Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2018 18:20:30 GMT
Thank you Helen for last month’s challenge!
This month I want you all to look at details. Traditionally, when we say “details”, we think of getting real close to a subject and creating a macro or macro-like image. However, details can be found everywhere, and you don’t even need to go macro to capture it.
Details can be something we see every day, but don’t really take notice of; details can be a macro of a subject/item; details can also be a specific scene within a larger scene.
I found this article from the Digital Photography School very useful; it describes the different forms of detail shots and gives you a good basic idea on composition and covers a little bit of technical ground.
Although this is a B&W challenge, I am happy to have monochrome, sepia and split-toned images submitted for this challenge.
As always, when you upload your submission, please let us know how you converted your shot and perhaps tell us something about your image, such as why you chose to capture it, has it got a special meaning to you, that sort of thing.
Happy detail hunting everyone!
As usual, all my conversions are done in LR CC by starting off with a preset (some dowloaded for free, others are my own creation) and then moving the various sliders until I have something I am happy with.
This first image I took this past weekend. This mushroom, and others, grow on a hiking path around a large mountain lake on the leg that takes you to a waterfall. Most people race along this path to get to the waterfall and so never take in the small details all along the route, including this mushroom, which is only about the height of a standard paperclip. I shot this with my 10-18mm wide angle lens.
Hands up - this next shot was taken in May this year, but I couldn’t resist putting it into this post. I love architectural details, and the combination of the detail of the columns and the iron work was too good to pass by.
And my final image was also taken last weekend, at the same mountain lake. I took a few photos of this scene, with the majority having the full landscape in focus. I then decided to focus just on the log and the immediate water around it and blur the background - perfect for this month’s theme!
This month I want you all to look at details. Traditionally, when we say “details”, we think of getting real close to a subject and creating a macro or macro-like image. However, details can be found everywhere, and you don’t even need to go macro to capture it.
Details can be something we see every day, but don’t really take notice of; details can be a macro of a subject/item; details can also be a specific scene within a larger scene.
I found this article from the Digital Photography School very useful; it describes the different forms of detail shots and gives you a good basic idea on composition and covers a little bit of technical ground.
Although this is a B&W challenge, I am happy to have monochrome, sepia and split-toned images submitted for this challenge.
As always, when you upload your submission, please let us know how you converted your shot and perhaps tell us something about your image, such as why you chose to capture it, has it got a special meaning to you, that sort of thing.
Happy detail hunting everyone!
As usual, all my conversions are done in LR CC by starting off with a preset (some dowloaded for free, others are my own creation) and then moving the various sliders until I have something I am happy with.
This first image I took this past weekend. This mushroom, and others, grow on a hiking path around a large mountain lake on the leg that takes you to a waterfall. Most people race along this path to get to the waterfall and so never take in the small details all along the route, including this mushroom, which is only about the height of a standard paperclip. I shot this with my 10-18mm wide angle lens.
Hands up - this next shot was taken in May this year, but I couldn’t resist putting it into this post. I love architectural details, and the combination of the detail of the columns and the iron work was too good to pass by.
And my final image was also taken last weekend, at the same mountain lake. I took a few photos of this scene, with the majority having the full landscape in focus. I then decided to focus just on the log and the immediate water around it and blur the background - perfect for this month’s theme!
