November 30, 2009

Today was a good one. I've walked around work looking for things to photograph and I have never noticed this one. Finally, while I was walking past these railings it caught my eye. In this picture, many will notice the bold, beautiful steely railing towering in the top 1/3rd of the photog and descend toward the right of the picture. The pattern then repeats itself agin n' agin n' agin and pulls the eye's focus to the lower portion of the scene. The strong pattern is what immediately made me like this picture.

As you can see, I used a somewhat lower aperture setting (a wider hole for light to go through) to focus on the objects in the foreground and slightly blur out the objects in the background. It was good that not too high of an aperture setting (a narrow hole) was used because I didn't want to totally loose the detail in the railings at the end of the row.

The building and plants catch the setting and I like the amber color of the picture. It gives it a warm feel. I didn't want to pale out the beautiful blues in the railing or the nice contrast in the blue sky, though, so I took out some of the red in post production processing to bring back some of that blue.

By the way, please visit the last couple of posts. My wife and I had poor luck this weekend with our internet and I wasn't able to post the PODs for Friday and Saturday but they're on there now. Or, I updated the moving car picture to explain how to do it if you're interested.