Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Julie (166) - Margaret


Shakes was very tired that night and it shows!

However, there are two reasons why I have posted this anyway: two things I want to bring to my own attention. Firstly, when photographing someone with glasses, always have the glasses at some sort of angle to the lens, cock the head either vertically or horizontally or rotate a few degrees. Secondly, the red wall was a grand gift, but I could have arranged the lines in it a bit better. Like ask Marg to sit more to the right and have the lines work with my image rather than cut across it.

8 comments:

Julie said...

Yes, when I see it up as a post, it would have had more impact if Marg had been moved over by about 2cms.

Damnations ...

Ann said...

That's interesting about photographing glasses not straight on. It explains how you have been able to do it so well. You really think through your shots. I should think a bit more.

Julie said...

It is not so much that I think them through at the time as analyse them afterwards and try to get a process straight in my head. A series of steps to go through as I ready the shot ... to still the nerves as much as anything else, too.

Ann said...

I can't get over the "quick take it before it moves" mentality. I have to realise that some things don't move.

Julie said...

Having said that though, you and I now have the ability/skill to either freeze movement or utilise the movement as a feature within our image.

I realised over the w/e that I am coming to a close with the Strangers concept: that my work is done. There is very little else that I want to achieve and to free myself of the shackles of asking and explaining each and every time would be a relief.

I will probably still have a blog that is a people/portrait concept - just not strangers.

I will probably stop with the 200th ...

Ann said...

I need to apply what I've learnt about depth of field and movement to travel photography. Also the portraiture experience and more confidence in approaching people should help. I should be able to get better compositions, although they had been improving anyway over the last few years. Also the experience with night photography which I had never done before. Hopefully they will start to improve technically. I need to check out how you can work in P and still change the aperture and/or shutter speed if you need to. Sounds an ideal compromise. Need to sit down with the manual again, still can't remember where the exposure meter button is when I need to change it. If nothing else, I should be able to figure out why the shot hasn't worked, and hopefully have time to try again.

Julie said...

Last night I parked along a street near the fishmarkets to shoot an underpass for the theme on Saturday of "night". They were okay but not what I was after. On the way back to the car, I discovered a puddle in which the street lights reflected a whole bunch of signs. As the cars went past the red of their rear brakes created a nice ambience to the moodiness and black of the street. I will try again this evening down at China town and see if I can come up with a mosaic type concept for the theme day of arty-farty-moodiness.

I am going to stick with M as 80% of my work and split the rest between Av and Tv for when I am stuck.

I am currently experimenting with flash as you will see as this week progresses on Strangers.

Ann said...

As you can probably tell, I've gone back to the p&s for this week's CDP shots. The SLR is too much to carry every day and its not that often that you can get into the Jubilee Room at PH. They aren't as clear as I would want but they do the job. I didn't go there specifically to photograph, I went to the post office and on my way out noticed that the rooms were open.