Project 24: Shapes

The aim of this project was to photograph objects to emphasise their shape. Lighting is important here - either strong backlighting or silhouette, or strong forelighting will help to emphasise shape. I show here 3 photos taken for the project and also an extra (colour) photo I took a few months ago which shows shapes well by use of silhouette.

Photo 1: Scottish highland cow with horns - the narrow DOF emphasises the shape of the horns.

95mm, f/6.7, 1/500s, ISO 200

Photo 2: Strong forelighting and use of a polarizer to deepen the blue sky to black emphasises the strong shape of Kings College, Cambridge.

32mm, f/2.8, 1/2000s, ISO 200, Polarizer

Photo 3: Not as strong a photo (a bit soft due to no tripod and shallow DOF), but the transluscent seed pods lit from behind show shape well here.

70mm, f/4, 1/350s, ISO 400

Photo 4: A silhouette photo of the Canal, Edinburgh, which shows the shape of the tower and crane well against the dramatic sky.

40mm, f/7, 1/200s, ISO 200, Tripod, Grad Neutral Density Filter