Twin Houses
Wide-angle lenses can result in surprising compositions. I only spotted it after another photographer by the name of Andree Thorpe (also present on ViewBug and ...
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Wide-angle lenses can result in surprising compositions. I only spotted it after another photographer by the name of Andree Thorpe (also present on ViewBug and one of my biggest inspirations!) showed it to me. I have been hooked on working with my wide-angle ever since! This is a long exposure shot of two old resort cottages at Nine Beaches.
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September 30, 2015
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Location
At the beautiful (but unfortunately dilapidated ) resort Nine Beaches on Bermuda.Time
Around mid-dayLighting
Bermuda has extremely nice lighting even at the worst day. This was a good example of what they call a "Bermudiful" day, that needed a filter to take the edge off the brightness and allow for a longer exposure time.Equipment
My normal companion: Canon 5D MKII, wide-angle lens 17-40mm, F/4 plus a black-out ND Filter of the LEE collection. In addition I had my Manfrotto tripod and a with the filter it enabled me to make this a middle-of-the-day long exposure shot of 8 seconds at F/22 at ISO 100. I probably could have extended the exposure time a little bit if I had reduced the ISO to 50, but in this picture I did not...Inspiration
I have hundreds of photograph of this location. In its glory days it must have been the awesommest of awesome places to spend a vacation methinks. But now that it is no longer polished and perfect and only the odd visitor discovers it, it was often just me and the locals, the locals and me, who would walk around there. Which means that I had a free pass to do photography there without too much of an audience and I got to know every hidden corner. This particular perspective will always amaze me. I was new to wide-angle photography at the time (June 2011) and top photographer Andree Thorpe pointed out to me how I could make the most of this equipment. I was so lucky to meet her and learn from her!Editing
No, just the usual: sharpening, adjusting levels somewhat. The ocean in Bermuda really does have this colour on most of the days! I was tempted to make it a completely symmetrical shot by playing with the two pieces of land visible to the left and the right of the shot but that would have required Photoshop and it somehow took away from the real spot.In my camera bag
I only have one camera that travels with me: Canon 5D mkII. I always bring my wide-angle (now use 16-35mm, F/2.8, model II). If I am sure that there will be something to photograph with my Canon 70-200mm, F2.8, but since this is a heavy monster I do not always bring it. For the ideal range I also sometimes travel with my Canon 24-120mm, F/4.0 lens but I have gotten a bit spoiled with the F/2.8 sensibility, so that one only comes on bright days. Flash, tripod, pocket wizards for off-camera flash get to come when I think I will have use for them. Finally, I never leave home without my graduated ND filter set by Lee.Feedback
I have discovered that the only way to capture surprising perspective is to take lots of pictures of your subject, while moving around choosing different positions. Some people come into a scene (and yes, I used to be one of those!), camera already shooting away without them ever taking a long look at the scene in front of them first, without having a walk-around. When you are with a group it is hard to do, it is almost as if the frenzy is contagious. That is the reason why I often do my best work solo. But it is good practice to try and get your best shot in a group with other photographers. With buildings and structures the right position often is exactly opposite a corner. A church for instance looks way more impressive. You will have walls moving away from that central point of view going left and right and that simply "does something" for the perspective. It makes it different from the obvious side or frontal view. In nature the same law is true. With trees, mountains etc. Here, I was trying to see if I was able to get both houses into the picture in a single shot, with the equipment I had at the time, positioning myself across from the angle where the two fences meet.
