My aim here was to capture images illustrating trees and landscapes. I wanted to communicate something of the relationship between humans and trees, and how this characterizes the places where they exist - or existed - together.
Lots of the images need more work, and there are many more that I would like to take. But I had better leave this for now and concentrate on my next project.
Lots of different photographers have inspired this work, but there are four key ones:
Fay Godwin
Edwin Smith
Ken Scott - not so easy to find, but some examples at this link: http://www.touchingthelight.co.uk/portfolio/uk-classics/gallery/portfolio/#!prettyPhoto
and Henri Cartier Bresson
Here is a selection of some of the more successful shots:
50mm, ISO 200, 1/60, f1.8
Crimsworth Dean
17mm, ISO 100, 1/500, f3.5, polarizer, tripod
Musbury Clough
55mm, ISO 100, 1/125, f7.0, tripod
Barnfield Park
35mm, ISO 100, 1/30, f6.3
Prestwich
17mm, ISO 100, 1/30, f10, tripod
28mm, ISO 100, 1/640, f3.5, polarizer, tripod
New park, Salford 7
17mm, ISO 100, 1/160, f10
Garden, Prestwich
55mm, ISO 100, 1/125, f4.5
Dunham Massey Deer Park
17mm, ISO 100, 1/200, f5
Housing development, Salford 7
35mm, ISO 100, 1/80, f5, polarizer
Kersal Moor
35mm, ISO 320, 1/400, f8
55mm, ISO 100, 1/10, f16, tripod
Abandoned railway, Clifton
50mm, ISO 200, 1/80, f2.8, tripod
Hulme
50mm, ISO 100, 1/1000, f2.0
Dunham Massey
55mm, ISO 100, 1/100, f8
Old schoolyard, Salford
20mm, ISO 200, 1/200, f8
Kersal Moor
55mm, ISO 200, 1/100, f13
55mm, ISO 200, 1/5000, f2.8
Near Junction 17, M60
28mm, ISO 800, 4sec, f11, fill in flash, tripod
28mm, ISO 200, 1/2000, f2.8
Swinton Grove Park, Ardwick
50mm, ISO 200, 1/640, f3.5
17mm, ISO 200, 1/800, f2.8
New park, Salford 7
35mm, ISO 100, 1/250, f4, polarizer
Excellent work. You've produced a number of successful images based on the humble subject of the 'tree'! There's plenty of variety too. I like all these images for different reasons. I'm in a particularly fanciful mood so I'm going to that say that the second to last one is my fave - I love the way that the light falls on the trunk of the tree.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the feedback! Funnily enough that photo was one of the very first I took on the theme and is a favourite of mine too. That occasion had what I spent the rest of the project trying (and often failing) to find: great light!
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