Dear all,
I was struggling with this months theme as I didn't get any great chances to shoot amazing thunderstorms or strong contrasts between wet & dry and stuff. Found an old image though of a line of dark clouds coming in and looking very threatening which was a stitched panorama. But after looking at it I realized it was actually a very poor image from a photographic point of view.
Then last week, whilst surfing and taking photos of the guys, I noticed that the wind had changed and was blowing from the east towards the shore. And when that happens, hundreds of blue-bottles usually get washed ashore. I reckoned that would could as a weather shot, took my macro lens and started to play around with my newly made soft-box (Emil's design). Indeed, plenty of blue-bottles stranded in the next half an hour, but then the difficulty only started... How on earth do you take an interesting photograph of a blue-bottle?!? I tried dozens of options, but couldn't get a 'interesting' shot, a shot that would capture the viewer. Eventually I was even digging a man sized hole in the sand with one hand (the other hand was holding the camera) where I could lie in in a skew yoga position, to get to eye level with the incoming sea in the background, and risking having that stranded blue-bottle being washed right into my face with the next incoming wave. Not even to mention the risk for my camera...
Yet, still I don't think I managed to take extra-ordinary photos and hence would like to ask for your advice. What would you have done to make the images more interesting? Below are three shots that are somehow okay.
Nikon D8-, Nikkor Micro 55 mm, f22, 1/200 sec, ISO 100
Here I wanted to portray a 'battle field of victims left behind'.
Here I like the front one, leaning to one side as a stranded ship would do. Shame on me for cutting of a edge...
Let me know your thoughts please.
Cheers Nick
1 comment:
Hi Nick
I really like the bold colours in these shots. I think I prefer the first composition out of the three as it does what you describe...shows a battlefield of wrecks.
The lighting is wonderful too...looks almost like it was done in studio. My concern is the dark shadows behind. Judging by the text this was shot during the day. The shadows give the impression of having been shot at night though (if it was at night my apologies). Possibly using the flash with a longer exposure to fill the shadows with ambient light would have given a lighter result in the background, while retaining the almost tactile lighting on the foreground.
Great series
E
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