Exercise; Close
and involved
I have to use a lens length of 28mm or less, but use it
as close to people as I can. I have to say with this exercise, it was extremely
difficult, I decided to shoot at the Tate as I thought people would be far to
engrossed at what they were looking at rather than me taking photos, however,
this proved to be a lot more difficult than originally thought!.
People weren’t that interested in taking the time to look
at the art, they mainly just breezed on through and at one point, I got told
off! , I had to delete the photo, I would have asked that person but as it was
supposed to be unaware, I didn’t want them to know.
The first photographs I took are a bit further back, so to build my confidence in doing this.
1/50 seconds at f/7.1
Luckily, the band they didn’t look at me for this photograph, but on the others they did, I managed to get an OK shot, but I wasn’t entirely happy with it as I felt rushed and uncomfortable. For all the other images, I decided to go inside the Tate modern.
1/13 seconds at f/3.5
1/06 seconds at f/3.5
Another easy one for me, they were all sat down looking
at their phones rather that the paintings, which I found a bit odd, but I think
some of them had audio guides.
1/10 seconds at f/4.0
This one was a bit more difficult as the kids kept looking at me and said that I was taking photos of them, that was when I started to think I had chosen the wrong location. At least I managed to get something in this image.
1/25 seconds at f/7.1
This one was very difficult as they were moving and the room was very dark above but very bright below, I only managed to focus on the one child in the white shirt.
1/10 seconds at f/4.0
All of the images where leading up to this one, I was extremely
close to her and luckily she was engrossed in her audio guide and didn’t notice
me.
I like the irony that the beautiful Monet that she should
be looking at and appreciating goes unnoticed, because instead she is stuck to
a screen, I know it’s the point of a guide, I just didn’t know when an audio
guide became a video guide!.
Throughout this whole process I felt extremely uncomfortable and the only good thing was people not walking in front of me, it was difficult as people decided to wait for me to take a photograph of the thing they thought I was taking a photograph of, when it was actually them who I wanted to take the photo of.
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