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Steve
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As the competition has now closed I thought some of you might like to see some of the other shots that I took especially for this round. I have also given just a small amount of background or info as to why I didn’t chose them over the final entry that I submitted.
The first shot is of a German high speed train (ICE as they are referred to here) stood just outside of the main station. I really liked this shot for the lines leading through the shot and the perspective. Theme relevance was there but I didn’t feel it was as strong as with some of the other shots. The deciding factor however was that the picture screams “Germany” so it would have been obvious who it belonged to.
The same train shot from the edge of a different platform to give a different perspective. Different crop and a different picture but still the same problems with regard to entering it. Again discounted due to that fact and if being honest I don’t feel it works as well as the shot above.
I thought about the different ways Public Highway could be interpreted literally, I sought and found a vantage point above the public and did a series of different shots to show people moving below. More public photographed a high way
Unfortunately I felt that there wasn’t enough “traffic” in these shots taken from that angle but other angles included German signs and stuff again. Also the chaos and lack of focal points had a influence on forcing me to shelve them. It was a very close call though.
I tried a lower angle with a longer time exposure to increase the traffic, but the result was that the subjects were to blurred for my liking.
Then I thought what if I get in the middle of the people to try and make it look like a public road with traffic going different direction. The next two are what resulted from that. Again the location was carefully chosen to remove as many identifiable signs etc that I could.
I quite liked this one but felt it would have been better if captured with an un-blurred background.
And so finally I settled on an idea of a close up of people’s legs moving in the same direction with blur to indicate the motion. The people portrayed the “public” and the motion was meant to represent the “Highway”. This was the best out of about 30 I took. It survived the cull as it was captured without to many bags or crossed legs and had a nice uniform balance of subjects. The larger picture shows better the weather and adds to image overall.
So there you go, that is my journey on getting a shot for the last round of the competition.
The first shot is of a German high speed train (ICE as they are referred to here) stood just outside of the main station. I really liked this shot for the lines leading through the shot and the perspective. Theme relevance was there but I didn’t feel it was as strong as with some of the other shots. The deciding factor however was that the picture screams “Germany” so it would have been obvious who it belonged to.
The same train shot from the edge of a different platform to give a different perspective. Different crop and a different picture but still the same problems with regard to entering it. Again discounted due to that fact and if being honest I don’t feel it works as well as the shot above.
I thought about the different ways Public Highway could be interpreted literally, I sought and found a vantage point above the public and did a series of different shots to show people moving below. More public photographed a high way
Unfortunately I felt that there wasn’t enough “traffic” in these shots taken from that angle but other angles included German signs and stuff again. Also the chaos and lack of focal points had a influence on forcing me to shelve them. It was a very close call though.
I tried a lower angle with a longer time exposure to increase the traffic, but the result was that the subjects were to blurred for my liking.
Then I thought what if I get in the middle of the people to try and make it look like a public road with traffic going different direction. The next two are what resulted from that. Again the location was carefully chosen to remove as many identifiable signs etc that I could.
I quite liked this one but felt it would have been better if captured with an un-blurred background.
And so finally I settled on an idea of a close up of people’s legs moving in the same direction with blur to indicate the motion. The people portrayed the “public” and the motion was meant to represent the “Highway”. This was the best out of about 30 I took. It survived the cull as it was captured without to many bags or crossed legs and had a nice uniform balance of subjects. The larger picture shows better the weather and adds to image overall.
So there you go, that is my journey on getting a shot for the last round of the competition.
