Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Mouldy mattress or abandoned drug den?

New technical assignment.....a mix of all other past ones! We have to take photographs of an object we pass nearly every day, for five days. Firstly we have to take a light meter reading and take a photo using this accurate setting, then bracket up and down. We have to change the F stop then the shutter speed.....but that's boring so I won't go on. It's a bit complicated, and I took the first lot today and forgot to do most of the things. Mainly because I was just concentrating on taking a good night photograph, and these are the best two that came out:

I wasn't sure which would be better to use; the old mattress/skip above, or the house below that used to be inhabited by drug dealers. My sister told me the story behind it... Something about how the guy who lived there got people to beat up the person who snitched on him to the police, who got admitted to hospital and then paid someone to 'repay the favour'. They smashed all of his windows in, which is why they're all bordered up. I'd like to find out the complete story.

I've been spending all evening trying to convert them from RAW to JPEGs so I can upload them on here, but unfortunately they've come out with the converter company's name printed on it because I'm just on a free trial. It's a bit annoying, but at least it's only small so you can still see the image. I'm quite proud of them, even if I haven't followed the brief correctly! Which one should I keep photographing? Hmm, I'm a bit worried the skip may disappear before the project ends, so I'll probably keep taking both just incase, and then I'll have a choice at the end.

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