Sounds like a drinking game, a foolish one for sure. But the idea is to pick a relatively mundane object, like a fire hydrant, a dumpster, a car, a kitchen sink - and take 20 pictures, to really get to know the object and, the way I see it, to practice patience and staying with it.
I did have to overcome the feeling like a fool part of it as people walked by, but I did it. I am posting some of the pictures that I think came out pretty good, plus the first one below just for context. The last one is familiar, but I dialed down the depth of field as much as possible to make it more interesting, I hope. Three of the shots in fact were taken at 1.8, I think.
The last one is in black and white only because there were a couple of annoying drips of red & green paint that were just too distracting.
This first one is also in black & white because of the single splash of green being a nuisance in the planter.
Update: I added another one that I missed before.
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| For context |
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| The entire block of hydrants is missing caps. |
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| Corroded Base |
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| Almost forgot this one... |
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| Shallow depth of field, cap |
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| Black & white birds-eye view |
The sun was in and out as I took the pictures, which partially explains the inconsistency in color tone. I could have converted them all to b&w, I suppose, but I like the rust color mixed in with the black paint.
Interesting assignment, Mike. You got some good shots. I like the detail of the rust and the shallow DOF. Your last shot looks very similar to one of your previous blog post. You might have a X collection starting!
ReplyDeleteGreat assignment Mike... I need to do the same... Thanks for a great idea.
ReplyDeleteThis is a nice set, and a well presented assignment. In American cities, I guess there are hundreds of these hydrants all over the place... so many so that they become invisible. UK hydrants are even more invisible as they are under man-hole covers. I think you have photographed this object in easily enough detail for someone such as myself to produce engineering design drawings of some detail.
ReplyDeleteI do like your images of engineered objects.