People and Nature (LO 1,2,3)
1/160s, f/10.0, ISO 100, zoom lens 24-70mm, f/2.8S
“The more preplanned photography is the less room for surprise, for the world to talk back, for the idea to find itself, allowing ambivalence and ambiguity to seep in, and sometimes those are more important than certainty and clarity. The work often says more than the artist intended. ”
In this blog I want to portray our human interaction with nature and environment and how we admire the beauty of nature.
I took the following two images in Bushy Park, Surrey on a foggy morning. I didn’t plan to photograph other photographers but they were just standing there and waiting for their perfect shot so I quickly played with the composition. I used aperture f/8.0, shutter speed 1/125s and ISO 100. On the second image I managed to capture the photographers taking shots of the flying birds. Here I opened up the aperture to f/5.0 and used a little more faster shutter speed 1/200s to avoid the picture being overexposed and to capture a movement of flying birds. I didn’t go any faster because I wanted to show the slightly blurred wings to enhance the movement. I didn’t want to freeze the birds completely.
Josef Sudek (1896-1976)
Josef Sudek was a Czech photographer best known for his elegiac black-and-white images of Prague, interiors, still lifes, and the landscapes of Bohemian forests. Many of Sudek’s most memorable images were taken from the window of his small studio, documenting his humble courtyard during changing weather and light conditions. “Everything around us, dead or alive, in the eyes of a crazy photographer mysteriously takes on many variations,” he explained, “so that a seemingly dead object comes to life through light or by its surroundings.”
Martin Parr and William Eggleston are another photographers who captured ordinary things. They used colours to enhance the photographs. I did some research on hem in my previous blogs. You can read here (William Eggleston, Martin Parr)
I have been inspired by the mentioned photographers to take pictures of ordinary things. I believe it depends on the angle we look at the things and if we want to see something different/extra/special or not.
During my walk in the park I noticed the spider webs are everywhere. It was really foggy and misty that morning and I found the spiderwebs really beautiful like little beads. The first image I captured with wide aperture f/2.8, 1/320s and ISO 100. The second one is f/4.5, 1/160s, ISO 100. I took both with zoom lens 24-70mm, f/2.8S.
The following pictures remind me how we as humans are trying to blend with nature. I call the following pictures “Blending in”.
1/125s, f/8.0, ISO 100, zoom lens 24-70mm, f/2.8S
1/80s, f/6.3, ISO 1000,, zoom lens 24-70mm, f/2.8S
1/200s, f/5.0, ISO 100, zoom lens 24-70mm, f/2.8S
In the last image I was playing with portrait photography to show how we are surrounded by nature and we like it.
1/125s, f/5.6, ISO 100, zoom lens 24-70mm, f/2.8S
I used my camera Nikon Z6 and zoom lens 24-70mm, f/2.8S to capture all images in this blog. Finally, I edited them in Lightroom.
Source: Course material; internet; Photography is easy, Photography is difficult by P.Graham;
