Exercise;
Making figures anonymous
I have to take between two to four photographs that
include a person or people in a particular place, but deliberately make them
unrecognizable and as a result, less prominent.
In the exercise there are a few ways listed that I would
be able to achieve this.
·
Small and many
·
Facing away
·
In Silhouette
·
Partly obscured
·
Motion blur
To
start off with I chose to show “Small and many” with this image that I took
recently whilst I was in Barcelona of the Basilica I Temple Expiatori de la
Sagrada Familia.
1/60 seconds at f/18.0 – Lens EF-S 18-200mm
f/3.5-5.6 IS
I used a high aperture to get everything in focus and I
wanted to “freeze” the people hence the reason for the fast shutter speed, it
was also a sunny day so that helped.
I
think this fits the brief well, at first glance you cannot see the people at
the bottom due to the enormity of the church. It is a good image to show its
function as it is a major tourist attraction and everyone is standing as far
back as they can, in the grounds of the church so to be able to view it.
1/4 seconds at f/22.0 – Lens EF-S 18-200mm
f/3.5-5.6 IS
I tried to do motion blur on London Bridge and it worked
quite well, however it does not make the people less prominent. I think this is
because there are more people in the foreground, I have noticed though the
further away they are, the less blur there is and the man on the left hand side
is quite prominent, I think this is because he was walking slowly!
I used a high aperture and slow shutter speed as I wanted
to get everything apart from the people in focus.
1/40 seconds at f/7.1 – Lens EF-S 18-200mm
f/3.5-5.6 IS
I used a low aperture to concentrate solely on the
family, but I think the view is still very prominent in the frame due to the
way I composed the shot.
1/30 seconds at f/7.1 – Lens EF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
I included this image as it includes two of the situations with “facing away” and “motion blur”. I feel that in this image the figures are less prominent due to the composure of the image and the woman who is facing away is far away.
As with the image above I used a low aperture to focus in on the woman looking at the view and a slightly slower shutter speed to capture the bike.
1/160 seconds at f/8 – Lens EF-S 18-200mm
f/3.5-5.6 IS
I found this image in the bank of images that I have of
the USA, hence the reason for the settings not being correct. I decided to
include this image as I really like the vignette and bold colours. Even the
people are bold in there colouring, but do not overtake the image therefore they
are less prominent.
Summary
This
was a great exercise to be able to experiment with ways of photographing that I
have not really done before, as I said previously it was really interesting to
see how distance really affects the motion blur, I feel I have composed the
pictures well in this exercise.
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