never a good thing) I was just trying to get this finished before the shadows that were continuing to grow reached the trike. I also wish I would marked off my shooting points with chalk and measured them (yeah, I'm geeky that way)

Technical stuff. 105 mm lens (it goes home soon :( ) f/7.1, ISO 200, SS varied.

I didn't PP these at all. No RAW adjustments and I resized as a batch to be able to post. No USM, no watermark (yes, they are still mine) no anything other than the batch resize.

These were taken standing and getting progressively closer.









Kneeling (my poor knees, I should have gardening knees on)










On my belly, neighbors were watching me army crawl. I'd think they'd be use to this by now.









Standing on a step ladder (yes, I went above and beyond)









Observations

#1- A little change in perspective really changes the entire feel of the images.

#2- I debating about actually 'doing' the exercises or not. Do I really need to, the wonderful photographer that I am?

Well, I decided that as long as learning was my goal yes I did need to do them even if I did similar ones in classes before. I've got new equipment since then and the principles all still apply but if I feel my composition needs enough help that I'm buying a book (albeit one I've wanted for a long time) to help me with composition I better do what the book asks.

Which observation do I think is most important? Probably the second. For anyone who's read the book and not done the exercises they are quick and don't take as much time as I originally thought.