2x MkIII, 1x MkIV. Framing Photography
So for the road trip I set myself some challenges for extending my understanding of photography skill. Take every opportunity for raw material to intentionally practice my post processing. To that end over 3 locations I obtained some 50 photos of my car.
I spent some time on each photo individually, trying cropping in various ways, and occasionally tilting by one or two degrees with the aim to make the best picture I could of each one. After that I removed worst of any that weren’t significantly different.
It was quite instructive to see how the aspect ratio changed the focus of a picture, some definitely looked better in widescreen or square. I desperately wanted to make a wide screen aspect portrait night-time picture work, but every one I hoped might have potential worked better square.
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I took this photo just to tease Kim, getting our house in the background. She picked the location instantly and commented on how gorgeous the clouds were - something I hadn’t noticed.
Tamworth Lookout
On the whole I was super disappointed by these photos on location, and didn’t have any hope they’d turn out okay. The wall on the lookout was problematic, the orange sodium backlighting tinted everything awfully, and threw my own shadow in awkward places. And don’t get me started on the trees. Possibly these were the best practice in the importance of cropping.
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Macdonald River, Bendemeer
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So, crazy random old guy in the park saw me taking pictures of the car and offered to take picture of me with it. Naturally I hated the idea, but if Minx’s purpose is to be beautiful than I am morally obligated to let it bring beauty. It does, and it did, and in doing so we passed some of the undiminishable spark into another life. Also, next to me it demonstrates how stupidly tiny a car Minx is. In these two photos I zoomed in very tightly on the subjects, who were otherwise quite lost in the scene.
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I certainly didn’t plan it, but only noticed it in post production that I’d taken two photos from almost exactly the same angle (20 & 21) but separated by a few minutes and meters - I moved the car to get the sign post out of frame. But note the significant difference in the reflections on the windshield. This was the clue that helped me understand why some of my photos were tinted more blue than orange, initially I thought the phone camera was arbitrarily applying some sort of filters. Eventually it twigged that the differences were when the sun was either out or hidden by clouds. The direct sunlight really does enhance the red, and funnily enough I pointed exactly that out to my brother multiple times during the actual drive.
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