Ben H
01-02-2009, 05:01 PM
http://www.benhall.co.uk/pics/bh_lineofdefence.jpg
So I saw this interesting sight - a bird on each pillar stretching across the river. I took a number of framing options, and in the end I went with this one.
While it doesn't show the birds as clearly as I'd like, I felt it worked best compositionally (the other shots from different angles and so on showed the lineup much better, but I thought were just a bit too literal and boring.)
So yeah - not totally happy with it, and I think in retrospect it would have been better with a larger depth of field. And I should probably remove the birds in the water too. I *might* even crop out some of the "empty" posts in the foreground as well...
Which probably means it fails on most counts, but hey... ;)
Lesson learnt - when you can't find satisfaction in the shots you take, keep trying framing options until you get something you feel better about directly in camera.
So I saw this interesting sight - a bird on each pillar stretching across the river. I took a number of framing options, and in the end I went with this one.
While it doesn't show the birds as clearly as I'd like, I felt it worked best compositionally (the other shots from different angles and so on showed the lineup much better, but I thought were just a bit too literal and boring.)
So yeah - not totally happy with it, and I think in retrospect it would have been better with a larger depth of field. And I should probably remove the birds in the water too. I *might* even crop out some of the "empty" posts in the foreground as well...
Which probably means it fails on most counts, but hey... ;)
Lesson learnt - when you can't find satisfaction in the shots you take, keep trying framing options until you get something you feel better about directly in camera.