Holly Ferguson B&W Mystery Assignment

Hello everyone! Here are a few of my favorite photos from the B&W Mystery Assignment. For some background: I used a Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone with an Android 4.4.2 TouchWiz UI operating System, and for the app to create some effects to my pictures I used Snapseed version 1.6.0.  

With this picture, if you could not tell the object is a sneaker. I really like this picture because there is a lot of texture as well as interesting lighting. I did not zoom at all for this picture, I just got very close to my sneaker to take advantage of as much focus as I could. I also took it where light was coming from above me, which created the lighting effect. After taking the picture, I inputted it into Snapseed and changed it to black and white and decreased the brightness and increased the contrast a little. 

This is a picture of my blankets on my bed, as you can tell I do not make my bed often. I was inspired to take this picture one day because I remember not wanting to leave my bed, and thinking I had to take some pictures today, so I might as well get some work done if I wasn't getting up to do anything else productive. This picture just reminds me of comfort and relaxation. I did not alter this picture much, but I did use the Snapseed app to change the picture into black and white. 

This object is actually a picture of a empty glass placed in front of a window. I really like this picture, and I am glad everyone else did too because it won the POW. For the technique I again did not use the zoom to get the best focus possible, and I also tried to grab the focus of the glass that was closest to me and have the other parts of the glass out of focus some. I also really like how the lighting came out shining through the glass and hitting off the letters like it is. TO change the picture to black and white I used the Snapseed app again, and I increased the brightness a little and also increased the contrast some too.