Assignment 1

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[1/125th @ f8 (25mm)]

This weekend I set out to complete the first assignment of my photography course. This assignment has three sections: Difficult Scenes, Low Light, and Details. Three images are to be submitted for each category.

The suggested 'Difficult Scenes' include scenes with lower or higher than average lighting, light object on dark scene, dark object on light scene, back lit object. I found this portion of the assignment tricky because I usually don't go -looking- for these sorts of scenes. The picture above will be in my submission for this section since it meets the criteria of being a bright scene and the subject is backlit.

The heart of this image is the pattern/contrast of the stairs leading up to and the woman whose gesture completes image. The lens flare effectively gives depth to the image leading the eye from the high contrast skyline back to the subject (making a 'Z' with the stairs). The middle ground may be a bit busy and detract from the overall story of this image, though I like the dome. What do you think?

You can see from the metadata that this image has been cropped. It looks more like it was shot at 50mm rather than 25mm. Also, f8 gave me far too much depth of field so a little Gaussian blur was applied to the middle/background to emphasise the foreground/subject. Since contrast in this image reveals luminance, I punctuated this by conversion to black and white. See the original image here.

Here are some other back lit images taken for this assignment that probably won't make the final cut (but are a close second):

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