Art Photography: Project 46: Choosing the moment

Tuesday 10 August 2010

Project 46: Choosing the moment

The aim of this project is to take a series of photos of exactly the same scene, and to watch how the shadows and light change across a few hours, nominally just before sunset or just after sunrise. I chose to do this project when we were on our summer holiday recently in Glencoe. The scene was chosen because it had a background (mountains which would catch the light), midground (trees and powerlines which might occasionally catch the light) and foreground (field and fence which would get bits of light depending on the clouds). I thought the composition was quite interesting, with the mountains being strong diagonals/triangles in the photo, and the strips of sunlight across the field horizontals.

I set up with tripod and cable release, and for the first few photos I experimented with exposure compensation. I ended up taking most photos with both -1/2ev and -1ev. This set of photos is all -1ev.

The light changes were quite dramatic. I was surprised with how quickly the light changed, and the way it changed on the foreground and background was different. This meant I took a lot of photos. For this project I have selected 16 photos which show the changes over the 1 1/2 hours I was out for and also some of the more dramatic changes which occurred over minutes.

The best photos are those that have dramatic differences between the brightly sunlit areas and the darker shaded areas, photo 14 in particular is a favourite.

All photos were taken with the same setup (except shutter speed which varied because of the changes in light levels):

35mm, f/9.5, ISO200, -1EV, tripod

Photo 1: 6:55pm, 1/250s

Tuesday 10 August 2010

Project 46: Choosing the moment

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