Line and shadow

[ewx]

I tried a more angled version of this but apart from the difficulty of keeping hoses, window-sills &c out of shot the emphasis on the rectilinearity of the brickwork makes a better a contrast with the chair and the shadows.

Normally the background to something like a flower is a distraction at best and I try to blur it away as much as possible. Even here having the background completely sharp wasn't very interesting, but adjusting the aperture to the point that the fence is just a shadow over the brighter blurring produced a pleasing effect.

Similar sort of idea, though without any subject as such. I started attempting to focus on the numerous spider webs hanging off the washing line but that proved a dead loss, so I went for the man-made lines instead.

I must have taken a couple of dozen shots of this from all sorts of angles. Several I quite liked but this jumped out as the most interesting.

All of the above shot with 50mm and 100mm prime lenses. I didn't deliberately set out to avoid using zoom lenses, I just didn't come across anything that seemed to call for them.

Comments

[new-brunette.livejournal.com]

Was the second shot with the 100mm? I like the bokeh - that fence proved to be a good backdrop.

[naath.livejournal.com]

Oooooh. Shiny pretty things!

[arnhem.livejournal.com]

The last one (the fruit that I can't convince myself I can identify) is lovely, particularly the diagonals.

But if I'm being really picky - it's a shame that the lower edge of the frame cuts slightly through the bottom of the fruit.

Along a slightly related line of argument, if the washing lines could be bullied into left/right symmetry, and (I _think_ but am not at all sure) if as well, one could exactly intersect a line with the top corner of the frame on both sides (in the way that the right hand side does), that one would I think work better; the cloud would prevent it becoming boringly geometrical.

I'm not at all sure if I'm right about any of this, though 8-)

They're all very pleasing to look at!