My Photography and the Art of Seeing Book has arrived so I am catching up with officially reading the book. I've enjoyed what I've read so far and decided to do one of the early exercises today. I chose this little shell a friend brought me from the coastline of Scotland (I hope to get there myself someday!), placed it on the couch and bracketed the lighting in the camera as far as my point and shoot would allow. While I was taking the shots, my neighbor knocked on the door and I lost track of the order I'd taken them in! I hope you can see the progression and how it effects the shell. After I lined them all up I was surprised to discover that I actually preferred the darkest one. To me the underexposed lighting added a mood or feeling to the shot that didn't seem as apparent in the others.
I like how you made a collage out of the different exposures. I also think you were smart to pick a simple objects. I tried over- and under-exposing a landscape and it wasn't nearly this interesting. Just looked like I was making mistakes!
@eudora Thanks Diane! I haven't done much with overexposing or underexposing landscapes but it seems to me they would probably lend themselves more to over exposure. However, it's a subjective judgment call. So keep trying! @henrir Thanks Henri! I think we were really supposed to post just one, but I really liked putting them all side by side.
This is great to see the progression. It's fun to see how the image and the feeling it conveys changes. I agree with you, BTW. Love the under exposure.
Great idea to make this a collage. And I do like the darker ones as I think they have more of an abstract and more interesting feel. The lighter look more like 'documentation' shots. Very interesting to study!
All great shots, Ann! At first I thought it was false teeth because of one side kind of looks like it! I like all of them. I have no clue what "bracketing the light" means. But whatever it means, you did a great job. Love how you put them together too. It certainly makes the larger one stand out. Well done :)
@prttblues Bracketing is when take a series of shots letting in or blocking out light through the lens by how wide or narrow you open it. That's my very poor layman's explanation of it.
Great shots combined in a great collage. Sorry I haven't get in touch with you, but things are "complicated"... no time to take pictures yesterday nor today... Monday I will know a bit better.
@httpgeffed Thanks Colleen! It's a pretty easy book to read. He is very down to earth and not technical at all. It's truly geared towards the act of seeing what you photograph and the sections are small. I think you will enjoy it when you do read it.
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Thank you Alia and Kathryn! lol I really couldn't decide which one to post going through them one by one so I put them in this collage- then I wished I'd just posted my favorite. But I do like the collage.
great way to showcase the different shots. i have not a freaking clue as to what bracketing is and i'm not even going to try to understand it. i still have so much to learn but i'm not a technician i like to think and i'm lazy to learn the technical aspects of photography or the camera. but maybe one day. :-)
@summerfield Thanks Vikki- my layman's explanation of bracketing is simply taking a series of shots while opening or closing the lens one degree at a time (when I did this on my 35mm it was called the f-stop I believe). With my digital camera there is a scale that mimics what the 35mm used to do. That's about as far as I can explain it! I am not that technical either- I just know that's what I did.
Thank you Yao, Kerri, Allison (you are too kind!), Rufus and Caroline! I appreciate your comments and view!
@henrir Thanks Henri! I think we were really supposed to post just one, but I really liked putting them all side by side.
Thank you Nicole, Taffy, Brian, Timothy, Dione, Rick, Carole, Howard, Carole, Bev, Dixie and Katie!
@digitalrn @prttblues You two are too funny with the teeth remarks!!
@prttblues Bracketing is when take a series of shots letting in or blocking out light through the lens by how wide or narrow you open it. That's my very poor layman's explanation of it.
@la_photographic Thank you Laura!
Thank you Alia and Kathryn! lol I really couldn't decide which one to post going through them one by one so I put them in this collage- then I wished I'd just posted my favorite. But I do like the collage.