Quarantine Photo Challenge: Day 2.

You can follow the whole challenge on my Instagram account here (@sophiemberger).

Today proved to be a lot more challenging than yesterday.

I had immediately noticed the colors and the pattern of these tiles when I first walked into my bathroom. I knew that I wanted to use them to create some sort of composition for a photo, just not exactly what.

I thought I’d give it a shot today and took a couple of pictures just of the plain wall. I didn’t like how empty that looked, even though the pattern was interesting, I thought the shot was missing a subject.

So next I decided to grab my light blue hoodie as I thought that the teal would work quite well with the orange/red and green/teal tones of the tiles. Because this tile pattern was opposite of my shower, however, it was actually really tough to find a composition that I sort of liked, since I could not get enough distance between the wall and myself to get a lot of the hoodie into the frame.

I then decided to switch it up again and used an old film camera as the subject, instead of my hoodie. I did think it was kind of awkward to shoot a film camera in a bathroom setting… but bear with me here. I took a couple of shots, each from a different angle, and although I liked the contrast of the black camera to the brighter wall, it just wasn’t doing it for me.

Lastly, I tried some shots of the showerhead with the same tile pattern as the backdrop. While I did like those shots quite a bit, cause they had a mechanic/scientific, almost Stranger Things Lab type of feel, I gain felt like the subject was just a little too boring since a shower was kind of to be expected in a place like this.

So after looking through all of these shots, I decided that the shot at the top, with the hoodie, was the one I liked the most. The colors go together nicely and the whole scene kind of gives me an 80s diner vibe with the tiles and warm lighting… but in a bathroom.

Here are some of the other shots I took: