Tuesday, 13 July 2010

Assignment 1 Contrasts Pair 8

Produce Sixteen photographs, group them in 8 pairs marked with the contrasts the aim to demonstrate.Also produce one photograph that demonstrates CONTRASTS in one picture

Equipment:
Camera: Nikon D300s
Lens 18/135mm
Tripod

Pair 8 Rough/Smooth







Exp time = 1/640
F/Stop = F9
Focal length = 70mm
ISO = 400



Exp time = 20 Sec
F/Stop = F14
Focal length = 100mm
ISO = 320

Rough

My inspiration for this pairing was a visit to Naburn Lock in York, there was some fantastic old machinery with old iron chains on one side and on the other there was a spectacular cascade of water rushing down from the river Ouse.

With this image I tried to get in close to an old crane there were parts on the machinery  that were very rusty and rough and the other parts that had not been weathered so hard. I tried to pick an interesting feature on the crane while still trying to display the contrast of rough.

Smooth
For this image I returned back to Naburn Lock at Dusk in order to try and shoot the waterfall with a much longer shutter speed to get a completely different effect from what I had achieved earlier in the day. The shot was tripod mounted and  the camera set to manual I dialed in a shutter speed of 20 seconds for this shot and selected an aperture of F14 in order to get as much in focus as possible in the available light. The resulting effect gives a smoothing to the water that almost looks cloud like.