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 10/04/2005 01:26:56 PM · #1
A slight departure from my normal subject choice. These were taken on a recent trip to Tuscany and are some of my favourite pictures of this year.

Abbazia di Sant'Antimo
 10/04/2005 01:30:53 PM · #2
Excellent work. It's very hard to get it not too out of focus, but at the same time not in focus either. My favorite is the last on the page.

Lee
 10/04/2005 01:34:06 PM · #3
um... it all seems out of focis tho. did I miss something. Rather curious now.
 10/04/2005 02:19:25 PM · #4
Originally posted by Rooster:
um... it all seems out of focis tho. did I miss something. Rather curious now.


Yes, the focus is deliberate.
 10/04/2005 02:31:42 PM · #5
Wow! I really like these, particularly as a collection. I agree with Tranquil - my favorite is the last, but the stairs come awfully close. How did you guage the oof? I would think that would be really hard to do. They're beautiful!
 10/04/2005 04:25:17 PM · #6
Originally posted by Bebe:
Wow! I really like these, particularly as a collection. I agree with Tranquil - my favorite is the last, but the stairs come awfully close. How did you guage the oof? I would think that would be really hard to do. They're beautiful!


They were all shot using DoF preview and manually focused. I'm lucky that the camera has a pretty bright viewfinder so the scene looked the way it was focused, when shot. Composition was all done on a tripod, which made me really pine for a handheld spot meter - though the small spot on the camera worked well enough - just difficult to point to the right places with the light shifting over time.
 10/04/2005 04:59:52 PM · #7
Aah, you have a thread about 'em! As I mentioned to you on IM, I like 4 and 5 somewhat but not overly keen on the rest though it is an interesting collection.
 10/04/2005 06:43:39 PM · #8
Someone else asked me what I was trying to achieve:

I was trying to take shots of the light and how it was falling. Trying to get beyond just taking pictures of the things in front of me, and trying to take pictures that were just about the fundamental arrangements of shapes, light, shadows. It was, if nothing else, an interesting way to look through the camera and not get hung up on the details of the things in front of me.

I'm somewhat amazed about how much you can still see in these, and tell about where I was, without having to see the sharp details or have it explicitly clear what each thing is.

In some of them, I like the real sense of depth implied by the light and arrangement of shapes - even if it isn't immediately obvious from the two dimensional picture in front of you what the things are - there is still a real sense of depth, just from a few blurry lines and some dark/ light blocks.

For a few days at least, it made me a whole lot more aware of the shapes and relationships going on in my more traditional pictures that I took. It was also a fun way to spend a couple of hours slowing down, looking carefully and making compositions that required more thought than shooting what I saw.

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