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MARTIN's Documentary Gallery: ALMOST 10 IN 10
Some of the images feature in more than one gallery.
Almost 10 in 10.
In a period when I felt my photography had lost its creative edge I set myself a challenge:
~ make 10 images in a place that I did not know;
~ all the images had to work together both in terms of content and style to portray the area;
~ the total time making the photographs had to be no longer than 10 minutes;
~ the processing (on the computer) was to be no more than 10 minutes per photograph;
~ the final images had to be sequenced in a book layout and upload to the book publisher that day.
I set the rangefinder digital camera to record square black and white images with a yellow filter to improve the clouds. I used the cameras conventional optical viewfinder, not the electronic one - that was my preference for the sale of work. I checked each image onscreen and apart from one image where the focus had fixed on a near object rather than the subject I just made one exposure for each image. I almost kept to using a single prime lens throughout - just one change. The light also changes from cloudy overcast to bright sunlight and shadows during the period and two images were reshot depicting this. I made basic corrections in Lightroom and used presets in Nik Software to tone the image and make the border.
I would have achieved my challenge but for a conversation with an inquisitive and interested resident about what I was doing and a friendly dog who made it obvious he required attention, so I decided to make it 'nearly 20 in 20 minutes'. The processing was on time and the book uploaded that evening.
In a period when I felt my photography had lost its creative edge I set myself a challenge:
~ make 10 images in a place that I did not know;
~ all the images had to work together both in terms of content and style to portray the area;
~ the total time making the photographs had to be no longer than 10 minutes;
~ the processing (on the computer) was to be no more than 10 minutes per photograph;
~ the final images had to be sequenced in a book layout and upload to the book publisher that day.
I set the rangefinder digital camera to record square black and white images with a yellow filter to improve the clouds. I used the cameras conventional optical viewfinder, not the electronic one - that was my preference for the sale of work. I checked each image onscreen and apart from one image where the focus had fixed on a near object rather than the subject I just made one exposure for each image. I almost kept to using a single prime lens throughout - just one change. The light also changes from cloudy overcast to bright sunlight and shadows during the period and two images were reshot depicting this. I made basic corrections in Lightroom and used presets in Nik Software to tone the image and make the border.
I would have achieved my challenge but for a conversation with an inquisitive and interested resident about what I was doing and a friendly dog who made it obvious he required attention, so I decided to make it 'nearly 20 in 20 minutes'. The processing was on time and the book uploaded that evening.
