Unfamiliar territory

[Geoff Chaplin]

I normally - no, always - have the camera to my eye to take a photo. So, old dogs and new tricks and all that, I decided to try different perspectives on things. Creaking and bending carefully down to ground level, opening that flippy thing on the back of the camera and realising it didn't help at all even with the brightness at maximum, I was wondering how to compose and focus. Generally I treat my digital camera the same as a large format camera, half and hour's thought and exploration before taking an single photo. But given I can't compose accurately, or focus on what I want, the scatter-gun approach is the best I can do. START: Get close, try a shot, view the image in the viewfinder if good enough got to END else adjust focus position or camera position, repeat from START. END: adjust if necessary (contrast curve only in this case), think of something interesting(?) to say, publish.
20mm at f16. My favourite broken pot.

 

[Pete Askew]

It worked well none the less and is a very striking image. Nice detail too.

You need to click on the image to see it for some reason. Size maybe?

 

[Dave Farnes]

A great image. The object and background both contrast and compliment each other at the same time.

 

[Geoff Chaplin]

It worked well none the less and is a very striking image. Nice detail too.

You need to click on the image to see it for some reason. Size maybe?

Under 1mb, the magic number apparently, so no idea.

 

[Brian Moore]

It's an interesting image; not sure what it is. A bell or something like that?

 

[Geoff Chaplin]

It's an interesting image; not sure what it is. A bell or something like that?

A broken terracotta pot