Week 10 'Win'
Challenging subject this week. The only thing I have ever won was the egg & spoon race in primary school so this is my subject. I wanted to get out and about but this theme has given me an opportunity to improve on a couple of points which you 52'ers have kindly pointed out namely lighting and focus which hopefully I have addressed this week.
Ok, having got the concept I decided to frame the egg and spoon within a Racing Post banner as a background and lead in. The egg was balanced and held in place with a blob of bluetack. The spoon was clamped in place by a pack of cheap clamps from the £1 shop (
brilliant investment and something I always keep in my gear bag)
Exposure - I set the aperture for F/5 focusing on the egg (
manual focus) in order to blur the background but still enable 'Racing Post' to be apparent. Shutter speed was 1/4 sec with tripod. 400 ISO.
Lighting - Nikon speedlight off camera and bounced flash with a little painted light to show the texture and equatorial symmetry of the egg. More importantly for the egg and wooden spoon to retain their natural colours.
PP - Very little apart from small crop and a little sharpening.
I am quite pleased with my result this week, I managed to capture the image that I visualised. Certainly all previous comments have all helped me in achieving this.
However, in the grand scheme of things, I still have a long way to go.............
Many thanks,
Nick