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Frozen in Time

As the title says. A collection of broken old clocks came into my possession around the same time I was taking up photography on a more serious scale. I wanted ...
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As the title says. A collection of broken old clocks came into my possession around the same time I was taking up photography on a more serious scale. I wanted to do something unique which could capture the nature of photography.
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NIKON D3100

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Aperture f/5.3 ISO 100 Shutter 1/5 Focal Length 420/10

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Apr, 2015

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Behind The Lens

Location

I took this photo in the kitchen of the house I was living in at the time. I had recently come into possesion of this old, broken clock and decided to be creative with it. It was the first image I shot using my miniature portable studio.

Time

It had to be around 5pm in the summer when I shot this. I had placed the clock in an ice cream tub of water in the freezer a few days prior and once I took it out the ice just gradually broke away leaving this partially frozen object and I knew that I had to take the shot then before it melted away.

Lighting

I used a speedlite on the lowest setting, because the natural light was still quite intense I only needed to do a bit of filler to get the right depth and contrast I was aiming for, especially for the aged look.

Equipment

My Nikon D3100, on a tripod with a Nikon AF 35mm lens. 1.8 f.

Inspiration

I was just about to apply for a college course in photography and I wanted to have some truly creative imagery in my portfolio. While thinking about what I could create I thought about what photography was, and the idea of how photography captures a moment 'frozen in time' just imply put the idea in my head. I had seen art pieces made of much more outrageous and bizarre objects than just a frozen clock so I figured why not. It has become my most favoured piece as well, it sealed my place onto both my college course and into a HND after that and now 4 years later people still compliment me on the image above all of my other pieces.

Editing

I done some basic editting, I wasn't familiar with photoshop to well at the time and so I simply made some adjustments in Raw and then once in photoshop I cropped the image slightly and applied a sepia filter. As my tutor always said "less is more"

In my camera bag

Now that is a question. Besides a variety of filters a metz flash and the speedlite, I tend to just carry either the Nikon D3100 or the D7000 with me and my f. 1.8 35mm lens as well as my Nikor AF 70mm - 300mm lens... Sadly my 24-200 Tonika broke as that was my original secondary. Gorgeous lens wide angle... Also depending on my motivations and creative mind for the time I keep either a Nikon FE or Nikon F80 to hand, I love shooting film and find the results to be so much more satisfactory compared to Digital. I always keep a tripod or monopod to hand as well as spare batteries for each camera, nothing worse than being in the field and running out of power, depending on the format I am shooting depends on memory cards or film. Occasionally I blow the dust off of the Rolleicord and shoot some 120mm film as well.

Feedback

Wow, advise to capture something similar. well, the best advise I can offer is not to try too hard and be all technical and fancy with photoshop and just let it come naturally, like with ones own creative imagination, the only restrictions are the limits one places on themselves, and always shoot first and ask questions later, I could recommend several books one of them being 'Why it does not have to be in focus by Jackie Higgins" I graduated university with the assistance of that book... Just be yourself, express yourself in a way that is suitable to you.

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Frozen in Time

As the title says. A collection of broken old clocks came into my possession around the same time I was taking up photography on a more serious scale. I wanted ... Read more

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