[QueensPhoto] new project!

[O.J. Beardon]

Dear All,

I trust you are all having a nice break from the madness of term and maybe
getting a hoiday somewhere exciting too! Well, whether you are or
not,here's something to be getting on with.

The theme is DETAILS. this is a very flexible one and you should find lots
of interesting stuff wherever you are or whatever you are doing. Often the
details of a place or thing are the most interesting and can yield some
excellent pictures. The light this time of year can be a bit dull for
sweeping large scale scenes and concentrating on smaller things canovercome
this. In fact it is preferable.

Say you are photographing an interesting building. Instead of trying to
capture the whole impression, think what interests you about it, rarely is
it the entire thing, maybe it is a crumbling door round the back or a fence
covered in lichen? maybe the light on the columns at the front, or perhaps
a man leaning out of a window? home in on these parts!

Or maybe you are in a forest. does the light strike a treetrunk or a leaf
at an angle creating a bright isolated highlight. Expose the picture for
that detail. a group of mushrooms on the forest floor might make a nice
shot?

Detail need not mean a close-up, on a wide open moor, you could use a wide
angle lens and use that fower of rock as very close foreground showing the
sweep of the landscape as context in the background. This is very effective
technique (using a wide angle lens really close to a subject with the
background to one side or behind), try it!

Most of all, have fun! And I look forward to seeing what we've all come up
with next term.

Happy Christmas!

Oliver

PS sorry this is late, couldn't get Hermes to work so had to use my hotmail
which was rejected! I wish you could answer back to computers...'I'm the
f***ing president!!'

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