Pagoda
Home made Pagoda. F4 aperture
Home made Pagoda. F4 aperture
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Location
In my yard in a small town west of Boston. We visited Japan a few years back and were taken with the reverence for ancient stones and nature there and saw many intricate as well simple naturalistic pagodas. I had studied sculpture in college and while doing some yard work noticed some rocks and stones laying about and simply fit them together on top of a an outcropping of rock covered with moss. It all fit!Time
As I recall, and of course I can check the time in the file, it was late afternoon with the afterglow of the sun.Lighting
Since this was the afterglow at sunset the light was much softer than earlier in the day with less contrast. To make the pagoda stand out from the background I shot with F number 2.8, a wide aperture to throw the background out of focus.Equipment
Shot this with a Nikon D-800 and a Nikon 80-200 mm lens that I've had since film camera days and works fine on new digital cameras. Used a high enough ISO light sensitivity setting to give me a fast enough shutter speed to allow hand holding of the camera.Inspiration
See above. Inspired by a trip to Japan and my own knowledge of art history, sculpture and Zen!Editing
Not this time. Don't have much time for post processing these days and am of the school of thought that's it's always best to get it right the first time! Hah!In my camera bag
I try to keep it simple. Nikon D-800 which is a full frame camera, several lenses mostly older, 80-200 f2.8 Nikon Zoom with a 1.8 tele converter for news and nature and portrait, Nikon 60 mm micro lens for close up and straight shots, 20-35mm Tokina f2.8 zoom for most wide angle work and a 10-20 mm Sigma f3.5 super wide angle because it cost a lot less than a Nikon equivalent! I have several other lenses but don't always carry them with me. In my bag can also be found a Nikon flash with a flash cube for diffusing light, a Sekonic flash meter, press pass, lens cleaning cloth, reporter's note book, many pens including fine point Sharpies, a mini HDMI to device (television, monitor, external hard drive, battery charger, a shotgun microphone for making video with decent sound, a polarizing filter, extra SD and CF cards, a calendar book, rubber bands, matches, business cards, black electrical tape, a small pair of pliers, pocket knife (when not flying), extra double AA batteries, and a package of peanut butter crackers. Did I say keep it simple?Feedback
Art is all around us and a true photographer should be prepared at all times to make the best of it!
