Work had been hectic throughout November and December with much travelling and less opportunity to do the things that I really wanted. Snow at the beginning of December (and again later on in the month) gave me some great opportunities to take some more wintry photographs, two of which are feaured here that I am pleased with.
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| South Downs Way December 2010 |
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| Downs Golf Course, Sussex Downs December 2010 |
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| 1/25 at f1.4 |
Anyhow, my Christmas break has given me the opportunity to restart my OCA course and to begin the unit on Colour. The first exercise was to look at how colour changes with exposure using a strong definite colour as a base. I chose our front door - which is a high gloss blue - and took a number of shots all at the same metered setting which was 1/25 (the highest I could get despite the time of day being late morning and it not beeing too much of an overcast day outside). As required in the exercise, I started at a low exposure setting which was f1.4 (using my 'nifty 50' mm lens) and took five photographs stopping the aperture down by half a stop each time and ending at f2.2. As well as the difference in exposure which was to be expected, the main difference in each photograph is a deeping in the colour of the door. Regrettably, the poor light and the reflection of what little light there was has distorted the photographs slightly but the purpose of the exercise was to observe the difference in the strength of colour which was achieved.
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| 1/125 at f2.2. |
What has particularly struck me in this unit so far is the note that professional photographers often use this technique to strengthen a colour (or colours) in a picture - something I may play with in the future.
Mark
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